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Quotes About Safety

The police," my father told them, "may be able to avenge you, but they can't protect you.
~ Octavia E. Butler
some earlier, "simpler" time. Now does not suit him. Religious tolerance does not suit him. The current state of the country does not suit him. He wants to take us all back to some magical time when everyone believed in the same God, worshipped him in the same way, and understood that their safety in the universe depended on completing the same religious rituals and stomping anyone who was different. There was never such a time in this country.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Why do you always expect the worst of everyone?' When it comes to strangers with guns,' I told her, 'I think suspicion is more likely to keep you alive than trust.
~ Octavia E. Butler
On the street, people are expected to fear and hate everyone but their own kind, but with all of us armed and watchful, people stared, but they let us alone. Our neighborhood is too small for us to play those kinds of games.
~ Octavia E. Butler
The police,' my father told them, 'may be able to avenge you, but they can't protect you.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Quando si tratta di estranei armati, penso che il sospetto ti aiuti a restare vivo più della fiducia.
~ Octavia E. Butler
That way they don't have to risk going outside where things are so dangerous and crazy. It's bad enough that some people—my father for one—have to go out to work at least once a week. None of us goes out to school any more. Adults get nervous about kids going outside.
~ Octavia E. Butler
When it comes to strangers with guns," I told her, "I think suspicion is more likely to keep you alive than trust.
~ Octavia E. Butler
When it comes to strangers with guns," I told her, "I think suspicion is more likely to keep you alive than trust.
~ Octavia E. Butler
There are over 700 known dead so far. One hurricane. And how many people has it hurt? How many are going to starve later because of destroyed crops? That's nature. Is it God? Most of the dead are the street poor who have nowhere to go and who don't hear the warnings until it's too late for their feet to take them to safety. Where's safety for them anyway? Is it a sin against God to be poor?
~ Octavia E. Butler
The possibility of meeting a white adult here frightened me, more than the possibility of street violence ever had at home.
~ Octavia E. Butler
I did my military service from 1989 - 92 and I was never shot at or had to fire on anybody. I was very lucky. I was more involved in intelligence and counter-intelligence.
~ Oded Fehr
It's just like what they say about lightening; It's safest to stand where it has already struck.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
As part of Camus' refusal to debate his political enemies publicly after their vitriolic responses to the publication of 'The Rebel'] At this point, the least sentence I might say will be used in a way that disgusts me in advance. ... It would be impossible for me in that case to continue expressing myself with academic politeness. I am mistaken for a deliberately polite man whom one may insult in all safety.
~ Unknown
Your security is not in the hands of [Democratic presidential candidate John] Kerry or Bush or al Qaeda. Your security is in your own hands and each state which does not harm our security will remain safe.
~ Osama bin Laden
Your security does not lie in the hands of Kerry, Bush or al-Qaeda. Your security is in your own hands.
~ Unknown
A special Providence protects fools, drunkards, small children and the United States of America.
~ Otto von Bismarck
A short absence is safest
~ Ovid
You will be safest in the middle.
~ Ovid
A short absence is the safest.
~ Ovid
Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.
~ Ovid
Aston (Be Sure to Wear Some Glass in Your Face)'.
~ Ozzy Osbourne
The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of a gun.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
I'll find you, don't worry. My body won't be with you all the time, but you'll always have my heart. I'm your worrier, remember?" "I'll never forget. I promise. I'm your High Priestess and you've pledged yourself to me. That means you have my heart, too." "Then both of us better stay safe. A heart's a hard thing to live without. I should know. I've tried it.
~ P.C. Cast + Kristen Cast