Life Saving Quotes

“Sporks are only used in the most dire situations.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Origin

“See," he said, "the arrow struck against this. It is the kiss I gave her. It has saved her life.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens / Peter and Wendy

“A demonic reaper asked to be my valentine and then killed his crazy ex-girlfriend to save my life. Tomorrow I was starting up antipsychotic meds.”
― Courtney Allison Moulton, Wings of the Wicked

“He saved your life,” Clary pointed out.
“Details,” said Simon dismissively.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“…contraceptives are the greatest life-saving, poverty-ending, women-empowering innovation ever created.”
― Melinda Gates, The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World

“And I will save your life again and again, aimlessly hoping you will allow me to stay in it.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless

“So when you have today
You should say all that you have to say”
― Kellin Quinn

“You call it demonic because you hear screaming, I call it life saving because I hear the meaning.”
― Mitch Lucker

“Havana, Cuba, in which city yellow fever had not failed to make its yearly appearance during the past one hundred and forty years... Havana was freed from yellow fever within ninety days. Dr. Walter Reed, 1902”
― Walter Reed

“Every day," I said, "every day I go to work and I see my granddad. I see the drunks and the addicts, the people who have fallen right off the edge of the earth. I see people who have made every bad move anyone could make, made every major mistake there was to be made, and by the time I see them, they are paying for it, sometimes with their lives. That's why they came to the ER.
"When you work in emergency medicine, you are seeing patients who are the least common denominator as far as human beings go; people who are heartbreakingly stupid and ditty and drunk and high and obnoxious--unbelievably obnoxious. These people have all flowed out of the darkest side of life. And when you are finished with them, that's mostly where they'll return. So each of you who is thinking you want to go into emergency medicine will have to ask yourself, 'Do I really want to do this?'" I tapped my chest. "I know the answer for myself--every day I work I'm taking care of someone who is just like my grandfather, someone just like my mother. But everyone in this room needs to ask himself or herself, 'Do I want to spend the rest of my life with addicts and idiots and drunks and psychotics? Is this what will make me happy?'"
I peered at all of them over the top of the microphone. "Very few sane people answer yes.”
― Pamela Grim, Just Here Trying to Save a Few Lives: Tales of Life and Death from the ER

“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, Just Here Trying to Save a Few Lives: Tales of Life and Death from the ER

“The mind—the culture—has two little tools, grammar and lexicon: a decorated sand bucket and a matching shovel. With these we bluster about the continents and do all the world's work. With these we try to save our very lives.”
― Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

“Stories become the gift we give the world: the beauty that can grow out of what has wounded us, our brokenness, and the world shattering.”
― Michelle Auerbach, Life-Saving Skill of Story

“Story is a radical affirmation of possibility in times of crisis.”
― Michelle Auerbach, Life-Saving Skill of Story

“Story is that light we turn on for ourselves. It’s how we bring our deepest fears into our waking lives and meet up with them courageously.”
― Michelle Auerbach, Life-Saving Skill of Story

“Patrick... now? Is it that important? We have more important things to do to figure out a way to save our son, your son.”

“It is probably one of the most important things that we could possibly do Jess, not only Alexander's life might depend on it but the entire hospital”

“what could be that important, tell me!” came back the reply behind Patrick as he ran two rooms down the hall. The only words he uttered, looking back at Jessica, was “the ring”
― L.B. Ó Ceallaigh, Souls' Inverse

“There is no greater disrespect a doctor can show patients than that of withholding potentially lifesaving information based on the assumption that patients do not want to change their lifestyle.”
― T. Colin Campbell, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss, and Long-term Health