“Cities must urge urban planners and architects to reinforce pedestrianism as an integrated city policy to develop lively, safe, sustainable and healthy cities. It is equally urgent to strengthen the social function of city space as a meeting place that contributes toward the aims of social sustainability and an open and democratic society.” SocialSpaceCitiesPolicyHealthySafeFunctionAimDemocraticMeetingsUrgesArchitectSustainabilityUrbanUrgentLivelyIntegratedDemocratic SocietyPlanners Book:Cities for People Source: Cities for People
“Point-to-point transit via low orbit could dramatically speed up international flights, connecting the world even further. And safe, consistent space travel opens up the possibility of commercial space stations, trips to the moon and exploration beyond.” WorldSpacePossibilityMoonSafeLowsInternationalSpeedFlightConsistentStationsExplorationConnectingOrbitSpace TravelConnecting The WorldMass Transit Author:Ben Parr
“The discourse on the Text should itself be nothing other than text, research, textual activity, since the Text is that social space which leaves no language safe, outside, nor any subject of the enunciation in position as judge, master, analyst, confessor, decoder. The theory of the Text can coincide only with a practice of writing.” ShouldWritingLanguageSocialSpacePracticeSubjectsPositionJudgingMastersTheoryActivitySafeResearchDiscourseAnalysts Author:Roland Barthes
“It is in our DNA to create space, to open up safe places, and to change the atmosphere where we live.” SpaceSafeAtmosphereDnaSafe Places Author:Graham Cooke
“In giving our daughter life, her father and I had also given her death, something I hadn't realized until that new creature flailed her arms in what was now infinite space. We had given her disease and speeding cars and flying cornices: once out of the fortress that had been myself, she would never be safe again ... We disappoint our kids and they disappoint us, and sometimes they grow up into people we don't like very much. We go on loving, though what we love may be more memory than actuality. And until the day we die we fear the phone that rings in the middle of the night.” PeopleGivingMaySometimesKidsNightDiesFatherGivenGrowsMemoriesSpaceGrowing UpMiddleCarArmsGoes OnSafeCreaturesDiseaseDaughterInfinitePhonesRingsFlyingDisappointMiddle Of The NightOur DaughterActualityFortressesSpeedingInfinite SpaceSpeeding Cars Author:Mary Cantwell
“I think people like to be thrilled and excited. And a scary movie is a safe way to do that because you're not actually doing it. It's entertainment. You know that you're in the confines of this two-hour space of safety in the movie house.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayTwoHouseHoursSpaceSafeSafetyEntertainmentScaryExcited Author:Keri Russell
“If you're ever if you're ever thinking, “Oh, but I'm a waste of space and I'm a burden,” remember: that also describes the Grand Canyon. Why don't you have friends and family take pictures of you from a safe distance? Revel in your majestic profile?” IfsThinkingInspirationalRememberSpaceFamilyPositive ThinkingSafeWasteDistanceBurdenComparisonFamily And FriendsProfileMajesticCanyonsGrand CanyonWaste Of Space Author:Maria Bamford
“I'm trying to manufacture a sleepover feel; like a tree house or a clubhouse. I want people to be silly and play and feel safe and some people, you have to coax them into that space and some people bring me further into that space, even past the point that I wanted to go.” PeopleWantFeelsTryingPlayWantedPastHouseSpaceTreeSafeSillyBeing SillySleepovers Author:Pete Holmes
“FM signals and those of broadcast television...travel out to space at the speed of light. Any eavesdropping alien civilization will know all about our TV programs (probably a bad thing), will hear all our FM music (probably a good thing), and know nothing of the politics of AM talk-show hosts (probably a safe thing).” KnowsShowsLightSpaceTelevisionTvsCivilizationSafeProgramGood ThingsSpeedAliensBad ThingsHostSignalsTalk ShowsSpeed Of LightEavesdropping Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“It's interesting--the way in which one has to balance life--because you have to know when to let go and when to pull back.... There's always some liminal (as opposed to subliminal) space in between which is harder to inhabit because it never feels as safe as moving from one extreme to another.” KnowsWayLifeFeelsMovingSpaceInterestingSecurityBalanceSafeLetting GoHarderExtremesSubliminal Author:Bell Hooks
