Rescued Quotes
113 Rescued quotes by 103 unique authors
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The primary victims of Katrina, those who were given the least help by the government, those rescued last or not at all, were overwhelmingly people…
— Jonathan Kozol
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A play should have barely been rescued from the mess it might just as easily have been.
— Tony Kushner
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In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.
— Luigi Pirandello
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I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the first to be rescued off…
— Gilda Radner
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O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand Between their loved home and the war's desolation! Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n…
— Francis Scott Key
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What we, or at any rate what I, refer to confidently as memory--meaning a moment, a scene, a fact that has been subjected to a…
— William Maxwell
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The geometry of judgment is a circle. Hate is a snake that turns to consume itself from the tail, a circle that diminishes to a…
— Dean Koontz
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Langdon turned to Sophie. "Who is that? What... happened?" Teabing hobbled over. "You were rescued by a knight brandishing an Excalibur made by Acme Orthopedic.
— Dan Brown
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Superheroes were born in the minds of people desperate to be rescued.
— Jodi Picoult
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She no longer believed in talk. It never rescued anything.
— Alice Sebold
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Yet we were rescued by that fancy, and saved by a myth.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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When you understand the Atonement, then you understand the joy of being rescued.
— M. Russell Ballard
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In a split second of eternity, everything is changed, transfigured. A few bars of music, rising from an unfamiliar place, a touch of perfection in…
— Muriel Barbery
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But she was waiting patiently. She no longer believed in talk. It never rescued anything. At seventy she had come to believe in time alone.…
— Alice Sebold
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I had rescued the moment by using my camera and in that way had found how to stop time and hold it. No one could…
— Alice Sebold
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Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, a truth which has veritably built my bones…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Guidance, like all God's acts of blessing under the covenant of grace, is a sovereign act. Not merely does God will to guide us in…
— J I Packer
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Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves - that's the truth. We have two or three great and moving experiences in our lives - experiences so…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Words, for all they were flimsy and invisible, had great strength. They could be fortified as a castle wall and sharp as a foil. They…
— Jodi Picoult
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Ahem. Dear Jesus," Taylor intoned more fervently. "We just want to thank you for gettin' us here safe ---" There was a loud, gurgling groan.…
— Libba Bray
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The man is a success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Everything hurt. I closed my eyes, pressing my cheek to the street, and waited. What for, I didn't know. To be rescued. Or found. But…
— Sarah Dessen
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I know girls who pine for it. They like to play dress-up and pretend being Vor ladies of old, rescued from menace by romantic Vor…
— Lois McMaster Bujold
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You think I need to be rescued?" "I think it doesn't hurt to let someone else do the rescuing every now and then, when your…
— Rachel Vincent
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If I blow the conch and they don't come back; then we've had it. We shan't keep the fire going. We'll be like animals. We'll…
— William Golding
Who Wrote These Rescued Quotes
103 authors contributed a total of 113 Rescued Quotes, led by these top contributors: