Safe Quotes - Page 12

• If you wanted a safe job, go sell shoes. This is a tough business.

  Chuck Hagel

  Jobs, Shoes, Tough

  "Hagel Ponders White House Run As War Criticism Raises His Profile". www.washingtonpost.com. January 26, 2007.

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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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• The only safe enemy was a headless enemy.

  Robert E. Howard

  Enemy, Headless

  Robert E. Howard (2016). “Jewels of Gwahlur”, p.37, Robert E. Howard

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• The techno-industrial system is exceptionally tough due to its so-called "democratic" structure and its resulting flexibility. Because dictatorial systems tend to be rigid, social tensions and resistance can be built up in them to the point where they damage and weaken the system and may lead to revolution. But in a "democratic" system, when social tension and resistance build up dangerously the system backs off enough, it compromises enough, to bring the tensions down to a safe level.

  Theodore Kaczynski

  Levels, May, Resistance

  "Hit Where It Hurts" by Theodore Kaczynski, "Why The System Is Tough", point 4, 2002.

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• I want to be the surgeon who cuts you open Who fixes all of life's mistakes I want to be the house that you were raised in The only place where you feel safe. I wanna be a shower in the morning That wakes you up and makes you clean I know I'm just the weather against your window As you sleep through a winter's dream

  Conor Oberst

  Dream, Morning, Mistake

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• Well, it's always, though, safer in politics to avoid risk, to just kind of go along with the status quo. But I didn't get into government to do the safe and easy things. A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not why the ship is built. Politics isn't just a game of competing interests and clashing parties. The people of America expect us to seek public office and to serve for the right reasons. And the right reason is to challenge the status quo and to serve the common good.

  Sarah Palin

  Party, Government, Games

  Sarah Palin's speech as Running Mate of John McCain in Dayton, Ohio, www.washingtonpost.com.

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• I think the theatre is as essential to civilization as safe, pure water.

  Vanessa Redgrave

  Thinking, Civilization, Water

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• I grew up in the Valley, and I didn't know any of our neighbors. I think when you grow up like that, there's always sort of a fantasy of a place where everybody knew each other, and you had that safe sort of feeling.

  Amy Sherman-Palladino

  Growing Up, Thinking, Feelings

  "Job Title: The 'Gilmore' Noodge". Interview with Virginia Heffernan, www.nytimes.com. January 23, 2005.

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• The real bug here is that the design of the system even permits this class of bug. It is unconscionable that someone designing a critical piece of security infrastructure would design the system in such a way that it does not fail safe.

  Jamie Zawinski

  Real, Class, Design

  "The awful thing about getting it right the first time is that nobody realizes how hard it was". www.jwz.org. April 27, 2014.

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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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• You're safe only when you can't see anybody.

  Gao Xingjian

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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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• You're a big boy, you ought to understand that punctual transport, public order and safe streets, polite people and good medical services are all the achievements of dictatorship.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Boys, Order, People

  Sergei Lukyanenko (2013). “The New Watch: (Night Watch 5)”, p.219, Random House

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• Composition in photography is almost as varied as composition in music or words -- melodic or atonal, safe or daring -- and can enhance subject, theme, and style. Every photograph you take involves you in some compositional decision, even if this is simply where to set up the camera or when to press the button.

  Michael Langford

  Photography, Decision, Style

  Michael Langford (2000). “Basic Photography”, p.7, Taylor & Francis

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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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• When engaged in safe occupations, and living in healthy countries, men are much more apt to be frugal, than in unhealthy, or hazardous occupations, and in climates pernicious to human life. Sailors and soldiers are prodigals. . . . War and pestilence have always waste and luxury, among the other evils that follow in their train.

  John Rae

  Country, War, Men

  John Rae (1834). “Statement of Some New Principles on the Subject of Political Economy: Exposing the Fallacies of the System of Free Trade, and of Some Other Doctrines Maintained in the "Wealth of Nations."”, p.123

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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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• The fact that the president was willing to reveal classified information for political gain and put the interests of his political party ahead of America's security shows that he can no longer be trusted to keep America safe.

  Howard Dean

  Party, America, Political

  "Bush ordered leaking of Iraq secrets, ex-aide tells court" by Francis Harris, www.telegraph.co.uk. August 4, 2006.

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• There is perhaps no single factor contributing so much to people's frequent reluctance to let the market work as their inability to conceive how some necessary balance, between demand and supply, between exports and imports, or the like, will be brought about without deliberate control. The conservative feels safe and content only if he is assured that some higher wisdom watches and supervises change, only if he knows that some authority is charged with keeping the change "orderly.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  People, Balance, Inability

  "In Memoriam: F.A. Hayek" by Virginia Postrel, reason.com. June 1992.

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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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• Safe, sane and consensual what do those words really mean? Assimilation, that's what.

  Laura Antoniou

  Mean, Assimilation, Sane

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• Statistics are designed to keep you safe.

  Jenny Diski

  Statistics

  1997 Skating to Antarctica.

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