“Schools provide safe spaces to talk about controversial issues, and literature presents characters portraying human experience in all its richness and contradictoriness.” HumansCharacterSchoolLiteratureSpaceIssuesSafeHuman ExperienceRichnessControversialPortrayingSafe SpaceControversial Issues Author:Julia Alvarez
“Homophobia is a tough one. In some places it's actually very OK to be homophobic. Comedy clubs in general are very unsafe spaces for LGBT, for women, for Asian people. So my goal in comedy has sort of been to make this a safe space for people who were like me.” PeopleGoalSpaceComedySafeToughClubsLike MeLgbtAsianHomophobiaUnsafeHomophobicSafe SpaceComedy Clubs Author:Margaret Cho
“I would require every producer of food to follow and have enforced a standard safety plan. We know how to produce safe food. It has a horrible name; it's called HACCP - Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point - and this was a food safety system that was developed for NASA so that astronauts wouldn't get sick in outer space. If you just think about what it might be like to have food poison under conditions of zero gravity, you don't even want to think about it.” IfsThinkingKnowsWantMightNamesSpaceKnow HowPlansConditionsProduceSafeStandardsSickSafetyCriticalHorribleProducersAnalysisPoisonZeroGravityAstronautHazardsNasaOuter SpaceFood SafetyZero GravitySafe Food Author:Marion Nestle
“You need to identify the steps at which contamination can occur - those are the critical control points. You take steps to make sure that that doesn't happen. And you monitor and evaluate and test to make sure that your system is working properly. And if it's done diligently and done faithfully and monitored carefully, then they're producing safe food. And no astronaut of which I'm aware has ever gotten food poisoning in outer space.” IfsNeedsDoneHappensSpaceStepsSafeTestsCriticalAstronautEvaluateOuter SpacePoisoningContaminationFood PoisoningSafe Food Author:Marion Nestle
“Our brain comes hard-wired with an urge to play, one that hurls us into sociability. A child's play both demands and creates its own safe space, one in which she can confront threats, fears, and dangers, but always come through whole. Play offers a child a natural way to manage feared separations or abandonment, rendering them instead opportunities for mastery and self-discovery.” WayChildrenSelfHardPlayWholeOpportunityNaturalSpaceBrainDangerOffersSafeDemandDiscoveryThreatSeparationSelf DiscoveryManageUrgesMasteryAbandonmentRenderingSafe SpaceSociability Author:Daniel Goleman
“I fear that my mind would starve and that I might find myself in danger if I had no visual information, that it's chiefly the light, the shapes, the spaces, the colors that I see that compel me to keep moving forward in life and that keep me safe.” IfsMindLightMightMovingSpaceInformationDangerColorShapesSafeMoving ForwardVisualsKeep MovingKeep Moving ForwardMoving Forward In LifeJust Keep MovingKeep It MovingJust Keep Moving ForwardForward In Life Author:Rosemary Mahoney
“I want the kind of readers who remain children at any cost. I can tell them at a glance: loyalty to that first enchantment guards better than any cosmetic; than any diet, against the insults of age. But alas for such readers, who would huddle safe and sound in the asylum of their credulous enchantment as if in the womb-our enervating century offends them by its chaos, its fidgets of light and space, the host of its excuses for dividing , for rending oneself from others and from oneself.” IfsWantFirstsKindChildrenI CanLightAgeSoundSpaceCenturyReaderCostSafeChaosOneselfExcuseLoyaltyDietsInsultHostGlancesAlasWombCosmeticsAsylumsEnchantmentDividingSafe And Sound Author:Jean Cocteau
“I think that by arming the allies of ISIS, the Islamic rebels against [Bashar] Assad, that we created a safe space or made that space bigger for ISIS to grow.” ThinkingMadeGrowsSpaceSafeBiggerIslamicAlliesRebelIsisAssadSafe Space Author:Rand Paul
“I think that if you believe in regime change, you're mistaken. In 2013, we put 600 tons of weapons - us, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar - into the war against [Bashar] Assad. By pushing Assad back, we did create a safe space.” IfsThinkingBelieveWarSpaceSafeWeaponsPushingRegimesMistakenIf You BelieveArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisAssadSafe SpaceRegime ChangeQatar Author:Rand Paul
