"I’m not up for laughing, but their laughter makes the room feel safer, so we begin to explore."
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"Why do you rant and brag with such a spate of words, as if you wanted to overwhelm me with a sort of tempest and deluge of oratory-which nevertheless falls with the greater force on your own head, while my ark rides aloft in safety?"
"Tradition was safety; change was danger."
"It is the place of renewal and of safety, where for a little while there will be no harm or attack and, while every sense is nourished, the soul rests."
"I have sometimes wondered also whether in people like me who come to the boil fast (soupe au lait, the French call this trait, like a milk soup that boils over) the tantrum is not a built-in safety valve against madness or illness. ... The fierce tension in me, when it is properly channeled, creates the good tension for work. But when it becomes unbalanced I am destructive. How to isolate that good tension is my problem these days. Or, put in another way, how to turn the heat down fast enough so the soup won't boil over!"
"His idea of traffic safety is going too fast for the cops to catch up."
"And to those who would choose the safety of inaction over the danger of taking a stand, I have this to say: You bloody cowards. May you have the world that you deserve."
"My definition of a man's man is a man who knows gun safety, and we all did."