Best Emergency Proverbs

313 Emergency quotes by 265 unique authors

Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with… — Rebecca Solnit
I said, I know why you’re afraid to fight with me.” "And why is that?” If he flexed again, I’d have to implement emergency measures.… — Ilona Andrews
As he passed me, he leaned to Curran and handed him a paper fan folded from some sort of flyer. Curran looked at the fan.… — Ilona Andrews
Here is the secret to surviving one of these [airplane] crashes: Be male. In a 1970 Civil Aeromedical institute study of three crashes involving emergency… — Mary Roach
No emergency was ever dealt with effectively by democratic process. — Ian Mcewan
You’re going to share a Moon Pie? Now? You know you can’t get any more of those until you go back to the Sates, right?… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Full emergency power to the engines. Ram the Blade ship. — Katherine Applegate
Nearly every morning, a certain woman in our community comes running out of her house with her face white and her overcoat flapping wildly. She… — Lydia Davis
Heroism' often consists in keeping your head in an emergency and doing the best you can with what you have instead of panicking and being… — Robert A. Heinlein
Where's Lori?" he asked when he saw the nurse wasn't there. "She's not avoiding me, is she?" His grandmother slipped off her glasses, put down… — Susan Mallery
Irony has only emergency use. Carried over time it is the voice of the trapped who have come to enjoy their cage. — Lewis Hyde
So when you find yourself locked onto an unpleasant train of thought, heading for the places in your past where the screaming is unbearable, remember… — Alan Moore
The word connects the visible trace with the invisible thing, the absent thing, the thing that is desired or feared, like a frail emergency bridge… — Italo Calvino
There were other stories and other names. Second Base Stace, who had breasts in fourth grade and let some of the boys feel them. Vincent,… — Stephen Chbosky
Do the elevators work?" I ask Uriah, as quietly as I can. "Sure they do." says Zeke, rolling his eyes, "You think I'm stupid enough… — Veronica Roth
Margaret had always dreaded lest her courage should fail her in any emergency, and she should be proved to be, what she dreaded lest she… — Elizabeth Gaskell
He was breathing, which is always a good sign. As gently as I could I picked him up, placed him on the towel, wrapped it… — Josh Lanyon
I cannot remember my past, my nose, or the colour of my eyes, or what my general opinion of myself is. Only in moments of… — Virginia Woolf
I slowly climbed back to my feet, walked back into the emergency department through the silently swishing glass doors, and, covered in my girlfriend's blood,… — Maggie Stiefvater
His mind worked fast, flying in emergency supplies of common sense, as human minds do, to construct a huge anchor in sanity and prove that… — Terry Pratchett
Most people have two emergency modes. Fight and Flight. But Conner always knew he had three. Fight, Flight, and Screw Up Royally. — Neal Shusterman
All right, then. Emergency medical situation, take two.” He leaped to his feet, staggered, keeled over, then lifted his head weakly. “Chloe? Is that you?”… — Kelley Armstrong
Food security is not in the supermarket. It's not in the government. It's not at the emergency services division. True food security is the historical… — Joel Salatin
A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life-raft and a festival. They are cathedrals of the… — Caitlin Moran
Probably" is a word with an emergency ejector seat. — David Mitchell

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