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Quotes About Security

To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice.
~ Oscar Wilde
Comfort is the only thing our civilisation can give us.
~ Oscar Wilde
So long as you are secure you will count many friends; if your life becomes clouded you will be alone.
~ Ovid
We'll fling the door open and make a rush, said Bill. Supposing they shoot, old scout? Burglars never shoot, said Bill. Which was comforting provided the burglars knew it.
~ p g wodehouse
Percy felt for his complaisant friend something of the annoyance which a householder feels for the watchdog whom he finds fraternizing with the burglar.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
A chap's bedroom – you can't get way from it – is his castle, and he has every right to look askance if gargoyles come glaring in at him.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
in the event that armed men of any sort enter the building, watch their feet closely.
~ Padgett Powell
For a moment he said nothing, then he reached over and traced a line down her cheek with his finger. When a man looks into a woman's eyes, lass, he doesna want to see the horrors he has kent written there. He wants to see joy and warmth and some measure of innocence. Tis the natural duty and desire of a man to protect his woman and children from the world's bitterness.
~ Pamela Clare
This is what I love to see--different branches of law enforcement at each other's throats. It gives the bad guys the head start they need, which in turn gives us all job security.
~ Pamela Clare
The divine order arranges our future more wisely than any insurance company." The master's concluding words were the realised creed of his faith. "The world is full of uneasy believers in an outward security. Their bitter thoughts are like scars on their foreheads. The One who gave us air and milk from our first breath knows how to provide day by day for His devotees.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
The world is full of uneasy believers in an outward security. Their bitter thoughts are like scars on their foreheads. The One who gave us air and milk from our first breath knows how to provide day by day for His devotees.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
I had come to a place where I was meant to be. I don't mean anything so prosaic as a sense of coming home. This was different, very different. It was like arriving at a place much safer than home.
~ Pat Conroy
And I was glad she had the camera as a fence to protect herself, an excuse to be invisible. Cameras are a lifesaver for the very shy people who have nowhere else to hide.
~ Pat Conroy
You have to love what you can always come back to, what's home waiting for you.
~ Pat Conroy
Trust is a measurement of my sense of safety with you.
~ Pat MacMillan
A truly humble person won't try to impress you, manipulate you, judge you, criticize you, or put you in your place. Humble people are safe to be around. You can relax. You can be yourself.
~ Pat Williams
The people of Mali] are seldom unjust, and have a greater horror of injustices than other people. Their sultan shows no mercy to anyone who is guilty of the least act of it. There is complete security in their country. Neither traveller nor inhabitant in it has anything to fear from robbers or men of violence. —Ibn Battuta, fourteenth-century traveler
~ Patricia C. McKissack
A rush of panic comforted him with its familiarity.
~ Patricia Highsmith
She envied him. She envied him his faith there would always be a place, a home, a job, someone else for him. She envied him that attitude.
~ Patricia Highsmith
Of the nineteen hijackers that day, fifteen were Saudi.
~ Patrick Cockburn
Let me repeat that: "If a man will devote his time to securing facts in an impartial, objective way, his worries will usually evaporate in the light of knowledge.
~ Dale Carnegie
This present world is a perfectly safe place for us to be." That certainly is what Jesus, and the Bible as a whole, has to say to us. "Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever" (Ps 23).
~ Dallas Willard
With this magnificent God positioned among us, Jesus brings the assurance that our universe is a perfectly safe place for us to be. The
~ Dallas Willard
Hebrews 13:5–6: Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, "I will never leave you nor forsake you." So we may boldly say: "The LORD is my helper; I will not fear. What can man do to me?" Don't covet; be content with what you have. The freedom from the frantic desire to have is grounded in God's promise to never leave us.
~ Dallas Willard