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Quotes About Safety

Franklin, "Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."18
~ Edward J. Larson
I don't believe that in our society that we should have guns.
~ Edward Koch
Ironically, some of the lowest-paid jobs – in barbershops and nail salons – will be among the safest.
~ Edward Luce
the murder rate has fallen by 16.7 per cent in the US cities since the turn of the century, while rising by 16.9 per cent in the suburbs – almost an exact mirror image.42
~ Edward Luce
What happens to our account if Goldman Sachs New York is destroyed by a terrorist nuclear bomb smuggled into New York Harbor?" Their reply was: "We have duplicate records stored underground in Iron Mountain, Colorado.
~ Edward O. Thorp
The safety of municipal bonds no longer seemed so assured. However, although they would have done better in equities, they still had enough money and, feeling safe, didn't worry as they would have done watching the ups and downs in the value of a stock portfolio.
~ Edward O. Thorp
Nassim Taleb asked why, after a driver crashes his school bus, killing and injuring his passengers, he should be put in charge of another bus and asked to set up new safety rules.
~ Edward O. Thorp
we are simply not well adapted, evolutionarily, to be able to consume alcohol safety outside of the traditional context of ritual and social controls.
~ Edward Slingerland
The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety.
~ Edward Young
The girl she said, I didn't tell you this because it was a small thing, but little girls, they leave their hearts at home when they walk outside. Hearts are so precious. They don't want to lose them.
~ Edwidge Danticat
I trade in accordance to my means and always leave myself an ample margin of safety.
~ Edwin Lefevre
* Character is the ground of your life * Behaviour is the way of your life * Patience is the safety of your life * Tolerance is the success of your life * Love is, insurance of that all * It depends on how you manage that
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Before observing the stars, first, one should also maintain its feet-position for safety, so that, it can focus the mysteries and science of the universe confidently; indeed, curiosity reaches and reveals realities of that.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Do not expect any sober result from those figures, who insist and persist openly and publicly of personal and private talks that would humiliate you in the eyes of others. Do not doubt; they are your opponents or enemies, and never trust them, who stay behind the curtain and claim to be something. Consider them fake and dangerous, and get away for your interests, safety, and respect.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Fire in limits gives light and warmth and out-of-limits burns and damages.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
You're safer out in the open than you are crouching in the woodshed listening for footsteps and going crazy.
~ Eiji Yoshikawa
It's like this, ma'am, Michael is a fine big lad, used to a man's work and he has had a man's responsibility before now. Well, if he goes off and gets drowned, it will be because he was too silly to save himself. And if he's too silly to save himself, then it's worth no one else's while to save him, for he'll only live to get into some other trouble later on!
~ Eilís Dillon
No more monkeys jumping on the bed!
~ Eileen Christelow
The dead weren't scary. It was the living you had to watch out for.
~ Eileen Wilks
Perhaps the greatest maturity is our ability to conceive the whole universe as our container, our body as a microcosm of that universe, with no boundaries. That is more or less enlightenment. But most of us will need more finite containers for a while, even if we are beginning to learn to make do with intangible ones in a pinch. Indeed, as long as we are in bodies, enlightened or not, we need some bit of tangible safety, or at least a sense of sameness.
~ Elaine N. Aron
I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three.
~ Elayne Boosler
If you would escape moral and physical assassination, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing—court obscurity, for only in oblivion does safety lie.
~ Elbert Hubbard
And he prayed that his family would be protected from the atom bomb disease called leukemia.
~ Eleanor Coerr
She's lucky to be so loved, to love. Lucky to be adored for what she is and for what she invents. Now that she's given her brother what he wanted, now that she's taken him out of danger, surely she'll invent something else. So I don't want to lose sight of her. Something will happen.
~ Elena Ferrante