Top 84 Quotes About Precautions
#1. If one is not going to take the necessary precautions to avoid having parents, one must undertake to bring them up.
Quentin Crisp
#2. It is permissible with certain precautions to speak in print of coitus, but it is not permissible to employ the monosyllabic synonym for this word.
Bertrand Russell
#3. Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
Marquis De Sade
#4. A little superstition is a good thing to keep in one's bag of precautions.
Gertrude Atherton
#5. We must take precautions against being prematurely honed sharp
since at the same time we are being prematurely honed thin.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#6. I used words without precautions. I wanted to disappear into them, I fled into the bovaryism of the writer trying to create an effect.
Storm Jameson
#7. A writer doesn't write for his readers, does he? Yet he has to take elementary precautions all the same, to make them comfortable.
Graham Greene
#8. Boredom is an evil that is not to be estimated lightly. It can come in the end to real despair. The public authority takes precautions against it everywhere, as against other universal calamities.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#9. There is no reason to live in fear of crime and violence. There is however reason to take reasonable precautions. And in doing so, you will have deterred most criminals from choosing you as their victim.
Marc MacYoung
#10. A prudent person foresees danger and takes precautions. The simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences.
Anonymous
#11. We hope that all coal mines will learn from the bitter lessons these accidents have taught and will strengthen their safety precautions.
Li Yizhong
#12. There is such a thing as emotional rubbish; it is produced in the factories of the mind. It consists of pain that has long since passed and is no longer useful. It consists of precautions that were important in the past, but that serve no purpose in the present.
Paulo Coelho
#13. And Futh, looking at the lighthouse, wondered how this could happen--how there could be this constant warning of danger, the taking of all these precautions, and yet still there was all this wreckage.
Alison Moore
#14. No matter what precautions we take, no matter how well we have put together a good life, no matter how hard we have worked to be healthy, wealthy, comfortable with friends and family, and successful with our career - something will inevitably ruin it.
Timothy Keller
#15. To isolate life from danger is a mission impossible! To take precautions against the dangers, that is the necessary and plausible mission!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#16. We don't have real control over death. You could die of a heart attack, a building could fall on you, you could be in an accident, you could have a fatal disease. So, how should you conduct your life? You just go ahead and live, taking reasonable precautions - like handling the mail more carefully.
Rudy Giuliani
#17. Note to self: Do not expect coherent thought to be possible when staring at Nash. Motor skills may be impaired as well. Take necessary precautions.
M. Leighton
#18. Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides.
Jacques Derrida
#19. Having a BRCA2 mutation makes you more susceptible to melanoma, for example, so you would need to take extra precautions to protect yourself from harmful sun exposure, including wearing sunblock and sun-protective clothing when outdoors.
Sue Friedman
#20. They've taken their own precautions against Al Qaeda. To prepare for an attack, each Frenchman is urged to keep duct tape, a white flag, and a three-day supply of mistresses in the house.
Argus Hamilton
#21. Well," he said, "I'm glad to see you're finally taking some precautions, but you weren't this tense when I dropped you off last night." "But you were this annoying. At least one of us is consistent.
Kalayna Price
#22. Even where the land was more receptive, settlers soon learned to take some precautions before planting their vegetables. Maize and pumpkin seeds were soaked in water for several days and then blackened with tar before planting - the most effective way to deter rats, mice and birds.
Bee Dawson
#23. No precautions, and no precautionary principle, can avoid problems that we do not yet foresee. We need a stance of problem-fixing, not just problem-avoidance.
David Deutsch
#24. So one always starts a journey in a strange land
taking too many precautions, until one tires of the exertion and abandons care in the worst spot of all.
Graham Greene
#25. Winter-related accidents and illnesses account for a large number of all senior health-related insurance claims during the winter months. But that doesn't mean that seniors have to sit this season out. By taking a few precautions, seniors can enjoy winter safely and securely.
Scott Perry
#26. Precautions to be taken in the case
Of freak reincarnation: what to do
On suddenly discovering that you
Are now a young and vulnerable toad
Plump in the middle of a busy road,
Or a bear cub beneath a burning pine,
Or a book mite in a revived divine.
