The idea that public safety, the safety of the innocent, is an absolute which trumps every other consideration, is tacitly abandoned in the way we live.
Tom Stoppard
Related Years and years ago, there was a production of The Tempest, out of doors, at an Oxford college on a ... TOM STOPPARD The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation of every posit... EDWARD GIBBON I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES The things i know now, i never knew then. I wish i knew. SOTONYE ANGA What is the Other?" they ask. The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ... PAULO COELHO Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ... GARY F EVANS... Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do SOTONYE ANGA The Senate has a plan to address the public safety crisis created by a shortage of correctional offi... MIKE MORGAN The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a... JEANETTE CORON Just absolute disaster from the standpoint of public safety, the community and the county at large, ... JAMES THRASH Savor the moment. Set a goal that you value and plan the steps to of getting there in a way that you... TERENCE T. GORSKI Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON Dedication is the preparation to success! WERNER BOTHA No, of course not. But surely you know your affair couldn't go on forever." "Forever has no mea... ELLEN HOPKINS I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live. THICH NHAT HANH You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now. JAY ASHER Life is a journey, not a destination. RALPH WALDO EMERSON The only other home I can enter without an invitation, is my parents home. BEN OAK And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disp... WARREN BEATTY Everyone is the Umbrella Man and he is everyone. Every cough, sneeze, smile and wave means both ever... CRAIG CLEVENGER What's really reprehensible is that friends of the oil industry in Congress are using ... a disaster... DAVE HAMILTON To have the time to reminisce is one of the futures gifts. Don't think to much, don't live to fast, ... CALVIN WILSON We are the masters of our own destinies we shape and mould our lives into to the circumstances surro... GARY F EVANS... The secret of my success is my hairspray. RICHARD GERE Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too. PATRICK ROTHFUSS This is the wave of the future in the way of government cooperation. It's the approach public safety... BILL DWYER Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ... THOMAS HARRIS The physical agility test is pass/fail. The public safety department will administer a standard poli... BILL MERCIER The No. 1 and really, the only overriding concern was the safety -- safety for all of our constituen... JOE BAILEY Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD Those who worry stumble long The Way. Those who pray have no time to stray. ERROL ANTHONY SMYTHE If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best. ROBERT SIAHAAN Typing is the future of talking and to don't forgot and brother of feature. DEYTH BANGER His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING the ultimate protection of public safety is to cancel the flight. TOM RIDGE Being present is being connected to All Things. S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. The Senate Appropriations Committee wants to hear from the Mine Safety and Health Administration in ... JENNY MANLEY "Kindness is the flower which blooms in the garden of love and consideration." ~ Tom Baker TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN What day is it?" It's today," squeaked Piglet. My favorite day," said Pooh. A.A. MILNE Be present in all things and thankful for all things. MAYA ANGELOU Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is yo... BETTY SMITH Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, ... IDA SCOTT TAYLOR MCKINNEY Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there... ALBERT EINSTEIN The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment. LAUREN KATE Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don't rent them out to to... JERRY SPINELLI Mindfulness is like that—it is the miracle which can call back in a flash our dispersed mind and r... THICH NHAT HANH Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. These are the days that must happen to you. WALT WHITMAN If there's one thing I learned, it's that nobody is here forever. You have to live for the moment, e... SIMONE ELKELES The point is to be in the moment, not miss the moment while trying to capture it. SHERALYN PRATT We feel like it's in the best interest of the safety of the public. LAUREN WAYNE Life is beautiful. Live every day in the present. Be grateful for who you are and appreciate the wor... INDEPENDENT ZEN We don't have anything in the safety net other than welfare, which is why there's nothing else to ca... DON DRUMMOND What is in the public interest? It is in the public interest to eliminate a threat to public health ... BILL NELSON Safety is not a destination that we reach for, rather it is a retreat that we escape to. And if our ... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH There are three basic problems: how a mind can know the world of nature, how it is possible for one ... DONALD DAVIDSON The Public Safety Committee of the California Assembly is soft on crime. ASSEMBLYMAN DENNIS MOUNTJOY Your mind is a Microcosm of strength and power. There’s all the magic you need in it. When all els... CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE Were you there?” She shook her head. “No. I was here in Nain having a child.” �... FRANCINE RIVERS She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word. DIANA WYNNE JONES The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a... NEIL GAIMAN When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself. MANDY HALE We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed... JOHN H. GROBERG Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Search deep and wide, from all sphere of known and unknown cosmos, You will find many things that ha... OLUSEYI AKINBAMI Christianity is the most efficacious way of life in the world SUNDAY ADELAJA I can summarize my thoughts now by simply saying each must find his or her own Way because "the way"... ROBERT ANTON WILSON The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people. CRAIG GROESCHEL With this initiative, FDA intends to improve the way it monitors the safety of medical devices and p... DANIEL SCHULTZ Public trust is essential to public safety. MARTIN O'MALLEY At the end of the day, the goals are simple: safety and security. JODI RELL Work safety incidents, which always involve losses of human lives, attracted wide public attention. ... WU BANGGUO We're concerned for the safety of the public, especially motorists in that area. BILL BRENNAN An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now. KILROY J. OLDSTER Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer... J.R.R. TOLKIEN It's a matter of public safety and that's my understanding of why the congressman introduced it. All... CHARLES VINICK We should never as a city attempt to put profit over public safety. Public safety must be at the top... ERIC ADAMS She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl... IN THE MAKING Others attempt to live cautiously in the safety of established patterns. They do not feel fulfilled,... RANDY READ Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, wi... THE BOOK OF THE DEAD When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in t... THE WORK OF THE CHARIOT He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself LOIS LOWRY Brightness...I believe you stray into sarcasm." "Funny.I thought I'd run straight into it... BRANDON SANDERSON We can show that we can move right into an industry to fly the public at the level of safety that th... BURT RUTAN There's a lot to be proud of. Overall, public schools will see an increase; universities will see an... GREG BIRD The secret of life is not in the Die And Live, The secret of life is Don't ever lose your sense... SUSHIL SINGH Never before in the history of sports has there been such an emphasis on public safety, JIM MATHESON Life's irony;The mediocre minds are ever ready to confront a great idea in a very great way. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) We need to embrace every day and enjoy it as much as we can. KAREN TODD SCARPULLA To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r... MANDY HALE If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... It is worth noting that a wrong folkoric definition of an Inertial Frame in the Popular Science lite... FELIX ALBA-JUEZ I'm active in PAX, which is a gun awareness organization. We treat gun safety as a public health... MANDY PATINKIN Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Public safety is not just the responsibility of University Police. We want to encourage the co-produ... MATTHEW THOMAS Public safety is our primary concern, JOHN HOEVEN Mother Superior jump the gun... -The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun LAUREN MYRACLE That's it really; it's all love, whichever way you look at it, it's all love. How much you can Get f... GEORGE HARRISON
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