Safe Quotes - Page 26

• They are only safe That know to soothe the prince's appetite, And serve his lusts.

  Philip Massinger

  Lust, Appetite, Knows

  1626 The Roman Actor, act1, sc.1.

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• Let us build a structure of peace in the world in which the weak are as safe as the strong — in which each respects the right of the other to live by a different system — in which those who would influence others will do so by the strength of their ideas, and not by the force of their arms. Let us accept that high responsibility not as a burden, but gladly — gladly because the chance to build such a peace is the noblest endeavor in which a nation can engage.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Peace, Strong, Responsibility

  Second Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1973

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• There are no barriers to entries. Think of this as Linux in terms of software. Anyone can have part of the operating system so long as you pledge allegiance to the ideas. Previously, if you wanted to join al Qaeda, you had to travel to an al Qaeda safe haven, probably in northern Pakistan or Afghanistan. Now all you have to do is get a gun, choose a target, and carry out an attack.

  Paul Gigot

  Safe Haven, Gun, Thinking

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I am not sure that it is best for us, once safe and secure on the Rock of Ages, to ask ourselves too closely what this and that experience may signify. Is it not better to be thinking of the Rock, not of the feet that stand upon it?

  Elizabeth Prentiss

  Thinking, Rocks, Feet

  Elizabeth Prentiss (2015). “Thoughts Concerning the King”, p.47

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• It is about getting a sense of integrity about issues. That was was my enlightenment over it and knowing that I had a safe place to go to handle anything in life.

  John Travolta

  Integrity, Knowing, Issues

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• There are a great number of peoples who need more than just words of sympathy from the international community. They need a real and sustained commitment to help end their cycles of violence, and launch them on a safe passage to prosperity.

  Kofi Annan

  Real, Commitment, Numbers

  Kofi Annan's Address, Presenting his Annual Report to General Assembly, www.un.org. September 20, 1999.

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• Access to a secure, safe and sufficient source of fresh water is a fundamental requirement for the survival, well-being and socio-economic development of all humanity. Yet, we continue to act as if fresh water were a perpetually abundant resource. It is not.

  Kofi Annan

  Water, Humanity, Survival

  "Is the World Running Out of Water?". Awake! magazine, June 22, 2001.

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• The safety of our country demands an end to the doctrinaire, ineffective policies that currently grip Washington. Enough is enough! A safe America - a just America - that's what we want, that's what we need.

  Wesley Clark

  Country, America, Safety

  "Clark: Kerry Has Moral Courage Born in Battle". Speech at the Democratic National Convention, edition.cnn.com. July 30, 2004.

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• You'd better hope and pray
  That you make it safe
  Back to your own world
  You'd better hope and pray
  That you'll wake one day in your own world
  'Cause when you sleep at night
  They don't hear your cries in your own world
  Only time will tell if you can break the spell
  Back in your own world.

  Siobhan Fahey

  Sleep, Night, One Day

  "Song: 'Stay'". 1992.

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• I want to help communities put welfare recipients to work right now, without delay, repairing schools, making their neighborhoods clean and safe, making them shine again. There's lots of work to be done out there. Our cities can find ways to put people to work and bring dignity and strength back to these families.

  William J. Clinton

  School, Cities, People

  Clinton, William J. (1997). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995”, p.1413, Best Books on

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• We respect the individual conscience of every American on the painful issue of abortion, but believe as a matter of law that this decision should be left to a woman, her conscience, her doctor and her God. But abortion should not only be be safe and legal, it should be rare.

  William J. Clinton

  Believe, Doctors, Law

  Clinton, William J. (1997). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995”, p.1415, Best Books on

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• Yes, we [USA] can be safe and secure, if we stay on the offense against the terrorists and if we spread freedom and liberty around the world.

  George W. Bush

  Usa, Liberty, World

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• If skydiving were safe, the parachute center would not require you to sign a waiver.

  Dan Poynter

  Skydiving, Waiver, Parachutes

  Dan Poynter (1997). “Expert Witness Handbook: Tips and Techniques for the Litigation Consultant”, Para Pub

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• Science is conservative and one of the reasons science is conservative is science is trying to play it safe.

