Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Salman Rushdie

If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail.

Thomas Guthrie

Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.

Thomas Jefferson

The elective franchise, if guarded as the ark of our safety, will peaceably dissipate all combinations to subvert a Constitution, dictated by the wisdom, and resting on the will of the people.

Thom Gunn

Thus for each blunt-faced ignorant one The great grey rigid uniform combined Safety with virtue of the sun. Thus concepts linked like chainmail in the mind.

Horace

Who can hope to be safe? who sufficiently cautious? Guard himself as he may, every moment's an ambush.

Herman Kahn

Deterrence itself is not a preeminent value; the primary values are safety and morality.

Henry David Thoreau

As if there were safety in stupidity alone

Jeremy Clarkson

All this health and safety talk is just killing me.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Persuasion occurs when trust and confidence meet belief, risk tolerance, and safety.

Jackie Stewart

It takes leadership to improve safety.

Jena Malone

We are all searching for some form of family or foundation - for a place we can feel safe and secure.

Jeff Cooper

It seems evident that the basis for civil safety is homogeneity. A culture which is socially uniform is pretty well devoid of informal violence.

Jeff Cooper

Your physical safety is up to you, as it really always has been.

Georges Danton

I have left my balls to Robespierre and my legs to Couthon. That should help the Committee of Public Safety for a while.

Jerry Smith

Safety isn't expensive, its priceless.

Jerry Smith

Don't learn safety by accident.

Hillary Clinton

You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.

Evgeny Morozov

Faster roads are not always safer roads - and virtually all societies, democratic or authoritarian, prefer safety over speed, even if many of their citizens enjoy fast driving.

Jhumpa Lahiri

On the screen I saw tanks rolling through dusty streets, and fallen buildings, and forests of unfamiliar trees into which East Pakistani refugees had fled, seeking safety over the Indian border.

Graham Greene

The argument of danger only applies to those who live in relative safety.

Gifford Pinchot

In the old world that is passing, in the new world that is coming, national efficiency has been and will be a controlling factor in national safety and welfare

Gabriel Iglesias

When you have nothing but big friends, you never get into arguments - except one. And that is, who is the biggest? I'll let you know right now, there's only one way to settle this. We all get in a bus and we go to Disney and we get on a roller coaster - whoever gets the least amount of clicks on the safety bar is the big one.

George Reisman

Under communism (socialism), there is no incentive to supply people with anything they need or want, including safety.

George Orwell

There were times when the fact of impending death seemed as palpable as the bed they lay on, and they would cling together with a sort of despairing sensuality, like a damned soul grasping at his last morsel of pleasure when the clock is within five minutes of striking. But there were also times when they had the illusion not only of safety but of permanence.

Frederick Douglass

The ballot is the only safety.

Euripides

Nothing's as good as holding on to safety.

Francis Chan

We are consumed by safety. Obsessed with it, actually. Now, I’m not saying it is wrong to pray for God’s protection, but I am questioning how we’ve made safety our highest priority. We’ve elevated safety to the neglect of whatever God’s best is, whatever would bring God the most glory, or whatever would accomplish His purposes in our lives and in the world.

Cassandra Clare

Concerned about my safety, are you? -William Herondale.

It's a convenience issue, not a safety issue.

Everything in there is old. This is a safety issue.

J. K. Rowling

I never thought I'd hear myself say it, but safety first!

Grace Napolitano

Because of my own experience with market fluctuation, I recognize the great risks one takes on investments. This converts the Social Security safety net into a risky proposition many cannot afford to take.