Quotes About Safety

Safe…It was true that the chilly grey summer day, the hissing of steam, the shouting and bustle of a busy London railway terminal, and the constantly belching smoke, did constitute a menacing atmosphere to such new arrivals from another world.

It was the strangest sensation, fallin' in love. 'Bout the only thing I compare it to would be jumpin' off a big cliff. Once you're past the edge, there ain't no particular reason to be graspin' for a line a safety. You just keep on fallin' anyhow, so you might as well enjoy it the whole way down.

there was no safety anywhere in life, except as illusion

So they live in darkness but they're safe, I said, and wondered if to be this safe was to always live in darkness...

In fact, what we do in S/M is that we act as though we were giving up or taking real-world power, while retaining the ability to keep as much power as we need to feel safe, or to take no more than we feel OK about having.

One of the things we like about what transgender and nonbinary people bring into our play parties is the constant experience of posing exceptions to all those pesky rules about gender and presenting interesting examples of how we all can be free to be exactly who we want to be. Everyone of every gender and every orientation has a right to feel safe and free to enjoy sex.

A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.

Arthur: If I asked you where the hell we were, would I regret it? Ford: We're safe. Arthur: Oh good. Ford: We're in a small galley cabin in one of the spaceships of the Vogon Constructor Fleet. Arthur: Ah, this is obviously some strange use of the word safe that I wasn't previously aware of.

Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer.

If we see you smoking we will assume you are on fire and take appropriate action.

car seat-belts. The vast majority of the time they served no real purpose. Even bad drivers could go years between accidents. But when an accident finally did occur—in that precise instant—a seat-belt became the only thing standing between a chance for life and a grisly death.

sure they'll leave us alone.'" "I

If you're able to stun and disable someone hell-bent on killing you, you don't continue running. You make sure they stay down. Period.

Our adversaries had found a way to wipe the professor's backups in the cloud, as well.

The lure of safety drags us into lives we'd prefer to dodge.

about cycling deaths in London written by a woman can be framed through the headline: 'Roads Designed by Men are Killing Women'.10 Such rhetoric exacerbates any existing divisions and each time creates a number of new ones. And for what purpose? Rather than showing how we can all get along better, the lessons of the last decade appear to be exacerbating a sense that in fact we aren't very good at living with each other.

I don't feel safe around anything when Jesus is not the Lord of it. Calvinism without Jesus is deadly; it's fatalism, it's simply Islam. We need Jesus. When the precious doctrines [of Calvinism] are used to perpetuate gloom, severity, introspection, accusations, morbidity, slander, gnat-stringing, and more, the soul is not safe.

What terrible splashing!' the elephant frowned. 'I can't let my very small persons get drowned. I've GOT to protect them. I'm bigger than they.

You know how I play it, better safe than sorry stead of searching for substance at every single party.

The best car safety device is a rear view mirror with a cop in it.

Lloyd There's really nothing to worry about Mary. Statistically they say you're more likely to get killed on the way to the airport. You know, like on a head on crash or flying off a cliff or getting trapped under a gas truck That's the worst I have this cousin, well y'know, I had this cousin...

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

I'm really afraid of getting hit by cars, like terrified of it. I'm terrified of crossing streets. I'm also very accident-prone...I think people aim for me.

If you are honest, you will live life safely. But if you are dishonest, you will get hurt.