Safer Quotes

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Helen Keller

Life, Nature, Men

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
Helen Keller

Long, Often, Run

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Together, Two, Difficult

I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.
Brendan Behan

Women, Men, Food

Silence is safer than speech.
Epictetus

Silence, Speech

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.
Alexei Sayle

Women, Rich, Motorcycle

Think carefully before asking for justice. Mercy might be safer.
Mason Cooley

Justice, Before, Might

At the end of the day, there is no doubt that the unique spirit embodied by this country has worked, not just to make the world safer, but to make it better.
Armstrong Williams

End, Doubt, Country

In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Great, Alone, Wrong

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.
Franz Kafka

Free, Often, Chains

For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein's regime is a better and safer place.
George W. Bush

Love, Peace, Freedom

America will be far safer if we reduce the chances of a terrorist attack in one of our cities than if we diminish the civil liberties of our own people.
Nancy Pelosi

America, Far, Attack

There are a lot of us little gypsies out there that need to go and find another place you know. A safer, healthier or just a different venue in order to develop and find ourselves. I am so lucky to live the life that I do.
Drew Barrymore

Life, Live, Different

Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you.
Frank Crane

Keep, Rules, Either

You're safer in the race car than you are in cars going to and from the track.
Mario Andretti

Car, Race, Cars

Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.
Emile M. Cioran

Silence, Cannot, Speech

If you really believe that you're making a difference and that you can leave a legacy of better schools and jobs and safer streets, why would you not spend the money? The objective is to improve the schools, bring down crime, build affordable housing, clean the streets - not to have a fair fight.
Michael Bloomberg

Money, Fight, Down

I think they quite like me when I work because I'm one of the safer directors to back, because even if my films don't bring their costs in back home, once they're shown outside of India they manage to cover the costs.
Satyajit Ray

Work, Home, Once

You are safer here tonight than you would be on the streets of any other city in the world.
Michael Bloomberg

Here, City, Tonight

Contrary to what the politicians and religious leaders would like us to believe, the world won't be made safer by creating barriers between people.
Michael Palin

Made, Between, Religious

Once the cry and the cause of a generation of progressives to make America safer, fairer and cleaner, 'regulation' is now a dirty word in our politics. Even Democrats are quick to talk about cutting regulations; Republicans hate them with - how to put it? - evangelical fervor.
Jon Meacham

Politics, Hate, America

The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.
Sally Ride

Before, Space, Accident

And to stick our head in the sand and pretend that we are somehow safer if we do not know or to pretend we are somehow safer if we limit our options seems to me not only foolish but actually dangerous.
Mac Thornberry

Dangerous, Actually, Head

The families of many athletes - incensed at the sports leagues and hoping to make games safer overall - are increasingly making the brains of players who die prematurely and suspiciously available for study. Some athletes are even making the bequest themselves.
Jeffrey Kluger

Sports, Die, Study

It is much safer to obey than to rule.
Thomas a Kempis

I don't think there's any question that America is safer as a result of the bin Laden operation.
Leon Panetta

America, Question, Result

I'm not a big fan of flying. I definitely try to take the bus whenever I can. I've gotten a little bit better about it, but it was a pretty crippling thing for many years. I feel safer in a private plane.
Martina McBride

Pretty, Try, Big

Most of all I don't want to be bored. That's why I'd rather do something that has some sort of ambition, that risks failing, rather than make safer, more comfortable choices.
Steve Coogan

Bored, Why, Ambition

And I have no doubt that the American people generally believe the world is safer, and that we are safer, when we are stronger.
Jeane Kirkpatrick

Doubt, American, Stronger

It is our job, as members of parliament, to legislate with an eye to the long term future, to look over the horizon beyond the next election and ensure that as far as we can what we do today will make Australia a better place, a safer place, for future generations to live in.
Malcolm Turnbull

Future, Today, Live

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