Unsafe Quotes

• We do live in an unsafe world. That's the truth. I'm dealing with that now, with my seven-year-old. He's grappling with the fact that the world is unsafe, and that there are people who do harmful things. I don't think there's anything wrong with presenting that idea. We can't lie to our children and pretend that the world is perfect, and everybody's happy, and everybody's out there to do good. It's just part of a bigger conversation.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Children, Lying, Thinking

  "Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle and Sir Ben Kingsley Talk IRON MAN 3, the Future of the Franchise, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 26, 2013.

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• Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Hope, Safety, Acquaintance

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1853). “Sam Slick's wise saws and modern instances: or, What he said, did, or invented”, p.281

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• I remember Detroit feeling really unsafe, feeling scared a lot. Our house was broken into, our car was stolen, we had to get a watchdog, we would get beat up in the street, I had my bike stolen. There was just a lot of real anarchy on the streets and sidewalks.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Real, Broken, Car

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• Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.

  Robert Collier

  Risk, World, Safe

  Robert Collier (2013). “Riches Within Your Reach”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• Most loss of life and property has been due to the collapse of antiquated and unsafe structures, mostly of brick and other masonry. ... There is progress of California toward building new construction according to earthquake-resistant design. We would have less reason to ask for earthquake prediction if this was universal.

  Charles Francis Richter

  Life, Loss, Science

  Earthquake information bulletin, Volume 12, Issue 1, p. 8, 1980.

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• Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of "crackpot" than the stigma of conformity.

  Thomas J. Watson

  Life, Motivational, Fear

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• Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea.

  Derek Jarman

  Sea, Lgbt Pride, Lgbt Community

  Derek Jarman (2010). “At Your Own Risk: A Saint's Testament”

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• Love is ease, love is comfort, love is support and respect. Love is not punishing or controlling. Love lets you grow and breathe. Love's passion is only good passion -- swirling-leaves-on-a-fall-day passion, a-sky-full-of-magnificent-stars passion -- not angst and anxiety. Love is not hurt and harm. Love is never unsafe. Love is sleeping like puzzle pieces. It's your own garden you protect; it's a field of wildflowers you move about in both freely and together.

  Deb Caletti

  Hurt, Stars, Moving

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• It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Fool, Reader

  "Ten Novels and Their Authors". Book by W. Somerset Maugham, 1954.

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• Women have got to make the world safe for men, since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.

  Nancy Astor

  Strong Women, World, Safe

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• ...to make the world safe for democracy.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Strong Women, Tyrants, Differences

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1985). “Papers: Edited by Arthur S. Link and Others”

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• When there is a gap between what's on the outside and what's on the inside, that's when people retreat into their foxholes because it is an unsafe situation. You don't know what you are dealing with. What you see is not what you are going to get. And that is when people start withdrawing.

  Parker J. Palmer

  People, Foxholes, Gaps

  Source: www.youthworker.com

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• What looked safe was not safe. What looked hard and unsafe was probably safer. Anyway, safe was somewhere else in the world.

  David Halberstam

  Somewhere Else, World, Safe

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• We live in an unsafe world.

  Nia Vardalos

  World

  "It’s Time" by Nia Vardalos, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 12, 2011.

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• your mind is like an unsafe neighborhood; don't go there alone.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Mind, Neighborhood

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• Safety is the most unsafe spiritual path you can take. Safety keeps you numb and dead. People are caught by surprise when it is time to die. They have allowed themselves to live so little.

  Stephen Levine

  Spiritual, People, Safety

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• Traumatized people chronically feel unsafe inside their bodies: The past is alive in the form of gnawing interior discomfort. Their bodies are constantly bombarded by visceral warning signs, and, in an attempt to control these processes, they often become expert at ignoring their gut feelings and in numbing awareness of what is played out inside. They learn to hide from their selves.

  Bessel van der Kolk

  Past, Self, Bombarded By

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• Water is one of the most basic of all needs - we cannot live for more than a few days without it. And yet, most people take water for granted. We waste water needlessly and don't realize that clean water is a very limited resource. More than 1 billion people around the world have no access to safe, clean drinking water, and over 2.5 billion do not have adequate sanitation service. Over 2 million people die each year because of unsafe water - and most of them are children!

  Robert Alan Aurthur

  Children, Drinking, Years

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• My position hasn't changed over the years. Which is that online voting is a very unsafe idea and a very bad idea and something I think no technological breakthrough I can foresee can ever change.

  Avi Rubin

  Thinking, Years, Ideas

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• When we feel unsafe with someone and still stay with him, we damage our ability to discern trustworthiness in those we will meet in the future.

  David Richo

  Damage, Trustworthiness, Ability

  David Richo (2011). “Daring to Trust: Opening Ourselves to Real Love and Intimacy”, p.13, Shambhala Publications

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• My secret is one the world needs to know - nearly a billion people a year die from unsafe drinking water.

  Bella Thorne

  Drinking, Years, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My own personal view is that vaccines are unsafe and worthless. I will not allow myself to be vaccinated again. .....The bottom line is that infectious diseases are least likely to affect (and to kill) those who have healthy immune systems. I no longer believe that vaccines have any role to play in the protection of the community or the individual. Vaccines may be profitable but, in my view, they are neither safe nor effective. I prefer to put my trust in building up my immune system.

  Vernon Coleman

  Believe, Views, Building Up

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• Often the lack of clear direction and goals can waste away our time and energy and contribute to imbalance in our lives. A life that gets out of balance is much like a car tire that is out of balance. It will make the operation of the car rough and unsafe. Tires in perfect balance can give a smooth and comfortable ride. So it is with life. The ride through mortality can be smoother for us when we strive to stay in balance.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Clear Direction, Giving, Perfect

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• The second mode to deal with unsafe cities is to take refuge in vehicles. This is the technique practiced in the big wild-animal reservations of Africa, where tourists are warned to leave their cars under no circumstances until they reach a lodge. It is also the technique practiced in Los Angeles.

  Jane Jacobs

  Animal, Cities, Car

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• No one worries about you like your mother, and when she is gone, the world seems unsafe, things that happen unwieldy. You cannot turn to her anymore, and it changes your life forever. There is no one on earth who knew you from the day you were born; who knew why you cried, or when you'd had enough food; who knew exactly what to say when you were hurting; and who encouraged you to grow a good heart. When that layer goes, whatever is left of your childhood goes with her.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Mother, Hurt, Heart

  Adriana Trigiani (2003). “Big Stone Gap: A Novel”, p.176, Ballantine Books

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