Top 100 Quotes About Safety
#2. They that are loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. It is probable that he who is killed by lightning hears no noise; but the thunder-clap which follows, and which most alarms the ignorant, is the surest proof of their safety.
Charles Caleb Colton
#3. I have a deal worked out with the things that hide in my basement. After I shut off the lights, I have exactly ten seconds to leave safely. I always use the full ten seconds, hoping to see a flash of movement just as I reach safety.
Fran Krause
#4. Going to college and finding a good job no longer guarantee economic safety.
Elizabeth Warren
#5. 'Intelligent Life' is kind of a companion piece to 'Safety Not Guaranteed.' Internally, it's a sci-fi romantic thriller.
Colin Trevorrow
#6. Our ferocious commitment to our children's safety and success, along with our genuine love, drives us to endure the often unhappy experience of disciplining our children.
Matt Chandler
#7. EARTH DAY reminds the people of the world of the need for continuing care which is vital to Earth's safety.
Margaret Mead
#8. Swiss cheese model' of accidents. Imagine a series of safety
Tim Harford
#9. We don't need to do anything new. We simply need to protect Social Security so that when people reach a certain age and are no longer earning an income, they have a safety net through which they are not going to fall.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
#10. The concept of safety can be really useful only if it is based on something more tangible than the psychology of the purchaser.
Benjamin Graham
#11. For some idiot reason, the idea of going into the drink with a misspelled safety device weirded Bryce out.
Harry Turtledove
#14. An investor who proposes to ignore near-term market fluctuations needs greater resources for safety and must not operate on so large a scale, if at all, with borrowed money.
John Maynard Keynes
#15. Though we are perpetually bragging of it [the middle class] as our safety, it is nothing but a poor fringe on the mantle of the upper class.
Charles Dickens
#17. ... the death of my mother was the thing that made me believe the most deeply in my safety: nothing bad could happen to me, I thought. The worst thing already had.
Cheryl Strayed
#18. Schopenhauer has a metaphor for human closeness. He writes about cold porcupines who have to snuggle up to keep warm, but if they snuggle too close they stab each other with their quills. A crowd of porcupines is constantly, uncomfortably assessing the safety of proximity.
Brenda Walker
#19. Safety is an illusion, as is faith without temptation. We're imperfect, unlike the gods, but in that imperfection we may yet make them jealous.
Ken Liu
#20. I liked stability. I liked safety. I liked traditional and I liked being on time. And this Chip with the beet-red face wasn't any of those things. I did think he was kind of fascinating, though.
Joanna Gaines
#21. For people who have for been putting their hard-earned money into the system for years, the president's idea would replace their safety net with a risky gamble with no assurance of a stable return of investment.
Grace Napolitano
#22. Your men will not take the hill if you're simply yelling commands from the safety of the rear.
Noel DeJesus
#23. For a group of people who claimed to be concerned for her safety, they did seem to have developed rather a habit of encouraging uprisings against monarchs.
Kristin Cashore
#24. Understanding is vastly overrated, but nobody ever gets enough safety.
Stephen King
#25. Immediately call on Congress to pass far-reaching industry regulation like the Firearms Safety and Consumer Protection Act ... [which] would give the Treasury Department health and safety authority over the gun industry, and any rational regulator with that authority would ban handguns.
Josh Sugarmann
#26. Our teachers are responsible for our children's welfare for the six or eight hours they are at school and we need to know without question that their safety will be paramount on the minds of teachers, faculty and volunteers.
Mike Fitzpatrick
#27. I would give up everything I have, give up all of my dreams, and taking the responsibility to make you safe by making a safety net. Only for you. Karena aku yakin, you are the one.
Nina Ardianti
#28. Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community.
George Mason
#29. A mortal parent may appreciate, in some small way, the feelings of a loving Heavenly Father. When our children come to the age when they must leave our direct care, we feel anxiety for their safety and concern that those who are to help them will not fail them.
Henry B. Eyring
#30. We just wanted to get out of there, to get away and reach our destination in safety. Nothing else mattered.
Anne Frank
#31. Spontaneous evil has its way, when the soul is fast asleep in the safety of regular moments.
Brian Krogstad
#32. We will not cut one penny from the safety net until we've cut every penny from corporate welfare.
Rand Paul
#33. In town and in country there must be landscapes where we can walk in safety, pick fruit, cycle, work, sleep, swim, listen to the birds, bask in the sun, run through the trees and laze beside cool waters.
Tom Turner
#34. The one weapon every man, soldier, sailor, or airman should be able to use effectively is the rifle. It is always his weapon of personal safety in an emergency, and for many it is the primary weapon of offence and defense. Expertness in its use cannot be over emphasized.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#35. As more and more women, men and young people raise their voices and become active in local government, and more local leaders take action for the safety of women and girls, change happens.
