T Quotes
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“The safest assumptions that workers can make in the USA is that they do not have the right to a safe workplace and they will not get Disability and Workers Compensation for occupational diseases if they become too sick to work.”
“The safest choices aren't always the quickest ones.”
“The safest course for public officials is simply to throw all of the money in a sack.”
“The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.”
Source: Candide: and other writings
“The safest course was actually the simplest-do nothing at all and hope everything turned out for the best. It wasn't a great plan, but it had the benefits of simplicity and a long tradition.”
“The safest day at the Melody is St. Paddy's," adds another Mardi Gras girl. "All the cops are out vomiting at the parade.”
Source: Tales of Times Square
“The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.”
“The safest genre is the horror film. But the most unsafe - the most dangerous - is comedy. Because even if your horror film isn't very good, you'll get a few screams and you're okay. With a comedy, if they don't laugh, you're dead.”
“The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the greatest show of magnanimity and the least of it in reality.”
Source: A reply to 'Z.' A letter to William Gifford, esq. Prefatory remarks to Oxberry's New English drama. Liber amoris; or, The new Pygmalion. Characteristics. Preface and critical list of authors from Select British poets
“The safest nuclear power or energy policy is to realize 'zero nuclear power.”
“The safest place in life is in the hands of God, even when theyre punishing you.”
“The safest place is to hide in your heart.”
“The safest place to be during an earthquake would be in a stationary store.”
Source: Brain Droppings
“The safest place to be is always halfway into your future, without even knowing what it is.”
“The safest place to be is in the center of God's will.”
“the safest place to keep your secrets is to keep them in your mind with a locked tongue”
“The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.”
Source: Life of Benjamin Robert Haydon, historical painter
“The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.”
“The safest rule of conduct is to claim kinship when we want to do service and not to insist on kinship when we want to assert a right.”
Source: Young India
“The safest thing is always to try to convert everything that is in us and around us into action; let the others talk and argue about it as they please.”
“The safest thing to do when in danger is to be too stupid to know you are in danger.”
Source: Flies to Wanton Boys
“The safest way for a state is to lay down the rule that religion is comprised solely in the exercise of charity and justice, and that the rights of rulers in sacred, no less than in secular matters, should merely have to do with actions, but that every man should think what he likes and say what he thinks.”
“The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.”
Source: Counsels and Maxims
“The safest way to avoid the world is through art; and the safest way to be linked to the world is through art.”
“The safest way to be in business today and the way to gain as much control over your business as possible, is to have a business model of multiples where you can reach a multiple of audiences in multiple ways.”
Source: The Self-Employed Life: Business and Personal Development Strategies That Create Sustainable Success
“The safest way to ensure diversity of opinion is diverse ownership. But this ideal has been sacrificed by our government.”
“The safest way to get what you want is to deserve what you want.”
“The safest way to success is to write according to the capacity of the stupidest member of the audience.”
Source: The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
“The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.”
“The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to which all such institutions must be sacrificed.”
Source: The Federalist: With Letters of Brutus
“The safety of a republic depends essentially on the energy of a common national sentiment; on a uniformity of principles and habits; on the exemption of the citizens from foreign bias and prejudice; and on that love of country which will almost invariably be found to be closely connected with birth, education and family.”
Source: Citizen Hamilton: The Wit and Wisdom of an American Founder
“The safety of our country demands an end to the doctrinaire, ineffective policies that currently grip Washington. Enough is enough! A safe America - a just America - that's what we want, that's what we need.”
“The safety of the country is at stake... We must let ourselves be killed on the spot rather than retreat... No faltering can be tolerated today.”
“The safety of the people shall be the highest law.”
Source: The Republic and The Laws
“The safety of the republic being the supreme law, and Texas having offered us the key to the safety of our country from all foreign intrigues and diplomacy, I say accept the key and bolt the door at once.”
“The safety of the state is the highest law.”
“The safety requirements, which are necessary, spread everything out and push people farther and farther away from the stage and from each other.”
“The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.”
Source: The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage
“The safety-valves of the heart, when too much pressure is laid on.”
Source: The struggles and adventures of Christopher Tadpole at home and abroad
“The Saga of Dharmapuri is one of the great works of modern Indian literature. (...) Set against Vijayan's heroic and scatological Candide -- originally written in Malayalam and finely translated into English by the author -- the timidity of our own English talent for political satire is embarrassingly laid bare. For this is dangerous stuff, and cut close to the bone. (...) Fiercest of all is Vijayan's Voltairean recoil from Indian cringing to power.”
“The saga teems with life and action, with memorable and complex characters from the heroic Gunnar of Hlidarendi, a warrior without equal who dislikes killing, to the
villainous, insinuating Mord Valgardsson, who turns out to be less dastardly than we first expect. Unforgettable events include Skarphedin’s head-splitting axe blow as he glides past his opponent on an icy river bank, or Hildigunn’s provoking of her uncle to seek blood revenge by placing on his shoulders the blood-clotted cloak in which
her husband was slain...
Just as in the Norse poem Völuspá (‘The Seeress’s Prophecy’) the gods met their doom (no mere twilight) at the hands of brute giants and monsters, after which a new and peaceful earth arose, so do the terrible events of Njal’s Saga lead finally and at great cost to a dignified resolution bearing the promise of a better time.
(Robert Cook(”
Source: Njal's Saga
“The sage acts by doing nothing.”
“The sage acts without taking credit. He accomplishes without dwelling on it. He does not want to display his worth.”
“The sage attends to the belly, and not to what he sees.”
“The sage avoids extremity, excess, and extravagance.”
“The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch.”
“The sage desires no desire, does not value rare treasures, learns without learning, recovers what people have left behind.”
“The sage does not act and therefore does not fail, does not seize and therefore does not lose.”
“The sage does not attempt anything very big, and thus achieves greatness.”
Source: 道德经
“The sage does not confuse the seed
with the tree.
You are not one version of yourself.
You are many.
The one who doubted.
The one who tried.
The one who left.
The one who stayed.
The one who kept showing up,
even when no one noticed.”
Source: The Tao of Psychedelics