Quotes About Security

to make money you must first survive

chess grandmasters usually win by not losing; people become rich by not going bust (particularly when others do);

Most of us lead or are led by lives of patterned regularity. Diurnally, surprises are relatively few. And except for economic or physical uncertainties, we neither face nor court significant degrees of risk because a fundamental drive in the vast majority of us is toward the attainment of as much security as is possible. In this sense, jazzmen, of all musicians, are our surrogates for the unpredictable, our paladins of constant change.

Sometimes people who feel fear in the human realm drop to a very low level of consciousness in their relationships and seek the safety and security of competence in the impersonal word of machines, mathematics, or abstract thought.

Children need limits and feel anxious in their absence. This is one of the reasons they test limits—to be certain they are there. They need to know that someone is flying the plane.

Sometimes people who feel fear in the human realm drop to a very low level of consciousness in their relationships and seek the safety and security of competence in the impersonal world of machines, mathematics, or abstract thought. No matter what heights they may attain professionally, their self esteem remains flawed. We cannot with impunity run from so important an aspect of life

It is singular, however, how long a time often passes before words embody things; and with what security two persons, who choose to avoid a certain subject, may approach its very verge, and retire without disturbing it.

there is no earthly loneliness like that created by man's abandonment of what he once . . . considered secure and permanent.

If you come anywhere near my daughter, I will see to it that you are taken apart piece by bloody piece. Do I make myself clear? Any clearer, says Cam, and you'd be invisible.

It's a powerful feeling to know you make others feel safe

Kind of an early warning system originally developed to fight terrorism, but isn't it nice to know we can now use it for civilian purposes?

Somewhere in the secret recesses of Pfizer, or GlaxoSmithKline, or one of the big pharmaceutical companies, I imagine there's a high security dungeon where three hunchbacked witches stir a massive industrial cauldron of crap I don't want to know about, but I must ingest on a daily basis. And the generic versions aren't even brewed by real witches.

when it's officially allowed through a one-way mirror, it's not called spying. It's called surveillance.

Mitch's father's exclusive gated community had an extensive guard gate. In fact, it had two. It also had an electrified fence. And towers with armed guards. All things considered, few gated communities could be more exclusive than the Colorado State Penitentiary.

The devil you know is better than the one you don't.

They lived in a world where nothing anyone did really mattered. Survival was guaranteed. Income was guaranteed. Food was plentiful, and comfort was a given. The Thunderhead saw to everyone's needs. When you need nothing, what else can life be but pleasant?

He doesn't respond; he just kisses her on the back of her head, to maintain his image as the safest port in her storm. It's a powerful feeling to know you make others feel safe.

He was safe. He was protected. What more could he ask for? Everything.

Careful poetry and careful people live only long enough to die safely.

I began to feel like a kept man and it felt great.

The parents of rich kids tended to be more patriotic because they had more to lose if the country went under.

Look, the reason is security, a subconscious need for security. I had a rotten childhood. Two bottles at once fills a void that needs filling. Maybe. I'm not sure.

it's when you're on the row that you notice that everything is owned and that there are locks on everything.

She has saved me from everything that is not here.