Quotes About Precaution

I don't want to get burned when I'm cooking. To avoid getting hit when pan-frying, I stand far away and use chopsticks that are almost two feet long. I learned it from my mom, who does the same thing.

As far as fireworks, it's very dangerous. You shouldn't play with them.

If you look at the terrorist attacks around the world, they're in places where there is no security - a club or a movie theater or wherever.

I change my socks often, because I had bad bouts of athlete's foot fungus infections as a kid. I may be able to change socks less frequently and not get the fungus. But, I'd rather not run the test to determine just how infrequently I could change socks. I don't feel superstitious about it.

As the geneticist David Searls observed, "The tendency for an event to occur varies inversely with one's preparation for it.

the greatest danger is always the one we are ignorant of.

I have said it before. You are too cautious, Fitz. What if this, what if that? You hide from trouble that may never knock at our door.

The weapon we throw away today is the one at our throats tomorrow

Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange.

Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange.

Never talk to strangers. If someone ever tries to take you, fight with everything you have. Scream as loud as you can. (He'd never told her what to do if the man was too strong and there was no one to hear her screaming.)

Miles paused at the door. "Ah—about Tav Calhoun—" "Yes?" "You know that janitor's closet on the second level?" "Vaguely." She looked at him in unease. "Please be sure somebody checks it tomorrow morning. But don't go up there before then." "I wouldn't dream of it," she assured him faintly.

It pays to plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark. " - Anon

When a man has enemies he had best beware, and

He made a practice of never carrying less than $1,000, and he kept it in his pocket.

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

Preparedness is the key to success and victory.

Leave as little to chance as possible. Preparation is the key to success.

There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.

If there are two or more ways to do something and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it.

I]f you happen to have any money, lock it up quickly; if you happen to have any jewels, hide them directly; if you happen to have any debtors, make them pay you, or any creditors, don't pay them.

It was hard not to wonder, as Whitney put the Tesla in park, whether this could possibly be true. The nature of disaster preparedness was so weird, as no one actually knew which disaster to be scared of. Steel doors, for example, weren't going to help with anthrax. Fifty years of gourmet freeze-dried foodstuffs, which a nearby project promised, weren't going to fix a bad marriage.

Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live.

These fucks next door. I got no problems with them yet, but I feel one brewing, way they watch me. They're biding their time. I'd like to have you at my back, and there's always the chance they'll get you first, instead of me. I like the idea of a buffer.