Charlaine Harris Quotes

Security theater is the idea of putting on a big show of security in order to make people feel safe. That's why the TSA screens everything and takes your stuff away.

And the most dangerous place on earth - Is where you’re safe.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

Routine feeds the illusion of safety.

The seduction of safety is always more dangerous than the illusion of uncertainty.

Average feels safe but it's not. It's invisible.

Some people think the Nobel Prize makes you bullet-proof. I never had that illusion.

The goal of security is common to all human beings; but some of them mistake the direction in which security lies.

It's really easy sometimes to get comfortable on a set and get into the groove and think it's all make-believe so nothing bad can happen.

Lies are a little fortress; inside them you can feel safe & powerful.

Dangerous he who thinks it safe to die!

We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.

What people mistook for safety was in fact captivity.

Our ignorance allowed us to live, as you are in the mountains, and your rope is frayed and about to break, but you don't know it and feel safe.

'Safety', the wife of Pablo said. 'There is no such thing as safety. There are so many seeking safety here now that they make a great danger. In seeking safety now you lose all.'

To try to be safe everywhere is to be strong nowhere.

We take our vitamins, we go to exercise class, we put on our seat belts. And then something blindsides us and gives the lie to our carefully constructed facade of safety.

safety and love are both illusions!

There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by hiding behind the wagon-wheels of pacific theories.

What looked safe was not safe. What looked hard and unsafe was probably safer. Anyway, safe was somewhere else in the world.

Her vulnerability is open, but she’s safe within it.

Privilege and complacency paralyze me with fear sometimes. But the less vulnerable we are because of privilege, the country we're born in, or the security we enjoy, the more vulnerable our souls are to apathy.

Our default faith mode is to trust, above all things, our own ability to create a safe, controllable, predictable world.

Living safely is dangerous.

Nothing is really 'safe'.