“With space travel, [it's] no different. You know, in 1990 I read the name Virgin Galactic Airways. Loved the name. And set out to try to find an engineer or rocket scientist in the world who could build a safe, reusable rocket that could take people to and from space and we could start a whole new era of commercial space travel.” PeopleKnowsWorldTryingDifferentWholeNamesSpaceSafeScientistErasEngineersVirginsRocketsSpace TravelNew Era Author:Richard Branson
“A good friend is someone we can count on, as well as being so much more. A friend is someone with whom we can relax and just hang out, have fun and share our innermost thoughts - deep dark secrets, lofty and noble goals, or our hopes, joys, and fears. A good friend allows you a safe space to share your deepest thoughts and needs - without worry of being judged, criticized or made to feel silly for feeling the way you do. Friends cheer each other on, laugh and cry together, and just plain commiserate and listen to each other. That's why friends are friends.” WayNeedsFeelsWellsMadeFeelingsTogetherJoyFunGoalFriendshipDarkSpaceSecretWorryLaughingShareCrySafeNobleSillyHaving FunRelaxHanging OutCheerJudgedGood FriendLoftySafe SpaceBeing JudgedDeep DarkDark SecretsDeepest Thoughts Author:Jennifer Youngs
“Until today I had made no public comment about Jeremy's [Corbyn] ability to lead our party, but the fact that he failed to intervene is final proof for me that he is unfit to lead, and that a Labour Party under his stewardship cannot be a safe space for British Jews.” MadeFactsTodayAbilitySpacePartySafeFinalsJewBritishProofLabourCommentStewardshipLabour PartySafe Space Author:Ruth Smeeth
“College is a safe space where it can be hard to truly fail. The institution is rooting for you because your failure makes them look bad, too. New York City has no such mandate. I've had to hone and sharpen and refine my work here at a pace which may not have happened in other cities.” LooksMayHardSpaceCitiesFailingHappenedNew YorkCollegeSafeInstitutionsNew York CityPaceMandatesSafe Space Author:Baratunde Thurston
“Having a safe space to imagine and dream and (re)invent yourself is the first step to being happy and successful, whatever road you choose to pursue.” FirstsDreamSpaceStepsSuccessfulImagineSafePursueYou ChooseFirst StepsSafe Space Author:Ashley Bryan
“Through the craziness, yoga classes allow me a safe space to breathe and put energy into myself.” EnergySpaceClassSafeYogaBreatheCrazinessSafe Space Author:Sadie Calvano
“Trigger warnings and safe spaces are an infantilizing setback for feminism - and for women.” SpaceFeminismSafeWarningTriggersSetbackSafe Space Author:Christina Hoff Sommers
“"Marginalized others" have access to other ways of knowing, and therefore to deeper, more authentic truths about human reality. They can share that knowledge by speaking about their lived experience while in a safe space. But to provide this kind of safety, members of privileged groups, i.e. white, able-bodied, cis-gendered middle class men, must keep quiet.” MenWayHumansKindRealityAbleSpaceWhiteClassKnowingGroupsShareMiddleQuietSafeMembersSafetyDeeperAccessMiddle ClassPrivilegedMarginalizedSafe Space Author:Christina Hoff Sommers
“Young women at our elite colleges are among the safest, most privileged and most empowered of any group on the planet. Yet, from the moment they get to campus - and now, even earlier - an endless stream of propaganda tells them otherwise. They are offered safe spaces and healing circles to help them cope with the ravages of a phantom patriarchy.” MomentsHelpingYoungSpaceHealingGroupsCollegePlanetsSafeCirclesEndlessPropagandaStreamsElitesYoung WomenPrivilegedPatriarchyEmpoweredPhantomsCampusSafe Space Author:Christina Hoff Sommers
“The serious work for feminism in the 21st century is across the globe. Instead of retreating into "safe spaces" and focusing on their own imagined oppression, today's feminists should be reaching out to women's groups in the developing world.” WorldShouldTodaySpaceGroupsFeminismCenturySeriousSafeFeministOppressionDevelopingReachingReach OutGlobes21st CenturySafe SpaceSerious Work Author:Christina Hoff Sommers
