#complacency

The United States stands with our friends in Britain as they recover from today's shock of terrorism. These barbaric acts strengthen our resolve and remind us all of the danger of complacency during our continued war on terror. ↗

— Mark Foley

#barbaric #britain #complacency #continued #danger

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#always #breath #complacency #draw #first

You need to have a redesign because familiarity breeds a kind of complacency. ↗

— Timothy White

#breeds #complacency #familiarity #familiarity breeds #kind

I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#ball #closed #complacency #corruption #democracy

I hate complacency. I play every gig as if it could be my last, then I enjoy it more than ever. ↗

— Nigel Kennedy

#could #enjoy #ever #every #gig

The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency. ↗

— Diane Ravitch

#complacency #education #greatest #greatest obstacle #hope

Complacency by the watchdogs hurts both taxpayers and beneficiaries. ↗

— Charles Grassley

#both #complacency #hurts #taxpayers

We just wanna be the happy bums that we are. That's all. ↗

— Mike Patton

#complacency #contentment #disposition #happiness #attitude

That initial anger she had felt turned to sadness, and now it had become something else, almost a dullness of sorts. Even though she was constantly in motion, it seemed as if nothing special ever happened to her anymore. Each day seemed exactly like the last, and she had trouble differentiating among them. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#loneliness #anger

The sense of security more frequently springs from habit than from conviction, and for this reason it often subsists after such a change in the conditions as might have been expected to suggest alarm. The lapse of time during which a given event has not happened, is, in this logic of habit, constantly alleged as a reason why the event should never happen, even when the lapse of time is precisely the added condition which makes the event imminent. ↗

— George Eliot

#security #change