Safe Quotes - Page 31

• AIDS had landed and I was terrified. I was very scared, just as everyone was in the '80s. It was really hard to be sexually active and to sleep with men and with women and not feel you had a responsibility in terms of having safe sex.

  Michael Stipe

  Sex, Responsibility, Sleep

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If the whole country had to have the same conversation that was safe for everybody, it would be a pretty awful place to live. There wouldn't be a conversation.

  Louis C. K.

  Country, Awful, Would Be

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• We're disappointed because you think the neighborhood is safe, it's very quiet here.

  Elizabeth Oakes Smith

  Thinking, Quiet, Neighborhood

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• US has to be able to rely on a safe and interconnected internet in order to compete with other countries.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Order, Able

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There are cyber threats out there, this is a dangerous world, and we have to be safe, we have to be secure no matter the cost.

  Edward Snowden

  Dangerous World, Cost, Matter

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I barely trust established sources of information. I have a hard time finding [Wikipedia], an encyclopedia that anyone can alter, to be a safe way to learn about anything except how many idiots think their opinions are a suitable substitute for facts.

  R. K. Milholland

  Hard Times, Thinking, Wikipedia

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• It seems safe to look forward to the time when the conception of attractive and repulsive forces, having served its purpose as a useful piece of scientific scaffolding, will be replaced by the deduction of the phenomena known as attraction and repulsion, from the general laws of motion.

  Thomas Huxley

  Law, Looks, Purpose

  "The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century" by Thomas Henry Huxley, 1889.

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• His frustration running very high, he takes it out on the ones he loves because it's safe.

  John Mellencamp

  Running, Revenge, Love Is

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• England is safe, if true within itself.

  William Shakespeare

  England, Ifs

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.482

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• Criticism can bother you, but you should be more bothered if there’s no criticism. That means you’re too safe

  Kanye West

  Mean, Criticism, Should

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• Once you lose attachment to how you want things to be because you realize you don't control anything, there's a curiously liberating aspect of that. I've always been a control freak, I've always felt that if I try hard enough, everyone I love will be kept safe and everything will be okay. Being shown, in such brutal terms, that that's simply not the way it works, in someways, it messed me up.  I've been through hell, but on another level, if you pile up so much tragedy, it either destroys you, or you just start laughing about it. Because at the end of the day, no one gets out alive.

  Daniele Bolelli

  Attachment, Laughing, Trying

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• The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation, and the credit of truth and honesty is as safe; nor have I any fear that a skeptical bias can be given by leaning hard on the sides of fate, of practical power, or of trade, which the doctrine of Faith cannot down-weigh.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Faith, Truth, Honesty

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.107, Harvard University Press

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• My safe, safe psychosis is broken.
  It was hard.
  It was made of stone.
  It covered my face like a mask.
  But it has cracked.

  Anne Sexton

  Psychosis, Broken, Stones

  Anne Sexton (1978). “Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Prohibiting guns on campus made the Virginia Tech students less safe, not more.

  Ron Paul

  Gun, Virginia, Students

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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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• Customers must be delicately angled for at a safe distance - show yourself too much, and, like trout, they flashed away.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Distance, Shopping, Trout

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• Lies are a little fortress; inside them you can feel safe and powerful. Through your little fortress of lies you try to run your life and manipulate others. But the fortress needs walls, so you build some. These are the justifications for your lies. You know, like you are doing this to protect someone you love, to keep them from feeling pain. Whatever works, just so you feel okay about the lies.

  William P. Young

  Running, Wall, Pain

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• It would be an unspeakable advantage, both to the public and private, if men would consider that great truth, that no man is wise or safe but he that is honest.

  Walter Raleigh

  Wise, Honesty, Men

  Sir Walter Raleigh (1829). “The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: Miscellaneous works”, p.297

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• That cannot be safe which is not honourable.

  Tacitus

  Cornelius Tacitus (1873). “The History of Tacitus”, p.17, London : Macmillan

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• Busy editors cannot be expected to put on their posters, "Mr. Wilkinson Still Safe," or "Mr. Jones, of Worthing, Not Dead Yet." They cannot announce the happiness of mankind at all. They
  cannot describe all the forks that are not stolen, or all the marriages that are not judiciously dissolved. Hence the complex picture they give of life is of necessity fallacious; they can
  only represent what is unusual.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Editors, Giving, Life Is

  "The Ball and the Cross". Book by G. K. Chesterton, 1909.

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• By and by when each nation has 20,000 battleships and 5,000,000 soldiers we shall all be safe and the wisdom of statesmanship will stand confirmed.

  Mark Twain

  Soldier, Nations, Statesmanship

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.456, Courier Corporation

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• Poverty, we may say, surrounds a man with ready-made barriers, which if they do mournfully gall and hamper, do at least prescribe for him, and force on him, a sort of course and goal; a safe and beaten, though a circuitous, course. A great part of his guidance is secure against fatal error, is withdrawn from his control. The rich, again, has his whole life to guide, without goal or barrier, save of his own choosing, and, tempted, is too likely to guide it ill.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life, Men, Errors

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.406, Cambridge University Press

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• The man of large and conspicuous public service in civil life must be content without the Presidency. Still more, the availability of a popular man in a doubtful State will secure him the prize in a close contest against the first statesman of the country whose State is safe.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Country, Men, Availability

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• Respect is the lifeblood of progress, and the safe harbor of humanity's great aspirations.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Humanity, Progress, Harbors

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• You know if you pick up a beach read, you're excused from the problems in your own life and safe in a world with conflicts you understand, and you know you will get a happy ending.

  Nancy Thayer

  Life, Beach, World

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