Vladimir Nabokov
#27. I'm so extremely well prepared for negative response, I've taken precautions.
Aleksandra Mir
#28. With all the precautions and risks that accompany sex today, it sounds about as much fun as walking through a minefield.
Erma Bombeck
#29. Maybe we've been taking nova precautions for a red dwarf.
Hal Clement
#30. Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
Seneca The Younger
#31. A deposit insurance system is like a nuclear power plant. If you build it without safety precautions, you know it's going to blow you off the face of the earth. And even if you do, you can't be sure it won't.
L. William Seidman
#32. Thinking is contagious ... so choose whom you surround yourself with carefully!
Or at least take precautions so as not to infect yourself with other people's thinking!
Jennifer O'Neill
#33. Take a moment to reflect upon the existence of the musical The Book of Mormon. Now imagine the security precautions that would be required to stage a similar production about Islam. The project is unimaginable - not only in Beirut, Baghdad, or Jerusalem, but in New York City.
Sam Harris
#34. God's more in control than we are. Obviously you still take all the precautions and safety measures inside your car.
Matt Kenseth
#35. Any scientist can testify that a dead ocean means a dead planet ... No national law, no national precautions can save the planet. The ocean, more than any other part of our planet, ... is a classic example of the absolute need for international global action.
Thor Heyerdahl
#36. Regardless of the number of precautions that we take to save our necks, part of the attraction of going out on the water in the first place is the element of risk.
Harold Payson
#38. Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#39. Dreams larger
than ourselves we killed, not wanting
our smallness measured against them."
(poem: Having Taken the Necessary Precautions)
Brian Patten
#40. Opportunities for fraud are open and they are taken advantage of. The most elementary precautions are neither taken nor even contemplated. The reverse is the case. People such as myself who attempt to bring openness and accountability to the system are pursued, suspended and dismissed.
Marta Andreasen
#41. Against the disease of writing one must take special precautions, since it is a dangerous and contagious disease.
Pierre Abelard
#42. The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#43. Never depend on the multitude, full of instability and whims; always take precautions against it.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#44. With Stewart International Airport located here, the New Windsor Police Department has an added responsibility to take anti-terrorism precautions while protecting our area.
Sue Kelly
#45. My friend, stay positive! It is really good to always stay positive. You don't really give a damn to negative people, circumstances and things! You only learn lessons from them that can help you take precautions to always stay positive for positive footprints!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#46. As far as I know, the most conservative estimates of the number of Americans who would be killed in a major nuclear attack, with everything working as well as can be hoped and all foreseeable precautions taken, run to about fifty million.
George Wald
#47. Among precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take precautions against our own. I must fairly say, I dread our own power and our own ambition: I dread our being too much dreaded.
Edmund Burke
#48. The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
Alfred Adler
#49. Don't give up.' Ilyas felt his eyes tear up.
'I'm not giving up. I'm taking precautions to protect the only person I really care about in this whole damn world.
Astrid Amara
#50. Not only do happy people endure pain better and take more health and safety precautions when threatened, but positive emotions undo negative emotions.
Martin Seligman
#51. No pro football player should die of heatstroke, any more than cholera, in this day and age if the most basic attention is paid and precautions are taken.
Sally Jenkins
#52. The course of a person's life, like the course of a river, may likewise be changed by means of ingenious and timely precautions.
Ross King
#53. They haven't any spirit in them - no proud dreams and no proud lusts; and a man who hasn't one or the other-Lord! What is he but funk and precautions.
H.G.Wells
#54. It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients.
Ivan Pavlov
#55. Trust is the most insidious of poisons. Trust sidesteps all of your precautions.
Mark Lawrence
#56. Like solo sailors venturing into the Southern Ocean, climbers are seduced by risk. The desire to push to a summit or scale a rock face is so strong that they consciously or subconsciously minimize safety precautions drilled into their brains.
Charles Duhigg
#57. Whatever truth you contribute to the world will be one lucky shot in a thousand misses. You cannot be right by holding your breath and taking precautions.
