Quotes About Emergencies

#1. Small faults and virtues are for daily life. The big ones are for emergencies.

Mason Cooley

#2. Smart financial planning - such as budgeting, saving for emergencies, and preparing for retirement - can help households enjoy better lives while weathering financial shocks. Financial education can play a key role in getting to these outcomes.

Ben Bernanke

#3. The federal government should only be providing services for emergencies. You and I, taxpayers, shouldn't be paying for cell phones so someone can have a social life. I just don't think it's appropriate.

Timothy Griffin

#4. The best way to get a sense of what kinds of emergencies might present themselves in your community is by contacting local chapters of the American Red Cross or offices of emergency management in the region or state. Most large cities will have their own offices of emergency management.

Irwin Redlener

#5. True character stands the test of emergencies. Do not be mistaken, it is weakness from which the awakening is rude.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#6. I never really drove a cab, but I do have a hack license in case of emergencies - like no money.

Harry Chapin

#7. We look wishfully to emergencies, to eventful, revolutionary times ... and think how easy to have taken our part when the drum was rolling and the house was burning over our heads. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mitch Kynock

#8. When I turned fifteen, I remember my father gave me a credit card which I was allowed to use for two things: emergencies and books.

Ann Brashares

#9. The art of conversation, or the qualification for a good companion, is a certain self-control, which now holds the subject, now lets it go, with a respect for the emergencies of the moment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. Disaster doesn't sort us out by preferences; it drags us into emergencies that require we act, and act altruistically, bravely, and with initiative in order to survive or save the neighbors, no matter how we vote or what we do for a living.

Rebecca Solnit

#11. Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.

E. M. Forster

#12. It is only in the lonely emergencies of life that our creed is tested: then routine maxims fail, and we fall back on our gods.

William James

#13. Watch out for emergencies. They are your big chance.

Fritz Reiner

#14. As you schedule individual tasks, give yourself a cushion. Mark the due date a few days ahead of the actual deadline so you have time to deal with changes or last-minute emergencies.

Harvey MacKay

#15. Sound character is our greatest asset because it provides the power with which we may ride the emergencies of life instead of going down under them.

Napoleon Hill

#16. Since life comes up and emergencies happen, making success possible hinges on two things: being choosy about each day's priority list, and developing an accountability system that works.

Laura Vanderkam

#17. A major part of his job was deciding when warnings could be ignored, when they could be dealt with at leisure - and when they had to be treated as real emergencies. If he paid equal attention to all the ship's cries for help, he would never get anything done. He

Arthur C. Clarke

#18. Be Prepared For Life's Emergencies. Always Arm Yourself With God's Word.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#19. Do you know your Bible?'
'Uh, not very well.'
'It merits study, it contains very practical advice for most emergencies.

Robert A. Heinlein

#20. Education in Emergencies signifies that the right to education is being threatened by natural causes such as tsunamis, but also, unfortunately, by man-made causes.

Mozah Bint Nasser Al Missned

#21. As on the one hand, the necessity for borrowing in particular emergencies cannot be doubted, so on the other, it is equally evident that to be able to borrow upon good terms, it is essential that the credit of a nation should be well established.

Alexander Hamilton

#22. Men ever follow willingly a daring leader: most willingly of all, in great emergencies.

Robert Dale Owen

#23. My life has been a series of emergencies.

Lana Turner

#24. Those who prepare for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themsleves at the expense of joy.

E. M. Forster

#25. At least my headache was almost gone. I always deal better with emergencies when I'm not actively in pain.

Seanan McGuire

#26. It is in the genes of cities to bounce back from disasters - whether natural or man made. The denizens of suburbia have no choice but to survive and move on. But it is the manner in which different cities respond to emergencies that sets them apart.

Vikas Swarup

#27. Our health care system squanders money because it is designed to react to emergencies. Homeless shelters, hospital emergency rooms, jails, prisons - these are expensive and ineffective ways to intervene and there are people who clearly profit from this cycle of continued suffering.

