Rescue Yourself Quotes

#1. Be your own flying saucer! Rescue yourself!

Tom Robbins

#2. As your father, my instinct is to protect you ... Other people will want to protect you too. But remember that you are not a damsel in distress, waiting for some prince to rescue you. Forget the prince. With your brain and your resourcefulness, you can rescue yourself.

Brad Meltzer

#3. The movie says, You can lose your job and your way and still rescue yourself. 'Larry Crowne' creates a self-excavated utopia, and I love that idea, that message.

Julia Roberts

#4. Whatever it is that may be bothering you, whatever it is that may have your attention arrested, you have the power to rescue yourself.

D. Allen Miller

#5. It takes a hell of a lot of courage to walk into your own story, but to be the hero of your own life you have to rescue yourself.

Shannon L. Alder

#6. You can rescue yourself. No matter how you feel, no matter what you believe about your worth or your capacity to love and be loved, you can change.

Geneen Roth

#7. I thought I was rescuing her ... I thought I was the knight in shining armor ... But it turns out; she was the badass princess that was rescuing me.

Steve Maraboli

#8. ...He untied her robe and parted it. She heard his intake of breath... before he murmured, "Beautiful."
"You probably say that to all the women you rescue from the sea," she said.

Terry Spear

#9. The word "salvation" denotes rescue. Rescue? What from? Well, of course, ultimately death. And since it is sin that colludes with the forces of evil and decay, sin leads to death. So we are rescued from sin and death.

N. T. Wright

#10. I think it's just a gash. Hurts like bloody hell, though. Remind me ... to never try to rescue you again."
"I can't believe the timing, that you stepped in just when I was thrusting. I didn't see you."
"I didn't see the knife, so we're even.

Lorraine Heath

#11. Cam was filled with the rage of a man unable to rescue his lady, even though she was only debatably in danger.

Eloisa James

#12. Our experience over the last 20 years has shown that indeed people must themselves become their own liberators. You cannot wait for somebody else to come and rescue you.

Thabo Mbeki

#13. Men want a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue. That is what is written in their hearts. That is what little boys play at. That is what men's movies are about. You just see it. It is undeniable.

John Eldredge

#14. I will move on, so help me. I would find and rescue women who suffered abuse and hardship. I would become a trafficker's worst nightmare. Even though you deny him, you're becoming him.

Pepper Winters

#15. When you hear the phrase "rescue the financial system," translate it in your mind into "keep the debts on the books." They are trying to find a way for you (and debtor nations too) to keep paying and for the debt to keep growing.

Charles Eisenstein

#16. There will always be detours in the fascinating game called life. Find the path to your heart's desires, and stay on course.

Elizabeth Parker

#17. You mustn't wait for someone to rescue you, ... A girl expecting rescue never learns to rescue herself. Even with the means, she'll find her courage wanting.

Kate Morton

#18. In these night recitations we create a space between things as we felt them at the time and as we speak them now. This is the space reserved for irony, sympathy and fond amusement, the means by which we rescue ourselves from the past.

Don DeLillo

#19. I want a character to wake up one day and feel like, 'I can face it'. That, to me, is happy. I want the characters to rescue themselves, though you use the relationships you have, to make you strong enough to be able to do that.

Cecelia Ahern

#20. I operate under the assumption that people don't notice the good in me. That's just how things always seem to play out. I get blamed, while con-artist kids like Venus, and Camille, and Gemma get believed. But the rescue lady noticed. In the background, just observing, she noticed.

Wendelin Van Draanen

#21. Our need is so desperate an idea, a thing, a law can't help us. It took one thing, the gift of gifts, God in the flesh, to rescue us.

Paul David Tripp

#22. He'd developed a strangely tender feeling towards such words, as if they were children abandoned in the woods and it was his duty to rescue them.

Margaret Atwood

#23. In times of trouble, be strong. And wait patiently for God to rescue you.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#24. It is rewarding beyond words to rescue a dog from the shelter and have that dog become part of your family.

Jenna Morasca

#25. You don't strike me as the princess type."
"What's that suppose to mean?"
Daniel Smiled. "It means that I'd still go out of my way to rescue you, but you'd probably smack me across the head and try to slay the dragon yourself.

Jeyn Roberts

#26. Run all you want, Haddie," he murmurs, his deep cadence a strong sound against the white noise around us, "but you're going to find yourself all tangled up in those dangling ends you refuse to tie to something. . . . Who's going to rescue you then?

K. Bromberg

#27. Or perhaps you notice a congregation of ladybugs on a rose stalk. Don't invoke the old nursery saying and ask them to fly away home. Their house is not on fire. Your roses are, with aphids, which the ladybugs are feeding on - and you can bless yourself that they have come to your rescue.

Eleanor Perenyi

#28. Judgement of others and ourselves always comes from a place of fear. It is fear that keeps us from living authentically all that we say we value.

Shannon L. Alder

#29. Pause and remember - No one is coming to rescue you from yourself; your inner demons, your lack of confidence, your dissatisfaction with yourself and life. Only self-love and good decisions will rescue you.

Jennifer Young

#30. Can you really rescue anyone, or anything, without rescuing a piece of yourself at the same time?

Laurell K. Hamilton

#31. I play a character called Lieutenant Delcourt who, in the original comics, pops up from time to time to rescue Tintin. I guess if you've grown up watching movies like 'Jaws' and 'Indiana Jones,' it's pretty surreal to find yourself on set with Steven Spielberg directing you.

Tony Curran

#32. My memories make me angry, and sometimes, violent. Don't risk yourself trying to rescue me from them. No one can.

