Safety Quotes - Page 39

• Most people would say safety was my best position. To me, the biggest challenge and most gratifying thing I got out of playing football was playing corner, because it was a bigger challenge than playing safety. Playing corner provided me my biggest thrills and my biggest headaches.

  Ronnie Lott

  Football, People, Challenges

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• Free supplies and open retreat are two essentials to the safety of an army or a fleet.

  Alfred Thayer Mahan

  Military, Army, Two

  Alfred Thayer Mahan (2012). “Mahan on Naval Warfare”, p.76, Courier Corporation

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• When we walk the streets at night in safety, it does not strike us that this might be otherwise. This habit of feeling safe has become second nature, and we do not reflect on just how this is due solely to the working of special institutions. Commonplace thinking often has the impression that force holds the state together, but in fact its only bond is the fundamental sense of order which everybody possesses.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Night, Thinking, Order

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1945). “Hegel's Philosophy of right”

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• The U.S. intelligence community is palsied by lawyers. When we were going to capture Osama bin Laden, for example, the lawyers were more concerned with bin Laden's safety and his comfort than they were with the officers charged with capturing him. We had to build an ergonomically designed chair to put him in, special comfort in terms of how he was shackled into the chair. They even worried about what kind of tape to gag him with so it wouldn't irritate his beard. The lawyers are the bane of the intelligence community.

  Michael Scheuer

  Community, Special, Comfort

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• Imagine how differently American business would function were our faith in the power of goodness to replace our faith in the power of money. Huge industries would no longer make billions of dollars on activities that diminish the well-being and safety of our children, our health, and our environment, on the pretext that it's "just business." To put money before goodness is idolatry, and the laws of the universe ensure that in the end all idols will fall.

  Marianne Williamson

  Children, Fall, Idols

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• Our safety is not in blindness, but in facing our dangers.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Danger, Realism, Blindness

  Friedrich Schiller (2015). “Aesthetical Essays of Schiller: Top Classic of German”, p.114, 谷月社

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• It will be difficult to return to racing this weekend after Marco's terrible accident in Sepang but I think it is the best thing we can do to honour him,” says World Champ Casey Stoner. We know we all play a risky game and, even if compared to the past the safety of our sport is much better, unfortunately these kind of events still occur. We will go out there this weekend and try to put on a good show for all the fans and especially in memory of Marco.

  Casey Stoner

  Sports, Memories, Thinking

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• Not so deep down, we all know that safety is an illusion, that only character melds us together. That’s why most of us do everything we can (healthy and unhealthy) to ward off that real feeling of standing alone so close to the edge of the world.

  Kiese Laymon

  Real, Character, Healthy

  Kiese Laymon (2016). “How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America”, p.72, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Every step in every proud life is a run from safety to the dark, and the only thing to trust is what we think is true.

  Richard Bach

  Running, Truth, Dark

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• 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

  Law, Judging, Benches

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs Corespondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson Late, President of the United States: Now First Published the Original Manuscripts”, p.70

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• For though we are perpetually bragging of it as our safety, it is nothing but a poor fringe on the mantle of the upper.

  Charles Dickens

  Class, Age, Bragging

  "Life, Letters, and Speeches of Charles Dickens".

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• For the record, I am sticking with my claim that the simultaneous degradation of air quality, water quality, water supply, food safety, soil quality, and other environment-related variables is the main challenge to China's continued development.

  James Fallows

  Air, Water, Challenges

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• I know what my comfort zones are. But without a back-up, I will never step out of my comfort zone. I don't go bungee jumping; I won't jump from the third floor without a safety net. I don't do such things. That's not my personality type.

  Kajol

  Jumping, Personality, Comfort

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• There is no safety in regaining the favor of an enemy.

  Publilius Syrus

  Enemy, Favors

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• It is well to moor your bark with two anchors.

  Publilius Syrus

  Anchors, Two, Aviation

  "Maxims". 119,

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• 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

  Ignorant, Execution, Alarms

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• Nothing's as good as holding on to safety.

  Euripides

  Holding On, Security

  Euripides (1959). “Euripides: Electra, translated by E. T. Vermeule. The Phoenician women, translated by E. Wyckoff. The Bacchae, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Chronological note on the plays of Euripides, by R. Lattimore”

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• Obscurity often brings safety.

  Aesop

  Obscurity

  Aesop (2015). “Aesop's Fables”, p.38, Pelekanos Books

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• Safety razors make it hard to grow beards in America: America would be a better place if there were a few bearded, savage, terrible old men.

  Lewis Mumford

  Men, America, Savages

  Lewis Mumford (1979). “My works and days: a personal chronicle”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• The republic which sinks to sleep, trusting to constitutions and machinery, to politicians and statesmen, for the safety of its liberties, never will have any.

  Wendell Phillips

  Sleep, Democracy, Liberty

  Wendell Phillips (1902). “Selections from the works of Wendell Phillips”

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• Place your army in deadly peril, and it will survive; plunge it into desperate straits, and it will come off in safety.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Army, Desperate

  Sun, Tzu (2015). “The Art of War”, p.156, Aegitas

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• Strange that cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Lying, Coward, Strange

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• A hole in the ice is dangerous only to those who go skating.

  Rex Stout

  Ice, Skating, Holes

  Rex Stout (2013). “Too Many Cooks/Champagne for One”, p.128, Bantam

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• It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.

  Alan Bennett

  Taken, Civilization, Care

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• There are times when I, without willing it, mount to the height of contemplation; with my will I am drawn down from it because of the limitations of human nature and [find] safety in abasement. I know many things that are unknown to most men, yet I am more ignorant than all others. I rejoice because Christ, 'whom I have believed' (II Tim. 1:12), has bestowed on me an eternal and unshakable kingdom, yet I constantly weep as one who is unworthy of that which is above, and I cease not.

  Symeon the New Theologian

  Christian, Men, Ignorant

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