Quotes About Security

The man's posture said it all. God help the person dumb enough to ever lay a finger on Savannah Dubrinsky. Johnson had been worried about some San Francisco nutcase trying to get to the famous magician while she was in town, but now that he had met her husband, he figured anyone trying to touch her would have to be suicidal. He

You are safe with me, Teagan, he said. Safer than you have ever been in your life. When you are frightened, look to me. -Andre

He needed her to know who he was-her man. Her lover. The man she trusted to always take care of her, have her back, give her everything.

Tell me what I've done, Mikhail." His eyes were fathomless, watchful. "You have given your life into my care. Rest assured, little one, you are safe in my hands.

You can do no other than to make me happy. My happiness is completely dependent on whether or not you are safe." Raven couldn't help smiling. "Somehow I think your devious nature is showing.

He stared into her eyes so she could see the truth there. "I can' lose you, Pepper. Or the girls. Or Nonny. You're my fail-safe." He saw understanding creep into the dark of her eyes. All the beautiful midnight purple sky. The sky above the bayou. Home. That was why he'd recognized her so fast, knew she was the one. Hell. Even the stars were there in her eyes.

But he has guns, Rikki," she reminded herself aloud. "A dog wouldn't have a gun.

Whenever the cadaverous Home Office security supervisor became involved in their affairs, babies cried, women cowered, innocence was punished and blame was wrongly apportioned.

Some of us need more protection than others.

The offer of certainty, the offer of complete security, the offer of an impermeable faith that can't give way, is an offer of something not worth having. I want to live my life taking the risk all the time that I don't know anything like enough yet; that I haven't understood enough; that I can't know enough; that I'm always hungrily operating on the margins of a potentially great harvest of future knowledge and wisdom. I wouldn't have it any other way.

Don't take security in the false refuge of consensus.

Joseph Heller knew how the need to belong, and the need for security, can make people accept lethal and stupid conditions, and then act as if they had imposed them on themselves.

I used to call myself a single-issue voter on the essential question of defending civilization against its terrorist enemies and their totalitarian protectors, and on that 'issue' I hope I can continue to expose and oppose any ambiguity.

Distrust any speaker who speaks confidently about "we," or speaks in the name of "us." Distrust yourself if you hear these tones creeping into your own style. The search for security and majority are not always the same as solidarity; it can be another name for consensus and tyranny and tribalism. Never forget that, even if there are "masses" to be invoked, or "the people" to be praised, they and it must by definition be composed of individuals.

justified in the name of "security" like almost every cowardly idiocy before and since

This is a tightly planned little house. He often feels protected by its smallness; there is hardly room enough here to feel lonely.

The family is a haven in a heartless world.

The contemporary climate is therapeutic, not religious. People today hunger not for personal salvation, let alone for the restoration of an earlier golden age, but for the feeling, the momentary illusion, of personal well-being, health, and psychic security.

Much of what is euphemistically known as the middle class, merely because it dresses up to go to work, is now reduced to proletarian conditions of existence. Many white-collar jobs require no more skill and pay even less than blue-collar jobs, conferring little status or security.

Routine feeds the illusion of safety...

Wet towel under the door,' said Barry. 'It's what you do when you're smoking weed in a hotel and you don't want everyone calling security. You're always supposed to have a towel. I read about it in a guide for hitchhiking through the galaxy.

Funny how the illusion of safety can make us careless.

A wall is the defense of a country that values inaction. But a wall imprisons the people of a country as much as it protects them.

To be safe is to be afraid.