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. I really wanted to help people, in fact I started schooling to become a firefighter, but as a firefighter in my area you have to be an Emergency medical technician as well.

Cameron West

#10. 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

#11. Carry always your earplugs with you in case of emergency, like meeting with a politician!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#12. 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

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

E. M. Forster

#14. 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

#15. To be patient in an emergency is a terrible trial.

Wendell Berry

#16. Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.

Annie Dillard

#17. The ability to keep a cool head in an emergency, maintain poise in the midst of excitement, and to refuse to be stampeded are true marks of leadership.

Robert R. Shannon

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

Fritz Reiner

#19. The August Decrees were an improvised parliamentary reaction to an emergency situation.

Francois Furet

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. In Courtney Moreno's In Case of Emergency the working class save the world and themselves. A wonderful first book!

Ali Liebegott

#23. 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

#24. 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

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

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

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

Robert A. Heinlein

#27. It was just this sudden call like it was an emergency. "Quick! You have to go do this ... because it's Friends!" I was just, "Oh, my God, okay!"

Sherilyn Fenn

#28. If there's time for an emergency, why isn't there time for brilliance, generosity or learning?

Seth Godin

#29. 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

#30. 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

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

Robert Dale Owen

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

Lana Turner

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

E. M. Forster

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

Seanan McGuire

#35. 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

#36. 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

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

Charles Bukowski

#38. To appropriately respond to an emergency requires a very clear mind, to cooly analyze what the observations are and how to fix it.

Buzz Aldrin

#39. How fast a company can respond in an emergency is a measure of its corporate reflexes.

Bill Gates

#40. 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

#41. 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. Pole)

Elizabeth Gaskell

#42. Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency.

Joseph Addison

#43. 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

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Mallory Ortberg

#46. 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

#47. Barack Obama is facing a financial emergency on a grander scale. Yet his approach has been to engage in one of the biggest peacetime spending binges in American history.

Mitt Romney

#48. A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within ten seconds.

Ted Nelson

#49. 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

#50. 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

#51. Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.

Jonathan Swift

#52. 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

#53. 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

#54. Death is losing its terror. It is the emergency exit for a world that is becoming more frightening death ever was.

Julian Green

#55. She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.

Abraham Verghese

#56. 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

#57. 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

#58. No one realized that the pumps that delivered fuel to the emergency generators were electric.

Angel Feliciano

#59. God doesn't need to have emergency meetings. He's never gathered the Trinity and asked 'What happened there'.

Matt Chandler

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

Carol Ryrie Brink

#61. 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

#62. 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

#63. Emergency, I continue to believe, is what happens to someone else.
I say that I continue to believe this even as I know that I do not.

Joan Didion

#64. 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

#65. 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

#66. 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

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

Barton Gellman

#68. Once a kata has been learned, it must be practised repeatedly until it can be applied in an emergency, for knowledge of just the sequence of a kata in karate is useless.

Gichin Funakoshi

#69. From the psychological point of view, the self-asserting emotions, derived from emergency reactions, involve a narrowing of consciousness; the participatory emotions an expansion of consciousness by identificatory processes of various kinds.

Arthur Koestler

#70. Many communities throughout the nation still do not have the communications infrastructure in place for first responders to communicate with one another during an emergency.

Susan Collins

#71. In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.

Abraham Verghese

#72. 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

#73. 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

#74. 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

#75. 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

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

Thomas Watson Jr.

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

Ernest K. Gann

#78. But some women only require an emergency to make them fit for one.

Thomas Hardy

#79. The sole impulse which dictates and compels a man's every act: the imperious necessity of securing his own approval, in every emergency and at all costs ... It is our only spur, our whip, our goad, our impelling power; we have no other.

Mark Twain

#80. 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

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

Charlie Krueger

#82. 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

#83. I certainly think we have an emergency in media, and we gotta fix it.

Phil Donahue

#84. God is not there just for emergencies.

Joyce Meyer

#85. 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

#86. 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

#87. 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

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

Zelda Fitzgerald

#89. 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

#90. 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

#91. I am personally overseeing changes that include the establishment of a global health emergency workforce.

Margaret Chan

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

N.R. Walker

#93. 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

#94. 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

#95. Life isn't an emergency. Christ is in charge of every moment of the day; nothing catches Him off guard.

Ann Voskamp

#96. 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

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

Iain M. Banks

#98. 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

#99. Each year, millions of skiers come to Colorado to experience its superb emergency medical facilities.

Dave Barry

#100. Truth has always had many loud proclaimers, but the question is whether a person will in the deepest sense acknowledge the truth, allow it to permeate his whole being, accept all its consequences, and not have an emergency hiding place for himself and a Judas kiss for the consequence.

Soren Kierkegaard