My number one thing? Don’t overleverage yourself. Don’t say you can do something when you really can’t.
Matthew McConaugheyIn all my wild mountaineering, I have enjoyed only one avalanche ride; and the start was so sudden, and the end came so soon, I thought but little of the danger that goes with this sort of travel, though one thinks fast at such times.
John MuirWe could definitely make a flying car – but that’s not the hard part. The hard part is, how do you make a flying car that’s super safe and quiet? Because if it’s a howler, you’re going to make people very unhappy.
Elon MuskIn crises the most daring course is often safest.
Henry KissingerSafety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to its dictates.
Alexander HamiltonHuman life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.
Edmund HillaryMission presidents hold keys of responsibility for the welfare, safety, and success of their missionaries.
Russell M. NelsonClothes if they are not well cut, you can kill nobody. A building poorly built can kill people. It’s a much more difficult work. I would not compare myself with that.
Karl LagerfeldNobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.
Edmund HillaryA financial institution has the task of taking risks, and if it’s a well run institution – say, Goldman Sachs – it tries to cover the potential losses to itself, but only to itself.
Noam ChomskyFrom the boys‘ point of view, scouting puts them into fraternity-gangs, which is their natural organisation, whether for games, mischief, or loafing; it gives them a smart dress and equipments; it appeals to their imagination and romance; and it engages them in an active, open-air life.
Robert Baden-PowellI ride my bike almost every day here in New York. It’s getting safer to do so, but I do have to be fairly alert when riding on the streets as opposed to riding on the Hudson River bike path or similar protected lanes.
David ByrneIt is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
Thomas SowellI know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone’s inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.
Matthew McConaugheyIf there’s one thing that’s certain in business, it’s uncertainty.
Stephen CoveyHe that’s secure is not safe.
Benjamin FranklinWhat we have to find is the right level of regulation of our financial system so that it has the incentive to invest in things, but at the same time, it is sufficiently regulated so it can’t get in the kind of trouble that we have seen in the past and we have seen recently.
Colin PowellI think the really good mountaineer is the man with the technical ability of the professional and with the enthusiasm and freshness of approach of the amateur.
Edmund HillaryPeople sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
George OrwellKindness and faithfulness keep a king safe, through kindness his throne is made secure.
King SolomonI like playing basketball and going to the gym. I don’t box, but I’ll ride my bike and go jogging or running in the park. Sometimes my lady and I go hiking.
Kevin HartWhatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.
Stephen CurryWhere the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
Thomas JeffersonIt is often safer to be in chains than to be free.
Franz KafkaThe whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H. L. MenckenFishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.
Herbert HooverIf you don’t feel safe as a child, you can’t learn.
Lady GagaI have often been asked what I think about at the moment of take-off. Of course, no pilot sits and feels his pulse as he flies. He has to be part of the machine. If he thinks of anything but the task in hand, then trouble is probably just around the corner.
Amelia EarhartWhich painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.
George Bernard ShawI would like to be remembered as a guy who had a set of priorities, and was willing to live by those priorities. In terms of accomplishments, my biggest accomplishment is that I kept the country safe amidst a real danger.
George W. BushThe things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
Theodore RooseveltWhat a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.
Bill ShanklyIn too much of the West, everyone wants the guarantee of safety, and never having to make any decisions.
Anthony BourdainI like to be able to wear something that is appropriate for wherever the day takes me: to work, on a hike and then out to dinner. I like to take the formality out of the day’s schedule and be ready for any off-road detour.
Matthew McConaugheyIf I wished to do something, even if I couldn’t find anyone who wanted to make the effort with me, I would go out solo climbing. I did find solo climbing very challenging and a little frightening. You knew that you were completely on your own, and you had to overcome all the problems and possible dangers.
Edmund HillaryI like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you’ve got people just streaming up the mountain – well, many of them are just climbing it to get their name in the paper, really.
Edmund HillaryLet not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
Abraham LincolnI think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.
Edmund HillaryThere is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
Charles DickensOn a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the goings-on in one’s own town.
David ByrneSomebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.
Ernest HemingwayThe Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.
Edmund HillaryWhat if others suffer shipwreck, yet none that sail with Jesus have ever been stranded yet.
Charles SpurgeonThe coward only threatens when he is safe.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIf someone attacks me, and they want to punch or kick me, I can just run away. They’re not holding onto me. I can get away from them.
Jocko WillinkLast year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.
Steven WrightThe tree I had in the garden as a child, my beech tree, I used to climb up there and spend hours. I took my homework up there, my books, I went up there if I was sad, and it just felt very good to be up there among the green leaves and the birds and the sky.
Jane GoodallI never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.
Warren BuffettWe sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
George OrwellWe’ve climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it’s a valley of peace.
George W. BushOne of the best ways to see tree flowers is to climb one of the tallest trees and to get into close, tingling touch with them, and then look broad.
John MuirMy doorman is more important to me than any head of any company. He keeps us safe.
Kanye WestIt’s going to be a season with lots of accidents, and I’ll risk saying that we’ll be lucky if something really serious doesn’t happen.
Ayrton SennaI just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.
Lady GagaThere are no small accidents on this circuit.
Ayrton SennaGolf is a good walk spoiled.
Mark TwainI really haven’t liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.
Edmund HillaryI try to encourage all my teammates, and I sure hope that some day all athletes – my kids, high school kids – get the same level of care I get. Because you can play for a long period of time without having knee replacements, without having all the major head trauma that people are dealing with.
Tom BradyWe are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.
Dan QuayleTo keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca