Secure Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• Only foolish people are completely secure.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  People, Foolish

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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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• We are a people of faith. We have been so secure in that faith that we have enshrined in our Constitution protection for people who profess no faith. And good for us for doing so. That is what the First Amendment is all about.

  William J. Clinton

  People, Firsts, Constitution

  William J. Clinton “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, William J. Clinton, 1993, Bk. 2, August 1 to December 31, 1993”, Government Printing Office

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• When we feel that we lack whatever is needed to secure someone else's esteem, we are very close to hating him

  Luc de Clapiers

  Hate, Needed, Feels

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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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• We National Socialists must hold unflinchingly to our aim in foreign policy, namely to secure for the German people the land and soil to which they are entitles on this earth. And this action is the only one which, before God and or German posterity, would make any sacrifice of blood seem justified: before God, since we have been put on this earth with the mission of eternal struggle for our daily bread.

  Adolf Hitler

  Struggle, Sacrifice, Land

  Adolf Hitler (1943). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The most difficult of enterprises is to secure the cooperation of others in enterprises those others did not think of first.

  Murray Leinster

  Thinking, Firsts, Cooperation

  Murray Leinster (2002). “Med Ship”, Baen Books

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• In trans-border relations, there are no permanent friends or permanent enemies or even permanent borders. There are only permanent interests and everything should be done to secure these interests.

  Chanakya

  Enemy, Borders, Done

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• I believe only a free society can ever be truly secure. The goal should be to make terrorists feel threatened, not the American people.

  Ron Paul

  Believe, Goal, People

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• Executives and studios really like to have control over their product. They panic or they're not secure enough to trust in the powers of really amazing improv people.

  Harland Williams

  People, Panic, Enough

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I have found that the characters in my novels stay with me after a book has ended. I know them in some sense. I never map anything out. I just think until I am secure in the voice of one of them, and then let the character unfold.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Book, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• What I have learned from studying counterfactual history is that the law of unintended consequences always kicks in no matter how secure you are in your plan. We have to live with the historical record as it is, like it or not.

  Gavriel David Rosenfeld

  Law, Historical, Records

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I want to keep everyone happy but at the same time I also have to be confident with what I'm putting out and be secure with it.

  Jesse McCartney

  Want, Be Confident

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I don't need an overpowering, powerful, rich man to feel secure. I'd much rather have a man who is there for me, who really loves me, who is growing, who is real.

  Bianca Jagger

  Powerful, Real, Men

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• I run each day to preserve the self I attained the day before and to secure the self yet to be.

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Self, Each Day

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• [Congress] and their cronies secure more than one hundred billion dollars in corporate welfare

  Lawrence Lessig

  Dollars, Welfare, Cronies

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• One can't found a novel theology on Nothing, and nothing is so secure a foundation as a contradiction. Look at the great successes of the past--they say their deities are the masters of all the universes, and yet that they require grandmothers to defend them, as if they were children frightened by poultry. Or that the authority that punishes no one while there exists a chance for reformation will punish everyone when there is no possibility anyone will become the better for it.

  Gene Wolfe

  Children, Grandmother, Past

  Gene Wolfe (1994). “Shadow & Claw: The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'”, p.57, Macmillan

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• I stand upon a block of stillness. It is more secure than any sidewalk. I bring with me my own sidewalk.

  Jane Roberts

  Block, Sidewalk, My Own

  Jane Roberts (2013). “The “Unknown” Reality: Volume Two: A Seth Book in Two Volumes”, p.477, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• I started feeling secure in every way once I began to accept myself the way I was. Whether that was emotional, financial or professional security, all of it came and embraced me because I embraced myself.

  Vidya Balan

  Emotional, Feelings, Way

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• I feel comfortable working with people who are secure in themselves and confident in what they do.

  Romany Malco

  People, Feels, Comfortable

  "Romany Malco Chats w/ S&A About “Think Like A Man,” Picking Projects, Black Cinema & More!". Interview with Vanessa Martinez, www.indiewire.com. May 7, 2012.

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• People have to decide, first of all, how they'd like to live, and how secure they want to be from disaster. After that, scientists can help determine what would be necessary to achieve that.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  People, Would Be, Want

  "Q&A: Paul Ehrlich". Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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• More and more families today are sending both parents into the workforce - t's become the norm, it's what we now expect. The overwhelming majority of us do it because we think it will make our families more secure. But that's not how things have worked out.

  Amelia Warren Tyagi

  Thinking, Parent, Majority

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• My goal is not to eliminate jobs but to secure jobs by increasing production volume.

  Martin Winterkorn

  Jobs, Goal, Volume

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• If the conflict in Lebanon continues, the risk of attacks will grow. This is why we must contribute to a joint (international) responsibility and help secure peace in Lebanon.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Responsibility, Risk, Lebanon

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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