"Your idea of a safe stop is to shank me?!"
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"Anybody who has anybody in the armed forces, I don't care how well-trained they are, there's nothing safe about it."
"The person with a safe center doesn't fear change. We can choose change without fear before a challenge only when we are strongly centered."
"There is no safe standard to tell man from animals."
"It is not safe to despise what Love commands. He reigns supreme, and rules the mighty gods."
"This is not a place, after all. It is BETWEEN places. This is NOWHERE. A brief thought: I could stay here, abandon my quest, hang forever in the void, safe and cold and alone."
"The converse held reassuringly true: daylight was safe. Daylight was always safe."
"The Wilds aren't safe anymore."
"We all need a place that is safe and wholesome enough for us to return for refuge. In Buddhism, that refuge is mindfulness."
"Jesus called His followers to be a lot of things, but I have yet to find where He warned us to be safe."
"Fear is choosing the safe course"
"If I refuse to allow my leg to be amputated, its mortification and my death may prove that I was wrong; but if I let the leg go, nobody can ever prove that it would not have mortified had I been obstinate. Operation is therefore the safe side for the surgeon as well as the lucrative side."
"People tell you to have a safe trip, as if you have some control over it."
"In baseball the object is to go home! And to be safe! - I hope I'll be safe at home!"
"Miserliness is a capital quality to run in families; it's the safe side for madness to dip on."
"Where Jack isn't safe, Tom's in danger."
"Little journeys and good cost bring safe home."
"Busy editors cannot be expected to put on their posters, "Mr. Wilkinson Still Safe," or "Mr. Jones, of Worthing, Not Dead Yet." They cannot announce the happiness of mankind at all. They cannot describe all the forks that are not stolen, or all the marriages that are not judiciously dissolved. Hence the complex picture they give of life is of necessity fallacious; they can only represent what is unusual."
"Aw, it's just like a woman. When the shootin's all over and everything's safe, they pass out."
"In a way, I was safe writing"