Best Emergency Wisdom
313 Emergency quotes by 265 unique authors
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My biggest concern is that America is drifting towards mediocrity and that people don't recognize - and by people I'm meaning Washington - don't recognize…
— Howard Schultz
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We know we cannot underestimate the importance of emergency planning in our region, nor can we assume we'll have ample warning time. If an earthquake…
— Ellen Tauscher
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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
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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,…
— Chuck Yeager
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Mobile notifications put people in a state of perpetual emergency interruption - similar to what 911 operators and air traffic controllers experienced back in the…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.
— Ronald Reagan
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The president of the United States has claimed, on more than one occasion, to be in dialogue with God. If he said that he was…
— Sam Harris
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I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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sometimes in life doing what we shouldn't do is the emergency
— Bryce Courtenay
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She wants to know if I love her, that's all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there,…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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According to the most common interpretation of biblical prophecy, Jesus will return only after things have gone horribly awry. Imagine the consequences if any significant…
— Sam Harris
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Faith is a fine invention When gentlemen can see, But microscopes are prudent In an emergency.
— Emily Dickinson
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Finally I went and found my hat and skewered it on my head with a four-inch hat pin. I wore the hat because I knew…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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Two things put me in the spirit to give. One is that I have come to think of everyone with whom I come into contast…
— Anne Lamott
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Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, perhaps, the first man in the history of the…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Out of the way! We are in the throes of an exceptional emergency! This is no occassion for sport- there is lace at stake!" (Ms.…
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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Grace said,"Dr. Wexler was called away on an emergency operation." "An emergency Packers game in Green Bay," Turtle confided to Flora Baumbach.
— Ellen Raskin
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You're going to find this hard to believe, but cops aren't required to carry emergency condoms." Joe Morelli
— Janet Evanovich
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...you look at me like an emergency
— Adrienne Rich
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I'd watch your mouth", he said, tilting his head as he looked at my ID."The last lunker who laughed at her picture spent the night…
— Kim Harrison
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...I was tired of men. Hanging in doorways, standing too close, their smell of beer or fifteen-year-old whiskey. Men who didn't come to the emergency…
— Janet Fitch
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If I feel ragged, my prep team seems in worse condition, knocking back coffee and sharing brightly colored little pills. As far as I can…
— Suzanne Collins
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It was an emergency!" Seth blurted. "Read my lips - emergency reading - not some demented idea of fun. If I was starving, I would…
— Brandon Mull
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Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until…
— Winston Churchill
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Strictly enforce the scale of "fixed responsibility." The first and foremost level of responsibility is with the individual himself; the second level is the family;…
— W. Cleon Skousen
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