Famous Quotes & Sayings

Suzanne Collins

District 12: Where you can starve to death in safety.

Suzanne Collins

How about you, Mockingjay? You feel totally safe?” “Oh, yeah. Right up until I got shot,” I say.

Sophocles

Is anyone in all the world safe from unhappiness?

Stephen Levine

Death is perfectly safe. (55)

Stephen King

She felt like someone who drowns remembering what it was like to still be on the boat, so calm and at ease, so carelessly safe

Stephanie Mills

The sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away.

Taylor Wilson

I'm a very safe person, probably to the extreme.

Soren Kierkegaard

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Thomas a Kempis

The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly.

Thucydides

For if many ill-conceived plans have succeeded through the still greater lack of judgment of an opponent, many more, apparently well laid, have on the contrary ended in disgrace. The confidence with which we form our schemes is never completely justified in their execution; speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.

Thucydides

speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.

Robert A. Heinlein

There is no safety this side of the grave

Tacitus

That cannot be safe which is not honourable.

Rupert Grint

Well one of the times I did a stunt was in the devil’s snare room and they lifted me up on a harness and a safety rope really, really high, and they just dropped me down into the devil’s snare.

Steve King

We shouldn't turn the safety net into a hammock. It should actually be a safety net.

Stephen Coonts

A little mountain will kill you just as dead as a big one if you fly into it.

Sigmund Freud

Civilized people have exchanged some part of their chances of happiness for a measure of security.

Richard Attias

Africa's informal economy is one of the most innovative and inventive environments in the world. Yet it is an environment with little regulation in which workers are often exposed to hard conditions and live without a safety net.

Joseph Epstein

Generalization, especially risky generalization, is one of the chief methods by which knowledge proceeds... Safe generalizations are usually rather boring. Delete that "usually rather." Safe generalizations are quite boring.

Rahm Emanuel

At some point, deliberation begins to look more like indecisiveness which then becomes a way of emboldening our enemies and allies and causing our allies to question our resolve. So we shouldn't let one component of this determine our national security here which depends on providing an Afghanistan which denies a safe haven to terrorists as well as stabilizing Pakistan. Those are our two national security interests at stake in Afghanistan.

We hope that all coal mines will learn from the bitter lessons these accidents have taught and will strengthen their safety precautions.

Laurie Colwin

The table is a meeting place, a gathering ground, the source of sustenance and nourishment, festivity, safety, and satisfaction. A person cooking is a person giving: even the simplest food is a gift.

Laurie Halse Anderson

There is no safer. There’s not even safe, never has been.

Tertullian

Fear is the foundation of safety.

Terry Pratchett

When Mister Safety Catch Is Not On, Mister Crossbow Is Not Your Friend.

Terry Pratchett

IT'S A SWORD, said the Hogfather. THEY'RE NOT /MEANT/ TO BE SAFE.

Terry Pratchett

What did I tell you about Mister Safety Catch?' said Vimes weakly. When Mister Safety Catch Is Not On, Mister Crossbow Is Not Your Friend,' recited Detritus, saluting.

Tom Rath

Employees who report receiving recognition and praise within the last seven days show increased productivity, get higher scores from customers, and have better safety records. They're just more engaged at work.

Timothy Murphy

Healthcare providers will compete to offer the best record of patient safety at the lowest prices. Hospitals and patients will benefit from having accurate information about areas of excellence and areas that must be improved.

Ross Kemp

The welfare system was designed to do something different when it was started than what it does now. It was a safety net to help people get back to work: if they were sick, it would help them get back.

Thomas Jefferson

Those who would trade safety for freedom deserve neither.

Thomas Jefferson

Trial by jury is part of the bright constellation which leads to peace, liberty and safety.

Thomas Jefferson

Not for ourselves alone, but for all humanity... Let us hasten to find the path that leads to liberty, safety, and peace for everyone.