Quotes About Safety

the unexpected truth that the safest place for a sinful person to go is to God.

Why do these dumb fucks keep guns around the house? They make the world as ruinous as they imagine it is.

What I can tell you," she says, "is that his kindness makes me feel safe, but when I think about who I want to sleep with, safe is not what I look for.

invite you to think about ways you might introduce risk to safety, mystery to the familiar, and novelty to the enduring.

I got rid of my motorcycle when Jimmy was born. I'm not allowed to die in a bike crash anymore.

But, for many of us, renouncing the illusion of safety, and accepting the reality of our fundamental insecurity, proves to be a difficult step.

But land is land, and it's safer than the stocks and bonds of Wall Street swindlers.

We do not tend to be afraid of the things that are most likely to harm us. We drive around in cars, a lot. We drink alcohol, we ride bicycles, we sit too much. And we harbor anxiety about things that, statistically speaking, pose us little danger. We fear sharks, while mosquitoes are, in terms of sheer numbers of lives lost, probably the most dangerous creature on earth.

For toxicologists, "the dose makes the poison." Any substance can be toxic in excess. Water, for instance, is lethal to humans in very high doses, and overhydration killed a runner in the 2002 Boston Marathon. But most people prefer to think of substances as either safe or dangerous, regardless of the dose. And we extend this thinking to exposure, in that we regard any exposure to chemicals, no matter how brief or limited, as harmful.

And I suspect that Coca-Cola, unpoisoned, is more harmful to our children than vaccination.

While we routinely call for more vaccine testing, and more human trials, the unspoken assumption is that we do not intend our children to be the subjects of those trials.

People need to feel safe to be who they are—to speak up when they have an idea, or to speak out when they feel something isn't right.

What's the penalty for possessing meth in California?" Winter asked. "A stern talking to?" "Pretty much. If that. It's a misdemeanor. A violation of the Health and Safety Code. There's a fine. You can get up to a year in jail if you did something stupid while you were high, like drove your car over a group of schoolchildren. Something like that might be frowned upon.

Assaults by fanatics on our safety... does not justify assaults by the government on our freedom!

Which would you choose: To be free or to be secure? State security and personal freedom often run along tense lines with each other, but our Constitution and its philosophical roots clearly bias freedom over safety.

In 1934, Churchill had predicted chaos when 'under the pressure of continuous attack upon London, three or four million people would be driven out into the open country around the metropolis'.3 In the event, three million people, the quarter of the city's population who were non-essential for the war effort, had already been calmly and safely evacuated all over the country, and there was no panic in the capital.

Nailing my door shut at night wasn't exactly elegant, but it was a pretty effective deterrent.

I briefly contemplated how difficult it would be to safely remove my hand.

Insufficiently trained employees, in spite of their best intentions, produce inefficiencies, excess costs, unhappy customers, and sometimes even dangerous situations. The importance of training rapidly becomes obvious to the manager who runs into these problems.

In return for stopping at a red light, we count on other drivers to do the same thing, and we can drive through green lights. But for lawbreakers we need policemen, and with them, as with supervisors, we introduce overhead.

Expired condoms are like nuclear waste: there's nothing sensible you can do with it.

If blue helmeted UN peacekeepers show up in your town or village and offer to protect you, run.

Until recently, I never realized to what degree the middle class is a moral, rather than an economic, entity, based less on status than on possessive, life-sustaining love. The moral middle class plays life by percentages, because that is the safest bet, and percentage play—in life as in tennis—is by definition conservative.

A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.