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"It's easy to be afraid of taking a plunge, because, after all, plunging is dangerous. And the fear is a safe way to do nothing at all. Wading, on the other hand, gets under the radar. It gives you a chance to begin."
"The market ... demands a signal from you that you're serious, powerful, accepted, and safe."
"When or if we "quote, unquote" do not like our work, it is probably because we do not feel safe where we go to work. So when you say, what can we do?, the irony is that the best thing we can do is, well one option, is to quit."
"Leadership is about making people feel safe. When someone feels heard, they feel safe."
"Our affections and beliefs are wiser than we; the best that is in us is better than we can understand; for it is grounded beyond experience, and guides us, blindfold but safe, from one age on to another."
"Issuing an insurance policy against abduction by aliens seems a pretty safe bet."
"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"
"People fear leaving their safe harbor of the known and venturing off into the unknown. Human beings crave certainty - even when it limits them."
"The best way to protect both the policemen and the community going forward is by creating a system that's just, where everyone feels safe."
"I feel safe that theater will always serve women in different ages."
"I don't know how long I kept at it... I felt reasonably safe, streched out on the floor, and lay quite still. It didn't seem to be summer any more"
"Average feels safe but it's not. It's invisible."
"The more you work with anyone, the more comfortable and safe you feel. The more you have an understanding."
"If you don't feel safe as a child, you can't learn."
"Any book is a Good Book, and wherever they keep the Good Book safe is also the House a the Lord."
"I'm not writing to make anyone's children feel safe."
"At fourteen, you really do start realising that the world is not a safe and protected place or not always."
"Hide them all, then. Keep her – them – safe. Please.' And what will you give me in return, Severus?' In – in return? Anything."
"I want to just be lazy and I want some of the people around me to be doing things, because that makes me feel comfortable and safe - and I want some of them to be doing nothing at all, because they can be graceful and companionable for me."
"Seal the openings, shut the doors, and until your last day you will not be exhausted. Widen the openings, interfere, and until your last day you will not be safe."
