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Quotes About Security

What about guns with sensors in the handles that could detect if you were angry, and if you were, they wouldn't fire, even if you were a police officer? What about skyscrapers made with moving parts, so they could rearrange themselves when they had to, and even open holes in their middles for planes to fly through?
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Why would a farmer lock the doors of his turkey farm?
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
We were not rich, but there was nothing we wanted. From my bedroom window I watched the world. And I was safe from the world.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Usamos una serie de teatrales señas con las manos para comunicar lo que un simple susurro habría hecho con la misma eficacia. Pero hemos hecho voto de silencio: ni una palabra hasta que estemos a salvo, de camino a casa.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Siguranta si pace la adapost de ce? - Nu stiu. Siguranta si pace la adapost de ne-siguranta si de ne-pace.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
We would have been safe.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
No mostré a nadie mi tesoro. A la dicha de poseerlo se agregó el temor de que lo robaran
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Un muro muy largo y ancho tampoco sirve. Vamos a suponer, como ejercicio mental, que Estados Unidos pudiera cerrar con su ejército y con nuevos muros las 1.952 millas que lo separan de México. Entonces ¿qué piensa hacer con sus 12.383 millas de costas? Entraríamos, estoy seguro, en la época de los balseros mexicanos —a la cubana— y los "coyotes" o traficantes de indocumentados serían llamados "tiburones".
~ Jorge Ramos
Should the whole frame of nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world.
~ Joseph Addison
The myths and folktales of the whole world make clear that the refusal is essentially a refusal to give up what one takes to be one's own interest. The future is regarded not in terms of an unremitting series of deaths and births, but as though one's own present system of ideals, virtues, goals, and advantages were to be fixed and made secure.
~ Joseph Campbell
The Fantasy is a reassurance - a promise that the peace of Paradise... is not to be lost...
~ Joseph Campbell
In all likelihood, the nightwatch, not prostitution, is the world's most ancient profession, originating as soon as men and women first feared the darkness.
~ A. Roger Ekirch
The purpose of an army must surely be to put itself out of business.
~ A.A. Gill
Winnie the Pooh finds comfort in counting his pots of honey, and Rabbit finds comfort in knowing where his relations are – even if he doesn't need them at the moment.
~ A.A. Milne
Guns are a necessary tool designed to help your people avoid a repeat of history.
~ A.E. Samaan
The only sheets I'll ever long for are my own.
~ A.J. Hartley and David Hewson
Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.
~ A.J.P Taylor
Where can you steer clear of bandits? Where do the drugs go over? Where can you avoid getting kidnapped by the narcos? Where is there a spot left with no wall, no robbers, and no narcos? Nobody has been able to answer this last question.
~ Óscar Martínez
If you want to go to the mall, you have to take security. But it's always cool. The kids are amazing.
~ Aaliyah
99 percent secure is 100 percent insecure.
~ Aamir Lakhani
I marked their location in case Kell wanted to blow them up or something." "I don't have to blow up everything I see. I just like to.
~ Aaron Allston
The trading characteristics of a security become more important than its underlying economics. The virtual economics began to drive the physical economy rather than the other way around.
~ Aaron C. Brown
The promise of mutually assured destruction had a way of calming even the fiercest hearts.
~ Aaron Dembski-Bowden
We live in a world that has walls and those walls need to be guarded by men with guns.
~ Aaron Sorkin