Secure Quotes
1088 quotes by 856 authors
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Only if we are secure in our beliefs can we see the comical side of the universe.
— Flannery O'Connor
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Any father…must finally give his child up to the wilderness and trust to the providence of God. It seems almost a cruelty for one generation…
— Marilynne Robinson
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Come on back and we’ll see if you remember the simplest thing of all – how it is to be children, secure in belief and…
— Stephen King
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It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first.
— Jane Austen
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Every reader has found charms by which to secure possession of a page that, by magic, becomes as if never read before, fresh and immaculate.
— Alberto Manguel
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The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend…
— John Adams
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The God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Still in my coat and hat, I sank onto the stair to read the letter. (I never read without making sure I am in a…
— Diane Setterfield
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We can surely no longer pretend that our children are growing up into a peaceful, secure, and civilized world. We've come to the point where…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Angry men with pointy things sent to secure a foreign city are pretty much alike anywhere. That's what I've heard. So far nothing's convinced me…
— Sherwood Smith
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I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune…
— Eugene V. Debs
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I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me. I always feel better…
— Roger Zelazny
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My family suffered. My hair turned up in every corner, every drawer, every meal. Even in the rice puddings Tessie made, covering each little bowl…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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But wherever we are, we must all, in our daily lives, live up to the age-old faith that peace and freedom walk together. In too…
— John F. Kennedy
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Should the whole frame of nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst…
— Joseph Addison
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The way of trust is a movement into obscurity, into the undefined, into ambiguity, not into some predetermined, clearly delineated plan for the future. The…
— Brennan Manning
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In my own life, as winters turn into spring, I find it not only hard to cope with mud but also hard to credit the…
— Parker J. Palmer
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I believe in the value of the book, which keeps something irreplaceable, and in the necessity of fighting to secure its respect.
— Jacques Derrida
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We do not deny any nation's legitimate interest in security. But protecting the security of one nation by robbing another of its national independence and…
— Ronald Reagan
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Our liberty will not be secured at the sword's point... We must secure it by making ourselves worthy of it. And when the people reaches…
— Jose Rizal
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