Safe Quotes - Page 7

• Of course, every time someone does a story on plastic surgery, my name will be dragged up. I've made it safe for other people to have plastic surgery. It's no longer a bad word.

  Greta Van Susteren

  Names, People, Doe

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• Tucker was my safe place for three years, my secure dock in a sea of indecision as I dealt with my father's illness and death. And now I had to sink or swim. It was time to let go...and move on. Slowly, I pushed off from the dock that was Tucker Montgomery and prepared to swim...praying I wouldn't drown.

  Melissa Brown

  Letting Go, Father, Moving

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• ...there is no safe level of exposure to ionizing radiation, and the search for quantifying such a safe level is in vain.

  Rosalie Bertell

  Nuclear, Levels, Radiation

  Rosalie Bertell (1985). “No immediate danger: prognosis for a radioactive earth”

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• There is no safe amount of radiation. Even small amounts do harm.

  Linus Pauling

  Nuclear, Radiation, Danger

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• Nuclear industry proponents often assert that low doses of radiation (eg below 100mSV) produce no ill effects and are therefore safe. But , as the US National Academy of Sciences BEIR VII report has concluded, no dose of radiation is safe, however small, including background radiation; exposure is cumulative and adds to an individual's risk of developing cancer.

  Helen Caldicott

  Cancer, Risk, Radiation

  "How nuclear apologists mislead the world over radiation" by Helen Caldicott, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2011.

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• I'm very much for making everything safe. The more natural the means we use to raise our vegetables and get rid of bugs, the better.

  Julia Child

  Mean, Vegetables, Use

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The eyes sparked a lot of things for me, it could be somebody remembering something they had witnessed or heard about, or it could be the person in the photograph that was experiencing a tragedy or it could also be the spectator looking on from a safe distance.

  Alex Prager

  Distance, Eye, Tragedy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The United States is a safe harbor.

  Robert Reich

  United States, Harbors, Safe Harbor

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• There are no barriers to entries. Think of this as Linux in terms of software. Anyone can have part of the operating system so long as you pledge allegiance to the ideas. Previously, if you wanted to join al Qaeda, you had to travel to an al Qaeda safe haven, probably in northern Pakistan or Afghanistan. Now all you have to do is get a gun, choose a target, and carry out an attack.

  Paul Gigot

  Safe Haven, Gun, Thinking

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I feel safe that theater will always serve women in different ages.

  Ruth Wilson

  Age, Different, Theater

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• It can be scary to be everywhere else for a long time. I always feel that I'm safe at home, near my family.

  Aurora Aksnes

  Home, Long, Scary

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You do your best work when you feel safe.

  Julianna Margulies

  Best Work, Feels

  Source: variety.com

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• Fantasies are absolutely safe, as long as you never try to make them a reality.

  Jane Green

  Reality, Long, Trying

  Jane Green (2002). “Bookends: A Novel”, p.80, Broadway Books

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• And but two ways are offered to our will, Toil with rare triumph, ease with safe disgrace, The problem still for us and all of human race.

  James Russell Lowell

  Two, Race, Ease

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.806, Delphi Classics

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• The right to be a cussed fool Is safe from all devices human, It's common (ez a gin'I rule) To every critter born of woman.

  James Russell Lowell

  Fool, Common, Critters

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• The rules that I shall propose concerning secrecy, and from which I think it not safe to deviate without long and exact deliberation, are, never to solicit the knowledge of a secret,--not willingly, nor without many limitations, to accept such confidence when it is offered; when a secret is once admitted, to consider the trust as of a very high nature, important as society and sacred as truth, and therefore not to be violated for any incidental convenience, or slight appearance of contrary fitness.

  Samuel Johnson

  Thinking, Long, Secret

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.87

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• Sprinkled along the waste of years Full many a soft green isle appears: Pause where we may upon the desert road, Some shelter is in sight, some sacred safe abode.

  John Keble

  Islands, Sight, Years

  John Keble (1858). “The Christian year, thoughts in verse for the Sundays and holydays throughout the year [by J. Keble]. [Another]”, p.9

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• Call'd to the temple of impure delight He that abstains, and he alone, does right. If a wish wander that way, call it home; He cannot long be safe whose wishes roam.

  William Cowper

  Home, Long, Wish

  William Cowper (1825). “Table Talk, and Other Poems, by William Cowper, of the Inner Temple, Esq”, p.49

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• Never go to clubs with metal detectors. Sure it feels safe inside. But what about all those niggas waiting outside with guns? They know you ain't got one.

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Humor, Gun

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• Society has been able to create refuges of every sort, for since it preferred to take love-life as an amusement, it also had to give it an easy form, cheap, safe, and sure, as public amusements are.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Love Life, Giving, Amusement

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• Neutrality in things good or evil is both odious and prejudicial; but in matters of an indifferent nature is safe and commendable. Herein taking of parts maketh sides, and breaketh unity. In an unjust cause of separation, he that favoreth both parts may perhaps have least love of either side, but hath most charity in himself.

  Joseph Hall

  Evil, Unity, Neutrality

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• When things mean a very great deal to you, exciting anticipation just isn't safe.

  Dodie Smith

  Mean, Anticipation, Exciting

  Dodie Smith (2017). “I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition”, p.182, St. Martin's Griffin

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• We want to know. If we don't know, we don't feel safe, we don't feel secure.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Insecurity, Want, Feels

  "The bestselling author of The Four Agreements talks about his book, The Voice of Knowledge". Amber-Allen Publishing Interview, www.amberallen.com. June 4, 2013.

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• We have millions of questions that need answers because there are so many things that the reasoning mind cannot explain. It is not important if the answer is correct; just the answer itself makes us feel safe.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Mind, Important, Needs

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• We will not rest until we reach a permanent agreement [with the Palestinians] that would secure a safe future for our children and that would provide us with renewed hope to live in a region where people lead a life of co-operation and not, God forbid, where blood is shed.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Children, Agreement, Blood

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