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Quotes About Safety

Psychotic rapists don't have friends." "I was unaware you were a psychotic rapist or I would not have offered." "Ha." -Mac and V'Lane
~ Karen Moning
But society is going to fall apart if we stop reporting crime.
~ Karin Fossum
It didn't take a Harvard economist to figure out that it'd be a hell of a lot cheaper spending money on helping keep kids safe when they were younger than it was to put them in jail when they were older. That was the American way, though. Spend a million dollars rescuing some kid who's fallen down a well, but God forbid you spend a hundred bucks up front to cap the well so the kid never falls down it in the first place.
~ Karin Slaughter
Stay green, stay in the woods, and stay safe.
~ Karl Pilkington
We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
~ Karl Popper
We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than only freedom can make security more secure.
~ Karl R. Popper
it's nice of Mrs. Goe to think that marching against the juvenile juror law is going to keep kids safe. But the fact is, we're NOT safe. Nobody is. That's the whole point. There's no such thing as being safe--here or anywhere. People get hurt every day. Some people get killed by weirdos like Bob White and some people just get teased to death at the lunch table for drinking orange soda or eating a tuna fish sandwich.
~ Kate Klise
I don't want to get lost." "No, no, no, sweet, you won't. If you get lost, I'll find you.
~ Kate Manning
That was the tragedy. Radium had been known to be harmful since 1901. Every death since was unnecessary. -- The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
~ Kate Moore
But now, with clinics disappearing, more and more women will have no choice but to turn to pills, as women do in Ireland and other countries where it is illegal for a woman to end a pregnancy. Some will end up in emergency rooms. Some will be injured. Some may die. This is what laws supposedly intended to protect women from "dangerous" clinics will have accomplished. This is what the so-called pro-life movement will have done for "life.
~ Katha Pollitt
Living wasn't easy for you, was it? You couldn't enter your own life, but you could be someone else. You weren't you, then; you were safe.
~ Katharine Hepburn
We're here to talk about the safety of teenage girls, Father Molloy. Or isn't the church concerned with that anymore?
~ Katherine Howe
I'd rather be in danger with you than be safe without you.
~ Fuyumi Ono
The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.
~ G. C. Lichtenberg
He feels safer just knowing that even if he's away there is a home waiting for him to return.
~ Gabriel Bá
Most importantly, remember that there are no guarantees in a gunfight, particularly when it comes to stopping power.
~ Gabriel Suarez
No, I've been doing this myself forever. I could have gone in here myself, but my daddy doesn't want me to get raped. That happens all the time in bathrooms.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
You want less crime? Make it so there are less criminals.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
A.J. several Google searches to determine bathing protocol: appropriate temperature bath water two-year-old; can a two-year-old use grown-up shampoo?; how does a father go about cleaning a two-year-old girl's private parts without being a pervert?; how high to fill tub—toddler; how to prevent a two-year-old from accidentally drowning in tub; general rules for bath safety, and so on.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
The flowered trim on the hems [of the dress] seemed superfluous, even frivolous, but at the same time it comforted her, as though the idea that a seamstress had thought to adorn clothing so innocently implied that somewhere, innocence was safe.
~ Gael Baudino
Give me back what should already be mine. Give me the dark, the freedom of the streets, the right to walk wherever I want, unafraid of rape or assault or just being messed with. The stars belong to me as much as you. Move over. Make room on the bench.
~ Gail Caldwell
It's possible that a connection existed between the increasing independence of many women and the surgical assault on them. But it's even more likely that doctors started removing women's sexual organs simply because the arrival of anesthetics had made it safe to do so. Doctors had always regarded female reproductive organs as the source of all women's medical problems.
~ Gail Collins
because you're a child and you have no way to compare your life to other people's lives. Your foremost need is to stay safe within the only life you know.
~ Gail Godwin
What is the first thing young people ask about in job interviews today: What are the health benefits? When I asked a savvy focus group of New Yorkers in their mid-twenties, "How safe do you feel—about sex, money, relationships, marriage, street violence, job security?" The response was urgent and unanimous. "None of the above. Unsafe on all levels. At all times." And
~ Gail Sheehy