Quotes About Security

the Popsicle Index, which ranks countries according to the percentage of people in a community who believe that their children can safely leave their home, walk to the nearest possible location to buy a popsicle, and walk back home again.

Only love could pick a nested pair of steel Bramah locks.

Sammy could not have known that one day he would come to regard all the things that their loving each other had seemed to put at so much risk--his career in comic books, his relations with his family, his place in the world--as the walls of a prison, an airless, lightless keep from which there was no hope of escape. Sammy had long since ceased to value the security that he had once been so reluctant to imperil.

The new porch felt sound and solid under the weight of him. Like the rest of the house, it was not and would never be his property, but in those years his ambition was not to own a piece of the world. Just to keep that piece from falling down or burning up around him would suffice.

When she found herself alone in the house, she had a record of Highland reels and marches that she played very loud, because for unknown reasons the sound of bagpipes kept the creature at bay.

Hidden Highlands was maybe a little richer but not that different from many of the other small, wealthy and scared enclaves nestled in the hills and valleys around Los Angeles. Walls and gates, guardhouses and private security forces were the secret ingredients of the so-called melting pot of southern California.

You know what they say: the FBI doesn't share. It eats like an elephant and shits like a mouse.

Did you know that this year the Pentagon told all members of the military not to do DNA kits because of the security issues they pose?

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.' Tom Jefferson rescinded those laws as soon as he became president.

was squeezed between two large Special Ops officers in the back of a black SUV. It was seven a.m.

Smith & Wesson 9mm—satin finished, stainless steel and loaded with eight rounds of XTPs.

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the best defense was a good lock or a mean dog. Or both.

The FBI is plugged in with the NSA and the whole federal alphabet soup of agencies. They're cutting-edge when it comes to this. They're doing things the public has no idea about.

The gun would cause no problem as long as the bag was checked.

This is a common practice. You go to a site and your ID is captured and sent on for marketing use elsewhere. It's essentially the origin of spam.

He knew that first-class passengers were accorded special status that moved them quickly through security checks and first onto planes. Airport and airline staff and security were less likely to concern themselves with first-class travelers, even if they were a disheveled man with blood on his jacket and a thirteen-year-old girl who couldn't seem to keep tears off her cheeks.

Safety is the last refuge of the scoundrel!

we haven't had any accidents for months now...Everything on that island is perfectly fine.

La actual preocupación casi histérica por la seguridad es en el mejor de los casos un derroche de recursos y un obstáculo para el espíritu humano, y en el peor de los casos una invitación al totalitarismo. Se necesita con urgencia educación pública.

for the door to the house had many bolts, locks, bars, and fasteners, as is common in the dwellings of misers.

The computer system is secure.

Sleep with your guns tonight, boys.

Si los hombres supiesen lo que es la muerte ya no le tendrían miedo. y si ya no le tuvieran miedo, nadie podría robarles, nunca más, su tiempo de vida.