“Independent travel does that, bringing temporarily together these wandering ships that would otherwise pass in the night. Relationships were mostly brief and sometimes downright fleeting. The barriers and masks of settled existence melted away, allowing strangers to become fast friends, if only for a day. We travellers needed that, having deliberately stepped away from the social safety net of family, school, work and community.” IfsDoeSometimesSchoolTogetherNightSocialCommunityExistenceNeededIndependentSafetyStrangerShipsWanderMaskBarriersAllowingFleetingTravellerSafety NetSchool Work Author:John Haines
“The women all had big minds because they were big animals, but they didn't use them for this reason: unusual ideas could make enemies and the women, if they were going to achieve any sort of comfort and safety, needed all the friends they could get. So, in the interest of survival they trained themselves to be agreeing machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking and then they thought it too.” PeopleIfsThinkingMindIdeasReasonUseBigsInterestAnimalEnemyAchieveNeededComfortSurvivalMachinesSafetyUnusual Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“It hit her like a sledgehammer, and it was then that she knew what to feel. A liquid trail of hate flooded her chest. Knowing that she would hate him long and well filled her with pleasant anticipation, like when you know you are going to fall in love with someone and you wait for the happy signs. Hating BoyBoy, she could get on with it, and have the safety, the thrill, the consistency of that hatred as long as she wanted or needed it to define and strengthen her or protect her from routine vulnerabilities.” KnowsFeelsWellsLongWantedHateFallWaitingKnowingNeededProtectHatredSafetyFilledFalling In LoveVulnerabilityPleasantChestsRoutineAnticipationConsistencyThrillTrailsLiquidHate Him Book:Sula Source: Sula
“Sometimes, like now, Olive had a sense of just how desperately hard every person in the world was working to get what they needed. For most, it was a sense of safety, in the sea of terror that life increasingly became. (211)” WorldPersonsSometimesHardSeaNeededSafetyTerrorOlives Book:Olive Kitteridge: Fiction Source: Olive Kitteridge: Fiction
“The crossing of space ... may do much to turn men's minds outwards and away from their present tribal squabbles. In this sense, the rocket, far from being one of the destroyers of civilisation, may provide the safety-value that is needed to preserve it.” MenMindMayValuesTurnsSpaceNeededSafetyPreservesRocketsCrossingsCivilisationDestroyersSquabbles Author:Arthur C. Clarke
“I was much more afraid in Montgomery when I had a gun in my house. When I decided that I couldn’t keep a gun, I came face-to-face with the question of death and I dealt with it. From that point on, I no longer needed a gun nor have I been afraid. Had we become distracted by the question of my safety we would have lost the moral offensive and sunk to the level of our oppressors.” FacesHouseLostLevelsMoralNeededGunDecidedSafetyOffensiveDistractedFace To FaceOppressorsMontgomery Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“I realized both the upper and lower body must be held securely in place with one strap across the chest and one across the hips. The belt also needed an immovable anchorage point for the buckle as far down beside the occupant's hip, so it could hold the body properly during a collision. It was just a matter of finding a solution that was simple, effective and could be put on conveniently with one hand.” MatterBodyHandsScienceSimpleNeededFindingsSolutionsSafetyI RealizedHipsChestsBeltsCollisionBuckles Author:Nils Bohlin
“New standards for safety are now in place and Canada has helped provide tools and techniques that were needed. Technologies like these are innovative and represent great achievements for us.” TechnologyNeededAchievementStandardsToolsSafetyTechniqueCanadaInnovativeGreat Achievement Author:Marc Garneau