The August Decrees were an improvised parliamentary reaction to an emergency situation. — Francois Furet Copy Share Image
I never really drove a cab, but I do have a hack license in case of emergencies - like no money. — Harry Chapin Copy Share Image
We cannot risk living all our lives under emergency measures. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark, but $120 for an earthquake emergency kit just seems unreasonable. — Howard Ruff Copy Share Image
'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded. — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Laughter, along with madness, seemed to be the only way out, the emergency exit for humans. — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Friends aren't jumper cables. You don't throw them into the trunk and pull them out for emergencies. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Hope is not like a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky… hope is an ax you… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Finally I went and found my hat and skewered it on my head with a four-inch hat pin. I wore the hat… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
I feel the 21st century is another new age. Not only can we collaborate again with nature, but we have to. It's… — Bjork Copy Share Image
Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies'… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
A democracy which fails to concentrate authority in an emergency inevitably falls into such confusion that the ground is prepared for the… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
It was a lie but he believed in telling lies to people. Truth telling and medicine just didn't go together except in… — Mario Puzo Copy Share Image
The course of events is so rapidly hastening forward that the emergency may soon arise when you may be called upon to… — James Buchanan Copy Share Image
The U.N.'s humanitarian agencies rely on charitable donations from the public as well as the generosity of governments to continue their lifesaving… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
The mythology about the UN is absolutely breathtaking. People believe it costs a great deal of money to the United States. Completely… — Brian Urquhart Copy Share Image
Twenty million jobs is what we call for in the Green New Deal, which is essentially a New Deal focused on greening… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
The international community must offer short-term emergency measures to meet critical needs. But it must also make longer-term investments to promote food… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
When this crisis began, crucial decisions about what would happen to some of the world's biggest companies - companies employing tens of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Training was very extensive, and we dealt with many recoveries from emergencies, and fortunately, participating and observing and existing through the reality… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
Our society is monstrously disjunctive, at once so efficient in war and so inefficient in caring for the welfare of its members.… — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
I am extremely energized to be in the Senate, because the Senate is the only emergency brake on the Trump train right… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
After the First World War, Germany was trying to build a democracy. Then when the Reichstag, the legislature, was burned down in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It's absolutely the wrong signal, I think, to those who have entered this country legally or those who may be considering illegal… — Elizabeth Dole Copy Share Image
Strictly enforce the scale of "fixed responsibility." The first and foremost level of responsibility is with the individual himself; the second level… — W. Cleon Skousen Copy Share Image
It is fundamental that the great powers of Congress to conduct war and to regulate the Nation's foreign relations are subject to… — Arthur Goldberg Copy Share Image
So the laws of good driving forbade you to go off the magic ribbon except in extreme emergencies. You were ethically entitled… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
How do we explain for example the Ebola epidemic in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea Conakry? Those very powers that swindled and… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
Consistent with section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act, 50 U.S.C. 1622(d), I am continuing for 1 year the national emergency previously… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
When men evaluate each other as men, they still look for the same virtues that they'd need to keep the perimeter. Men… — Jack Donovan Copy Share Image
It was with the last revolution and the coming of INGSOC (Inglish/English Socialism) that the latest High learnt how to keep their… — George Orwell Copy Share Image