Walter Lippmann
#58. I am very puzzled by the fact that young people are getting infected again. They don't take precautions despite an enormous amount of information. It's like riding a race car at 200 kilometers an hour. Some people like the risk.
Luc Montagnier
#59. For he who gives no fuel to fire puts it out, and likewise he who does not in the beginning nurse his wrath and does not puff himself up with anger takes precautions against it and destroys it.
Plutarch
#60. Spring is the usual period for house-cleaning and removing the dust and dirt which, notwithstanding all precautions, will accumulate during the winter months from dust, smoke, gas, etc.
Isabella Beeton
#61. Negative thoughts force us to take precautions; positive thoughts encourage us to take actions
S.E. Sever
#62. If the proper preparations have been made and the necessary precautions taken, any staged event is guaranteed success
Ethelred The Unready
Robert Asprin
#63. Those entrapped by the herd instinct are drowned in the deluges of history. But there are always the few who observe, reason, and take precautions, and thus escape the flood. For these few gold has been the asset of last resort.
Antony C. Sutton
#64. No matter what precautions were taken, socks disappeared into a Bermuda Triangle for socks, a swirling vortex that swallowed one sock at a time, leaving its partner stranded.
Alexander McCall Smith
#65. A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions.
James Madison
#66. What is courage? Courage is the willingness to risk failure ... There is only one danger I find in life, and that, indeed, is a real one. You may take too many precautions.
Alfred Adler
#67. Randall inwardly raged about the stupidity of the building designers to not have included another way out of the office, then immediately decided that architects did not typically have "homicidal monster infestation" on their list of situations that required safety precautions.
Blake Crouch
#68. Sometimes, however much you plan, however many precautions you take, something happens, and in a minute the world is changed. After that, you're the person on the other side of that minute.
Frederick Weisel
#69. Corruption appears to be a universal phenomenon that lays its own imperious claims on the world, and therefore it is the duty of all nations to prepare themselves against its onslaught by taking proper precautions.
Robert Payne
#70. As a matter of fact we have to take special precautions during a battle to post police, to prevent more unwounded men than are necessary from accompanying a wounded man back from the firing line.
Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
#71. No matter how many precautions we take, none of us are truly in control. Only God can claim that kind of authority. All we can do is use the good sense he provides and trust him to guide us.
Karen Witemeyer
#72. Precautions are always blamed. When successful they are said to be unnecessary.
Benjamin Jowett
#74. There is no doubt the charge was an awful gamble and that no normal precautions were possible. The issue as far as I was concerned had to be left to Fortune or to God - or to whatever may decide these things. I am content and shall not complain.
Winston Churchill
#75. step between the gateposts of the forest with the greatest trepidation and infinite precautions, for if you stray from the path for one instant, the wolves will eat you. They are grey as famine, they are as unkind as plague. The
Angela Carter
#76. When everyone feels that risks are at their minimum, over-confidence can take over and elementary precautions start to get watered down.
Ian Macfarlane
#77. Often the best tool is the most dangerous. One doesn't hesitate to use it on that account; one merely makes sure to take adequate precautions.
Diana Gabaldon
#78. precautions are expensive, either in terms of actual costs for safety or opportunity costs for risks that you could have taken but didn't.
M.E. Thomas
#79. The precautions of nervous people re infectious, and persons of a like temperament are pretty sure, after a time, to imitate them.
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
#80. You can take all the precautions in the world and worry yourself like crazy, but each individual comes to this world with a life to live, no matter how long or how good or how scary it might be.
Barbara Freethy
#81. Victory awaits him, who has everything in order - luck we call it. Defeat is definitely due for him, who has neglected to take the necessary precautions - bad luck we call it
Roald Amundsen
#82. Now, therefore, the Directors of the company are hereby ordered to see that precautions are taken to make travel on said railroad perfectly safe by using a screw with at least twenty-four inches diameter.
Joshua A. Norton
#83. learn the lessons before they are over. Life is a composition of series and sequence of lessons. Each lesson comes with its own lessons to learn. our failure to learn the lessons of one shall be the reasons to learn another lesson with similar lessons.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
