"We want to know. If we don't know, we don't feel safe, we don't feel secure."
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"I am always safe, no matter which doorway I pass through."
"No matter where I am on this planet, I am always safe."
"My family achieved success not in spite of, but because of the American system of taxation. After all, without reliable and safe roads there’d have been no Disneyland; without high functioning legal systems and a well regulated business environment there would have been no copyright protection for Mickey Mouse."
"We all need somewhere where we feel safe"
"When things mean a very great deal to you, exciting anticipation just isn't safe."
"Vigorous societies harbor a certain extravagance of objectives, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal gratifications."
"I feel like an aeroplane at the end of its flight, in the dusk, with the petrol running out, in search of a safe landing."
"I try to make computers say things like You have 60 seconds to achieve safe distance."
"Most people have bosses who hire them to fill a slot in the work chart and to do what they are told. And most people who are doing what they are told feel safe; it feels reliable."
"A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds."
"It's just harder out there in the world of the living, and we cannot protect you out there as easily. I wanted to keep you perfectly safe...But there is only one perfectly safe place for your kind, and you will not reach it until all your adventures are over and none of them matter any longer."
"Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past."
"When congress is in session no American is safe."
"The. World. Is. Not. A. Safe. Place."
"Platitudes are safe, because they're easy to wink at, but truth is something else again."
"Whatever decisions I make are going to be based first on a strategy to keep us safe and then we'll figure out how to resource it."
"A Jew who converted, who simulated, was, at least in some periods, safe. Hitler in the beginning did not want to kill all the Jews but he wanted us to have a Germany free of Jews. If America had allowed Jews to come in, the British had accepted Jews from Palestine, they were safe."
"Nobody's safe. Health insurance? That didn't protect 1 million Americans who were financially ruined by illness or medical bills last year."
"We'll always be safe in Jesus Christ if we place our faith in the Lord."