Best 10 quotes in «saving lives quotes» category

There is no more deadly peril than disobedience; States are devoured by it, homes laid in ruins, Armies defeated, victory turned to rout. White simple obedience saves the lives of hundreds Of honest folk." - Creon

Maybe I couldn’t help everyone survive, but I could, at least, save this one life.

Horace normally didn't need anyone else to save his life. He was pretty skilled at doing it for himself.

I attained a triumph so complete that it is now rare to meet an American with marks of small pox on his face... Benefits are valuable according to their duration and extent... but the benign remedy Vaccination saves millions of lives every century, like the [gift] of the sun, universal and everlasting. [Remark made near the end of his life]

As a boy, I never dreamed I would be charged with the task of saving the lives of my elders. As a man, I am almost in disbelief, that I am charged with the task of saving the lives of those who gave me mine, who tried to take my life from me, and who still do.

Fighting you's the only reward I want,' I said, 'for saving your life.

I can’t help but notice how desperate, how incompetent, a physician can feel not being able to save the life of their own beloved. Saving lives — something you’re trained for, something you do automatically — suddenly seems impossible.

I can't tell whether a revived man would appreciate his second chance or yearn for the stolen serenity.

It’s a great honor,” said Fedyor. “To save a life. You saved many.

Responding to bereavement by trying to make a difference is certainly both understandable and admirable, but it doesn't give you good reason to raise money for one specific cause of death rather than any other. If that person had died in different circumstances it would have been no less tragic. What we care about when we lose someone close to us is that they suffered or died, not that they died from a specific cause. By all means, the sadness we feel at the loss of a loved one should be harnessed in order to make the world a better place. But we should focus that motivation on preventing death and improving lives per se, rather than preventing death and improving lives in one very specific way. Any other decision would be unfair on those we could have helped more.