Safe Quotes - page 7

Dinocrates did not leave the king, but followed him into Egypt. There Alexander, observing a harbor rendered safe by nature, an excellent center for trade, cornfields throughout all Egypt, and the great usefulness of the mighty river Nile, ordered him to build the city of Alexandria, named after the king. This was how Dinocrates, recommended only by his good looks and dignified carriage, came to be so famous. (Vitruvius)
We've long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune tellers look good. Even now, Charlie and I continue to believe that short-term market forecasts are poison and should be kept locked up in a safe place, away from children and also from grown-ups who behave in the market like children. View quote
Warren Buffett
Very few things are as dangerous as a bunch of incentive-driven individuals trying to play it safe. View quote
Alfie Kohn
Fire made us human, fossil fuels made us modern, but now we need a new fire that makes us safe, secure, healthy and durable. View quote
Amory Lovins
Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward. View quote
Robert Collier
Government of limited power need not be anemic government. Assurance that rights are secure tends to diminish fear and jealousy of strong government, and by making us feel safe to live under it makes for its better support. View quote
Robert H. Jackson
There are so many laws that no one is safe from hanging. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
A well-regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper, natural, and safe defense of a free state; that standing armies, in time of peace, should be avoided as dangerous to liberty; and that in all cases the military should be under strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil power. View quote
George Mason
Warning: Do not read this story right after eating. In fact, don't read it right before eating either. In fact, just to be safe, don't read this story if you're ever planning to eat again. View quote
Louis Sachar
On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy such an effect from the greater number of repetitions. View quote
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand; Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand! (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
To make the world safe for those who own it, politically active elements of the owning class have created a national security state that expends billions of dollars and enlists the efforts of vast numbers of people. View quote
Michael Parenti
Idiots are not responsible for what they do. The real guilt falls on rational people who sit on their hands while the morons run wild. You can opt out if you want to. Play it safe. But if you do, don't complain when the roof comes down. View quote
Jack McDevitt
But our idea is that the wolves should be fed and the sheep kept safe. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
I have made it clear that we will hunt down terrorists who threaten our country, wherever they are. That means I will not hesitate to take action against ISIL in Syria, as well as Iraq. This is a core principle of my presidency: If you threaten America, you will find no safe haven. View quote
Barack Obama
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world. View quote
Thomas Guthrie
The earth has become one big village, with telephones laid on from one end to the other, and air transport, both speedy and safe. View quote
Wyndham Lewis
We'll always be safe in Jesus Christ if we place our faith in the Lord. View quote
Ben Carson
It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull. View quote
Joseph Conrad
The real bug here is that the design of the system even permits this class of bug. It is unconscionable that someone designing a critical piece of security infrastructure would design the system in such a way that it does not fail safe. View quote
Jamie Zawinski
They offer me neither food nor drink - intellectual nor spiritual consolation... [Conservatism] leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal; it conforms to no intellectual standard, it is not safe, or calculated to preserve from the spoilers that degree of civilisation which we have already attained. (John Maynard Keynes)
The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends. It should be a place where each individual's dignity and self-respect is strengthened by the respect and affection of his neighbors. It should be a place where each of us can find the satisfaction and warmth which comes from being a member of the community of man. This is what man sought at the dawn of civilization. It is what we seek today. View quote
Lyndon B. Johnson
Truth must the guide of those who hold the power; but humility is their sign, the promise that their privileges are in safe hands. View quote
Vincent Massey
We feel our shell keeps us safe, but it crushes us and others, and keeps out light and sun. View quote
Taisen Deshimaru
The United States, as the world knows, will never start a war. We do not want a war. We do not now expect a war. This generation of Americans has already had enough - more than enough - of war and hate and oppression. We shall be prepared if others wish it. We shall be alert to try to stop it. But we shall also do our part to build a world of peace where the weak are safe and the strong are just. We are not helpless before that task or hopeless of its success. Confident and unafraid, we labor on - not toward a strategy of annihilation but toward a strategy of peace. View quote
John F. Kennedy