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My life has been a series of emergencies. -- Lana Turner
'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded. -- Friedrich August von Hayek
Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded. -- Friedrich August von Hayek
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
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
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
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
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
Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs. -- Ambrose Bierce
Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. -- Natalie Goldberg
Men ever follow willingly a daring leader: most willingly of all, in great emergencies. -- Robert Dale Owen
There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth. -- Charles Dickens
Governors normally have jurisdiction over public health emergencies, but a widespread biological attack would cross state boundaries. -- Barton Gellman
It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested. -- James Russell Lowell
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed. -- William James
Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy. -- E. M. Forster
A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency. -- Anthony Trollope
My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination. -- Al Gore
In addition, California spends nearly $1 billion a year in Medi-Cal services for an average of 780,000 illegal immigrants a month, over and above emergency health services. -- Elton Gallegly
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
The advantage that hospitals have over other institutions is that hospitals are community-based. You can't outsource your work; you can't move your emergency department to Pakistan. -- Mark Shields
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
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
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
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
Our role is to develop techniques that allow us to provide emergency life-saving procedures to injured patients in an extreme, remote environment without the presence of a physician. -- Chris Hadfield
City government can and must help San Franciscans prepare for emergencies in order to avoid tragedy where possible and minimize loss of life and property when emergencies occur. -- Gavin Newsom
Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency. -- Douglas MacArthur
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
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
We're in an emergency situation. The United States has become an absolutely terrifying country, and I would hope that I could participate in some way in stopping the horror and the brutality. -- Wallace Shawn
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
The pressure suit helps if something goes wrong during launch or re-entry - astronauts have a way to parachute off the shuttle. The suits protect you from loss of pressure in case of emergency. -- Sally Ride
Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West. -- Ida B. Wells
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
Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise. -- Robert Baden-Powell
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
I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit. -- Chuck Yeager
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
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
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
We know we cannot underestimate the importance of emergency planning in our region, nor can we assume we'll have ample warning time. If an earthquake or terrorist attack hits, we won't necessarily have advance alerts or opportunities to double- and triple-check our plans. -- Ellen Tauscher
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
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
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
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
But on second thought, after I decreed the state of emergency, I came to the conclusion that that was impossible to achieve without bloodshed because the street protesters were full of anger and nearly out of control. This is why I thought we needed to find another way out. -- Eduard Shevardnadze
85% of all video we watch is pre-recorded, so you can set your system to download it all the time. You're still going to need live television for certain things - like news, sporting events and emergencies - but increasingly it is going to be almost like the iPod, where you download content to look at later. -- Vint Cerf
God is not there just for emergencies. -- Joyce Meyer
Watch out for emergencies. They are your big chance. -- Fritz Reiner
Many of us are equal to life's emergencies who cannot bear its day-after-dayness. -- Mignon McLaughlin
Small faults and virtues are for daily life. The big ones are for emergencies. -- Mason Cooley
Friends aren't jumper cables. You don't throw them into the trunk and pull them out for emergencies. -- Charlie Krueger
The emergencies you train for almost never happen. It's the one you can't train for that kills you. -- Ernest K. Gann
Scum of the Earth as some may be in their daily lives, they can all be saints in emergencies. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. -- Thomas Watson, Jr.
The trouble with emergencies is," she said, "that I always put on my finest underwear and then nothing happens. -- Zelda Fitzgerald
True character stands the test of emergencies. Do not be mistaken, it is weakness from which the awakening is rude. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
We were never tragedies. We were emergencies. You go ahead, call 9-1-1. Tell them I'm havin' a fantastic time. -- Buddy Wakefield
I never really drove a cab, but I do have a hack license in case of emergencies - like no money. -- Harry Chapin
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
In Italy there are two emergencies. This is what I hear, and this is what all the stats say. Employment and security. -- Matteo Salvini
She had the loaded handbag of someone who camps out and seldom goes home, or who imagines life must be full of emergencies -- Mavis Gallant
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The test of our religion is whether it fits us to meet emergencies. A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis. -- Ralph Washington Sockman
City government can and must help San Franciscans prepare for emergencies in order to avoid tragedy where possible and minimize loss of life and property when emergencies occur -- Gavin Newsom
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
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
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
Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis. Conservatives have their place in the piping times of peace; but in emergencies only rugged issue men amount to much. -- James A. Garfield
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
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
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

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