Quotes About Safety Nets

#1. There are no safety nets on this ride. Your only insurance policy is to go sell something. If

Darren Hardy

#2. They never leave home without their safety nets and I think, good for them, but the thing with safety nets is this. I got tangled in them so many times and the Stella girls always seemed to leave me dangling, upside down, to the point where I almost couldn't breathe anymore. So I dance.

Melina Marchetta

#3. We've all done this - created our mix-and-match families, our homemade safety nets.

David Levithan

#4. Safety nets for the poor and disadvantaged are a must for any compassionate nation, but encouraging folks to go on the dole when not absolutely necessary is disgraceful.

Bill O'Reilly

#5. Hospitality, or flinging wide the door to friends and wayfarers alike, was once important, back in a world without motels or safety nets, where a friend might find his castle burnt down or a wayfarer find bandits on his trail.

Barbara Holland

#6. This administration is cutting the programs that our Nation and its citizens need most, while dissolving the safety nets created to protect the elderly and less fortunate in this wealthy Nation.

Corrine Brown

#7. I'm a capitalist. I believe in capitalism. But capitalism only works if you have safety nets to deal with people who are naturally left behind and brutalized by it.

Thomas Friedman

#8. The action movie, the thriller and the drama all have safety nets under them. But not the horror film. The horror film can sink to an abyss far darker than the imagination can ever reach.

Marcus Dunstan

#9. The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concerns. We need to take care of the middle class and the poor in our country.

Tim McGraw

#10. Sisters function as safety nets in a chaotic world simply by being there for each other.

Carol Saline

#11. Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families.

Barbara Mikulski

#12. It's often difficult to slough off all that we've acquired, all the comforts and safety nets modern life provides for us, and realize that in those days, people were living very much on the edge - life was incredibly hard!

Derek Jacobi

#13. I am deeply inspired by the courage and achievements of young people who didn't have the safety nets I had growing up.

Michael Skolnik

#14. In a previous life I wrote the software that controlled my physics experiments. That software had to deal with all kinds of possible failures in equipment. That is probably where I learned to rely on multiple safety nets inside and around my systems.

Wietse Venema

#15. Social Security and Medicare are necessary safety nets, but they are nearing insolvency as fewer pay in, more take out, and more take out more.

Mark McKinnon

#16. Americans sometimes ask what the government does and where their tax money goes. Among other things, it pays for all kinds of invisible but essential safety nets and life belts and guardrails that are useless right up until the day they are priceless.

Nancy Gibbs

#17. Baby you're a firework, c'mon show 'em what you're worth..." ~Firework

Katy Perry

#18. Solution?"
"Stop Kavinsky."
They eyed each other.
"I don't suppose," Gansey said slowly, "that we could just ask him nicely."
"Hey, Churchill tried to negotiate with Hitler."
Gansey frowned. "Did he?"
"Probably.

Maggie Stiefvater

#19. We have a responsibility to protect public housing residents from the harmful effects of secondhand smoke, especially the elderly and children who suffer from asthma and other respiratory diseases.

Julian Castro

#20. Just remember, everything you are is ...

Reggie Watts

#21. Mother Nature was one angry slut. She'd try and kill you the first chance she got. You'd screwed with her for so long that she was happy to eliminate you.

Joseph Boyden

#22. I get very competitive, mostly in acting though. When I'm going out for a role or something, that's when I really get very territorial about things.

Molly Quinn

#23. Oliver opened the door of the carriage and found his puppets huddled together on the bench. He gestured for them to come closer. "Hurry," he hissed. "Unless you want to become as tiny as ants."
"Oliver, did you know that you have a rainbow on your head?" Andrew remarked.

Zeinab Alayan

#24. If you're unhappy whenever other people don't picture you exactly the same way you picture yourself, that's already dooming yourself to always be unhappy. No one ever thinks of us just the same way we think of ourselves.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#25. Smoking does not make one ill, but worrying makes. Drinking two pegs in the evening would not make you ill, but sleeping with tensions and worries would definitely do that.

Girdhar Joshi

#26. But belief in a system cannot be sustained for ever. Empires based solely on power and domination, while allowing their subjects to do as they will, can last for centuries. Those that try to control the everyday lives of their people are much harder to sustain.

Paul Kriwaczek

#27. In accordance with the law the death sentence was announced to Cincinnatus C. in a whisper.

Vladimir Nabokov

#28. Happiness cannot help but dance around you when you are fulfilled.

Prem Rawat

#29. Why do you fight it?" I whisper.
"Because this is wrong. I lost my head for a moment. I'd blame the alcohol but that would be a lie.

N. Michaels

#30. I'm very self-critical.

Manolo Blahnik