Josh Billings Quotes

All that I am hangs by a thread tonight

The way to feel safe is never to feel secure.

Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

Fear is the foundation of safety.

He that's secure is not safe.

No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.

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

Producers get very jittery about things.

But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong.

Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.

Just remember...you are the one with everything to lose.

I was also ready to believe, though, that whatever good things I had managed to set upright could topple at any second.

The personal threat is something that's always been a part of our lives.

I'm scared of everything. I think it's only sensible to be that way.

I think you realise how terrifying and scary the world is when you're bringing kids into it.

Every time I put on high heels, I think: 'Well, I'll fall over today.' Almost always, I don't. Almost. But all high-heel-wearing women live in constant peril.

I think that as you get older, you become aware of everything that could go wrong.

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.

I worry about the many things that could happen to the people I love.

Running at night used to frighten me. Part of it was simply safety, the question of whether level ground would truly appear under each tentative footstep, and whether the temporary but complete blindness suffered while running toward headlights was, in fact, concealing death.

The truth is this is a very dangerous world.

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

There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.