Extreme Makeover - Tornado Edition

An old man in a house is a good sign. - Benjamin Franklin

Care shouldn't start in the emergency room. - James Douglas

Stress should be a powerful driving force, not an obstacle. - Bob Phillips

How do they get the deer to cross at that yellow road sign? - George Carlin

Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs. - Ambrose Bierce

Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness. - Richard Carlson

Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one. - Hans Selye

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth. - Charles Dickens

Stress depletes willpower, which diminishes your ability to control those emotions. - Roy F Baumeister

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth. - Blaise Pascal

The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. - Jerry M Wright

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign? - Albert Einstein

Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart. - Jose N Harris

I exercise extreme self control. I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast. - WC Fields

In times of great stress or adversity, plow your anger and your energy into something positive. - Lee Iacocca

I got all the schooling any actress needs. That is, I learned to write well enough to sign contracts. - Hermione Gingold

It's a sign of age if you feel like the morning after the night before and you haven't been anywhere. - Unknown

She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman. - Oscar Wilde

Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites - between which it recognizes no intermediate possibilities. - John Dewey

The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist." - Maria Montessori

Fearlessness requires attention and receptivity - it takes focus to stand in the still eye of a tornado and not be swept away by it. - Susan Piver

No sign of pleasure greeted the announcement. The mood in the hall was leaden.
My mood was livelier. Fright is livelier than lead. - Gail Carson Levine

A man’s life is interesting primarily when he has failed – I well know. For it’s a sign that he tried to surpass himself. - Georges Clemenceau

Heard about the young deaf boy who used sign language?
One day he told his mother a dirty joke and she washed his hands out with soap. - Red Skelton

The best way to meet a woman is in an emergency situation - if you're in a shipwreck, or you find yourself behind enemy lines, or in a flood. - Mark Helprin