Henry Merritt Wriston Quotes

Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life.

There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.

There is no sure solution to some dangers.

The way to feel safe is never to feel secure.

To live in freedom one must grow used to a life full of agitation, change and danger.

Nothing is guaranteed.

There is no safer. There’s not even safe, never has been.

One thing you can rely on is that there will always be uncertainty.

There is no security in following the call to adventure.

One certainty we all accept is the condition of being uncertain and insecure.

Nothing is really 'safe'.

No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.

Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.

Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.

The roof might fall in; anything could happen.

There is nothing so uncertain as a sure thing.

He that's secure is not safe.

Our trust in the future has lost its innocence. We know now that anything can happen from one minute to the next. Politics, religion, economics, and the institutions of family and community all have become abruptly unsure.

There is no such thing as security. There never has been.

Sureness is something like a neck brace, which we clamp around our lives, hoping to somehow protect ourselves from the frightening, constant whiplash of change. Sadly, the brace doesn't always hold.

Stability is not the way of the world.

You can be on top of everything, and the next minute, you're going to be on the bottom.

It is this compulsion to look backwards at a time of crisis because one's got no idea of what lies ahead. There is a notion of security that somehow it must resemble the past. It's never going to. Just because we muddled through in the past doesn't mean we can automatically muddle through in the future.

All great changes are irksome to the human mind, especially those which are attended with great dangers and uncertain effects.