Wendy Lindstrom

#33. listen to Marcus Aurelius's empowering call to "get active in your own rescue - if you care for yourself at all - and do it while you can.

Ryan Holiday

#34. She had been trying to be honest with him, thinking her honesty would be winsome and that he would come to rescue her family, forgetting what she later learned as a writer: that to be honest is to open yourself up to people thinking you're crazy.

Susan Breen

#35. Your knight in shining armor doesn't have to come flanked with money, or with the answers to all your problems, he doesn't even have to rescue you, but your well-being should mean just as much to him, as it does to you, and even more so when you don't mean much to yourself.

Ty J. Snow

#36. Wow. What'd he do to deserve that? Rescue orphans from a burning building? If so, you might want to make sure he didn't set the building on fire in the first place.

Richelle Mead

#37. I love dogs. I absolutely adore them. When I'm teaching in Mexico, I rescue dogs from the streets and make my students adopt them.

Mary Ellen Mark

#38. Leo waited while the fish centaur put away his supplies. Aphros's lobster-claw horns kept swimming around in his thick hair, and Leo had to resist the urge to try and rescue them.

Rick Riordan

#39. There were lies we told to save ourselves, and then there were lies we told to rescue others. What counted more, the mistruth, or the greater good?

Jodi Picoult

#40. Sylvie wishes the anti-depressants had been around when she was in her early twenties, not only to rescue her from the dark tunnels that came when her brother first got sick, but also to keep her from fucking all those assholes.

Francesca Lia Block

#41. Christ was crucified by the Jews who had wanted a temporal ruler to rescue them from the oppressive Roman authorities. Instead God sent them a spiritual leader to rescue them from their sins ... He was not what the Jews had expected so they considered Him a threat. Thus He was put to death.

Paul Weyrich

#42. Of all the priceless objects left behind, this is what we rescue. These artifacts. Memory cues. Useless souvenirs. Nothing you could auction. The scars left from happiness.

Chuck Palahniuk

#43. For someone who needs refuge, a key is provided.

Anna Keesey

#44. Adina appealed to the sky. "We asked for rescue and you sent us incompetent rockstar pirates with a broken ship and perfect abs?"
"Thank you, God," Petra said.

Libba Bray

#45. I want to find my way to where you are-you, the Kumiko who wants me to rescue her ... I wanted to let you know that. I'm getting closer to where you are, and I intend to get closer still.

Haruki Murakami

#46. Saddam Hussein has been brutal against his people, but when he was committing those crimes, the international community did not come to the rescue of the Iraqis.

Bianca Jagger

#47. How rarely do our emotions meet the object they seem to deserve? How hopelessly we signal; how dark the sky; how big the waves. We are all lost at sea, washed between hope and despair, hailing something that may never come to rescue us.

Julian Barnes

#48. How many of these rescue missions have you conducted anyway?" "More than I can count," sniffed the general. "I see," said Rex. "How many fingers am I holding up?

Robert Kroese

#49. I looked at a fetal development chart at the Operation Rescue Office in Dallas. I had a lot of emotions stirring up inside of me. That's when I decided that it was wrong in any stage of pregnancy.

Norma McCorvey

#50. In my experience flying search-and-rescue missions, the greatest single variable contributing to successful rescues was the preparedness and expertise of the person(s) in distress.

Tom Gross

#51. Once people realize how easy it is to make a difference, they're forever changed

Karina Halle

#52. We'll go along with it for now. Valkyrie, keep close watch and be ready to swoop to the rescue."

'Hopefully swooping will not be required, nor rescue. But I am ready to do both.'

He squeezed her hand. "Alex?"

"I'm ready, too.

G.S. Jennsen

#53. 'Rescue From Gilligan's Island' was the first of the so-called reunion shows on the networks, getting a 54 share. With numbers like that, everybody else started to have reunion shows.

Sherwood Schwartz

#54. It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually.

Anthony Trollope

#55. Do not think the world will become better in terms of our own inner change. We should rather think we'll achieve this goal only, and only if, we rescue the fact that the ultimate treasure lies at the end of our most positive creative deeds.

Francisco Leon

#56. The Bible teaches that Satan is the author of sin. Sin is the reason we have afflictions, including death. All of our problems and our suffering are a result of man's rebellion
against God. But God has provided a rescue in His Son.

Billy Graham

#57. Kind words and tender affections will not save me from this lake of woe and misery, but they may be enough of a buoy to prevent my drowning.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#58. Stick-thin, alabaster-pale Etienne LeBlanc runs down the rue de Dinan with Madame Ruelle, the baker's wife, on his heels: the least-robust rescue ever assembled.

Anthony Doerr

#59. You called the guy you're supposed to rescue a nerd, and you just referenced Star Trek. You don't find that a bit nerdy?

A.J. Wiliams

#60. On the small scale, 'Ico,' I think, actually delivered a small new thing: holding a character's hand and really feeling like your job is to rescue this person, and establishing a personal connection.

Warren Spector

#61. A fairytale princess then. Which one are you?Cinderella? Will you turn into a pumpkin if you leave the house? Or Rapunzel? Your hair's pretty long. Just let it down and I'll climp up and rescue you

Nicola Yoon

#62. My task is set before me, girl
My mission clear and true
There'll be black knights and dragons, girl
But I will always come for you ...

Emme Rollins

#63. Now we're going to save a bunch of dirty meatsacks from a bunch of dirty cannibals? Why don't we rescue some orphaned kittens and put food out for stray puppies while we're at it?

Julie Kagawa

#64. But you can't rescue people; you can only help them rescue themselves.

Samantha Ellis