Pete Earley

#28. The telephone is needed for
Emergency purposes only
These people are not
Emergencies, they are
Calamities.

Charles Bukowski

#29. Less the same in her own home, which she'd had no chance to clean. If neither of these qualified in Hester's mind as valid church-excused emergencies, Dellarobia

Barbara Kingsolver

#30. Fiona: "I agree with Janie. If we have to put up with a grumpy Quinn all year, then we should be able to use his plane for emergencies.

Penny Reid

#31. Many of us are equal to life's emergencies who cannot bear its day-after-dayness.

Mignon McLaughlin

#32. frosting emergencies are just as real as other kinds of emergencies

Mallory Ortberg

#33. We "activate a physiological system that has evolved for responding to acute physical emergencies," Sapolsky writes, "but we turn it on for months on end, worrying about mortgages, relationships, and promotions.

Paul Tough

#34. Big, strapping macho guys were like liquid diets
they were great for emergencies, but she wouldn't want to be on one all the time.

Stephanie Bond

#35. I'm learning that you have to make time for what's important. You have to fight to carve little pieces of happiness out of your life, or the everyday emergencies will eat up everything.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#36. Nitwit ideas are for emergencies. You use them when you've got nothing else to try. If they work, they go in the Book. Otherwise you follow the Book, which is largely a collection of nitwit ideas that worked.

Larry Niven

#37. The U.N.'s humanitarian agencies rely on charitable donations from the public as well as the generosity of governments to continue their lifesaving work in response to natural disasters, armed conflicts and other emergencies.

Ban Ki-moon

#38. Make sure people get educated, help out with health emergencies. Those things, the government should do. That's 96 per cent of the economy, those two sectors.

Bill Gates

#39. Sister Mary was a nurse and nurses, whatever their creed, are primarily nurses, which had a lot to do with wearing your watch upside down, keeping calm in emergencies, and dying for a cup of tea.

Terry Pratchett

#40. Pioneer children were always having mishaps, but they were expected to know how to use their heads in emergencies.

Carol Ryrie Brink

#41. We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it.

C.S. Lewis

#42. The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can.

William Feather

#43. Car horns, shrill and prolonged, blared one after another. Flashing sirens heralded endless emergencies, and a fleet of buses rumbled past, their doors opening and closing with a powerful hiss, throughout the night. The noise was constantly distracting, at times suffocating.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#44. 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 laws are needlessly burdensome.

Sherwood Boehlert

#45. It was a lie but he believed in telling lies to people. Truth telling and medicine just didn't go together except in dire emergencies, if then.

Mario Puzo

#46. Governors normally have jurisdiction over public health emergencies, but a widespread biological attack would cross state boundaries.

Barton Gellman

#47. Our little ford was almost ready. She was later to be called Auntie after Gertrude Stein's aunt Pauline who always behaved admirably in emergencies and behaved fairly well most times if she was properly flattered.

Gertrude Stein

#48. Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is ... the highway to success.

Og Mandino

#49. States are looking for low-cost solutions that will enable better communication, while avoiding the danger in which the chain of command breaks down in emergencies. We do not want everyone talking to everyone else all the time.

John Shimkus

#50. Emergency rooms are closed, many hospital wards are as well leaving people who are sick with heart disease, trauma, pregnancy complications, pneumonia, malaria and all the everyday health emergencies with nowhere to go.

Richard E. Besser

#51. Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise.

Thomas Watson Jr.

#52. The emergencies you train for almost never happen. It's the one you can't train for that kills you.

Ernest K. Gann

#53. The first step to becoming a more peaceful person is to have the humility to admit that, in most cases, you're creating your own emergencies. Life will usually go on if things don't go according to plan. It's helpful to keep reminding yourself and repeating the sentence, "Life isn't an emergency".

