Quotes About Security

He was human, he was warm and strong and ready to kill to keep her safe. What more could a girl want in a man?

He flicked off the light switch, setting the alarm system. Overhead he could hear Reno—music that could only be Japanese hip-hop, for God's sake, and thumps and bumps. Either he had half a dozen girls up there on the floor and he was doing them one by one, or he was doing some sort of exercise. Or dancing. The thought of Reno dancing was enough to send cold shivers down Peter's spine. He preferred the notion of an orgy.

Leave her alone, Killoran. I promised her you meant no ill will. And did she believe you? Not for a moment. Killoran looked back at her. Wise girl, he murmured. But for now, she's safe. I promise to keep my marauding hands off her fair young body. For the time being.

I don't suppose you know the password

Don't worry," he kept saying. "The overworld can't hurt you if you stay calm." I wasn't calm at all. But my panic was like a poisonous snake at a zoo, staring at me from the other side of thick glass. Only Yamaraj's touch on my arm kept the glass from shattering. His skin seemed to burn against mine.

The dangers of life are infinite, and among them is safety.

Whatever Hiro said about fame protecting her, it felt safer next to Frizz than under the eyes of a million people.

So how do you unify a secure, wealthy country that has sunk into a zero-sum political game with itself?

We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. —Winston Churchill (or George Orwell)

That kind of random surveillance is almost impossible to defeat.

Some scholars, including Weatherford, believe that the Great Wall of China was built as much to keep their own people in as to keep the "barbarians" out.

Robert Frost famously wrote that home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

In your career, even more than for a brand, being safe is risky. The path to lifetime job security is to be remarkable.

Rich is my word for someone who can afford to make choices, who has enough resources to do more than merely survive.

The reason you might choose to embrace the artist within you now is that this is the path to (cue the ironic music) security.

begin to realize that the safest thing you can do feels risky and the riskiest thing you can do is play it safe.

Finding security in mediocrity is an exhausting process. You can work only so many hours, fret only so much. Being a slightly better typist or a slightly faster coder is insufficient. You're always looking over your shoulder, always trying to be a little less mediocre than the guy next to you. It wears you out.

We assume that what makes us comfortable also makes us safe.

Those places that felt safe—the corner office, the famous college, the secure job—aren't. You're holding back, betting on a return to normal, but in the new normal, your resistance to change is no longer helpful.

Becoming unattached doesn't eliminate our foundation. It gives us one.

Organizing around average means that the organization has exchanged the high productivity of exceptional performance for the ease and security of an endless parade of average performers.

Organizing around the average, then, is too expensive. Organizing around average means that the organization has exchanged the high productivity of exceptional performance for the ease and security of an endless parade of average performers.

Don't be stupid, privacy is an illusion in today's electronic world. And i always investigate the people who interest me

Anybody bugs you, anybody at all, I'll rip off both his arms. You got me?" She tried to smile. "That's sweet, Davy. Bloodthirsty, but sweet.