  Alva Noe

  Play, Trying, Conservative

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• For our country to be safe from terrorists we must stabilize Iraq and show that it can be done and take out these terrorist organizations who would harm Americans. Our freedom is at stake here.

  Kay Bailey Hutchison

  Country, Organization, Iraq

  "CNN Breaking News". Interview with Leon Harris, edition.cnn.com. August 19, 2003.

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• Are we all not, when we sit in the cinema, in the position of humans in The Matrix, tied to chairs, immersed in the spectacle run by a machine? However, a more appropriate allegory is that of the viewer himself: beneath the illusion that we "just look" at the perceived objects from a safe distance, freely sliding along them, there is the reality of the innumerable ties that bind us to what we perceive.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Running, Distance, Reality

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• The opposite of Taking A Risk is of course Playing It Safe The latter would probably be a reasonable way of life for seventy or eighty years if you had a contract to live for a thousand years. However, since you know that is out of the question, you must admit, Playing It Safe is a pretty dull way to live. Those who play it safe are generally not too exciting, in fact they would probably border on being very boring personalities. On a score of one to ten as a Risk Taker where do you stand? Add a little spice to your life today and take a risk.

  Bob Proctor

  Years, Opposites, Play

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Jul 06, 2012

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• When you approach spirituality as an adventure of being alive, you start as you would any adventure--with a sense of mystery and not-knowing. Instead of searching for answers that make you feel safe, you set out into the vastness of life and death, with a willingness to continually grow. You open up to the possibility that your ordinary life is an extraordinary adventure, and that your joys and sorrows have meaning. Spiritual practice becomes your rudder, offering direction and insight and discretion as you venture into the unknown.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Spiritual, Adventure, Offering

  Elizabeth Lesser (2008). “The Seeker's Guide: Making Your Life a Spiritual Adventure”, p.16, Ballantine Books

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• For innovators who find safe and workable solutions to global warming, the rewards will be staggering.

  Fred Krupp

  Rewards, Global Warming, Staggering

  Miriam Horn, Fred Krupp (2009). “Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming”, p.245, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Now, for the moment, we are safe. The only kind of international violence that worries most people in the developed countries is terrorism: from imminent heart attack to a bad case of hangnail in fifteen years flat. We are very lucky people--but we need to use the time we have been granted wisely, because total war is only sleeping. All the major states are still organized for war, and all that is needed for the world to slide back into a nuclear confrontation is a twist of the kaleidoscope that shifts international relations into a new pattern of rival alliances.

  Gwynne Dyer

  Country, War, Sleep

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• The developed world should neither shelter nor militarily destabilize authoritarian regimes unless those regimes represent an imminent threat to the national security of other states. Developed states should instead work to create the conditions most favorable for a closed regime's safe passage through the least stable segment of the J curve however and whenever the slide toward instability comes. And developed states should minimize the risk these states pose the rest of the world as their transition toward modernity begins.

  Ian Bremmer

  Curves, Risk, Transition

  "The J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall". Book by Ian Bremmer, 2006.

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• Knowledge is a continuous fabric, in which ideas are connected to other ideas. Reason-free zones, in which people can assert arbitrary beliefs safe from ordinary standards of evaluation, can only corrupt this fabric, just as a contradiction can corrupt a system of logic, allowing falsehoods to proliferate through it.

  Steven Pinker

  Ideas, People, Ordinary

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• A true and safe leader is likely to be one who has no desire to lead, but is forced into a position by the inward pressure of the Holy Spirit and the press of [circumstances]... The man who is ambitious to lead is disqualified as a leader. The true leader will have no desire to lord it over God's heritage, but will be humble, gentle, self-sacrificing and altogether ready to follow when the Spirit chooses another to lead.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Humble, Sacrifice, Men

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• We say that if America has entered the war to make the world safe for democracy, she must first make democracy safe in America.

  Emma Goldman

  War, America, Democracy

  Address to the Jury, delivered 9 July 1917, New York

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• Raising parent awareness on how to support their students to be safe, responsible and discerning users of technology continues to be a challenge.

  Susan Mann

  Technology, Support, Parent

  "The Global Search for Education: The Tech Report - From Australia". Interview with C. M. Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2015.

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