Safety Net Quotes

“Perceptions of unfairness operate on a continuum”
― Hanna Hasl-Kelchner, Seeking Fairness at Work: Cracking the New Code of Greater Employee Engagement, Retention & Satisfaction

“If people challenge the vagaries of life, in a world where conflicting powers are outlining our fate, it may be ill-advised to actuate wrecking high-wire acts without a safety net. If they need a new swing in their reality, they cannot count on sheer luck. Whatever their exploit may be, reflection and action must be ingrained allies, on all accounts.("Ruling the waves" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Love is a festering wound; a scab I compulsively must dig at deeper than the grave which calls me Heaven bound, for each day the Reaper comes to bury me safe and sound. Madly for it, I die...”
― The Raveness, Night Tide Musings

“We’ve all done this —created our mix-and-match families, our homemade safety nets.”
― David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing

“Guess life is really a road marked by crossroads. It's not the long and winding stretches that will hurt you the most. It's the crossroads. You make a bad choice and it's a tumble and a rumble before you get back on your feet again. But you'll get back on your feet. You'll find yourself. And then you'll be off to your next adventure (crossroads, I mean). In my case, I always had a safety net—my faith in God. But then, I'm more like the millions of simple folk who travel this world.”
― Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

“Assuming things is the equivalent of sleepwalking blindfolded on a cliff edge fully expecting a safety net to be there to break the fall should you topple over the precipice. In one moment, a leap of logic becomes a fall from grace.”
― Stewart Stafford

“The real safety net of life is community, family and nature.”
― Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason

“I believe tnat life is very generous with us once we have shown the will to take a positive course. It is ery ready to keep on opening doors for us. It is just that sometimes we lose our willpower and courage adn prefer to stay on the familiar, safe side of each door.”
― Mary Balogh, Simply Perfect

“I may have let myself go without a safety net, but in my heart I knew the universe would catch me.”
― Mango Wodzak, Discovering Eden Fruitarianism - An Autobiography - Volume One

“As above so below,
can I, with you, go? Always
to safety from Samael,
Heaven is where you dwell
and around you all stars align.”
― Lavinia Valeriana, Adrift in Acheron

“As economic inequality grew, time horizons shrank, and fewer Americans believed that the future held a better version of the present. Lacking a functional state that assured basic social goods taken for granted elsewhere - education, pensions, health care, transport, parental leave, vacations - Americans could be overwhelmed by each day, and lose a sense of the future.”
― Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

“Life brings only so much luck which when used up leaves you without a safety net.”
― Michael R. French, Once Upon a Lie

“The kibbutz experience suggests that income equality does not come for free. What you gain in a safety net, you lose in individual incentives; but if you raise incentives, inequality follows.”
― Ran Abramitzky, The Mystery of the Kibbutz: Egalitarian Principles in a Capitalist World

“I was sitting at home, well into my fifth drink, when my cousin called about Esteban. I couldn't believe it. I always knew you'd be all right because you had Esteban to take care you, just like he did me. After your mother left, he was a safety net, you know?"

Lupe just nodded into the phone. 'Safety net' was a good way to describe her uncle.

"And then it hit me: I can't assume Esteban will always be there. I shouldn't have made him your default father. Your mother isn't coming back, and it's time I stop feeling sorry for myself and step up.”
― Ann Dávila Cardinal, Five Midnights