Secure Quotes - Page 6

• Insecurity is the result of trying to be secure.

  Alan Watts

  Insecurity, Trying, Results

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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• Repetition makes us feel secure and variation makes us feel free.

  Robert Hass

  Variation, Repetition, Feels

  Robert Hass (1984). “Twentieth century pleasures: prose on poetry”, Ecco Pr

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• Women have a better chance to secure freedom and protect themselves from violence, from abuse, from injustice, if they are well-educated and know their rights.

  Laura Bush

  Rights, Abuse, Violence

  "A Conversation With Laura Bush: “Education Is The Key”". Interview with Kevin M. Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2012.

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• The more Dad and Mom love each other, the more secure their children will feel.

  Jay Strack

  Mom, Children, Dad

  Jay Strack (1989). “Dad, Do You Love Mom?”, Thomas Nelson Publishers

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• Whoever has the desire to pursue philosophy correctly should look to Nature's Archetype in every matter, so that by taking up Ariadne's thread in her intricate labyrinth he may keep himself safe and secure from wrong turns and deviant paths.

  Athanasius Kircher

  Philosophy, Labyrinth, Desire

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• Only foolish people are completely secure.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  People, Foolish

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• Promiscuity does not scare me as long as she is savvy and self possessed when puberty comes to call. My aim is to simply raise my daughter to be secure in her self worth and capable of happiness all on her own.

  Ani DiFranco

  Daughter, Self Worth, Long

  "Interview With Ani Difranco". Interview with Mary Ann Rossoni, get-ri.com. September 1, 2015.

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• A nation with a strong defence industry will not only be more secure. It will also reap rich economic benefits - it can boost investment, expand manufacturing, support enterprise, raise the technology level and increase economic growth in the country.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Strong, Technology

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• Political freedom is, or ought to be, the best guaranty for the safety and continuance of spiritual, mental, and civil freedom. It is the combination of numbers to secure the liberty to each one.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Spiritual, Numbers, Safety

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• Now is the time... if you want to make a difference in the world, now is the time. Don't be fooled into thinking you should wait until you are older or wiser or more secure because it doesn't work that way. The wisdom will come. The security will come. But first you must begin.

  Ron Atchison

  Motivational, Thinking, Differences

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• Whether we had a (good) moral intuition more developed, we would be as much morally disgusted by the rapacity of those who try to benefit from, and monopolize (or secure or corner), having no consideration (regardless or irrespective of) for others ("autrui", Fr.), than we physically are by a sickening (or nauseating) smell.

  African Spir

  Smell, Intuition, Trying

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 43), 1937.

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• When you're comfortable and secure, it's not enough. The mind doesn't stop there because it has to continue to focus itself as this body, so it moves to pleasure. And pleasure really is a non-existent thing. When we're experiencing pleasure, we're trying to hold onto it as it leaves, so it really isn't pleasure. Pleasure is pain because we're grasping.

  Byron Katie

  Pain, Moving, Focus

  "Doing the Work". Interview with Melissa Bond, www.catalystmagazine.net. April 30, 2007.

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• The idea that you're going have zero people crossing the border is unrealistic. But today we know that's not the case. Today we know we've got a porous border and people are coming in, and we don't know who they are. So secure the border then we can have a conversation about it.

  Rick Perry

  Zero, Ideas, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Let the free people of the world know that we could have bargained over and sold out our cause in return for a personal secure and stable life. We received many offers to this effect but we chose to be at the vanguard of the confrontation as a badge of duty and honour.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  People, Return, Causes

  "Gaddafi website publishes 'last will' of Libyan ex-leader". www.bbc.com. October 23, 2011.

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• All I care about is making sure that I leave behind an America that is stronger, more prosperous, more stable, more secure than it was when I came into office and that's going to continue to drive me.

  Barack Obama

  America, Office, Stronger

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. December 30, 2012.

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• There is no good government but what is republican. That the only valuable part of the British constitution is so; for the true idea of a republic is "an empire of laws, and not of men." That, as a republic is the best of governments, so that particular arrangement of the powers of society, or in other words, that form of government which is best contrived to secure an impartial and exact execution of the law, is the best of republics.

  John Adams

  Men, Law, Ideas

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• Wisdom and virtue are by no means sufficient, without the supplemental laws of good-breeding, to secure freedom from degenerating into rudeness, or self esteem from swelling into insolence. A thousand incivilities may be committed, and a thousand offices neglected. without any remorse of conscience, or reproach from reason.

  Samuel Johnson

  Self Esteem, Mean, Law

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay”, p.459

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• Nothing secure unlesse suspected.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.367

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• Do you know what Agelisas said, when he was asked why the great city of Lacedomonie was not girded with walls? Because, pointing out the inhabitants and citizens of the city, so expert in military discipline and so strong and well armed: "Here," he said, "are the walls of the city," meaning that there is no wall but of bones, and that towns and cities can have no more secure nor stronger wall than the virtue of their citizens and inhabitants.

  Francois Rabelais

  Strong, Wall, Military

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• Rulers who wished to subvert the public liberty, may have found an established Clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just Government instituted to secure & perpetuate it needs them not.

  James Madison

  Government, Atheism, Liberty

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• I'd just like to retire quietly with dignity, secure in the knowledge that no more comedies will ever be made now that I'm gone.

  Megan Mullally

  Gone, Comedy, Dignity

  Source: www.elle.com

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• In that sweet mood when pleasure loves to pay
  Tribute to ease; and, of its joy secure,
  The heart luxuriates with indifferent things,
  Wasting its kindliness on stocks and stones,
  And on the vacant air.

  William Wordsworth

  Sweet, Nature, Heart

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.143

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• We believe that our truly urgent need is to make our nation secure, our economy strong and our dollar sound. For every American this matter of the sound dollar is crucial. Without a sound dollar, every American family would face a renewal of inflation, an ever-increasing cost of living, the withering away of savings and life insurance policies.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Strong, Believe, Cost Of Living

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• Free from public debt, at peace with all the world, and with no complicated interests to consult in our intercourse with foreign powers, the present may be hailed as the epoch in our history the most favorable for the settlement of those principles in our domestic policy which shall be best calculated to give stability to our Republic and secure the blessings of freedom to our citizens.

  Andrew Jackson

  Blessing, Giving, Principles

  Andrew Jackson (1837). “Messages ...: With a Short Sketch of His Life”, p.289

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• Since man created government to help secure and safeguard [inalienable] rights [from God], it follows that man is superior to government and should remain master over it, not the other way around.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Men, Rights, Way

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