Its an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure. Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best. – Harold W. Dodds
Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there were, it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping its life away. – Henry de Bracton
The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun. – Ralph Nader, quoted in Linda Botts, ed., Loose Talk, 1980
Id say the best is when I was in Africa, I saw a hippo in a house. Someone had a pet hippo. And theyre meant to be one of the most dangerous animals on the planet, and they had one that was sort of just wandering in and out of their house, just sort of roaming about. – Karl Pilkington