“Where I'm like,"no, I won't have that piece of bread, I'll have the veg." There's a different approach mentally that you have when you're in a safe space. Our body awareness in the West is ridiculous.” DifferentBodySpacePiecesAwarenessSafeApproachWestRidiculousBreadSafe SpaceDifferent ApproachBody Awareness Author:Bryce Dallas Howard
“The theater should always be a safe space.” ShouldSpaceSafeTheaterSafe Space Author:Lin-Manuel Miranda
“I think there's a group of students - whether it's the micro-aggression or the safe space or the trigger warning that garner a lot of attention - but that the fundamental issues that they're more interested in are - and I'll be very frank here - how much money do I pay for a unit? And what is that unit going to do for me when I'm graduating?And even though this is mostly in a progressive landscape, they're asking questions that have not been asked of the university. And the university can't supply answers to them.” ThinkingSpaceAnswersPayAttentionIssuesGroupsStudentsSafeAskingFundamentalsUniversityLandscapeProgressiveWarningGraduatesFrankAggressionUnitsTriggersAsking QuestionsSafe Space Author:Victor Davis Hanson
“The Washington Post is quickly trying to become the safe space for Donald Trump deniers, for the Trump-won-the-election deniers. I think the Washington Post is establishing itself as the safe space for anti-Trump delicate snowflakes to go.” ThinkingTryingSpaceTrumpSafeElectionPostsDelicateSnowflakeSafe Space Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Families that I lived with a little bit in junior high and quite a bit in high school and college. Just to have a safe, sane space with food and things like that. That's what I needed. And people were really kind and really generous. So I think the world kind of opened up my first years of performing arts, studying classical saxophone with Caesar DiMauro.” PeopleThinkingWorldYearsFirstsKindLittlesArtSchoolBitsSpaceStudyCollegeNeededSafeLittle BitHigh SchoolPerformingGenerousSaneJuniorsSaxophoneJunior HighPerforming Arts Author:Jon Gordon
“Drawing creates its own kind of private space. Coupled with certain interests that I want to speak to in my art, it's really kind of a safe haven for me. Creating art is not only a comfort zone, but also a way of speaking to my passions.” WayWantKindArtCertainPassionSpeakInterestSpaceHavensComfortSafeCreatingArt IsDrawingZoneComfort ZoneMy PassionSafe HavenCreating Art Author:Jerry Pinkney
“One thing we've learned this summer is that a house is not an end in itself, any more than "home" is just one geographic location where things feel safe and familiar. Home can be anyplace in which we create our own sense of rest and peace as we tend to the spaces in which we eat and sleep and play. It is a place that we create and re-create in every moment, at every stage of our lives, a place where the plain and common becomes cherished and the ordinary becomes sacred.” FeelsEndsPlayMomentsHomeHouseSleepSpaceCommonOur LivesOne ThingStageSafeSummerOrdinarySacredFamiliarJust OneLocationRest And Peace Author:Katrina Kenison
“He felt safe with her. He'd never been safe with another human being, not since he'd been taken as a child from his home. He'd never been able to trust. He could never give that last small piece - all that was left of his humanity - into someone else's keeping. And now there was Rikki. She let him be whatever he had to be to survive. She didn't ask anything of him. There was no hidden motive. No agenda. Just acceptance. She was different - imperfect, or so she thought - and she knew what it was like to fight to carve out a space for herself. She was willing for him to do thar.” GivingHumansChildrenDifferentHomeAbleLastsHumanityFightingAsksLeftFeltHuman BeingsSpaceTakenPiecesAcceptanceWillingSafeMotiveAgendasImperfectSmall Pieces Book:Water Bound Source: Water Bound
“I may be just an empty flesh terminal reliant on technology for all my ideas, memories and relationships, but I am confident that all of that everything that makes me a unique human being is still out there somewhere, safe in a theoretical storage space owned by giant, multinational corporations.” HumansMayStillsIdeasMemoriesHuman BeingsSpaceTechnologySafeUniqueEmptyFleshCorporationsGiantsTheoreticalStorageTerminalMultinationalsMultinational CorporationsStorage Space Author:Stephen Colbert