Buddha Quotes

I sense that his drowning but I don't have any idea of how to start to put my hand into the water and save him.

You can't save everybody. In fact, there are days when I think you can't save anyone. Each person has to save himself first, then you can move in and help. I have found this philosophy does not work during a gun battle, or a knife fight either. Outside of that it works just fine.

When a man is drowning, it may be better for him to try to swim than to thrash around waiting for divine intervention.

Nobody drowns by falling in the water...but by staying there.

A man who discovers his pants are on fire tends to have very little time to worry about somebody else's box of matches

I think we are ready to know that there are going to be people who are ready to save the world, who come out when you're in trouble and make sure that you're okay.

This is the United States of America. It means we respond to our fellow Americans in times of crisis and emergency and disaster.

People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.

And at that point, I think we all realized it was something tremendously tragic, probably a terrorist attack, and the next step was to go down to our command center and get things going.

When you have an emergency, there is the urge to do whatever it takes to see people get assistance.

I'm hoping that maybe I can be part of a disaster relief effort, something that's real life. That's kind of what I do anytime I stop working: 'OK, what's something that you've really wanted to do?'

But everyone gets burnt, don't they? Certain things are outside of your control. I suppose the only thing you can learn as a director is to not put yourself into situations where it can get outside of your control. And that's what happened.

I want to do whatever I can to survive.

Only in time of fear is government thrown back to its primitive and sole function of self-defense and the many interests of which it is the guardian become subordinated to that.

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong—these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

911 rings at the mayor’s office, not at the Justice Department or the White House.

When you are confronted with a genuine emergency, then I think you have to look at the interest of the country first.

Immediately after hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, I was extremely concerned about my family, friends and all the people in Puerto Rico. I felt helpless and could not concentrate not knowing if my family and loved ones were safe. I wanted to help my people as fast as I could.

I write to save someone's life, probably my own

When all else fails, start running!

When your house is on fire, you cant be bothered with the neighbors. Or, as we say in Chess, if your King is under attack you don't worry about losing a Pawn on the Queen's side

Here is the boy, drowning.

If a building is falling on you, you don't concern yourself with the horn of an approaching car. You deal with the most immediate peril first. That's survival.

... sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.

When the ship is going down we trouble ourselves little enough about the style of the cabin furniture.