David Halberstam Quotes

The only safety is in the middle of total misunderstanding and deception.

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

He that's secure is not safe.

The way to feel safe is never to feel secure.

As if there were safety in stupidity alone

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.

It's just harder out there in the world of the living, and we cannot protect you out there as easily. I wanted to keep you perfectly safe...But there is only one perfectly safe place for your kind, and you will not reach it until all your adventures are over and none of them matter any longer.

Those who think themselves secure are more exposed to danger than any others. The armor-bearer of sin is self-confidence .

Everything is danger, but we pretend that it's not.

What though the sea be calm? trust to the shore, Ships have been drown'd, where late they danc'd before.

'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.'

There's nothing as safe as ignorance or as dangerous.

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.

For a change, lady luck seemed to be smiling on me. Then again, maybe the fickle wench was just lulling me into a false sense of security while she reached for a rock.

Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.

People have perceived dangers and real dangers, but to politicians, it's all the same.

It's a kind of Russian roulette.

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

The world is enormously dangerous and scary. I worry very much for my daughter. I'm not sure we're in control any more, and I think the Internet is partly responsible for that.

Every time you leave your house, you've got to be prepared for what might happen.

I think six seasons are telling us one thing about 'Game of Thrones': Everyone should watch their back. No one is safe. That's what I love about the show. I love that it's so unpredictable.

Nowhere in the world is safe," Count Olaf said. Not with you around," Violet agreed. I'm no worse than anyone else," Count Olaf said.

What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.

There are no safe rooms, no safe truths, no safe secrets to tell.

Perhaps she was just looking for love in the wrong places. In all the safe places. What if love was not safe at all?