Safety Quotes - Page 7

• Any system which allows men to choose their own future will end by choosing safety and mediocrity, and in such a Reality the stars are out of reach.

  Isaac Asimov

  Stars, Reality, Men

  Isaac Asimov (2010). “The End of Eternity”, p.248, Macmillan

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• Why do you rant and brag with such a spate of words, as if you wanted to overwhelm me with a sort of tempest and deluge of oratory-which nevertheless falls with the greater force on your own head, while my ark rides aloft in safety?

  Martin Luther

  Fall, Ark, Oratory

  Desiderius Erasmus, Martin Luther, Ernest Gordon Rupp, Philip Saville Watson (1969). “Luther and Erasmus: free will and salvation”

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• When you want to take over a city, you have to destroy the illusion of safety it provides. You have to hit the large well-protected establishments, find the powerful people who run them and are viewed as invincible, and kill them. You want to destroy the morale first. Once the people's resolve is gone and everyone is scared for their own skin, the city is yours.

  Ilona Andrews

  Running, Powerful, Cities

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• Thunderously, inarguably, the Sermon on the Mount proves that before God we all stand on level ground: murderers and temper-throwers, adulterers and lusters, thieves and coveters. We are all desperate, and that is in fact the only state appropriate to a human being who wants to know God. Having fallen from the absolute Ideal, we have nowhere to land but in the safety net of absolute grace.

  Philip Yancey

  Land, Grace, Thieves

  Philip Yancey (2008). “The Jesus I Never Knew”, p.105, Zondervan

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• District 12. Where you can starve to death in safety," I mutter. Then I glance quickly over my shoulder. Even here, in the middle of nowhere, you worry someone might overhear you.

  Suzanne Collins

  Worry, Middle Of Nowhere, Might

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.8, Scholastic Inc.

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• The roles we play in each other's lives are only as powerful as the trust and connection between us--the protection, safety, and caring we are willing to share.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Powerful, Caring, Play

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• She sifted, sighed, and stared up at the ceiling, trying to think about anything but Lord Maccoon, her current predicament, or Lord Akeldama's safety. Which meant she could do nothing but reflect on the complex plight of her mama's more recent embroidery project. Thins, in itself, was a worse torture than any her captors could devise.

  Gail Carriger

  Thinking, Trying, Mama

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• Some things are more important than safety.

  Melissa Marr

  Important

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• Look, you runny-nosed little runt. You're going to back off right now, or I'm going to rip that safety pin out of your nose and pin your mouth shut.

  Dan Brown

  Rip, Safety Pins, Looks

  Dan Brown (2007). “Digital Fortress: A Thriller”, p.251, Macmillan

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• But you didn't need me, did you? You'd already got yourself to safety." "Sometimes, I sleep better knowing you . . . and Niall . . ." She faltered. "Love you from a safe distance," he finished. "Yes.

  Melissa Marr

  Distance, Love You, Sleep

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• Happiness. It was the place where passion, with all its dazzle and drumbeat, met something softer: homecoming and safety and pure sunbeam comfort. It was all those things, intertwined with the heat and the thrill, and it was as bright within her as a swallowed star.

  Laini Taylor

  Happiness, Stars, Passion

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• I think at this point, safety isn't a feeling, it's a process. Starting with trust.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Thinking, Feelings, Starting

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.99, St. Martin's Press

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• The guarantee of safety in a battering relationship can never be based upon a promise from the perpetrator, no matter how heartfelt. Rather, it must be based upon the self-protective capability of the victim. Until the victim has developed a detailed and realistic contingency plan and has demonstrated her ability to carry it out, she remains in danger of repeated abuse.

  Judith Lewis Herman

  Self, Heartfelt, Promise

  "Trauma and Recovery". Book by Judith Lewis Herman, 1992.

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• Goodness has never been a guarantee of safety.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Guarantees, Goodness

  Twitter post from Jan 06, 2012

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• His safety was more important than anything to me. Even if he would never know enough to understand that.

  Rachel Vincent

  Important, Enough, Knows

  Rachel Vincent (2011). “Blood Bound”, p.38, Harlequin

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• They'll be granted immunity!" I feel myself rising from my chair, my voice full of resonant. "You will personally pledge this in front of the entire population of District Thirteen and the remainder of Twelve. Soon. Today. It will be recorded for future generations. You will hold yourself and your government responsible for their safety, or you'll find yourself another Mockingjay!

  Suzanne Collins

  Government, Voice, Finding Yourself

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• There is no way to peace along the way of safety. For peace must be dared. It is itself the great venture and can never be safe. Peace is the opposite of security. To demand guarantees is to want to protect oneself. Peace means giving oneself completely to God's commandment. Wanting no security, but in faith and obedience laying the destiny of the nations in the hand of almighty God. Not trying to direct it for selfish purposes. Battles are won not with weapons, but with God. They are won when the way leads to the cross.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Selfish, Mean, Destiny

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• For a group of people who claimed to be concerned for her safety, they did seem to have developed rather a habit of encouraging uprisings against monarchs.

  Kristin Cashore

  Uprising, People, Groups

  Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.89, Penguin

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• The charged life, then, usually calls to us after we have done what we were supposed to do, become who we thought we were supposed to be, lived as we thought we were supposed to live. Then the safety and comfort and compromise get to us, and a stirring of restlessness and revolution sends us off in search of greater adventures and meaning. From THE CHARGE

  Brendon Burchard

  Adventure, Comfort, Done

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• We need to be willing to risk embarrassment, ask silly questions, surround ourselves with people who don't know what we're talking about. We need to leave behind the safety of our expertise.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Silly, Talking, People

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• I felt sick. Buying Kisten’s and my safety from Piscary was so wrong. But it was either that or deal with a demon, and I’d rather keep my soul clean and let my morals get dingy.

  Kim Harrison

  Sick, Soul, Buying

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• Newt spun, making her robe unfurl. “He’s my familiar, bought and paid for. I can claim anything of his. Even his life.” Al cleared his throat nervously. “That’s good to know,” he said lightly. “Important safety tip. Rachel, write that down somewhere as lesson number one.

  Kim Harrison

  Writing, Numbers, Important

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• Since he saved me from the attack, I have associated his smell with safety, so as long as I focus on it, I feel safe now.

  Veronica Roth

  Smell, Long, Focus

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• It's how they've stayed popular for so long. By not doing anything that will make them look like fools. They never leave home without their safety nets and I think, good for them, but the thing with safety nets is this. I got tangled in them so many times and the Stella girls always seemed to leave me dangling, upside down, to the point where I almost couldn't breathe anymore.

  Melina Marchetta

  Girl, Home, Thinking

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• Safety isn't always safe. You can find one on every gun.

  Andrea Gibson

  Gun, Safe

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