Quotes About Safety

I would prefer not to be in a car with someone who can't really drive that well!

You know, there are some people who just don't - that cannot get comfortable behind the wheel of a car and always sort of think they're going to kill somebody.

There are easily accessible programs to help aging drivers maintain their skills, or recognize when they need to give up their cars.

Cars are the reason we, you know, people live or die.

I pay for homeowner's insurance, I pay for car insurance, I pay for health insurance.

Your car should drive itself. It's amazing to me that we let humans drive cars... It's a bug that cars were invented before computers.

Even one heatstroke death is one too many because every death caused by leaving a child unattended in a hot car is 100 percent avoidable.

If one took no chances, one would not fly at all. Safety lies in the judgment of the chances one takes.

From the five years, 1968-73, if you were an F1 driver at that time, there was a very likely chance that you would have died.

The mind is always seeking zones of safety, and these zones of safety are continually falling apart. Then we scramble to get another zone of safety back together again.

A warrior accepts that we can never know what will happen to us next. We can try to control the uncontrollable by looking for security and predictability, always hoping to be comfortable and safe. But the truth is that we can never avoid uncertainty. This not-knowing is part of the adventure. It's also what makes us afraid.

The fish was an enemy. It had come upon the community and killed two men, a woman, and a child. The people of Amity would demand the death of the fish. They would need to see it dead before they could feel secure enough to resume their normal lives.

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Whenever somebody turned his head, he shouted, Stop looking behind you!: There was a strict rule against head turns. When reversing, you were supposed to rely on mirrors only; the blind spot didn't exist, at least not in Coach Tang's eyes. Nobody ever wore a seat belt. I never saw a turn signal flash on the parking range at the Public Safety Driving School.

His purpose was not just to make us safe but to make us saints.

A woman should be able to walk the streets of Eastvale stark naked if she wants, and no one has the right to touch her.

The basic reality is that the risks that scare people and the risks that kill people are very different.

Even in the era of AIDS, sex raises no unique moral issues at all. Decisions about sex may involve considerations about honesty, concern for others, prudence, and so on, but there is nothing special about sex in this respect, for the same could be said of decisions about driving a car. (In fact, the moral issues raised by driving a car, both from an environmental and from a safety point of view, are much more serious than those raised by sex.)

There are plenty of violent people, but for any randomly selected person today the chances of meeting a violent death at the hands of his or her fellow humans is lower now than it has ever been in human history.

Dispose of prescription and over-the-counter medications with care. Flush them down the toilet or place them in a tightly covered outdoor trash container so kids and pets can't get them.

Beyond the wild animals that posed a regular safety concern anywhere in Kenya, it was believed that the high elevation of Kijabe would leave the missionaries susceptible to "Kenya nerves" –a mythical neurological disorder that led to acute anxiety and other psychologically linked ailments. p21

Ubik ... Safe when taken as directed.

It's easy for you people here; you live a safe, purposeless life, nothing to do, nothing to worry about.

You know, these great planet-wide and inter-planet-wide wars break out and everyone is supposed to be thinking of the ideologies involved . . . whereas in actuality most people simply want a good, safe night's sleep.