Quotes About Security

And that summer, as Hurricane Ella made its way toward the city, an emergency crew worked at night under veil of secrecy to weld two-inch-thick steel plates around the two hundred critical bolts, and the building was secured. The Citicorp tower has stood solidly ever since. The

In the end what he gave Eleanor and her father was mainly confidence, from what I could see.

At home, you decide how you spend your time, how you share your space, and how you manage your possessions. Away from home, you don't. This

Making lives meaningful in old age is new. It therefore requires more imagination and invention than making them merely safe does.

The key word in her mind was home. Home is the one place where your own priorities hold sway. At home, you decide how you spend your time, how you share your space, and how you manage your possessions. Away from home, you don't. This loss of freedom was what people like Lou Sanders and Wilson's mother, Jessie, dreaded.

Before taxiing out to the runway, we paused again for five more checks: whether anti-icing was necessary and completed, the autobrakes were set, the flight controls were checked, the ground equipment was cleared, and no warning lights were on. The three checklists

And having a place that genuinely feels like your home can seem as essential to a person as water to a fish.

The median income of people eighty and older is only about $15,000. More than half of the elderly living in long-term-care facilities run through their entire savings and have to go on government assistance-welfare-in order to afford it.

My bed was safety, but my life, too, was bound up in where she put her feet.

L'abitudine a commutare il vissuto in poesia apre una valvola di sicurezza per eccesso d'impressioni e rimpiazza il bisogno di parlare.»

la seguridad que Hem y Haw tenían en sí mismos se fue convirtiendo en la arrogancia propia del éxito.

When young people ask me for advice today, I generally say, "Decide what is sacred to you, and put your best life energies at its service. Make that the focus of your studies, your work, the test for your pleasures and your relationships. Don't ever let fear or craving for security turn you aside.

How do we live in freedom? We live in freedom when we come to believe, know, receive, and embrace the boundless love of God for us—when we are captured by his goodness, his faithfulness, his honor, his sacrifice, his heart that yearns for us. Then we can dance for an audience of One. Because we are so completely loved. We are safe and secure in the love of God. Every moment of our lives.

Moving lockstep through a series of predictable transitions is no longer a route to personal security. Each man and woman must put together a highly individualized sequence of transitions in and out of school, work, and marriage in order to take advantage of shifting opportunities and respond to unexpected setbacks--a do-it-yourself biolography.

Come on-I'll see you back to your room and the estimable Martha. She put her hand in his and let him draw her to her feet. Tomorrow...don't worry, he murmured, as he ushered her back through the darker side of the snug. I'll be waiting in Carlisle to fall in behind the coach when you go past. Through the dimness he met her eyes. I won't lose you. Her lips softly curved. I didn't imagine you would.

never to be caught by another Pearl Harbor.

Mitt Romney's email was hacked! So if you start getting messages that sound like they're from a bot, he's fixed the problem.

This bureaucracy had been created after 9/11 because of political

What surer guaranty can the capitalist find for the security of his investments, than is to be found in the sense of a community morally and intellectually enlightened?

I hope you forgive the unedifying sight of my struggle to express some of the truths of my inner self and to measure the distance between the mask of security, ease, confidence and assurance I wear (so easily that its features often lift into a smirk that looks like complacency and smugness) and the real condition of anxiety, self-doubt, self-disgust and fear in which much of my life then and now is lived.

Sebastian tried not to look too far ahead. Ambition was a young man's game. Theses days he was more concerned with the continuing survival and security of those he loved. It was no longer so much a matter of dreaming how high he might climb, as of always keeping in mind how far they might fall.

Let us fight for every woman and every man to have the opportunity to live healthy, secure lives, full of opportunity and love. We are all time travellers, journeying together into the future. But let us work together to make that future a place we want to visit. Be brave, be curious, be determined, overcome the odds. It can be done.

In 2010, computerised trading systems created the stock-market Flash Crash; what would a computer-triggered crash look like in the defence arena?

Thousands of people sleep secure in their beds each night because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.