Quotes About Saving Lives

#1. I enjoy working with the American Cancer Society because I fully support its mission of saving lives and creating a world with less cancer and more birthdays for everyone.

Larry Fitzgerald

#2. I hope I'm saving lives. There are very few people in their careers that have the opportunity to do something to benefit mankind.

Stephanie Kwolek

#3. There is no difference between saving lives and extending lives, because in both cases we are giving people the chance of more life.

Aubrey De Grey

#4. I don't like local, state or federal level of got mandating anything in our lives , in our families, and in our businesses, unless it comes to saving lives.

Sarah Palin

#5. They [Greenpeace] forgot their original purpose and turned into a big, rich bureaucracy, more interested in fund-raising than in saving lives, so I got fed up and quit ... they're a bunch of wimps.

Paul Watson

#6. Saving lives is not a top priority in the halls of power. Being compassionate and concerned about human life can cause a man to lose his job. It can cause a woman not to get the job to begin with.

Myriam Miedzian

#7. Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved.

Bill Gates

#8. The American's literature is all about being hot and sexy, inspiring a girl and going to bed with her. It focuses on being a hero, saving lives and surviving last, but it has nothing to do with dignity, serenity.

M.F. Moonzajer

#9. I just thought we'd be doing something ... " "Bigger?" Prophet asked, and without waiting, said, "Saving lives is always big." "There's no one to save, Prophet." It took everything Prophet had not to punch Tom. "There's always someone to save.

S.E. Jakes

#10. Saving lives, one day at a time, just like always

Spencer Smith

#11. It would be right to say that the helicopter's role in saving lives represents one of the most glorious pages in the history of human flight.

Igor Sikorsky

#12. The doctors and nurses at the Biamba Marie Mutombo Hospital are saving lives every day and helping improve health care in the DRC which has been ravaged by more than a decade of war and disease.

Dikembe Mutombo

#13. If saving lives is against your religion ... You need to find a new religion. Compassion is the light of humanity.

Timothy Pina

#14. I'm not saving lives.

Rachel Weisz

#15. If you think about it now, it's kind of ridiculous. All these hot girls on Baywatch in tiny little red bathing suits running around saving lives.

Carmen Electra

#16. There's really no reason for any musician, writer, actor to ever take themselves seriously. If you work in a needle exchange, take yourself seriously. You're doing good work. If you're involved in hostage negotiations and saving lives, you can have a sense of entitlement.

Moby

#17. I simply want to celebrate the fact that right near your home, year in and year out, a community college is quietly - and with very little financial encouragement - saving lives and minds. I can't think of a more efficient, hopeful or egalitarian machine, expect perhaps the bicycle.

Kay Ryan

#18. I do believe anybody manufacturing products for healthcare cannot regard it truly as a 100 per cent business: it is business plus a humanitarian approach to society because you are saving lives. You are playing with people's lives.

Yusuf Hamied

#19. I'm not saving lives. I'm singing and I should go placidly and joyously through the whole thing and work hard and not take it for granted. It's great to have this gift.

Robert Plant

#20. I was blessed with good genetics, but my essence is very happy and warm and I don't take my job too seriously. I'm not saving lives here.

Miranda Kerr

#21. There was never absolute good or absolute evil (though the king was definitely the exception). And even if these men were corrupt in some ways, they were also saving lives. While

Sarah J. Maas

#22. I insert the bevel and draw back the plunger. I know that the syringe contains more than sodium chloride-that even as the toxic contents fill my fathers veins, he is sharing with me his final gift: the horror and thrill of saving lives.

Jacob M. Appel

#23. I'm not curing cancer. I'm not saving lives. It's my job. I'm an actor. It's a good, fun job. People enjoy it, but there are many other people who are doing so many things that are more worthwhile. I just don't see anything that special about it. I see it as entertaining.

Kurt Fuller

#24. I practice and work hard at my music, but I'm not saving lives here.

Harry Connick Jr.

