197 Quotes About Emergency
- Author Romalyn Ante
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Jump there with me - on top of the stretcher, the man between your legs, your hands pumping his heart. Do not fear the clatter of wheels, the bumps and slopes in corridors. It is only turbulence.
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- Author Arthur C. Clarke
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Training was one thing, reality another, and no one could be sure that the ancient human instincts of self-preservation would not take over in an emergency.
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- Author Michel Faber
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There was a red button on the wall labelled EMERGENCY, but no button labelled BEWILDERMENT.
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- Author James Baldwin
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I remembered my mother’s insistence that I always wear clean underwear because I might get knocked down by a car on the way to or from school and I and the family would be disgraced even beyond the grave, presumably, if my underwear was dirty. And I began to worry, in fact, as the doctor sniffed and prodded, about the state of the shorts I was wearing. This made me want to laugh. But I could not breathe.
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- Author Shannon Wiersbitzky
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A fire hydrant is not something you want to lose, especially in an emergency.
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- Author Nana Awere Damoah
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A worker sent a form for salary advance to his manager who refused to sign it based on the reason given. The manager said the situation the worker had stated as an emergency wasn’t plausible.The worker had written that he needed the money for a family emergency: his wife had given birth.“It is not an emergency,” the boss insisted, “you had a nine-month notice.
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- Author Becky Ault
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There's no reason for people to be on township roads when we're in a state of emergency unless they live out there.
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- Author Holdbrook Arthur
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The emergency we face in the Horn today is the result of successive seasons of failed rains.
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- Author Ken Auletta
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Now NBC News devotes entire hours to 'exclusive' interviews with the Runaway Bride. CBS' '48 Hours,' which once took us inside the emergency room of a hospital,
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