Quotes About Security

This was not, of course, the first time that significant monies were spent on military programs. Kennedy knew, if only implicitly, that while bravery may win battles, science and technology provide security. Science and technology win wars.

Jupiter acts as a gravitational shield for Earth, a burly big brother, allowing long (hundred-million-year) stretches of relative peace and quiet on Earth. Without Jupiter's protection, complex life would have a hard time becoming interestingly complex, always living at risk of extinction from a devastating impact.

Keine Kompromisse. Keine Zeitverschwendung. Manchmal musst du in deinem Leben den klaren Entschluss treffen, dich voll als Mensch verwirklichen zu wollen, egal was es kostet. Normalerweise bringt uns eine größere Krise an diesen Punkt. Schmerz ist oft das, was uns wirklich motiviert, eine Vision für ein vollkommen neues Leben ins Auge zu fassen. Langeweile und die Gewohnheit, "auf Nummer sicher zu gehen", halten diese visionäre Kraft in uns unter Verschluss.

Most white Americans were willing to sacrifice civil liberties in the name of national security as long as they were the civil liberties of someone else.

Marko drove us to Ra, an Egyptian-themed nightclub guarded by two concrete statues of Anubis. Inside, it was nearly empty. There were just security guards, bartenders, and a group of nine noisy Serbians clustered on barstools around a small circular table. We

It's between weak guys and strong guys. Women are drawn to men who demonstrate strength—not necessarily physical strength, but the ability to make them feel safe. So if you're a nice guy, you can still be nice. But you must also be strong.

What a privilege we have to tell the world how Christ has come to meet our most critical and foundational needs: identity, acceptance, security and significance.

But when you know who you are in Christ, you no longer need to be threatened by people or compete with them, because you are already secure and loved.

Security. Was it just a word? If not, then was it only by the sacrifice of other things, happiness, love, or some wild ecstasy that she had never known, that it could be obtained? And did too much driving, too much faith in safety and permanence, unfit one for these other things?

The hotel demanded hard currency, which kept out the riffraff and the Reds.

I went back to the Thirty FAQs. Number Four informed me that I'd present one half of my visa card on arrival in Cuba, and it was Essential that I not lose the second half or I'd have trouble getting out of the country. Well, if things went right, I wouldn't need the second half; and if things went wrong, the second half wouldn't get me out of Cuba.

Apparently, Security Solutions did not want walk-in customers or drive-by shooters.

Better to have a gun and not need it than to need a gun and not have it.

I never realized the Department of Agriculture was involved in national security. Do you have, like, undercover cows?

When a good man employs others he becomes a slave to the job, for the job is the guarantee for the security of many men.

Japan in the 1930s became a garrison state.43 But it was one which carried within it the promise of a 'warfare-welfare state', offered social security in return for military sacrifice.

Despite the South's military setbacks, they retained their value for most of the war for the simple reason that the price of the underlying security, cotton, was rising as a consequence of increased wartime demand. Indeed, the price of the bonds actually doubled between December 1863 and September 1864, despite the Confederate defeats at Gettysburg and Vicksburg, because the price of cotton was soaring.

there is nothing safer than lending money to people with property. Why? Because if they default on the loan, you can repossess the house. Even if they run away

En la práctica el dinero invertido en una colonia de iure como la India (o en una colonia en todo sentido, excepto el nombre como Egipto) era mucho más seguro que invertir en una colonia de facto como Argentina.

making provision for an uncertain future has taken the very simple form of an investment (usually leveraged, that is debt-financed) in a house

The second hallmark of the stationary state was the ability of a corrupt and monopolistic elite to exploit the system of law and administration to their own advantage: In a country too, where, though the rich or the owners of large capitals enjoy a good deal of security, the

agencies began to downgrade scores of RMBS CDOs (short for 'residential mortgage-backed security collateralized debt obligations', the very term testifying to the over-complex nature of these products).

Si no se emplean en las misiones de paz, es difícil saber para qué sirven soldados, en una Europa que ha declarado la paz perpetua dentro de sus fronteras y que ya no es amenazada por Rusia.

it's not owning property that gives you security; it just gives your creditors security. Real security comes from having a steady income