Richard Carlson

#54. Friends aren't jumper cables. You don't throw them into the trunk and pull them out for emergencies.

Charlie Krueger

#55. I am about to proceed on a long and difficult voyage, the emergencies of which will demand all my fortitude: I am required not only to raise the spirits of others, but sometimes to sustain my own, when theirs are failing.

Mary Shelley

#56. God is not there just for emergencies.

Joyce Meyer

#57. Out of habit, she stopped by the bookshelf in the living room to see if there was a paperback that she could stuff into her pocket for emergencies - you never knew when you might need a book to entertain and comfort and distract you in the day's empty places

Emily Croy Barker

#58. 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 Katrina.

Ike Skelton

#59. Researchers were surprised to find that people with strong self-control spent less time resisting desires than other people did ... people with good self-control mainly use it not for rescue in emergencies but rather to develop effective habits and routines in school and at work.

Roy Baumeister

#60. The trouble with emergencies is," she said, "that I always put on my finest underwear and then nothing happens.

Zelda Fitzgerald

#61. Famine has wreaked havoc in Ethiopia for so long , it would be stupid not to be sensitive to the risk of such things occurring. But there has not been a famine on our watch - emergencies, but no famines.

Meles Zenawi

#62. Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal.

Desmond Tutu

#63. I keep spare business shirts. In case of emergencies." Emergencies? "Do you expect to have jizz on your shirt often?

N.R. Walker

#64. From routine hospital visits and prescription drugs, to emergencies and hospice care, Medicare covers the full range of health services that our nation's seniors rely on every single day.

Ann McLane Kuster

#65. If a hurricane strikes, we can blame the president for not being there; we can blame Congress and FEMA; we can blame the state governments; but in the end, it's the mayors and the local city governments that have to be prepared for emergencies and be prepared to act.

Michael Bloomberg

#66. He had always rather liked emergencies. Other people's at any rate. They put your own problems into perspective. It was like being on a ferry. You didn't have to think about what you had to do or where you had to go for the next few hours. It was all laid out for you.

Mark Haddon

#67. Thing about emergencies," he said, sounding weary. "Rarely occur when they'd be convenient.

Iain M. Banks

#68. During times of emergencies, civil crisis, or natural disasters it is important for persons to remain free to exercise their constitutional rights in a lawful and appropriate manner, and I believe it is important that we provide individuals with specific reassurance that we value those rights.

Colleen Hanabusa

#69. He asked questions, he was interested and interesting, he rarely spoke of himself. He had a calm voice for the worst accidents and emergencies.

Zadie Smith

#70. In a world full of competing emergencies and disasters, it really helps if there is an international locomotive that can help us bring attention - help us bring resources.

Jan Egeland

#71. You saw on your TV what happened in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. The Reserves or National Guard are usually the people we use for those national emergencies. They weren't here, they were over in Iraq, and so we were less protected.

Joseph Stiglitz

#72. Poetry is no more a narcotic than a stimulant; it is a universal bittersweet mixture for all possible household emergencies and its action varies accordingly as it is taken in a wineglass or a tablespoon, inhaled, gargled or rubbed on the chest by hard fingers covered with rings.

Robert Graves

#73. Republics have a longer life and enjoy better fortune than principalities, because they can profit by their greater internal diversity. They are the better able to meet emergencies.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#74. Meeting smaller emergencies and learning to deal with them had given me the confidence to deal with this larger emergency. So, little by little, I found out how to do things. After each catastrophe you don't worry so much the next time, and each time you emerge stronger from your victory.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#75. When families save, they can get through emergencies like a bad harvest or a medical emergency. But it's more than that. They can also plan for the future, gradually saving up for a small business or for their children's school tuition.

Jeff Raikes

#76. Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

William James

#77. Our three big emergencies are fire, loss of pressurization or contaminated atmosphere. Any of those things in a spaceship are very deadly and time critical. Everybody's trained, but I'm the commander of the ship, and it's up to me to decide.