Michelle Bachelet
#36. His lips were soft, warm and felt overwhelmingly right against mine. I fell into it, oblivious to anything other than the safety in his touch. One by one, the senses flowed from me as he pulled them away and set them free. It must have hurt him. The senses hurt the hell out of me..
Jessica Shirvington
#37. In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#38. I realize that that's been my problem all along. Not only wanting comfort and security and safety, but looking to others to find it when I need to find it inside myself.
Carrie Ryan
#40. I know how to use the safety.-Andrea, the Walking Dead S3 finale
Robert Kirkman
#41. God descends to earth like fresh spring rain, and at every level his grace is received differently. For some it feels like love, for others like salvation. It feels like safety and warmth at one level, like coming home at another.
Deepak Chopra
#42. Strong advocacy for education, health care and worker safety will be indispensable if they are to get their fair share of President Bush's austere budget for the next fiscal year.
Arlen Specter
#43. I'm beginning to believe that the depths to which a woman could fall for Cain are endless. To a deep, dark, infinite pit with no ladders to get away, no cushions to soften the impact. No safety net. No escape.
K.A. Tucker
#44. If a man is at heart just, then in so far is he God; the safety of God, the immortality of God, the majesty of God do enter into that man with justice.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#45. The principles upon which a safety lamp might be constructed I stated to several persons long before Sir Humphrey Davy came into this part of the country.
George Stephenson
#46. As, for the safety of society, we commit honest maniacs to Bedlam, so judges should be withdrawn from their bench, whose erroneous biases are leading us to dissolution. It may indeed injure them in fame or in fortune; but it saves the republic, which is the first and supreme law.
Thomas Jefferson
#47. Religion is, in fact, the dominion of the soul; it is the hope, the anchor of safety, the deliverance from evil. What a service has Christianity rendered to humanity!
Napoleon Bonaparte
#48. War is a sociological safety valve that cleverly diverts popular hatred for the ruling classes into a happy occasion to mutilate or kill foreign enemies.
Ernest Becker
#49. Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people.
Samuel Chase
#50. It is a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.
Alan Shepard
#51. Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They've got a tough job to do to maintain public safety and hold accountable those who break the law.
Barack Obama
#52. World Government is not only possible, it is inevitable; and when it comes, it will appeal to patriotism in its truest sense,in its only sense, the patriotism of humans who love their national heritages so deeply that they wish to preserve them in safety for the common good.
Peter Ustinov
#53. Writing is very improvisational. It's like trying to fix a broken sewing machine with safety pins and rubber bands. A lot of tinkering.
Margaret Atwood
#54. Yes, yes-you will give him the earth-because you love him. Love him too much for safety or for happiness. But you cannot give to people what they are incapable of receiving.
Agatha Christie
#55. If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief.
Brene Brown
#56. You know how to shoot?"- Emma
"Yes. My dad taught me everything about gun safety. He was an expert." - Heather
"What happened to him?" -Shanna
"He was ... shot." -Heather
Kerrelyn Sparks
#57. Esther was more man than most men I know, myself included. Many of us - men and women - are extremely passive and cowardly. We don't take risks for God because we are obsessed with safety, security, and most of all, with the future.
Kevin DeYoung
#58. Could you imagine the way I felt, I couldn't unfasten her safety belt. All the way home I held a grudge, for the safety belt that wouldn't budge.
Chuck Berry
#59. The advice I give to all adventurers is to seek a place where they may sleep
in safety.
Samuel De Champlain
#60. Only one chance one bullet in the gun. This is my life and I only got one, yeah. The safety's off and I put on her. Oh stick 'em up, stick 'em up. Ready to shoot.
Nicki Minaj
#61. We sleepwalkers of the day! We artists! We who conceal naturalness! We who are moon- and God-struck! We untiring wanderers, silent as death, on heights that we see not as heights but as our plains, as our safety.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#62. The Southern character is opposed to haste. Safety is of more worth than speed, and there is no hurry.
Maria Mitchell
#63. The right of the police of Boston to affiliate has always been questioned, never granted, is now prohibited ... There is no rightto strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.
Calvin Coolidge
#64. You deserve more than just being our safety net
Robin Benway
#65. I spread the whole earth out as a map before me. On no one spot of its surface could I put my finger and say, here is safety.
Mary Shelley
#66. Whoever takes it upon himself to establish a commonwealth and prescribe laws must presuppose all men naturally bad, and that they will yield to their innate evil passions as often as they can do so with safety.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#67. You have safety and soundness as primary purpose of the Federal Reserve, the OCC, and the other agencies which control banking regulation.
