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Quotes About Safety

Without the right to self-preservation all of the other rights are meaningless.
~ Unknown
always been, and the safety of the Republic would be assured. This was a presumption buried deep in the soul of every Roman.
~ Tom Holland
If the hoods don't get you, the monoxide will.
~ Tom Lehrer
How do you keep a mattress on the roof of your car from flying?" "Yeah, well, I don't know how many people know it, but a lot of people have learned that putting your arm up there to hold the mattress is not going to work.
~ Unknown
Two passing jetliners reported to controllers they'd seen a man with a gun seated on a deck chair at eleven thousand feet…
~ Unknown
Where streetlights failed, there were lanternmen. The lanternmen—numbered, so the police could keep track of them—waited around the doors of townhouses in Paris whenever an entertainment was going on inside, and, for a few coins, one of them would accompany a reveler home, lighting his way even up the stairs and into his room.
~ Tom Reiss
Human attention, in the best of circumstances, is a fluid but fragile entity. Beyond a certain threshold, the more that is asked of it, the less well it performs. When this happens in a psychological experiment, it is interesting. When it happens in traffic, it can be fatal.
~ Tom Vanderbilt
When a situation feels dangerous to you, it's probably more safe than you know; when a situation feels safe, that is precisely when you should feel on guard.
~ Tom Vanderbilt
There is a simple mantra you can carry about you in traffic: When a situation feels dangerous to you, it's probably more safe than you know; when a situation feels safe, that is precisely when you should feel on guard. Most crashes, after all, happen on dry roads, on clear, sunny days, to sober drivers.
~ Tom Vanderbilt
This is the reason the whole 'keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel, use the hands-free handset' idea is a silly thing," Simons said. "Having your eyes on the road doesn't do any good unless your attention is on the road too.
~ Tom Vanderbilt
The pursuit of a kind of absolute safety, above all other considerations of what makes places good environments, has not only made those streets and cities less attractive, it has, in many cases, made them less safe.
~ Tom Vanderbilt
The nations that rank as the least corrupt—such countries as Finland, Norway, New Zealand, Sweden, and Singapore—are also the safest places in the world to drive.
~ Tom Vanderbilt
Intersections are crash magnets.
~ Tom Vanderbilt
Drivers should not drive more than a minute without having a (purposefully-designed) curve.
~ Tom Vanderbilt
Never Drink and Drive . . . you might spill.
~ Unknown
Strangers have the best candy.
~ Unknown
This is my backup plan.
~ Unknown
Richard Okay... seatbelts. Just put the little thing into the big thing and... I tell ya what. If you don't know how to fasten your seatbelt, just raise your hand and I'll have Tommy Boy here come back there and hit you in the head with a tack hammer because you're a RETARD
~ Unknown
Guns aren't evil people are evil. Once we get rid of evil we can get rid of guns.
~ Unknown
Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe. There is no gift for the beloved. The lover alone possesses his gift of love. The loved one is shorn, neutralized, frozen in the glare of the lover's inward eye.
~ Toni Morrison
Je veilig voelen, maakt dat gelukkig?
~ Unknown
En la casa? No es un lugar seguro para vivir
~ Tony DiTerlizzi
It is because they are happier when they are together. They are safe. They are strong.
~ Tony DiTerlizzi
TWISTING THE TAIL OF A COW will encourage her to move forward," the text declared. "If the tail is held up over the back, it serves as a mild restraint. In both cases, the handler should hold the tail close to the base to avoid breaking it, and stand to the side to avoid being kicked.
~ Tony Hillerman