Vera Lynn Quotes

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

In war, everything changes. You are very selective of what you do because everything you do can be the last thing you do in your life.

While there's life, there's fear.

In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.

I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he's been through, never worried about it I thought it would be me.

In Afghanistan, life is so fragile; who knows what the next week will bring? That fragility really affects the way you're able to report, and the kind of stories people will tell you.

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

In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.

The way to feel safe is never to feel secure.

As soon as there is life there is danger.

Life is a dangerous thing. Insecurity is the price of living.

Life is dangerous. There are no guarantees.

It's so easy for all the success in the world to suddenly end, and I'm quite aware of that.

Life is one big minefield, and the only place that isn't a minefield is the place they make the mines.

Seldom, if ever, has a war ended leaving the victors with such a sense of uncertainty and fear, with such a realization that the future is obscure and that survival is not assured.

There are only two kinds of men; the dead and the deadly.

Even without wars, life is dangerous.

There's just no real job security when you're shooting a show about an apocalypse, and anybody could die at any time.

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.

To be alive at all involves some risk.

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.

No one in safe in 'Game of Thrones.'

With such riches as I have in life, you're always nervous. Being Irish, you're waiting for something to knock it sideways.

I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability - the uninterrupted existence of everything that I love and care about is not guaranteed at all. I wait for catastrophes.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.