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Quotes About Security

Under my tutelage you will be safe': the phrase is derived from 'me duce tutus eris' in Ovid's Ars Amatoria, with the literal meaning 'with me as a leader you will be safe'.
~ Richard Davenport-Hines
Isaac Asimov's remark about the infantilism of pseudoscience is just as applicable to religion: 'Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket, a thumb to suck, a skirt to hold.' It is astonishing, moreover, how many people are unable to understand that 'X is comforting' does not imply 'X is true'.
~ Richard Dawkins
Isaac Asimov's remark about the infantilism of pseudoscience is just as applicable to religion: 'Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket, a thumb to suck, a skirt to hold.
~ Richard Dawkins
But, alas, nobody anticipated the United States Department of Homeland Security.
~ Richard Dawkins
I now saw war as a constant, akin to wildfires. They break out unless you work actively to prevent them.
~ Richard Engel
Take up citizenship and the conversion it entailed, send a couple of your sons to the levy when they were of age, pay taxes calculated not to drive you and your family into penury or the mountains and the life of a bandit. Oh, and while you're at it, steer clear of debt and disease. Chances were — mostly — if you did all that, you'd never starve, never have your home burned down and your children raped before your eyes, never have to wear a slave collar.
~ Richard K. Morgan
Bullet-proof, right?' 'Mmm.' Kawahara tipped her head to one side. 'Depends on the bullet, I would say. But impact resistant, certainly.
~ Richard K. Morgan
La creatividad florece cuando tenemos una sensación de seguridad y de autoaceptación.
~ Julia Cameron
Her ambitions were no longer specifically for happiness or financial security or freedom from disease (thought they included all three), but for something more general: the continuing certainty of things. She needed to know that she would carry on being herself.
~ Julian Barnes
We could not be further from ballooning's established tropes: freedom, spiritual exaltation, human progress. Redon's eternally open eye is deeply unsettling. The eye in the sky; God's security camera. And that lumpish human head invites us to conclude that the colonisation of space doesn't purify the colonisers; all that has happened is that we have brought our sinfulness to a new location.
~ Julian Barnes
Trust was freedom, she understood now. It was a luxury. Without it, life was a cell. No emotion could ever get through unfettered and it seemed a hellish way to live.
~ Julie Anne Long
Nothing was more erotic than a big, hot, strong guy armed with a spreadsheet whose object was to make her life easier.
~ Julie Anne Long
I don't like seeing you cry. You will stop. I'll give you a promise, he said gruffly. And then you will cease your worrying. You will have confidence in my ability to protect you, he ordered. You will have faith in me. I command it.
~ Julie Garwood
She was a joy to watch, a nightmare to protect
~ Julie Garwood
My software will take care of every security threat out there and some you may not even know about yet. No longer will you have to update your firewalls or your antivirus and antispyware software. Identities and passwords will be protected from hackers like never before.
~ Julie Garwood
Her computer was still in the bag she was carrying, so it was safe. She rushed to her closet to check the cubby where she hid her backup drive. It was exactly where she'd left it.
~ Julie Garwood
The warmth of his embrace soaked into me, a powerful charm against the dark things.
~ Juliet Marillier
The ordeal of the invasion rather than damaging Cixi's authority, had enhanced it and brought her a new sense of security and confidence.
~ Jung Chang
Nothing is more reassuring than recognizing the feet you are standing on as your own, knowing that this is my place, and I am well, and all the people I love are well.
~ Kadiatou Diallo
He conveyed a strange impression of being in safety, and completely secure. He had a courteous little manner with him, and smiled and nodded, as I pointed out the hills and the tall trees to him, as if he were interested in everything, and incapable of surprise at anything. I wondered if this consistency was produced by an entire ignorance of the evil of the world, or by a deep knowledge and acceptance of it.
~ Karen Blixen
And that was love. True love. The kind that carried on and lasted through the good days and the difficult days. The kind of love that always gave, and never hurt. It might not be the kind of mad love poets wrote about, but it was the kind of love strong enough to build a home upon, secure in the knowledge that this man would be there when things went wrong and would do everything in his considerable power to make things right again.
~ Karen Hawkins
But here's the thing--no matter how many possessions you have, you never feel secure. As soon as you get one thing, there is always something else you need.
~ Karen Kingston
Here's the thing. No matter how many possessions you have, you never feel secure. As soon as you get one thing, there's always something else you need. And also, you have the added problem of worrying about losing the stuff you already have. Some of the most insecure people I know are multimillionaires. True security can only come from knowing who you are and what you are here to do.
~ Karen Kingston
Nobody touches my wife and kids. Han
~ Karen Traviss