Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wendell Phillips

Republics exist only on the tenure of being constantly agitated.... There is no republican road to safety but in constant distrust.

Will Smith

Anything can go away. There's no such thing as safety and security. You can do things that give you the illusion of safety and security, but there's really no such thing.

Warren Buffett

The three most important words in investing...Margin of Safety.

Warren Buffett

If you understood a business perfectly and the future of the business, you need very little in the way of a margin of safety.

Joseph Epstein

Generalization, especially risky generalization, is one of the chief methods by which knowledge proceeds... Safe generalizations are usually rather boring. Delete that "usually rather." Safe generalizations are quite boring.

Rahm Emanuel

At some point, deliberation begins to look more like indecisiveness which then becomes a way of emboldening our enemies and allies and causing our allies to question our resolve. So we shouldn't let one component of this determine our national security here which depends on providing an Afghanistan which denies a safe haven to terrorists as well as stabilizing Pakistan. Those are our two national security interests at stake in Afghanistan.

We hope that all coal mines will learn from the bitter lessons these accidents have taught and will strengthen their safety precautions.

Laurie Colwin

The table is a meeting place, a gathering ground, the source of sustenance and nourishment, festivity, safety, and satisfaction. A person cooking is a person giving: even the simplest food is a gift.

Laurie Halse Anderson

There is no safer. There’s not even safe, never has been.

Tertullian

Fear is the foundation of safety.

Terry Pratchett

When Mister Safety Catch Is Not On, Mister Crossbow Is Not Your Friend.

Terry Pratchett

IT'S A SWORD, said the Hogfather. THEY'RE NOT /MEANT/ TO BE SAFE.

Terry Pratchett

What did I tell you about Mister Safety Catch?' said Vimes weakly. When Mister Safety Catch Is Not On, Mister Crossbow Is Not Your Friend,' recited Detritus, saluting.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is always safety in valor.

Sean Patrick Maloney

Whether its veterans disability claims, infrastructure projects, dam safety, or helping our farmers, what I am focused on is being useful for folks in the Hudson Valley.

Thomas a Kempis

The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly.

Samuel Johnson

The maxim of Cleobulus, "Mediocrity is best," has been long considered a universal principle, extending through the whole compass of life and nature. The experience of every age seems to have given it new confirmation, and to show that nothing, however specious or alluring, is pursued with propriety or enjoyed with safety beyond certain limits.

You are as safe with me as you would be in the Bank of England.

Vinod Khosla

If everyone played it safe, we wouldn't get anywhere.

Ron Paul

But let it not be said that we did nothing. Let not those who love the power of the welfare/warfare state label the dissenters of authoritarianism as unpatriotic or uncaring. Patriotism is more closely linked to dissent than it is to conformity and a blind desire for safety and security. Understanding the magnificent rewards of a free society makes us unbashful in its promotion, fully realizing that maximum wealth is created and the greatest chance for peace comes from a society respectful of individual liberty.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

I finally figured out that not every crisis can be managed. As much as we want to keep ourselves safe, we can't protect ourselves from everything. If we want to embrace life, we also have to embrace chaos.

Tom Rath

Employees who report receiving recognition and praise within the last seven days show increased productivity, get higher scores from customers, and have better safety records. They're just more engaged at work.

Sigmund Freud

Civilized people have exchanged some part of their chances of happiness for a measure of security.

Timothy Murphy

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.

Thucydides

For if many ill-conceived plans have succeeded through the still greater lack of judgment of an opponent, many more, apparently well laid, have on the contrary ended in disgrace. The confidence with which we form our schemes is never completely justified in their execution; speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.

Thucydides

speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.

Veronica Roth

I came here so that no one else would die. I came here to protect as many people as I could. And I care more about Tobias's safety than anyone else's. So why am I here, if he's here? What's the point?

Robert Frost

Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.

Thomas More

See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.

Rupert Grint

Well one of the times I did a stunt was in the devil’s snare room and they lifted me up on a harness and a safety rope really, really high, and they just dropped me down into the devil’s snare.

Steve King

We shouldn't turn the safety net into a hammock. It should actually be a safety net.

Stephen Coonts

A little mountain will kill you just as dead as a big one if you fly into it.

Tryon Edwards

Conscience is merely our own judgment of the right or wrong of our actions, and so can never be a safe guide unless enlightened by the word of God.