Safety Quotes - Page 14

• The worship of God is not a rule of safety - it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the unattainable.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Adventure, Unattainable, Spirit

  1925 Science and the Modern World.

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• He looked at their shabby clothes in puzzlement. “We were traveling anonymously for safety—” explained the magus. “But surely—” “—and then we were robbed on the road.” “Ah,” said the king, “the danger in being anonymous.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Kings, Clothes, Danger

  Megan Whalen Turner (2010). “A Conspiracy of Kings”, Greenwillow

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• A strange, warm feeling swirled in my chest, and for a brief moment, when I looked at him, I saw...safety

  Richelle Mead

  Feelings, Saws, Strange

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.88, Penguin

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• There were times when the fact of impending death seemed as palpable as the bed they lay on, and they would cling together with a sort of despairing sensuality, like a damned soul grasping at his last morsel of pleasure when the clock is within five minutes of striking. But there were also times when they had the illusion not only of safety but of permanence.

  George Orwell

  Soul, Together, Bed

  George Orwell (2001). “The Complete Novels of George Orwell: Animal Farm, Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Coming Up for Air, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Nineteen Eighty-Four”, p.1256, Penguin UK

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• [After my mother died, I had a feeling that was] not unlike the homesickness that always filled me for the first few days when I went to stay at my grandparents'' house, and even, I was stunned to discover, during the first few months of my freshman year at college. It was not really the home my mother had made that I yearned for. But I was sick in my soul for that greater meaning of home that we understand most purely when we are children, when it is a metaphor for all possible feelings of security, of safety, of what is predictable, gentle, and good in life.

  Anna Quindlen

  Mother, Children, Home

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• Kincaid, evidently exhausted himself, drew a gun, took the safety off, placed it on his chest, and went to sleep too. "It's cute," I whispered to Murphy. "He has a teddy Glock.

  Jim Butcher

  Cute, Sleep, Gun

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.2471, Penguin

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• I was looking for someplace to store all the things I was feeling - the friction, the contradictions, the unmerciful truth - but my heart, my soul, my eyes and ears and even my toes were locking their doors. They wouldn't let me in. For safety reasons. I had no choice but to throw the feelings away.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Heart, Eye, Doors

  "How to Kill a Rock Star". Book by Tiffanie DeBartolo, 2005.

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• If I could only remember that the days were not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart.

  Edmund Wilson

  Life, Heart, Fire

  Edmund Wilson (2001). “I Thought of Daisy”, p.59, University of Iowa Press

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• A heavy warning used to be given that pictures are not rigorous; this has never had its bluff called and has permanently frightened its victims into playing for safety.

  John Edensor Littlewood

  Warning, Mathematics, Victim

  John Edensor Littlewood, Béla Bollobás (1986). “Littlewood's Miscellany”, p.54, Cambridge University Press

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• Under communism (socialism), there is no incentive to supply people with anything they need or want, including safety.

  George Reisman

  People, Needs, Incentives

  "Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics". Book by George Reisman, 1995.

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• When you see the storm coming, if you seek safety in that firm refuge which is Mary, there will be no danger of your wavering or going down.

  Josemaria Escriva

  Religious, Catholic, Storm

  "Figure of Speech" by Gerry Turcotte, www.prairiemessenger.ca. May 03, 2017.

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• The negro cannot win the respect of the white people of the south or the peoples of the world if he is willing to sell the future of his children for his personal and immediate comfort and safety.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Children, Winning

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1968). “I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr”

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• I am always sorry for the Puritan, for he guided his life against desire and against nature. He found what he thought was comfort, for he believed the spirit's safety was in negation, but he has never given the world one minute's joy or produced one symbol of the beautiful order of nature. He sought peace in bondage and his spirit became a prisoner.

  Robert Henri

  Beautiful, Sorry, Order

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• An efficient militia is authorized and contemplated by the Constitution and required by the spirit and safety of free government.

  James Madison

  Government, Second Amendment, President

  James Madison (1819). “The Writings of James Madison: 1808-1819”, p.379

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• Allowing the U.N. into Iraq will demonstrate to the Iraqis that the international community as a whole is committed to bringing stability and safety to their country.

  Jay Rockefeller

  Country, Iraq, Community

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• When you have overcome one temptation, you must be ready to enter the lists with another. As distrust, in some sense, is the mother of safety, so security is the gate of danger.

  Thomas Brooks

  Mother, Temptation, Lists

  Thomas Brooks (1810). “Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices: Being a Companion for Christians of All Denominations”, p.233

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• For, what is a family without a steward, a ship without a pilot, a flock without a shepherd, a body without a head, the same, I think, is a kingdom without the health and safety of a good monarch.

  Elizabeth I

  Leadership, Thinking, Shepherds

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• Morality is nothing but a struggle for safety

  H. L. Mencken

  Struggle, Morality

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• If both the physiological and the safety needs are fairly well gratified, then there will emerge love and affection and belongingness needs, and the whole cycle already described will repeat itself with this new centre. Now the person will feel keenl

  Abraham Maslow

  Reality, Needs, Affection

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• Is love this misguided need to have you beside me most of the time? Is love this safety I feel in our silences? Is it this belonging, this completeness?

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Silence, Needs, Most Romantic

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2008). “Half of a Yellow Sun”, p.189, Anchor

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• Our mission has been the protection of the wage-worker, now; to increase his wages; to cut hours off the long workday, which was killing him; to improve the safety and the sanitary conditions of the workshop; to free him from the tyrannies, petty or otherwise, which served to make his existence a slavery.

  Samuel Gompers

  Cutting, Long, Wages

  Samuel Gompers, William Green (1921). “The American Federationist”

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• The free expression of opinion, as experience has taught us, is the safety-valve of passion. The noise of the rushing steam, when it escapes, alarms the timid; but it is the sign that we are safe. The concession of reasonable privilege anticipates the growth of furious-appetite.

  Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone

  Passion, Expression, Taught Us

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• If you give up your freedom for safety, you don't deserve either one

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Giving Up, Your Freedom

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• When pressure builds up, don't panic. Pray! Prayer is a tremendous stress reliever. It can be your safety valve.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Prayer, Stress

  Rick Warren (2008). “God's Power to Change Your Life”, p.35, Zondervan

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• Certainly all "progressive" thought, has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security, and avoidance of pain... Hitler, because in his joyless mind he feels it with exceptional strength, knows that human beings don't only want comfort, safety, short working-hours, hygiene, birth-control and, in general, common sense; they also, at least intermittently, want struggle and self-sacrifice, not to mention drums, flags and loyalty-parades. However they may be as economic theories, Fascism and Nazism are psychologically far sounder than any hedonistic conception of life.

  George Orwell

  Loyalty, Pain, Struggle

  George Orwell's review of the book "Mein Kampf" by Adolf Hitler in "New English Weekly", March 21, 1940.

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