Nader al-Masri Quotes

My safety and my family's safety are not guaranteed even now.

So in some ways my life, my background has been isolating and I think I'm a bit more scared as a person. I don't walk alone or in the dark. If I go out the driver will wait for me to go into the house.

One of the things that's important to me as a Londoner is making sure my family, people I care about, are safe.

In 1960, it was still - no nostalgia here - an age when you could leave your door unlocked even in urban neighborhoods.

I've never been burgled. I don't quite know what I would do if it was the dead of night and there was someone in the house, and my kids were asleep upstairs.

I knew I had a chance to teach the world something that would help more people be safe.

Some nights I lie awake at night thinking, 'What's going to stop someone from smashing a chair through my window and coming in the house at two in the morning?' It is very unnerving. It's a realistic scare, which is the worst kind of scare that you could have.

Right. That’s the end of the line for you tonight. You’re going home, I’m seeing you safe inside, and I’m going home to hide in a closet until this blows over. I suggest you do the same.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

I sleep with my gun on my bedside table. I live alone; it is my protection and makes me feel safer. I have had to pull it out a few times when I have heard noises at night, but I've never had to use it.

Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house.

I'm six foot two. If I need security around me, there's a problem.

I go to the airport and I've had everything taken away from me because of the terrorists. People haven't realized yet, though, that we are at war.

Since cowardice must occur at a time and place where an enemy either has already appeared or may yet turn up, servicemen in peacetime - and ordinary civilians - can breathe a sigh of relief. If you are yellow-bellied back home, you're not technically a coward.

I never knew how protective I was until I had my own child. I'm already thinking about intruders coming into the house and what our escape route would be.

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

I've done routes where I've climbed 200 feet off the ground and just been, like, 'What am I doing?' I then just climbed back down and went home. Discretion is the better part of valor. Some days are just not your day. That's the big thing with free soloing: when to call it.

I hear that from so many different governments, people coming to me and saying, 'You should be careful'. But I don't want to go around with bodyguards.

I am an avid hunter and marksman, and I will not hesitate to shoot anyone who has myself or family in fear for our lives.

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

I don't have pets, I have two guard dogs; and I don't do my own shopping; it's a security thing.

No amount of humanitarian assistance can protect people from being attacked.

We are keeping New Jersey one step, several steps, ahead of terrorism.

I got very cross with the term, kitchen sink. It just meant that you invaded different kinds of houses, where it was very difficult to avoid kitchen sink.

We owe those people who live scared some immediate relief.... If this is really a war, let's declare war.