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Quotes about Security


Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

John Lennon

It is the fragrant lack of practicality that makes high-heeled shoes so fascinating: in terms of static mechanics they induce a sort of insecurity which some find titillating.

Stephen Bayley

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Joyce Cary

There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.

General Douglas Macarthur

Our true identity is to love without fear and insecurity. Our higher potential finds us when we set our course in that direction. The power of love and compassion transforms insecurity. -Doc Childre.

Doc Childre

A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.

Lord Chesterfield

Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.

John Maynard Keynes

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.

James F. Byrnes

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.

Daniel Webster

I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law.

Fisher Ames

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. - "Amendment II".

U. S. Constitution

Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.

William Proxmire

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.

Robert Heinlein

...I mean just these sixteen accomplishments or whatever: I mean, we've got a major rapport - relationship of economics, major in the security, and all of that, we should not lose sight of.

George Bush

Reparation for our rights at home, and security against the like future violations.

William Pitt, Earl of Chatham

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

Sir Humphrey Davy

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity; they seem more afraid of life then of death.

James F. Byrnes

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.

William Congreve

Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.

Ann Morrow Lindberg

[Long hair] is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket.

Marge Piercy

There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.

General Douglas MacArthur

No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.

Willa Cather

Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.

Edmund Burke

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature or do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

Helen Keller

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

Henry Ford

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