Safe Quotes - Page 38

• When congress is in session no American is safe.

  Mark Twain

  Congress, Session

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• The key to pursuing excellence is to embrace an organic, long-term learning process, and not to live in a shell of static, safe mediocrity. Usually, growth comes at the expense of previous comfort or safety.

  Joshua Waitzkin

  Keys, Long, Safety

  "The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance". Book by Joshua Waitzkin, www.businessinsider.com. May 8, 2007.

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• The problem is that relativism provides no sure foundation for a safe and orderly society.

  Charles Colson

  Foundation, Problem, Orderly

  Charles Colson, Nancy Pearcey (2011). “How Now Shall We Live?”, p.525, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• I feel very confident that Americans flying in the air are safe, and that only under the most dire of circumstances would our pilots even request permission to do that.

  Hugh Shelton

  Air, Flying, Pilots

  "America's New War: Responding to Terrorism". "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. October 1, 2001.

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• The American president has to both keep our families safe and make the economy grow in a way that helps everyone, not just those at the top. That`s the job. I have a strategy to combat and defeat ISIS without getting us involved in another ground war. And I have plans to raise incomes and deal with a lot of the problems that keep families up at night.

  Hillary Clinton

  Jobs, War, Night

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• You want to have a loving, safe relationship with your child, but you can't because you have to do these things to protect them or protect them from themselves - or try to make sure they don't become a vampire! Your desires and your needs are in opposition, and that's always fun to play.

  Jack Coleman

  Children, Fun, Play

  "Ultimate Spider-Man: Jack Coleman On Bringing Life To Doctor Strange". Interview with Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. July 6, 2012.

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• We're all vulnerable in our various ways, and what we are physically, our bodies, is what has developed with the goal of keeping that life safe and intact, at least until we have procreated. That's what our bodies are, the protection of life.

  Pattiann Rogers

  Goal, Body, Way

  "A Conversation with Pattiann Rogers". Interview with Carolyn Perry, Wayne Zade, poems.com. 2009.

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• You could be a Green Beret and a kid could jump out from behind a building and hit you with a rock. No matter how tough you become in the military, there's a way to die: there's nothing safe about it.

  Ice T

  Military, Kids, Rocks

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Anybody who has anybody in the armed forces, I don't care how well-trained they are, there's nothing safe about it.

  Ice T

  Care, Force, Wells

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Love is timeless and dependable. It's a safe place where I can breathe.

  Jo Dee Messina

  Love Is, Breathe, Timeless

  "Jo Dee Messina: On Turning Life into Song". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I've also never written about home in this way before. I guess a lot of it is subconscious and I am intuitively making these decisions when I'm writing. I wanted to communicate in the book that on one hand, being at home - both in our homes and in DeLisle - gives us a sense of belonging and family and safety, but at the same time, being in those places makes us less safe.

  Jesmyn Ward

  Book, Home, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• This idea where, in this safe haven for Jews, Jews will threaten to kill other Jews, it wasn't in the brochure.

  Etgar Keret

  Safe Haven, Ideas, Brochures

  "Etgar Keret: We Can Try to Be Human". Interview with Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. August 17, 2015.

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• I was always into performing and dancing as a kid and acting was a safe place to have all my feelings, which is good as a child.

  Bella Heathcote

  Children, Kids, Dancing

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• One of the things that bugs me about the Western Literary Tradition is that the conventions of narrative in particular seem to confine the stories you can tell about characters to tropes of bone-headed action and old models of psychological realism. And as readers, too, we have been conditioned to understand characters as - and forgive me for saying it out loud - what the market says they should be. Namely, safe, clean, proper.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Character, Forgive Me, Forgiving

  Source: therumpus.net

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• By 1975 - and continuing to today - all Americans came to believe that they had a "right" to a safe, clean, healthy environment. When I grew up, no one seriously criticized the steel mills and paper mills for the deadly stench they produced - that was the smell of prosperity. In the modern society, no one would tolerate such conditions in an American city.

  Denis Hayes

  Believe, Cities, Smell

  "The Rumpus Interview with Earth Day organiser Denis Hayes". Interview with Melissa Price, therumpus.net. April 22, 2009.

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• The thing that makes me feel most alive would be when I'm hanging out with my family and feeling my connection with them and feeling safe and content in that.

  Matt Nathanson

  Feelings, Connections, Would Be

  "Singer-Songwriter Matt Nathanson: On feeling vulnerable, staying present, and not being terrified". Interview with Mary Bruce, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. October 26, 2015.

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• There is no set period of time or total amount of carbon emissions that we can stay below to ensure we stay safe.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  Carbon Emissions, Periods, Amount

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think small animals can escape from many kinds of natural disaster more easily. There are just more places for them to hide, and more ways for them to find safe habitats. So this means that rats are set up to rule the Earth, but most of us already knew that. Now you know why.

  Annalee Newitz

  Mean, Animal, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We fall into the old stuff of textuality, and almost everything becomes safe because nobody wants to talk about what is not safe in poetry. We fall back on the psychologic, the ethnic, the quota, and serve the perpetuation of the machine.

  Fady Joudah

  Fall, Quota, Machines

  Source: therumpus.net

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• People rarely die from heroin alone, it's the combination that's deadly. Maybe we should blast that out as a public health education message. That way at least we're keeping people safe.

  Carl Hart

  Health Education, People, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

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• As a young female I think it's important that young people know there's nothing wrong with having fun, nobody is telling us to be square or be boring, but we have to be safe.

  Rihanna

  Fun, Thinking, Squares

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• Before Chernobyl or without Chernobyl the nuclear power was the safe thing.

  Abdus Salam

  Nuclear, Chernobyl, Nuclear Power

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• I think that melodrama is a safe way of suffering, because your suffering is fake. That's why I like melodrama.

  Luis Negron

  Thinking, Fake, Suffering

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I remember I grew up in a poor family and we had almost nothing and we were not treated very well by our family. There was no safe haven for us. But somehow we always managed to be happy.

  Luis Negron

  Safe Haven, Remember, Poor

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm not very much an open book, I do really express myself only through my music and when I'm in that safe environment and I don't have to let anything go out of the studios that I don't want to go out.

  Ella Henderson

  Book, Safe Environment, Anything Goes

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