Fail Safe Quotes

#1. For most cosmologists, a supernatural God is an unnecessary hypothesis. For most Americans, He is an unassailable fact. The American belief machine apparently has a fail-safe component. Nothing shuts it down.

Gary Sloan

#2. There was no way to lock down, or tighten up, or Fail-Safe into Security Theater a race that covers 26.2 miles, a race that travels from town to town, a race that travels past people's houses. There was no way to garrison the Boston Marathon. Now there will be.

Charlie Pierce

#3. The Internet is not nearly as fail-safe as the phone system.

David Filo

#4. The real bug here is that the design of the system even permits this class of bug. It is unconscionable that someone designing a critical piece of security infrastructure would design the system in such a way that it does not fail safe.

Jamie Zawinski

#5. ... They used the fail-safe method for undergraduate work at any solid institution: take two utterly unrelated things or matters and show that they are, if not in fact identical, actually related in the most profound and subtle sense.

Renata Adler

#6. Jim, they make these things not to be fiddled with. The civilian version of this device fuses itself into a solid lump of silicon if it thinks it's being tampered with. Who knows what the military version of the fail-safe is? Drop the magnetic bottle in the reactor? Turn us into a supernova?

James S.A. Corey

#7. It's interesting - in 'Fail Safe,' as well, they didn't back off. We were raised with kind of this spectrum of that Armageddon and lived under it, so those were probably the films. 'Fail Safe' sort of haunted me.

Gary Ross

#8. It looked like a cutoff valve. Assuming I had any idea what I was looking at. Assuming it would work. Assuming the whole rig wasn't an elaborate fail-safe, a trap that would start the killing rain as soon as I turned the wheel. That was a hell of a lot of maybes.

Craig Schaefer

#9. I now believe that there are only four things a grown, modern woman should have: a pair of yellow shoes (they unexpectedly go with everything), a friend who will come and post bail at 4 a.m., a fail-safe pie recipe, and a proper muff.

Caitlin Moran

#10. Do you have everything you need?
No. She needed blinders to keep from staring at him, and a box of tissue to wipe the drool. Throw in some steel armour for her heart and a fail-safe chastity belt, and then she'd be good to go.

Roxanne St. Claire

#11. She made me safe. Safe to fail. Safe to be nothing more or less than a roofer's son from upstate New York.

C.D. Reiss

#12. Turtle Tail, I know you'll always be with me," he called. "You waited a long time for our love to grow and it won't die now. I'll fight for you, Turtle Tail, and I'll make sure that your kits have a future on the moor, safe among friends." The clouds touched, becoming one. "I will not fail you.

Erin Hunter

#13. You stay safe, You love. You survive. You laugh and cry and struggle and sometimes you fail and sometimes you succeed. You Push.

Carrie Ryan

#14. We humans are hard to deal with. We are a loud, complex and demanding bunch. Often, we are best dealt with from a safe distance and for only brief periods of time. This could be why a lot of marriages fail.

Henry Rollins

#15. We fail to move beyond what is safe, we abandon our dreams in favor of what is sure rather than strive for what is best for us.

Joan D. Chittister

#16. If you get into the endzone, act as if you've been there before.

Vince Lombardi

#17. Be daring. Better to fail spectacularly then stay safe and achieve meh. -- Anonymous

Sue Ward Drake

#18. He had been my lighthouse, leading me to safe harbor without fail. He'd weathered the storms with me, holding out hope I would find my way to him. His light never flickered, never went out. He was my steadfast beacon - my destination.

Genna Rulon

#19. While he slept the world spun on, changed, situations altered and grew more complex, left him more inadequate to deal with them.

William Gay

#20. I'm a risk-taker. It's where my passion lies, so I don't want to play it safe. That means I'm going to fail sometimes.

Hilary Swank

#21. One of the main reasons people fail to reach their full potential is because they are unwilling to risk anything. They are fearful of losing, failing, or getting hurt and just want to do the things they believe will keep them safe.

Zig Ziglar

#22. College is a safe space where it can be hard to truly fail. The institution is rooting for you because your failure makes them look bad, too. New York City has no such mandate. I've had to hone and sharpen and refine my work here at a pace which may not have happened in other cities.

Baratunde Thurston

#23. I think 'Pan's Labyrinth' is genius.

Joe Dante

#24. Playing it safe is the most popular way to fail.

Elliot Smith

#25. I don't want to be on 'Dancing With the Stars' anytime soon.

Victor Cruz

#26. When I was the captain of a ship I never failed to bring my ship to port and I won't fail to bring Romania to safe harbor. The belief that the president no longer represents the people is false.

Traian Basescu

#27. I love actors and I love to create an environment where they feel safe to connect and thrive and try things, to fail and succeed and flourish and fly.

Adriana Trigiani

#28. If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.

Woody Allen

#29. Nothing is discovered without God's intention and assistance, and I suppose every new knowledge of His works that is conceded to man to be distinctly a revelation by which men are to guide themselves.

Charles Dickens

#30. Playing things too safe is the most popular way to fail,

Elliott Smith

#31. I cannot emphasize enough the importance of family encouragement - not just for me, but for everyone.

Adora Svitak