Emergencies Quotes

• Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.

  E. M. Forster

  Life, Joy, Preparation

  'Howards End' (1910) ch. 7

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• Hope is not like a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky.... hope is an ax you break down doors with in an emergency.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Hope, Doors, Feelings

  Rebecca Solnit (2010). “Hope In The Dark”, p.29, Canongate Books

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• To appropriately respond to an emergency requires a very clear mind, to cooly analyze what the observations are and how to fix it.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Mind, Observation, Clear

  "Ask Me Anything" on Reddit, www.reddit.com. July 08, 2014.

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• There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

  Charles Dickens

  Life, Strong, Truth

  Charles Dickens (2007). “David Copperfield”, Bloomsbury Pub Limited

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• Your dream will not become a reality until you shift from Very Important to an Emergency!

  Eric Thomas

  Dream, Reality, Important

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• Having a separate fund for the things in life that happen, helps keep the emergency fund in tact in case you lose your job or income.

  Michelle Singletary

  Jobs, Things In Life, Income

  "Color of Money Live". Live chat, live.washingtonpost.com. March 10, 2016.

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• Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Taken, Thinking, Surprise

  Robert Baden-Powell, Elleke Boehmer (2005). “Scouting for Boys: A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship”, p.20, Oxford University Press

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• At certain crucial moments - an emergency or an opportunity - one must act first and think later.

  Edmund White

  Thinking, Opportunity, Firsts

  Edmund White (2016). “A Boy's Own Story: Picador Classic”, p.42, Pan Macmillan

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• 'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  War, Historical, Liberty

  "Law, Legislation and Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek. Volume 3: "The Political Order of a Free People". Chapter 17: "A Model Constitution", 1973.

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• No one should have to choose between medicine and other necessities. No one should have to use the emergency room every time a child gets sick. And no one should have to live in constant fear that a medical problem will become a financial crisis.

  Brad Henry

  Children, Medical Problems, Should Have

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• Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, Military, Patriotic

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• A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.

  Anthony Trollope

  Men, Mind, Driven

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• Public emergencies may require the hand of severity to fall heavily on those who are not personally guilty, but compassion prompts, and ever urges to milder methods

  Mercy Otis Warren

  Fall, Compassion, Hands

  Mercy Otis Warren (1805). “History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution: Interspersed with Biographical, Political and Moral Observations. In Three Volumes”, p.338

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• Anytime a large, emergency spending bill makes its way through Congress, the potential for mischief is great.

  Chris Chocola

  Bills, Way, Congress

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• We're in an emergency situation. The United States has become an absolutely terrifying country, and I would hope that I could participate in some way in stopping the horror and the brutality.

  Wallace Shawn

  Country, Scary, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.

  Og Mandino

  Success, Character, Power

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• There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too.

  Anna Quindlen

  Romance, Special, Rooms

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.83, Ballantine Books

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• I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit.

  Chuck Yeager

  Airplane, Flying, Dying

  Chuck Yeager (1986). “Yeager: An Autobiography”, Bantam

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• Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.

  Al Gore

  Our World, Imagination, Challenges

  "Congress Holds Global Warming Hearings". "Day to Day" with Madeleine Brand, www.npr.org. March 21, 2007.

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• Community health centers do a great deal with limited resources. They provide critical medical care services to many who would otherwise have no other place to go or would end up in an emergency room.

  Jan Schakowsky

  Community, Limited Resources, Care

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• Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Life, Stress, Lying

  Natalie Goldberg (2011). “Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life”, p.206, Open Road Media

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• In case of emergency, do whatever your best friends tell you to do!

  Monique Coleman

  Your Best Friend, Cases

  "Monique Coleman". www.seventeen.com. July 31, 2007.

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• If men were equally at risk from this condition - if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering from end-stage cirrhosis, that they would have to go nearly a year without a stiff drink, a cigarette, or even an aspirin, that they would be subject to fainting spells and unable to fight their way onto commuter trains - then I am sure that pregnancy would be classified as a sexually transmitted disease and abortions would be no more controversial than emergency appendectomies.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Pregnancy, Fighting, Men

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• Never invest emergency savings in the stock market.

  Suze Orman

  Saving, Savings

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• Our three big emergencies are fire, loss of pressurization or contaminated atmosphere. Any of those things in a spaceship are very deadly and time critical. Everybody's trained, but I'm the commander of the ship, and it's up to me to decide.

  Chris Hadfield

  Loss, Fire, Atmosphere

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