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Quotes About Security

This was the skin that protected you from the world—this loving of another person you shared your life with.
~ Elizabeth Strout
All that she saw and felt tired her, and she longed to shut out the world and be secure in the womb of her imagination.
~ Elizabeth Taylor
The very feel of her hand, even through its glove, was reassuring; it was the sort of hand, he thought, that children would like to hold in the dark.
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
She made him think of his mother, of his nurse, of all things kind and comforting, besides having the attraction of not being his mother or his nurse.
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
I also understood that for more than forty years, workers' pay hadn't kept pace with inflation. Productivity had gone up. Profits had gone up. Executives had gotten raises. Couldn't we at last come together to make sure that the people who did some of the hardest, dirtiest work in the nation got at least a chance to build a little security? And
~ Elizabeth Warren
Careless talk costs lives.
~ Elizabeth Wein
But Israel's might is useless in a struggle that is not about winning territory but securing democratic rights for all. This is why opposition to the grim realities must be coupled with a battle of ideas in which walls and checkpoints provide no defense. Furthermore, it is why the struggle must take a moral form that offers Israel no excuses for its oppressive measures.
~ Ali Abunimah
Deficiency will result in shame and sorrow but caution and foresight will bring peace and security.
~ Ali bin Abu-Talib
A wise man's bosom is the safe of his secrets.
~ Ali bin Abu-Talib
Whites simply do not experience either what have come to be called the 'micro-aggressions' of everyday racism—habitually being followed by security guards in department stores is one extremely familiar experience; noticing the discomfort of white people in your presence is another
~ Ali Rattansi
You can't just ask strangers to drive you up and down the country. This is the twenty first century. Strangers are more dangerous than ever; we've never been more dangerous.
~ Ali Smith
Yes, but everywhere needs some defence against people just coming in and overrunning the place with their terrorisms or their deficiencies, eh, sweetheart, Richard says. That's right, Terence says. Got to keep all those bad refugees out. The ones looking for a better life. Couldn
~ Ali Smith
the uneducated grow up to be prey!
~ Ali Vali
Two things a man can give the woman he loves...his name and his protection...
~ Alice Childress
I have loved England, dearly and deeply, Since that first morning, shining and pure, The white cliffs of Dover I saw, rising steeply Out of the sea that once made her secure.
~ Alice Duer Miller
It's the price you pay for being dumb enough to feel secure in your life.
~ Alison Gaylin
Feel how tight my arms are around you?" he said. "This is how tight I'll be holding you. No matter where you go or where I go, remember how tight I'm holding you.
~ Alison McGhee
Modern man threw a brick through his own window in order to sell himself a burglar alarm.
~ Allen Carr
The Soviet State Security Service] is more than a secret police organization, more than an intelligence and counter-intelligence organization. It is an instrument for subversion, manipulation and violence, for secret intervention in the affairs of other countries.
~ Allen W. Dulles
One of the critical issues that we have to confront is illegal immigration, because this is a multi-headed Hydra that affects our economy, our health care, our health care, our education systems, our national security, and also our local criminality.
~ Allen West
The smile on your face lets me know that you need me, there's a truth in your heart that says you'll never leave me, and the touch of your hand says you'll catch me whenever I fall.
~ Allison Krauss
He's like the door of a bank safe- all big and hard and shinny and tempting, but impossible to get through.
~ Ally Blake
Its Vermeer" Kat turned to the boy who lingered in the doorway. "It's stolen" "What can I say?" Hale eased behind her and studied the painting over her shoulder. "I met a very nice man who bet me he had the best security system in Istanbul." His breath was warm on the back of her neck. "He was mistaken.
~ Ally Carter
Kat," Hale groaned, then fell back onto the pillows. "Funny, I didn't hear a doorbell." "I let myself in; hope that's okay." Hale smiled. "Or the alarm." She stepped inside, tossed a pocket-size bag of tools onto the bed. "You're due for an upgrade." Hale propped himself against the antique headboard and squinted up at her. "She returns." He crossed his arms across his bare chest. "You know, I could be naked in here.
~ Ally Carter