Safe Quotes - page 2

The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket. (Kin Hubbard)
On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? Conscience asks the question, is it right? There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
We will be remembered only if we give to our younger generation a prosperous and safe India, resulting out of economic prosperity coupled with civilizational heritage. View quote
Abdul Kalam
For millions of men and women, the church has been the hospital for the soul, the school for the mind and the safe depository for moral ideas. View quote
Gerald Ford
If we cannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity. View quote
John F. Kennedy
The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences. View quote
Ruth Benedict
Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions. View quote
James Madison
Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution, She lives whom we call dead. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned. (Maya Angelou)
You shouldn't say it is not good. You should say you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe. View quote
James McNeill Whistler
Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand -- a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods -- or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values. View quote
Willa Cather
When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth. View quote
Jodi Picoult
The fact that the president was willing to reveal classified information for political gain and put the interests of his political party ahead of America's security shows that he can no longer be trusted to keep America safe. View quote
Howard Dean
Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything, you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure. View quote
Kingman Brewster, Jr.
That the outer man is a picture of the inner, and the face an expression and revelation of the whole character, is a presumption likely enough in itself, and therefore a safe one to go on borne out as it is by the fact that people are always anxious to see anyone who has made himself famous. Photography offers the most complete satisfaction of our curiosity. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, we can never differ. View quote
Frances Wright
Motor racing can never be totally safe and it never should be in my opinion. But thank God it's a lot safer now. View quote
Murray Walker
The wisest man could ask no more of fate Than to be simple, modest, manly, true, Safe from the many, honored by the few Nothing to court in Church, or World, or State, But inwardly in secret to be great. (James Russell Lowell)
The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice. View quote
Clarence Darrow
Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, 'Tis mans perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die.' View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world was reduced to the surface of her skin and her inner self was safe from all bitterness. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
Music is a safe kind of high. View quote
Jimi Hendrix