Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mary Doria Russell

Tradition was safety; change was danger.

Pope Benedict XVI

The capacity to accept suffering for the sake of goodness, truth and justice is an essential criterion of humanity, because if my own well-being and safety are ultimately more important than truth and justice, then the power of the stronger prevails, then violence and untruth reigns supreme.

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?

Thomas S. Monson

The temples are a refuge from life's storms even a never-failing beacon guiding us to safety.

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.

Virgil

The only safety for the conquered is to expect no safety.

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.

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.

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.

Mike Johanns

Food safety involves everybody in the food chain.

Pearl S. Buck

He was part of a whole, a people scattered over the earth and yet eternally one and indivisible. Wherever a Jew lived, in whatever safety and isolation, he still belonged to his people.

Pearl S. Buck

Exclusion is always dangerous. Inclusion is the only safety if we are to have a peaceful world ...

Pema Chodron

Patience is not learned in safety.

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.

Suzanne Collins

District 12: Where you can starve to death in safety.

Soren Kierkegaard

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

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.

Robert A. Heinlein

There is no safety this side of the grave

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.

Sigmund Freud

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

Richard Attias

Africa's informal economy is one of the most innovative and inventive environments in the world. Yet it is an environment with little regulation in which workers are often exposed to hard conditions and live without a safety net.

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.

Tertullian

Fear is the foundation of safety.