#secure

In February I secured permission to enter Osama bin Laden's compound in the northern Pakistani city of Abbottabad, where he was killed and where he had lived for the last half-decade of his life; the first, and only, journalist to do so. ↗

— Peter L. Bergen

#city #compound #enter #february #first

Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture. ↗

— Amos Bronson Alcott

#appear #center #children #complete #embraces

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#good #happiness #man #own #secured

The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past. ↗

— Isaiah Berlin

#certainties #childhood #craving #desire #eternal

We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#fortune #greater #look #may #otherwise

We favor the economic unification of Germany. If complete unification cannot be secured, we shall do everything in our power to secure the maximum possible unification. ↗

— James F. Byrnes

#complete #economic #everything #favor #germany

There is nothing more important than a good, safe, secure home. ↗

— Rosalynn Carter

#good #important #more #nothing #safe

We proved we could be safe and secure at home, and still have more allies and friends in the world. ↗

— Chelsea Clinton

#could #friends #home #more #proved

If you need to put your money in a safe and secure place and you want it to earn interest, Treasury bonds are safer than putting it in any bank as a deposit or putting it anywhere else, because they are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States Government. ↗

— Jim Cooper

#anywhere #backed #bank #because #bonds

It would appear that the number of nonsense triplets is rather low, since we only occasionally come across them. However this conclusion is less secure than our other deductions about the general nature of the genetic code. ↗

— Francis Crick

#across #appear #code #come #conclusion