Safety proverbs

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◆ If I have to beat you up to keep you safe, that's just what I'll do. It's this kind of regard for others that makes me believe I'd be a good politician.

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ He's not safe, but he's good (referring to Aslan, the Lion, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)

- C.S. Lewis99

◆ Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.

- James Baldwin99

◆ The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.

- Sun Tzu99

◆ The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

- Maya Angelou99

◆ And books, they offer one hope -- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.

- Anne Rice99

◆ I finally figured out that not every crisis can be managed. As much as we want to keep ourselves safe, we can't protect ourselves from everything. If we want to embrace life, we also have to embrace chaos.

- Susan Elizabeth Phillips99

◆ I thought at the time that I couldn't be horrified anymore, or wounded. I suppose that's a common conceit, that you've already been so damaged that damage itself, in its totality, makes you safe.

- Lionel Shriver99

◆ Her scent blazed in my throat and I was glad. It was a pain that meant she was alive. As long as I burned, she was safe.

- Stephenie Meyer99

◆ she, with her affection and her gaiety, had been largely responsible for him having rediscovered the meaning of life, her love had driven him to the far corners of the Earth, because he needed to be rich enough to buy some land and live in peace with her for the rest of their days. It was his utter confidence in this fragile creature, that had made him fight with honor, because he knew that after a battle he could forget all the horrors of war in her arms, and that, despite all the women he had known, only there in her arms could he close his eyes and sleep like a child.

- Paulo Coelho99

◆ People often believed they were safer in the light, thinking monsters only came out at night. But safety – like light – is a fa?ade.

- C.J. Roberts99

◆ War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is much worse. When a people are used as mere human instruments for firing cannon or thrusting bayonets, in the service and for the selfish purposes of a master, such war degrades a people. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their free choice, — is often the means of their regeneration. A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever-renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.

- John Stuart Mill99

◆ When a man touches a woman's body, he is not just touching her body. It goes MUCH DEEPER than that for a woman. He is touching parts of her soul-parts as diverse as how she feels about being a grandmother some day, to what is her favorite ice cream, to how much she loves her pet, and to her opinion of how the current President is governing. The man wants a sexual encounter and love is far from his mind; she desires permanence, commitment, safety, and security.

- Jim Anderson99

◆ If you were my child, I would staple you to your bedroom wall.

- Myra McEntire99

◆ For now, I just want things all safe and familiar. My life may not be perfect, but it is what I have known.

- Ann M. Martin99