#25. You're not saving lives, Dad. You can't save lives when no one's living anymore. (Maddie)

Katie Kacvinsky

#26. Health care providers, saving lives daily in our emergency rooms, live with federal mandates.

Barbara Ann Radnofsky

#27. There are a whole bunch of people - Republicans or sports fans or reality TV fans - who probably would never have recognized that they have trans people in their world. Caitlyn Jenner really is thinking about the movement and saving lives, so I know that her intentions are honorable.

Jill Soloway

#28. You have to remember that when you are a performer you become a celebrity, but you are not saving lives. It's not that important.

Victoria Beckham

#29. In my fantasies, I was always caught up in heroic struggles, and I saw myself saving lives, sacrificing myself for others. I had far loftier ambitions than mere romance.

Irene Gut Opdyke

#30. Right. Because if you have trouble putting ketchup and mustard on a hot dog, you should totally move on to saving lives.

Huntley Fitzpatrick

#31. In fact the English nurses had spent much of their time stuffing mattresses, stirring gruel, and standing at washtubs, but Lib didn't want the nun to mistake her for an ignorant menial. That was what nobody understood: saving lives often came down to getting a latrine pipe unplugged.

Emma Donoghue

#32. The only way to know if the screening is saving lives is by doing a randomized trial. It's easy to forget this and assume that if technology can find more cancer, it will save more lives. Marketers exploit this assumption. Don't fall for it.

H. Gilbert Welch

#33. The information age has been driven and dominated by technopreneurs. We now have to apply these technologies in saving lives, improving livelihoods and lifting millions of people out of squalor, misery and suffering. In other words, our focus must now move from the geeks to the meek.

Arthur C. Clarke

#34. Government funding that's coming from the United States is making a huge difference on the ground in the developing world. It's really palpable - it's making a huge difference saving lives.

Melinda Gates

#35. I think I did everything possible known to any mayor in the country as it relates to saving lives.

Ray Nagin

#36. As a resident, my highest ideal was not saving lives -- everyone dies eventually -- but guiding a patient or family to an understanding of death or illness.

Paul Kalanithi

#37. That's what all art is for. Your creations can become anything to anyone. I've realized there's nothing wrong with letting people escape for a few hours. Plus you should hear about all the sex lives I'm saving.

Karina Halle

#38. Saving these animals was what she did, it was an anathema to try to understand someone who'd take their lives - for something as inert and valueless as money. She

Toni Anderson

#39. Every seventeen minutes in America, someone commits suicide. Mostly, I have been impressed by how little value our society puts on saving the lives of those who are in such despair as to want to end them. It is a societal illusion that suicide is rare. It is not.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#40. We were meant to rescue each other, not cut down the forest to rescue one.

Shannon L. Alder

#41. I am grateful to President George W. Bush for PEPFAR, which is saving the lives of millions of people in poor countries and to both Presidents Bush for the work we've done together after the South Asia tsunami, Hurricane Katrina and the Haitian earthquake.

William J. Clinton

#42. By electrifying our lives, we reduce our energy costs by 39 percent, which is a huge savings in itself.

Mark Ruffalo

#43. We came to the comforting conclusion that the Creator probably knew how to run His universe quite as well as we do, and that, after all, there are no such things as 'wasted' lives, saving and except when am individual wilfully squanders and wastes his own life ...

L.M. Montgomery

#44. We all of us die, Miss Smallwood,' he interrupted. 'But we don't all of us make our lives count for something. How much better to die saving another soul than to stand safe on shore and do nothing while others perish?

Julie Klassen

#45. A lot of actors think that what we do is so important, like we're saving people's lives or something.

Kristen Stewart

#46. Funny. Slave masters thought they were making a difference in black people's lives too. Saving them from their "wild African ways." Same shit, different century. I wish people like them would stop thinking that people like me need saving. One-Fifteen

Angie Thomas

#47. Then it was that there came into my head the first of the mad notions that contributed so much to saving our lives.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#48. I think, unfortunately, we live in a world where people attack other people and I think a legitimate rationale for war is the saving of human life, the saving of lives of people who cannot defend themselves.

