Quotes About Security

There is no water like the water out of your own well.

know what you want. You want a story that won't surprise you. That will confirm what you already know. That won't make you see higher or further or differently.

A house is a compressed territory where our basic needs can be fulfilled close by and safely.

Love is a house with an unshakable foundation and an indestructible roof.

Animals that escape go from the known into the unknown - and if there is one thing an animal hates above all else, it is the unknown. Escaping animals usually hind in the very first place they find that gives them a sense of security, and they are dangerous only to those who happen to get between them and their reckoned safe spot.

Those who carry a knife and a pear are never afraid of the dark.

The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that you can't fly home.

The Therapeutic Sensibility 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.

So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality, nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit.

knew that happiness, health, and security come from devoting yourself to two things—your family and your friends—and anything that doesn't bring you closer to both is pulling you in the wrong direction.

The secret of true prosperity is finding our security through our connection with the divine, with the spiritual world.

Clusters of items in the scale point to the following tendencies associated with social responsibility: greater concern for social and moral issues; disapproval of privilege and favor; emphasis on duties and self-discipline; greater conventionality; less rebelliousness; greater sense of trust and confidence in the world; greater poise, assurance, and personal security.

The sad fact was that once an individual elected to own a smartphone, he or she was as easy to find as the nose on your face…whether the person was using the phone or not. Word on the street was that the Yanks had a more robust version of the same technology and were tracking, recording, and storing away the location of their citizens…every one of them…just in case.

It's hard for me to imagine that some people in the CIA who had firsthand knowledge would be unable to recognize that this would be helpful information for a soldier's death.

Increasingly, Christian life seems to be nothing more than a particular way of behaving, a code of good conduct. Christianity is increasingly alienated, becoming a social attribute adapted to meet the least worthy of human demands - conformity, sterile conservatism, pusillanimity and timidity; it is adapted to the trivial moralizing which seeks to adorn cowardice and individual security with the funerary decoration of social decorum.

Deep Throat is a guy who could have your files and mine in his trust.

The Israeli people must be free to live in peace and security.

They are in danger, but they are there.

My past is redeemed. My present makes sense. My future is secure. I'm done and finished with low living, sight walking, small planning, smooth knees, colorless dreams, tamed

China threatened to nuke Los Angeles a few years ago and again recently, but neither of these threats was widely reported in the domestic US press.)

And they always slept better with blades beneath their beds.

Surround yourselves with trustworthy people. If you don't, all the weaponry and tactics in the world can't save you.

You do not respond to an attempt on your life with a slap on the hand. Or a joke.

We don't protect them because they're weak. We protect them because they are strong, and strong people make enemies.