Safe Quotes - Page 26

• I want to know one thing: The way to Heaven. How to land safe on that happy shore.

  John Wesley

  Land, Heaven, Want

  John Wesley (1980). “John Wesley”, p.89, Oxford University Press

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• Do whatever work feeds your true self, even if it’s not a safe bet, even if it’s like a crazy risk, even if everyone in your life tells you you’re wrong or bad or crazy.

  Martha Beck

  Crazy, Self, Risk

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• A Stalin functionary admitted, Innocent people were arrested: naturally - otherwise no one would be frightened. If people were arrested only for specific misdemeanours, all the others would feel safe and so become ripe for treason.

  Paul Johnson

  Fear, People, Would Be

  "Modern Times: A History of the World from the 1920s to the 1980s". Book by Paul Johnson, 1983.

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• No building was safe from the furniture, the pictures, the human beings that it would presently contain.

  Graham Greene

  Furniture, Architecture, Building

  Graham Greene (1982). “A Burnt-Out Case”, Viking Adult

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• Well I think comedy everywhere has lost a bit of its bite. In Canada, I can't argue with the quality, but it feels like it's gotten a little safe.

  Scott Thompson

  Thinking, Quality, Littles

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• I like being infamous. I think it is safe being a cult.

  Adam Ant

  Thinking, Infamous, Cult

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• Good housewives all the winter's rage despise, Defended by the riding-hood's disguise; Or, underneath the umbrella's oily shade, Safe through the wet on clinking pattens tread, Let Persian dames the unbrella's ribs display, To guard their beauties from the sunny ray; Or sweating slaves support the shady load, When eastern monarchs show their state abroad; Britain in winter only knows its aid, To guard from chilling showers the walking maid.

  John Gay

  Winter, Support, Maids

  John Gay (1826). “Gay's Fables and Other Poems: Cotton's Visions in Verse ; Moore's Fables for the Female Sex ; with Sketches of the Authors' Lives”, p.197

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• Players come to Belle Rock's casinos to have fun, find excitement, or play in a safe environment, but no matter what the reason, they all come to win. In February, we want to reward our loyal players by making the chances of winning big that much greater.

  Tim Johnson

  Fun, Player, Winning

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• The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it, into which a young gentleman should be enter'd by degrees, as he can bear it; and the earlier the better, so he be in safe and skillful hands to guide him.

  John Locke

  Hands, Thorough Knowledge, Gentleman

  "Some Thoughts Concerning Education" by John Locke, (Sec. 94), 1693.

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• It is safe to say that almost every person living in New Orleans at the moment Hurricane Katrina struck shared your belief in an omnipotent, omniscient, and compassionate God. But what was God doing while Katrina laid waste to their city? Surely He heard the prayers of those elderly men and women who fled the rising waters for the safety of their attics, only to be slowly drowned there.

  Sam Harris

  Prayer, Men, Elderly

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• I would argue, by the way, if the French citizens knew exactly what that was about, they would be applauding and popping Champagne corks. It's a good thing. It keeps the French safe. It keeps the U.S. safe.

  Mike Rogers

  Nsa, Would Be, Citizens

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• Now is the time when men work quietly in the fields and women weep softly in the kitchen; the legislature is in session and no man's property is safe.

  Daniel Webster

  Men, Political, Kitchen

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• Creativity asks you to enter realms with uncertain outcomes. People want to create a safe life for themselves so they try to live without fear and they end up killing their creativity in the process.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Creativity, People, Trying

  "Author Elizabeth Gilbert's 'Big Magic' is a creative life". "CBS This Morning" with Norah O'Donnell, Gayle King and John Dickerson, www.cbsnews.com. September 22, 2015.

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• I don't think a Hollywood actor is safe from acting in the rain: it all depends on the film.

  Isabella Rossellini

  Rain, Thinking, Acting

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• You need to know everything and feel 100 percent safe so that you can live and breathe in a role and so that you feel comfortable taking risks and trying new things and being bold. If you don't feel comfortable, if you're in a scenario that's not conducive for that kind of environment, then that's when you don't do well.

  Nina Dobrev

  Risk, Trying, Needs

  "Nina Dobrev’s New Chapter". Interview with Michael Peña, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 8, 2015.

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• If you want to feel safe, healthy, and hopeful, try to act as if you did feel that way. "Fake it 'till you feel it." maybe start with health -- try to walk energetically, speak energetically, do physical things.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Hopeful, Fake, Healthy

  "Slate Discussion: The Happiness Project". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. January 15, 2009.

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• I love actors and I love to create an environment where they feel safe to connect and thrive and try things, to fail and succeed and flourish and fly.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Trying, Actors, Succeed

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• As a parent, all you want is for your kids to be safe but you don’t want to be over-protective and so you know that at some stage, they’re going to make their own mistakes and get hurt emotionally when all you want to do is protect them from that.

  Steve Carell

  Hurt, Mistake, Kids

  "Dan In Real Life - Steve Carell interview". Interview withJack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Sometimes you got to a point where it wasn't happening and you had to figure out another way to do it, particularly in terms of making the jaguar do what you wanted. That was not CG, a real guy had to run really fast and not trip. There was a form of restraint on the creature that you can't see. so it was all very safe - but it is real.

  Mel Gibson

  Running, Real, Guy

  "Apocalypto - Mel Gibson interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I've been getting my makeup done professionally since I was 12, I've never found a brand that could create that glowing look and flawless finish we all want from beauty products with ingredients that were effective and safe. So I had to create it.

  Jessica Alba

  Makeup, Glowing, Want

  "Jessica Alba: 'Know That You're Going To Make Mistakes And It's Okay.'" by Kristen Noel Crawley, www.elle.com. October 12, 2015.

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• I loved getting classical training in terms of acting. I would've stayed in acting school for the rest of my life if I could have. It was this amazing period of my life where everything was so safe.

  Dane DeHaan

  School, Training, Acting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you do put yourself out there and do things that are not safe, then you run the risk of being criticized for it.

  Mila Kunis

  Running, Risk, Putting Yourself Out There

  Interview with Mila Kunis, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 16, 2012.

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• If you fill your time as a director talking about lights and technique with the crew then it's frightening for the actors to be left alone. Somebody has to keep them safe from the mess that is the machinery.

  Pirjo Honkasalo

  Talking, Light, Technique

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• This is going to sound crazy, especially in America where there is a total inflation of the word "love," but in a sense you have to love the people in front of the camera. There has to be trust between the one who is behind the camera and the people on the other side, so that they can relax. They have to feel they are safe, and that way they don't have to pretend just because they are scared.

  Pirjo Honkasalo

  Crazy, America, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• If people are not safe, they will not make themselves vulnerable. If they feel too comfortable, they can become complacent or lose their curiosity. They can become intellectually lazy about what matters most.

  Erica Brown

  What Matters, People, Lazy

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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