Best Emergencies Quotations
303 Emergencies quotes by 261 unique authors
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Perhaps more to the point for TBTF (Too Big To Fail bank), if a SIFI (Systemically Important Financial Institution) does fail I have little doubt…
— Unknown Author
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Many Americans are unaware that we still have a large population of working families, elderly, and children who rely on emergency food pantries, shelters, and…
— Blanche Lincoln
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But on second thought, after I decreed the state of emergency, I came to the conclusion that that was impossible to achieve without bloodshed because…
— Eduard Shevardnadze
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Nowhere is this challenge more critical -- and the need for action more pressing -- than in the Horn of Africa. From Kenya to Ethiopia,…
— Rajiv Shah
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Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures.
— Slavoj Žižek
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I have been working, as emergency relief coordinator, on an international scale, very hard to build a wider alliance of partners in assistance efforts.
— Jan Egeland
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In a world full of competing emergencies and disasters, it really helps if there is an international locomotive that can help us bring attention -…
— Jan Egeland
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Athletes have studied how to leap and how to survive the leap some of the time and return to the ground. They don't always do…
— Harold Brodkey
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We have been counseled to "seek . . . out of the best books words of wisdom." It is pointed out in Proverbs, "Wisdom is…
— Henry D. Taylor
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Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency.
— Joseph Addison
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The test of our religion is whether it fits us to meet emergencies. A man has no more character than he can command in a…
— Ralph Washington Sockman
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I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood.
— Michael Crichton
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If there's time for an emergency, why isn't there time for brilliance, generosity or learning?
— Seth Godin
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I bet a funny thing about driving a car off a cliff is, while you're in midair, you still hit those brakes! Hey, better try…
— Jack Handey
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Procedures outside the stadiums and in the parking areas still need to be optimized, for example so that emergency medical services can leave the grounds…
— Otto Schily
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It's upsetting to me that so many people think of themselves as environmentalists and still eat meat and dairy products. I think it's something people…
— Emily Deschanel
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I think it's [the AIDS fight] the most important and most pressing one - I think it's a global emergency and I think in a…
— Emma Thompson
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It may be a brief interruption - just a few seconds - but what if someone sitting near you is trying to make a decent…
— Brad Pitt
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I certainly think we have an emergency in media, and we gotta fix it.
— Phil Donahue
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At (UNHCR's) headquarters, I met extraordinary people, men and women, especially from the emergency team, who shared with me their passion, their dedication and their…
— Julien Clerc
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The mythology about the UN is absolutely breathtaking. People believe it costs a great deal of money to the United States. Completely untrue: it doesn't.…
— Unknown Author
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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…
— Wallace Shawn
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Anytime a large, emergency spending bill makes its way through Congress, the potential for mischief is great.
— Chris Chocola
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Let me start by emphasizing that I am open to efforts to expedite environmental procedures for true emergencies or in other clear cases where current…
— Sherwood Boehlert
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Guard units in the U.S. are suffering severe equipment shortages which will affect their ability to respond to emergencies in their home States, such as…
— Ike Skelton
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