Quotes About Safety

I don't know how long I kept at it... I felt reasonably safe, streched out on the floor, and lay quite still. It didn't seem to be summer any more

It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.

I crawled between the mattress and the padded bedstead and let the mattress fall across me like a tombstone. It felt dark and safe under there, but the mattress was not heavy enough. It needed about a ton more weight to make me sleep.

This hotel-the Amazon- was for women only, and they were mostly girls my age with wealthy parents who wanted to be sure their daughters would be living where men couldn't get at them and deceive them.

After that, I felt safer. I didn't want anything I said or did that night to be associated with me and my real name and coming from Boston.

At first I wondered why the room felt so safe. Then I realized it was because there were no windows.

Harry has crossed the frontier Beyond which safety and danger have a different meaning. And he cannot return. That is his privilege. For those who live in this world, this world only

For him the death is now only on this side, For him, danger and safety have another meaning.

Wasn't she afraid of the violence men can do to woman? Yes, she was—where is the woman who isn't—but what sort of man, who takes the name of God, would even speak of such things?

Era un simple punto brillante en la horrorosa tormenta..., pero incluso un brillo solitario puede devolver sano y salvo a un viajero a su casa.

He was not great; he was, in fact, very small. At the same moment, though, he was important, just as any point of light in a dark sky might be the star that led a mariner to safety, or the star watched by a lonely child during a sleepless night. . . .

In moments of great uncertainty on my travels, I have always felt that something is protecting me, that I will come to no harm.

Do not stand in a place of danger trusting in miracles.

Morocco, the lack of safety was an energizing force, but at the same time it was a constant concern. I had seen more accidents than I could count: car wrecks with people half dead lying on the ground, building sites where workmen had tumbled from scaffolding, children maimed by fireworks on a Sunday afternoon. For the first time in my life I became completely alert. In the West, you can drift from day to day in the knowledge that the society will protect you and your children.

There were only two reasons to lock a door: to keep one's self in and protected, and to keep one's family out and excluded. Either way, she didn't like it.

But, Sergeant Osbern, Sir, I like my head.

Things change. We change with them. We sail before the wind. We become adults. As adults, we keep our minds and out secrets hidden, and our wounds. It's safer.

My husband is just outside. Don't be afraid, I said, the extensive branches of his horns would never let him through the doorway.

Safe from what? she'd asked. And under her touch, Kovar's kigh had answered, Change.

It worried him. Like him, she had to be exhausted. She smelled like gasoline; her clothes were torn. She had a small white bandage on her forehead where the EMT had cleaned her cut. Dirt smudged her face, her arms, her legs. He knew she still didn't have any underwear, and for the first time, he felt bad about it. Real bad. He wanted to protect her, make her feel secure, keep her from harm—and all he'd done was lose her underwear and practically get her blown up.

That meant Ms. Starkova was his. He'd found her; he'd tailed her; and he'd saved her from Reinhard Klein. By jungle law, even the urban jungle, that made her his.

Come hither, my dear. Come hither, that I mightest protectest thou!

The world had made an agreement with fear to keep it safe, but that safety was a lie wielded like a sword, turning the world into a sea of blood. Humanity had been murdering itself for a very long time. Only love could cast out that fear.

Which is why you need me," Bobbie said. "I can help you, but you have to let me." "So I should invite you to stay." "Yes." "Claim you." "Yes." "You'll protect me." "And your baby," Bobbie said, walking toward me.