Sebastian Junger

#49. I was a witness to lots of death ... Saving a human life was something really, really beautiful ... no matter who they are. Not only Israeli people owe me their lives. I guarantee many terrorists, many Palestinian leaders, owe me their lives - or in other words, they owe my Lord their lives.

Mosab Hassan Yousef

#50. I don't believe that we should limit waterboarding - or, quite frankly, any other alternative torture technique - if it means saving Americans' lives.

Aaron Schock

#51. Here I am, saving your lives, bitten and scarred and wounded for you, and you don't even know it.

Jackson Pearce

#52. Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it

Samuel Johnson

#53. If you believe that every life has equal value, it's revolting to learn that some lives are seen as worth saving and others are not. We said to ourselves: "This can't be true. But if it is true, it deserves to be the priority of our giving."

Bill Gates

#54. There is no light. I don't feel like starting my generator. I used to get a big kick out saving people's lives. Now I wonder what the hell's the point, since they all have to die anyway.Dr. Stubbs Catch -22

Joseph Heller

#55. Without knowing it, we utilize hundreds of products each day that owe their origin to wild animals and plants. Indeed our welfare is intimately tied up with the welfare of wildlife. Well may conservationists proclaim that by saving the lives of wild species, we may be saving our own.

Norman Myers

#56. Horace normally didn't need anyone else to save his life. He was pretty skilled at doing it for himself.

John Flanagan

#57. There is no point in romanticizing other religions that reject the deity and saving work of Christ. They do not know God. And those who follow them tragically waste their lives.

John Piper

#58. I can't tell whether a revived man would appreciate his second chance or yearn for the stolen serenity.

Ahmed Mostafa

#59. Oh tell me again how you are saving me.
Oh tell me again how you are leaving me.
Take care, sweetheart. Play fair, sweetheart.
Living different lives in empty beds.

Renee Ruin

#60. Who knows what the long-term effects of saving rescue dogs are and the healing lessons and love they bring to Earth? Each one of us has the capacity to influence hundreds - even thousands of people or animals through the way we live our lives.

Jadi Kindred

#61. Whether our task is fighting poverty, stemming the spread of disease or saving innocent lives from mass murder, we have seen that we cannot succeed without the leadership of the strong and the engagement of all.

Kofi Annan

#62. As I began to get a deeper understanding of the vital life-saving work Save the Children does, I felt compelled to help in any way I could. This is about safe-keeping, inspiring and empowering a future generation - to facilitate them to make their own lives a little bit better.

Erin O'Connor

#63. Restraint? Why are you so concerned with saving their lives? The whole idea is to kill the bastards. At the end of the war if there are two Americans and one Russian left alive, we win.

Thomas S. Power

#64. I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.

Melinda Gates

#65. There is a story which is not being told strongly enough of the Afghan employees of the UN inside the country who are saving hundreds of thousands of lives everyday by their bravery and nobody talks of them.

Lakhdar Brahimi

#66. Slave masters thought they were making a difference in black people's lives too. Saving them from their "wild African ways." Same shit, different century. I wish people like them would stop thinking that people like me need saving.

Angie Thomas

#67. 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

#68. The guard rails on a highway may restrict some folks from driving the way they want, but those rules mostly end up saving the lives of those other drivers who understand that living in a society means behaving in a commonly beneficial way.

Steven Weber

#69. I have seen heroics - soldiers saving other soldiers' lives - and horrors.

Richard Engel

#70. Fat, Is saving our lives.

Robert O. Young

#71. Here in Bosnia I had already seen several cases of rheumatic fever and a case we thought was miliary tuberculosis, diseases now rare in America. It was sobering to think that the mundane process of vaccinating these children might ultimately save more lives than any UN-brokered peace treaty.

Pamela Grim

#72. Having spent almost two decades setting up and running Fortis, our mission of saving and enriching lives is an integral part of my being. Over time, this has inspired me to do more direct service and give back to society a little of what I have received in abundance.