Judd Gregg
#68. I tell you loneliness is the thing to master. Courage and fear, love, death are only parts of it and can easily be ruled afterwards. If I make myself master my own loneliness there will be peace or safety: and perhaps these are the same.
Martha Gellhorn
#69. The first job of the president of the United States is to protect your safety and your security and the security and safety of your family.
Chris Christie
#70. You have to look at why people come and work at Nest. Part of it is that a lot of people here already know each other, but we're also on a mission with a purpose. People are personally motivated by energy or safety.
Tony Fadell
#71. I didn't want to frighten you. I only tell you now because if you leave, I cannot guarantee your safety even with a guard posted.
Then I'll take extra care myself and rely on the Lord.
Laura Frantz
#72. He'd always had a joke for Francis in the confessional, a 'sin' that could be counted on to cause a young priest to grin behind the safety of the wooden shield. Bless me, Father, for I put tuna in the chicken salad.
Kristin Hannah
#73. People are torn between the pathetic safety of not knowing, and the desire to know.
Lawrence Thornton
#74. The cab smelled like curry, cigarettes, and body odor, and the safety glass between me and the driver had cracks in it.
J.A. Konrath
#75. She is admired from afar. These admirers court her in secret, in the safety of their dreams.
Whitney Otto
#76. When you're dealing with a very sick person and you're doing something to them, an intervention, be it a procedure or a medication, safety is critical.
Anthony Fauci
#77. How wonderful, I thought every time I watched it: to stand next to the people who knew you best and hide yourself completely. To be simultaneously secret and exposed, to be concealed in plain sight, to keep yourself safe and to deliberately risk that safety.
Lynn Darling
#79. It has from the beginning been carried on with as much vigor and as great care of our trade as was consistent with our safety at home and with the circumstances we were in at the beginning of the war.
Robert Walpole
#80. All the housemaid hopes is, happiness for 'em - but marriage is a lottery, and the more she thinks about it, the more she feels the independence and the safety of a single life.
Charles Dickens
#81. Social networking platforms like Facebook and Twitter should be urged to adhere to business practices that maximize the safety of activists using their platforms.
Rebecca MacKinnon
#83. There is no safety in regaining the favor of an enemy.
Publilius Syrus
#84. Healthcare providers will compete to offer the best record of patient safety at the lowest prices. Hospitals and patients will benefit from having accurate information about areas of excellence and areas that must be improved.
Timothy Murphy
#85. This great circle of sisters will be a protection for each of you and for your families. The Relief Society might be likened to a refuge- the place of safety and protection- the sanctuary of ancient times. You will be safe within it. It encircles each sister like a protecting wall.
Boyd K. Packer
#86. As a matter of fact I trade in accordance to my means and always leave myself an ample margin of safety.
Edwin Lefevre
#87. For some reason we human beings seem to learn best how to love when we're a bit broken, when our plans fall apart, when our myths of our self-sufficiency and goodness and safety are shattered.
Kathleen Norris
#88. My moral compass doesn't point north. It points to safety.
Jamie Farrell
#89. ... there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.
John Irving
#90. Newt spun, making her robe unfurl. "He's my familiar, bought and paid for. I can claim anything of his. Even his life." Al cleared his throat nervously. "That's good to know," he said lightly. "Important safety tip. Rachel, write that down somewhere as lesson number one.
Kim Harrison
#91. I would direct TV. That's a little different. It's more of a contained world as a director. When you're doing a film you get on the rollercoaster, you put the safety bar down and then you're gone. And it's hard. It's hard, too, as a parent, I think, because the hours are so long. It's hard.
Cheryl Hines
#93. Miller pushed her down at his feet and pulled out his small handgun. He checked the clip and then the safety and held it menacingly across his chest. He looked like a little twelve year old gangster. It was adorable.
Rachel Higginson
#94. There is no other article for individual use so universally known or widely distributed. In my travels I have found [the safety razor] in the most northern town in Norway and in the heart of the Sahara Desert.
King C. Gillette
#95. If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union, or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it.
[First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801]
Thomas Jefferson
#96. France generates a significant part of its energy requirements from fission reactors and these have achieved a perfect safety record. We build ours all differently.
Wilson Greatbatch
#97. Regarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth is sometimes perilous, naturally, since he's a high-handed old poem himself, but he's also sublime - and who goes to poetry for safety anyway.
Reginald Horace Blyth
#98. A lifetime of mediocrity is a high price to pay for safety.
Todd Henry
#99. A war is never undertaken by the ideal State, except in defense of its honor or its safety.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#100. Oh, don't be absurd, man.' The Prime Minister sat back in his chair. 'Come on. We can't just ban a thing because we can't control it.'
The minister responsible for health and safety looked startled. 'I don't see why not. It's never stopped us before.
Terry Pratchett
