Quotes About Security

No fear; I like a good grip; I like to feel something in this slippery world that can hold, man.

It's not money, but what you can buy with it. Money is power. Money is security. Money is freedom.

For the rest the Navy is a third-rate career for third-rate people, offering a sort of skimpy security in return for twenty or thirty years of a polite penal servitude.

Want a partner who can make you feel secure and loved, so you can reach your full potential. Someone who can inspire you and encourage you to try again if things don't work out. Someone who loves you for who you are, not who you might turn into, or who you once were.

Besides, let's face it, a joint mortgage is for twenty-five years. And unlike with a marriage, you can get insurance to cover yourself if something goes wrong.

I do know that mother loss can be heartbreaking at any age. No matter how old we are, we yearn for a mother's love throughout our lives, reaching for the security and comfort we believe only she can provide at times of illness, transition, or stress.

Every step of the way, I made it a point to underpromise and overdeliver. In the long run, that's the only way to ensure security in any job.

If a man is convinced that he is safe only as long as he uses his power to give others a sense of insecurity, then the measure of their security is in his hands. If security or insecurity is at the mercy of a single individual or group, then control of behavior becomes routine. All imperialism functions in this way.

Ruling elites seem to have learned through the generations—consciously or not—that war makes them more secure against internal trouble.

The military conflict itself, by dominating everything in its time, diminished other issues, made people choose sides in the one contest that was publicly important, forced people onto the side of the Revolution whose interest in Independence was not at all obvious. Ruling elites seem to have learned through the generations—consciously or not—that war makes them more secure against internal trouble.

In the vision of the Mohawk chief Hiawatha, the legendary Dekaniwidah spoke to the Iroquois: "We bind ourselves together by taking hold of each other's hands so firmly and forming a circle so strong that if a tree should fall upon it, it could not shake nor break it, so that our people and grandchildren shall remain in the circle in security, peace and happiness.

Money, he said, is a terrible nuisance. But it's nice not to have to worry.

Legitimate security concerns can be present among policies that amount to apartheid, just as they can be present in a policy that sanctions the use of excessive force or torture.

Who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?

Being arrested in any airport is bad, but being arrested in the Miami airport is terrifying.

Of all the United States' partners in the global war on terrorism, Pakistan is the most vexing and arguably the most important.

You can only be independent of God while you've got youth and prosperity; independence won't take you safely to the end

U.S. foreign policy should be designed to make the United States safer and more prosperous; it's foolish to think that Americans can safeguard their interests and promote prosperity without accepting some costs and risks far beyond our borders.

Bond again walked round the room. This time he carefully inspected the walls and the neighbourhood of the bed and the telephone. Why not take the room? Why would there be microphones or secret doors? What would be the point of them?

Bond grinned with pleasure. What most warmed him was that M. himself should have rung up Mathis. This was quite unheard of. The very existence of M., let alone his identity, was never admitted. He could imagine the flutter this must have caused in the ultra-security-minded organization in London.

Clausewitz's first principle was to have a secure base. From there one proceeds to freedom of action.

Think I like this job? Having a Double-O number and so on? I'd be quite happy for you to get me sacked from the Double-O Section. Then I could settle down and make a snug nest of papers as an ordinary Staffer. Right?

Major Smythe remembered the hoary euphemism for the Secret Service. He said, with forced cheerfulness, 'Oh. The old firm?

Join MI5? I was ready to lead it.