“By 1931, after a few years' experience of flying scheduled airlines, those planes were operating at roughly 600 times the safety of the space shuttle. I look at safety not in terms of fatalities per passenger-mile, but when you get in and close the door, what is the risk of dying on this flight?” YearsLooksTermSpaceRiskDoorsDyingSafetyMilesFlyingFlightPlanesAirlinePassengersSpace ShuttleFatality Author:Burt Rutan
“Love lent me wings; my path was like a stair; A lamp unto my feet, that sun was given; And death was safety and great joy to find; But dying now, I shall not climb to Heaven.” JoyGivenHeavenSunPathFeetDyingSafetyWingsClimbsLampsStairsGreat Joy Book:The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti and Tommaso Campanella Source: The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti and Tommaso Campanella
“Are there anything more dishonourable and more coward than not marching in front of the army after taking the decision of war as a politician? Sending others for dying but keeping himself in safety is the affair of the low man only!” MenWarDecisionDyingFrontsPoliticianLowsArmySafetyAffairCoward Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“We always look at the 'Fortune ,' and we say, men in power, but we don't look at the glass cellar as opposed to the glass ceiling and say, men also are the homeless, men are also the ones that are the garbage collectors. Men are also the ones dying in construction sites that aren't properly supervised for safety hazards.” MenLooksDyingSafetyFortuneGlassesConstructionSiteHomelessGarbageCeilingsCollectorsHazardsCellarsGlass CeilingConstruction Sites Author:Warren Farrell
“The most profound question is, "What would I risk dying for?" The natural answer is "for my family." But for most of history, we didn't live in families. We lived in small communities that gave us our sense of safety and place in the world, so the natural answer would be "for my people." The blessing and the tragedy of modern life is that we don't need our community to survive anymore. When we lose that idea, we lose a sense of who we are.” PeopleWorldCommunityNaturalRiskModernDyingBlessingMy FamilyTragedySafetyProfound Author:Sebastian Junger
“The possibility of killing one's self is a safety valve. Having it, man has no right to say life is unbearable.” MenSelfLife IsDeathDyingPossibilitySafetyKillingUnbearableValve Author:Leo Tolstoy
“When I'm old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say 'wow, that was an adventure,' not 'wow, I sure felt safe.'” LifeLooksInspirationFeltInspiringBusinessPlansDyingAdventureSafeSafetyEntrepreneurWowInventorEnd Of LifeSuccessful EntrepreneursStarting A BusinessLife Well LivedI Love My LifeSuccessful Work Author:Tom Preston-Werner
“I've spent years living safely to secure a longer life, and look where that's gotten me. I'm at the finish line but I never ran the race.” RaceDyingLivingSafetyComparison Book:They Both Die at the End Source: They Both Die at the End