Shivinder Mohan Singh

#73. I'm sorry about your face." Jamie looked over his shoulder, and touched the demon's mark crawling along his jaw with the back of his hand. "Sorry about saving all our lives by doing something you had to do?" "Oh no," Nick said blandly. "I just meant, you know. Generally.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#74. There are some bad people on the rise;
they're saving their own skins by ruining people's lives.

Morrissey

#75. Why do they even call it that, "saving yourself"? Like we need to be rescued from sex? It's not like virgins spend their whole lives engaged in the sacred ceremony of "being saved" from intercourse.

Robyn Schneider

#76. We don't do what we do for the glory or the fame or the credit; we do it for the quiet satisfaction of making the world a better place, saving the lives of innocents, and being better than you are.

Derek Landy

#77. It's a great honor," said Fedyor. "To save a life. You saved many.

Leigh Bardugo

#78. Paradoxically, a saint like [Albert] Schweitzer can give one a lot more trouble than King Leopold II, villain of unmitigated guilt, because along with doing good and saving African lives Schweitzer also managed to announce that the African was indeed his brother, but only his junior brother.

Chinua Achebe

#79. Explaining that I'm faced with a choice between being with the love of my life, or saving four lives that were never meant to end.

Alyson Noel

#80. The shadow of the highest evil intermingled with the light of the highest good. Maybe all lives are filled with this. Maybe it is always a choice between embracing the darkness of one or the saving grace of the other.

Lisa Wingate

#81. Saving a species of bird or insect is no different from saving humankind. 'All lives are equal' is the basic tenet of Pan-Species Communism.

Liu Cixin

#82. If there's a regulation that's saving 10,000 lives and costing one job, it's worth it.

Cass Sunstein

#83. Imagine, just for the sake of discussion, that you had a few hours a week and a few dollars a month to donate to a cause - and you wanted to spend that time and money where it would have the greatest impact in saving and improving lives. Where would you spend it?

Bill Gates

#84. Feelings about money
saving and spending, holding back and letting go
start very early in our lives. Stingy people have often been forced to give when they were very, very young, when they weren't ready. And generous people have often been really appreciated when they were very young.

Fred Rogers

#85. This is about saving children's lives. It is not about agencies and services protecting themselves.

Rosie Batty

#86. These people who bang on about saving the planet, it's not the planet they want to save, the planet doesn't need saving. They're concerned solely with preserving the planet so the human race lives on and on, a massive distinction people fail to make

Robert Breeze

#87. For me, the ability to use semiconductor sequencing to provide a medical diagnosis in just a few hours that once took days is a crucial step in saving the lives of patients. This is particularly significant for the treatment of sepsis, where every minute matters.

Chris Toumazou

#88. All those people I didn't even know, I couldn't pick them out of a lineup if I had to, but they had worked their whole lives to get the knowledge that ended up saving my life. It was because of them that I was in this magnificent wave of people and music.

Maria Semple

#89. Grace means that God steps into the lives of particular individuals with the purpose and effect of saving them. He needs no permission to do this, nor is He under any obligation to do so.

Colin S. Smith

#90. What God does in the tiny corners of our day-to-day lives is stunning and gorgeous and headline-making, but we have a bad habit of saving the headlines for the grotesque and scary.

Shauna Niequist

#91. The global warming scare has provided a field day for politicians and others who wish to control our lives. After all, only the imagination limits the kind of laws and restrictions that can be written in the name of saving the planet.

Walter E. Williams

#92. The answer is simple, and harsh. The market did not reward saving the lives of these children, and governments did not subsidize it. So the children died because their mothers and their fathers had no power in the market and no voice in the system.

Bill Gates

#93. She had lied to him. She had wanted to save lives, yes. But she had gone out there with no intention of saving her own.

Sarah J. Maas

#94. Our lives and the love we share are the saving graces of that night.

Jessica Park