Quotes of: Security-measures Keyword

Is then no nook of English ground secure From rash assault?

William Wordsworth

Israel has an important principle: It is only Israel that is responsible for our security.

Yitzhak Rabin

In magic - and in life - there is only the present moment, the now. You can't measure time the way you measure the distance between two points. 'Time' doesn't pass. We human beings have enormous difficulty in focusing on the present; we're always thi...

Aleph

I really like the thing called friendship. And I think the most fulfilling kind of friendship is the one that you stumble quite randomly upon. Unexpected and unknown. You can learn a lot about yourself from these kinds of friendships, and some last a...

C. JoyBell C.

As we look over the list of the early leaders of the republic, Washington, John Adams, Hamilton, and others, we discern that they were all men who insisted upon being themselves and who refused to truckle to the people. With each succeeding generatio...

James Truslow Adams

Knowing that a particle can occupy two different states at the same time—a state known as superposition—and, two particles, such as two particles of light, or photons, can become entangled, means that there is a unique, coupled state in which an ...

Life

Rich Indians typically tried to work around a dysfunctional government. Private security was hired, city water was filtered, private school tuitions were paid. Such choices had evolved over the years into a principle: The best government is the one t...

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but i...

Into the Wild

If we had always thought from a so-called practical angle – we would’ve never had anything new in this world. We would’ve hidden under the security of practicality and taken no risk, we would have never discovered heart transplantation as a new...

A Maverick Heart: Between Love and Life

The name Atlantis came from an old book Victoria had never read. A lifetime residency in the ASM paradise was rumored to cost anywhere from 15 to 20 million dollars. The rich and powerful lived under the dome because they considered themselves separa...

Atlas

Arthur: What about his security? It's gonna get worse as we go deeper. Cobb: I think we run with Mr. Charles. Arthur: No. Eames: Who's Mr. Charles? Arthur: Bad idea. Cobb: The second we get in that hotel with Fischer, his security is gonna be all ove...

Inception

Do actions agree with words? There's your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words.

Chapterhouse: Dune

The problems afflicting a nation are always in equal measure spiritual crises.

Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President

Don't allow money to become the yardstick by which you measure the worth of the world around you!

Circle In the Sand

The measure of civilized behavior is compassion.

Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town

...the end of the world hasn't granted the clumsiest among us any measure of grace.

Fearless

For Chips, like some old sea captain, still measured time by the signals of the past. . . .

Good-Bye, Mr. Chips

A brick could be used to measure the speed of gravity, but an apple offers a tastier option.  

A brick and a blanket walk into a bar

Love is not measured by acts or years, but by truth between two people.

The Black Banner

Indeed, the more we find to love, the more we add to the measure of our hearts.

The Black Cauldron

It must have been then that I began to lose faith in reasonable argument as the sole measure of truth.

Bluebeard's Egg