Safety Quotes - Page 29

• If there is a fear of falling, the only safety consists in deliberately jumping.

  Carl Jung

  Fall, Jumping, Ifs

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• Fear is the dream killer, the silent voice that pushes us to lose our passion in a vain attempt to seek safety.

  Seth Godin

  Dream, Passion, Voice

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• Our current draconian laws prohibiting the use of marijuana by responsible adults are doubly flawed. Not only does such prohibition violate fundamental freedoms but also. . . it undermines personal health and public safety. Regardless of your views on the civil liberties issues. . .another compelling justification for marijuana law reform: that it will promote health and safety for all of us, including our nation's children.

  Nadine Strossen

  Children, Marijuana, Law

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• Mother's milk would be banned by the food safety laws of industrialized nations if it were sold as a packaged good.

  Paul Hawken

  Mother, Law, Would Be

  Paul Hawken (2013). “The Ecology of Commerce Revised Edition: A Declaration of Sustainability”, p.2, Harper Collins

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• Bailey might not have great intelligence or abilities, but his whole aim, thought and study was that of the born leader--to look out for himself; and he did it with that born-leader's confidence and intensity that draws along the ordinary uncertain man, who soon confuses his own interest and his own safety with that of the leader.

  James Gould Cozzens

  Men, Leader, Ordinary

  James Gould Cozzens (1978). “Just Representations: A James Gould Cozzens Reader”, Harvest Books

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• It turns out I had this huge geeky safety net out there that I didn’t know about this whole time, made up of people who have been reading my comic for nine years but never contacted me.

  Rich Burlew

  Reading, Years, People

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• The big difference between animal liberation activists and other so-called 'terrorists' is the targets; no innocent victims are ever targeted in animal lib campaigns. If you are not abusing and exploiting animals, there is no need to fear for one's safety.

  Jerry Vlasak

  Animal, Differences, Needs

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• While many technological measures can be taken to secure safety at nuclear power plants, such measures on their own cannot cover great risks.

  Naoto Kan

  Taken, Risk, Nuclear

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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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• Ere thou sleepest, gently lay Every troubled thought away; Put off worry and distress As thou puttest off thy dress; Drop thy burden and thy care In the quiet arms of prayer. Lord thou knowest how I live, All I'VE DONE AMISS FORGIVE; ALL OF GOOD I'VE TRIED TO DO STRENGTHEN, bless and carry through; All I love in safety keep While in Thee I fall asleep.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Love, Prayer, Fall

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The works of Henry Van Dyke”

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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 tempest was terrible and separated me from my [other] vessels that night, putting every one of them in desperate straits, with nothing to look forward to but death. Each was certain the others had been destroyed. What man ever born, not excepting Job, who would not have died of despair, when in such weather seeking safety for my son, my brother, shipmates, and myself, we were forbidden [access to] the land and the harbors which I, by God's will and sweating blood, had won for Spain?

  Christopher Columbus

  Brother, Jobs, Son

  Letter to the Sovereigns, Fourth Voyage, July 07, 1503.

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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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• Go beyond reason to love: it is safe. It is the only safety.

  Thaddeus Golas

  Safe, Reason, Reason To Love

  Thaddeus Golas (2002). “The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment”, p.104, Gibbs Smith

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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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• When I lived in New York, not only did I have safety locks on the door but I had the music going, keeping the city at a distance, trying to find creative time and peace and so forth.

  Ann Beattie

  New York, Distance, Cities

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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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• ...we feel that our honor and safety require that Ft. Sumter should be in our possession at the very earliest moment.

  Francis Wilkinson Pickens

  War, Honor, Moments

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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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• Even when adults do feel their safety to be threatened, we may not be able to see this on the surface. Infants will react in a fashion as if they were endangered, if they are disturbed or dropped suddenly, startled by loud noises, flashing light

  Abraham Maslow

  Fashion, Light, Adults

  Abraham Maslow “A Theory of Human Motivation”, Lulu.com

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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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