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Quotes About Safety

So the I.F. is spying on Earth. Just as a mother spies on her children at play in the yard. Good to know you're looking out for us, Mummy.
~ Orson Scott Card
Two glaserlike devices connected to each other like a bola that can be placed on opposite sides of an asteroid. Like earmuffs. They operate under the same principle, but their gravity fields counter each other, so the asteroid is still ripped to shreds by tidal forces, but the gravity field doesn't grow to unstable levels. It's far more contained. The rock is still ground to powder, but nobody dies.
~ Orson Scott Card
And yet they obey and will continue to obey the orders that come to them. As in the famous Charge of the Light Brigade, these soldiers give up their lives, trusting that their commanders are using them well. While we sit safely here in these simulator rooms, playing an elaborate computer game, they are obeying, dying so that all of humankind can live.
~ Orson Scott Card
The naked man fear no pickpocket
~ Confucius
The original regulations had required it in every case of "unidentified disease or suspicion of contagion," but those had been passed in the first hysteria after the Pandemic
~ Connie Willis
Prue touched piper's shoulder. Don't worry, no one's going to the attic. but theres no point in leaving the house. we are perfectly safe here. Don't say that! Piper cried. in horror movies, the person that says that is always the next to die.
~ Constance M. Burge
You're safe, Elaine, you're safe,' said Charley-is-my-darling, his sly smile very warm and his smooth voice carrying the ring of sincere conviction. For himself, he did not believe a word of it. He thought they were all in danger, but there was no point in terrifying Elaine... He was frightened himself, but he was afraid of fear.
~ Cordwainer Smith
Ah, they said. Qué bueno. And after and for a long time to come he'd have reason to evoke the recollection of those smiles and to reflect upon the good will which provoked them for it had power to protect and to confer honor and to strengthen resolve and it had power to hear men and to bring them to safety long after all other resources were exhausted.
~ Cormac McCarthy
We're going to be okay, aren't we Papa? Yes. We are. And nothing bad is going to happen to us. That's right. Because we're carrying the fire. Yes. Because we're carrying the fire.
~ Cormac McCarthy
And after and for a long time to come he'd have reason to evoke the recollection of [the strangers'] smiles and to reflect upon the good will which provoked them for it had power to protect and to confer honor and to strengthen resolve and it had the power to heal men and to bring them to safety long after all other resources were exhausted.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Do you carry a gun? No. I own one. You think I should carry it? Statistically it will shorten your life, not lengthen it. The unpleasant truth is that if someone is trying to kill you there is not a whole lot you can do about it. Your only real safety would be in disappearing. And even with that there are no guarantees.
~ Cormac McCarthy
My job is to take care of you. I was appointed to do that by God. I will kill anyone who touches you. Do you understand?
~ Cormac McCarthy
What have you got that a man could drink with just a minimum risk of blindness and death.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Todo va a ir bien, ¿verdad, papá? Sí. Todo irá bien. Y no nos va a pasar nada malo. Desde luego que no. Porque nosotros llevamos el fuego. Así es. Porque llevamos el fuego.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Your only real safety would be in disappearing.
~ Cormac McCarthy
People dont feel safe no more, he said. We're like the Comanches was two hundred years ago. We dont know what's goin to show up here come daylight. We dont even know what color they'll be.
~ Cormac McCarthy
And after and for a long time to come he'd have reason to evoke the recollection of those smiles and to reflect upon the good will which provoked them for it had power to protect and to confer honor and to strengthen resolve and it had power to heal men and to bring them to safety long after all other resources were exhausted.
~ Cormac McCarthy
The night belongs to beasts of prey, and always has. It's easy to forget that when you're indoors, protected by light and solid walls.
~ Cornelia Funke
I'm perfectly happy to know the world at secondhand. It's a lot safer.
~ Cornelia Funke
Keep the dogs off me!
~ Cornelia Funke
You think this is a trap, then?" the Count asked. "I always think everything is a trap until proven otherwise," the Prince answered. "Which is why I'm still alive." William Goldman, The Princess Bride
~ Cornelia Funke
What if I got hit by lightning while walking with an umbrella? Ban umbrellas! Fight the menace of lightning!
~ Cory Doctorow
He had lots of guns, but you can't shoot germs.
~ Cory Doctorow
and returning him safely to earth.
~ Craig Nelson