Safe Quotes - page 6

I am waiting for the war to be fought which will make the world safe for anarchy. (Lawrence Ferlinghetti)
No poet is ever completely lost. He has the secret of his childhood safe with him, like some secret cave in which he can kneel. And, when we read his poetry, we can join him there. View quote
Peter Ackroyd
It is hard for me to be vulnerable, because I never learned how to do that. I was never vulnerable in a safe way. View quote
Tucker Max
It is the modest, not the presumptuous, inquirer who makes a real and safe progress in the discovery of divine truths. One follows Nature and Nature's God; that is, he follows God in his works and in his word. View quote
Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did not need a passport for any country except Russia.:; The European emigrant, if he could scrape together a few pounds for the passage, simply set sail for America or Australia, and when he got there no questions were asked.:; In the eighteenth century it had been quite normal and safe to travel in a country with which your own country was at war. View quote
George Orwell
I believe it safe to say that all progress must lead, not to further progress, but finally to the negation of progress, a return to the point of departure. View quote
Eugène Delacroix
I've always hated the danger part of climbing, and it's great to come down again because it's safe But there is something about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all feats - and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It's the intense effort, the giving of everything you've got. It's really a very pleasant sensation. View quote
Edmund Hillary
You may talk o' gin and beer When you're quartered safe out 'ere, An' you're sent to penny-fights an' Aldershot it; But when it comes to slaughter You will do your work on water, An' you'll lick the bloomin' boots of 'im that's got it. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
Jesus, lover of my soul, let me to Thy bosom fly, While the nearer waters roll, while the tempest still is high. Hide me, O my Savior, hide, till the storm of life is past; Safe into the haven guide; O receive my soul at last. View quote
Charles Wesley
The visionless officialized fatuity That once kept Europe safe for Perpetuity. View quote
Siegfried Sassoon
And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard. (Warren Zevon)
If you wanted a safe job, go sell shoes. This is a tough business. View quote
Chuck Hagel
As for democracy, the men of sense among us knew what it was, and I perhaps as well as any, as I have more cause to complain of it; but there is nothing new to be said of a patent absurdity-meanwhile we did not think it safe to alter it under the pressure of your hostility. View quote
Thucydides
My philosophy is that it's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe and not to explore at all. View quote
Sophia Loren
It has become apparent that art can have a startling impact without really being or saying anything startling - or new. The character itself of being startling, spectacular, or upsetting has become conventionalized, part of safe good taste. View quote
Clement Greenberg
Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity. View quote
John W. Campbell
I grew up in the Valley, and I didn't know any of our neighbors. I think when you grow up like that, there's always sort of a fantasy of a place where everybody knew each other, and you had that safe sort of feeling. View quote
Amy Sherman-Palladino
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end. View quote
H. L. Mencken
If you are deliberately trying to create a future that feels safe, you will willfully ignore the future that is likely. View quote
Seth Godin
May He support us all the day long, till the shades lengthen, and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our work is done! Then in His mercy may He give us safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last! View quote
John Henry Newman
Ye come and go incessant; we remain Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past; Be reverent, ye who flit and are forgot, Of faith so nobly realized as this. (James Russell Lowell)
When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out. View quote
Erma Bombeck
A Stalin functionary admitted, "Innocent people were arrested: naturally - otherwise no one would be frightened. If people, he said, were arrested only for specific misdemeanours, all the others would feel safe and so become ripe for treason. View quote
Paul Johnson
Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon. View quote
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The Bible, as a revelation from God, was not designed to give us all the information we might desire, nor to solve all the questions about which the human soul is perplexed, but to impart enough to be a safe guide to the haven of eternal rest. View quote
Albert Barnes