Emergency Quotes

“This is the time we have to walk stepping on the storm.”
― Suman Pokhrel

“Insurgence and all forms of evil in a society doesn't describes her as a failure, but vividly shows a lack of love for one another.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“We're safe enough now,' he thought, 'we're snug and tight, like an air-raid shelter. We can hold out. It's just the food that worries me. Food and coal for the fire. We've enough for two or three days, not more. By that time...'

No use thinking ahead as far as that. And they'd be giving directions on the wireless. People would be told what to do. And now, in the midst of many problems, he realised that it was dance music only coming over the air. Not Children's Hour, as it should have been. He glanced at the dial. Yes, they were on the Home Service all right. Dance records. He switched to the Light programme. He knew the reason. The usual programmes had been abandoned. This only happened at exceptional times. Elections, and such. He tried to remember if it had happened in the war... ("The Birds")”
― Daphne du Maurier, Echoes from the Macabre: Selected Stories

“Though the urge to hurry was beginning to beat through my brain, I knew that was the one thing I couldn't do. Not of I wanted to save lives.”
― Keri Arthur, Full Moon Rising

“In circumstances this desperate there is only one thing that can console me. I always keep at least three different kinds of Brie in the kitchen for emergency situations.”
― Jonathan Coe, Mr Wilder & Me

“Emergency plans had been designed to meet the needs of emergency officials, not regular people.”
― Amanda Ripley, The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why

“It’s perfectly fine to tell Mother that you are grappling with some of your own issues and you need some personal space for a while. You can tell her you will contact her if there is an emergency that she needs to know about and ask that she do the same.”
― Karyl McBride, Will I Ever Be Good Enough? Healing the Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers

“When things get tough, just hit ‘global emergency’ button.”
― Dipti Dhakul, Quote: +/-

“पापा का देर रात तक रेडियो पर 'हवामहल' सुनना मुझे याद है। रात के आर जे की बातों पर हम सबका हँसना, उन रातों की रौनक बढ़ा देता था। ऐसी ही एक रात को एमरजेंसी के बाद चुनाव परिणाम घोषित हुए थे। निर्णायक परिणाम आ चुका था। इंदिरा गाँधी चुनाव हार गई थी और इस घोषणा के साथ रेडियो ने गाना बजाया, 'सबेरे वाली गाड़ी से चले जाएंगे, कुछ ले के जाएंगे, कुछ दे के जाएंगे, सवेरे वाली गाड़ी...”
― Vandana Yadav, आई डोन्ट लाइक यू

“The emergency response to the hurricane Ian Florida disaster was comparable to 9-11.”
― Steven Magee

“The hurricane Ian Florida disaster was the biggest emergency event since 9-11.”
― Steven Magee

“There was a massive emergency response to hurricane Ian’s aftermath in Florida.”
― Steven Magee

“Florida withholding the number of dead bodies found by emergency response crews was cruel to those with missing relatives.”
― Steven Magee

“In times of emergency, the holy angels provides divine aid.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“There is a power that may emerge within you in times of emergency, if thy will pray.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“After the major disaster hurricane Ian turned into in Florida, I no longer trust emergency government advice.”
― Steven Magee

“Once you develop a fear of the police, it stays with you for life.”
― Steven Magee

“It is a really bad idea to call 911 for the police!”
― Steven Magee

“I have a healthy fear of police officers.”
― Steven Magee

“Schrecken Sie vor keinem Namen zurück, ich habe alle Vollmachten, um jeden Nobelpreisträger auf dem Staatsgebiet zu kidnappen. Die exakte Formulierung lautet: "ihn auf ausdrücklichen Wunsch des Präsidenten der Vereinigten Staaten zur Mitarbeit aufzufordern.”
― Hervé Le Tellier, The Anomaly

“New energy emerge in emergency.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“A machine can be built to do any accurately described job better than any man. The superiority of a man is that he can do an unexpected, undescribed, and emergency job ... provided he hasn't been especially trained to be a machine.”
― MURRAY F. YACO, Unspecialist

“When you live in a rural area, your 911 call is to your neighbors.”
― Steven Magee

“Day by day we know it more, feel it more.
We are all in this together--
all of us--
the whole world,
and if we don't work together
we may not have our world much longer.”
― Shellen Lubin

“As long as I focus on what I can accomplish today,
what I can create,
who I can care for and love,
how I can grow, how I can participate
in pushing back,
I'm good.
I look at the whole and want to run screaming into the hills.

But that's privilege.”
― Shellen Lubin

“Sympathy is not action,
and does not absolve us of the need
to do something.

Action is effective with this travesty,
pushing back creates friction
and exposure
if incapable of stopping the destruction
altogether.

He's weak tea.
Not just Putin can bully him.
Even Musk can bully him,
even Musk's young son.
We have to keep remembering that.
And the political minions following him
can even more easily be bullied--
that's how he got them on board in the first place.
They don't want to lose their place and their power.

Do something.
Make a call.
Write a letter.
Attend a protest or a town hall.
It may not stop everything,
but it may stop something.
And at least we'll have tried.”
― Shellen Lubin

“No one expects an emergency. That’s why it’s an emergency.”
― Nancy Northcott, The King's Champion

“A simple first aid skill learned in peace can save a life in chaos.”
― Gonca Yıldız Taş, The Golden Rules of First Aid: A life-Saving Guide for Parents and Caregivers

“The best tool in any crisis is a calm mind armed with simple first aid knowledge.”
― Gonca Yıldız Taş, The Golden Rules of First Aid: A life-Saving Guide for Parents and Caregivers

“У цьому сенсі сучасний тоталітаризм можна визначити як режим узаконеної громадянської війни, запроваджений через надзвичайний стан і такий, що зробив можливим фізичне знищення не лише політичних опонентів, а й цілих категорій громадян, яких з тих чи інших причин вважали неможливим інтегрувати у політичну систему. Відтоді свідоме використання вічного надзвичайного стану (навіть якщо його й не було проголошено офіційно) стало однією з головних практик сучасних держав, зокрема й так званих демократій.”
― Giorgio Agamben, State of Exception