Quotes About Safety

When we have to think strategically, we also have to accept our complicity: we forgo any illusions of purity; we give up the safety of exteriority. If we are not exterior to the problem under investigation, we too are the problem under investigation. Diversity work is messy, even dirty, work.

it is dangerous to be perceived as dangerous.

The collapse of the safety net was no accident. It was the result of neglect on the left and sabotage on the right

pulling my leg. Well, don't stay alone here too late

It's not fun to keep secrets, but sometimes you have to do it to protect yourself. And to protect people around you. - Meredith, p112

But here's the thing about seeing and knowing everything—sometimes ignorance is safer.

her mother grounded her for it, actually, because what idiot besides a firefighter runs into a burning building?

Some women will do anything for a glass of champagne and a safe bed.

She must be rich who can forego An hour so jewelled with delight, She must have teasuries of joy That she can draw on day and night, She must be very sure of heaven– Or is it only that she feels How much more safe it is to lack A thing that time so often steals.

She'd also liked being within a wall of books. There, she'd felt as close to safe as she could remember

Of course, in that case, he had deserved it. She didn't care if he was from UCLA—what breed of idiot went out on the ice without a face mask?

Only way to be safe is to let me protect you. You can be part of my family. You can be with your parents again, and we'll all become rich together. How does that sound?" Monster sniffed. "It sounds like a join-the-Dark-Side speech.

Now I'm starting to jog. But every time I do jog I have 9-1 pressed into my phone, with the next '1' ready to be launched in case I drop.

I want to be safe in the knowledge that I can tour and play festivals for a long time. The main thing is that I want a good reputation as a live performer. If I have that, I'd be so happy.

I intend to dedicate my remaining time as president of the NRA to ensure that the Second Amendment is safe from Al Gore and all those who threaten it.

I am very scared of being outside my home for long periods of time.

The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a million times a million to one. Next time you fly, cut the odds and take a bomb.

I've spent an awful lot of my time in the air. I've had everything happen to me in a plane that could happen. Except a crash.

In order to drill into young men the need to stay alert and stay alive, I used to punish offenders with my fists, boots and rifle butt, and with stockade time.

You will never be completely free from risk if you're free. The only time you can be free from risk is when you're in prison.

How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations and establishments of every hostile nation?

When I lived in New York, not only did I have safety locks on the door but I had the music going, keeping the city at a distance, trying to find creative time and peace and so forth.

Every time I come to the States, I wish people would react to war like they react to tobacco, for example. Because war really kills in a second lots of people, thousands of people.

It's twilight. It's the safest time of day for us. The easiest time. But also the saddest, in a way...the end of another day, the return of the night. Darkness is so predictable, don't you think?