Chris Hadfield

#78. What is needed by him who would succeed in the highest degree possible is careful planning. He is to accumulate reserved power, that he may be equal to all emergencies.

Orison Swett Marden

#79. Women are safer in perilous situations and emergencies than men, and might be still more so if they trusted themselves more confidingly to the chivalry of manhood.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#80. To be a good professional engineer, always start to study late for exams because it teaches you how to manage time and tackle emergencies.

Bill Gates

#81. A student comes to me with a piece of writing, holds it out, says, 'Is this good?' A whole sequence of emergencies goes off in my mind. That's not a question to ask anyone but yourself.

William Stafford

#82. The enemy doesn't warn its target. Emergencies do not make appointments, and the greatest battles of life are often surprises.

Wayde Goodall

#83. I fumbled around in the basement of my soul in search of the small, sensible fellow who often comes to the rescue during emergencies. It looked like he wasn't home.

Max Frei

#84. "Sir, what's your emergency?
Oh, nothing, just about passed out watching my online Army boyfriend beat off.
Sir, please don't use this line for non-emergencies.
Have you seen my Army boyfriend? You'd have a heart attack too.
Sir, I'm hanging up now."

Megan Erickson

#85. Much of the traditional thinking about cash is well intentioned but unrealistic. Should you have six months of living expenses in the bank for emergencies? Sure. Do you? Probably not.

Barry Ritholtz

#86. In a perfect world, there would always be communication and consultation between partners. But we don't live in that world. There are emergencies and dangerous, vindictive people.

Sylvain Reynard

#87. It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.

James Russell Lowell

#88. In writing are the roots, in writing are the foundations of eloquence; by writing resources are stored up, as it were, in a sacred repository, when they may be drawn forth for sudden emergencies, or as circumstances require.

Marcus Fabius Quintilianus

#89. They were here all at once, but not together. Survival took self-absorption, and it made them strangers with nothing to do and no way to relate. Emergencies gave you a shape and a plot to take part in, while death was no story at all. It left you nothing.

Ann Brashares

#90. bottle of Chardonnay permanently in her fridge for 'emotional emergencies,' which

Matt Dunn

#91. Emergencies are crucibles that contain and reveal the daily, slower-burning problems of medicine and beyond - our vulnerabilities; our trouble grappling with uncertainty, how we die, how we prioritize and divide what is most precious and vital and limited; even our biases and blindnesses.

Sheri Fink

#92. For day-to-day beauty, I'm a Q-tip and Vaseline kind of girl. I never leave home without Q-tips - they're a great fix for any makeup emergencies.

Scarlett Johansson

#93. 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 it well. But they are our philosophers of actual moments and the body and soul in them, and of our maneuvers in our emergencies and longings.

Harold Brodkey

#94. I only drink coffee in dire emergencies. That is I have to drive at 3am, have fifty miles or more to go, I'm falling asleep and there is no Pepsi Max available.

C.S. Woolley

#95. Be an advocate for your loved ones in the hospital. Ask tough questions of your local hospital and health system about preparedness for the likeliest emergencies, and express your views on how medical resources should be allocated in case they ever fall short.

Sheri Fink

#96. Training was very extensive, and we dealt with many recoveries from emergencies, and fortunately, participating and observing and existing through the reality of space was a once-in-a-lifetime experience and it was not marred by unexpected hazards or catastrophes.

Buzz Aldrin

#97. 'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.

Friedrich August Von Hayek

#98. Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.

Victor Hugo

#99. The Reservoir system will function not only as an equalizer of business conditions, but also as a national store to meet further emergencies, such as war and drought, and-most important of all-as the concrete means of developing a steadily higher living standard for all.

Benjamin Graham

#100. Public emergencies may require the hand of severity to fall heavily on those who are not personally guilty, but compassion prompts, and ever urges to milder methods.

Mercy Otis Warren