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“Risk more than others think safe.”

Thinking Risk Safe Customer Loyalty Inspirational Service Risk And Failure Loyal Customers

Book:Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time

Source: Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time

“Well the real concept of basic needs if you cut it right down are simply the physical needs that are unavoidable for all of us. So to have enough calories to keep our bodies going. Have shelter from extreme elements. To have water that is safe to drink, So I think that's the core of it.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Wells Real Enough Body Water Cutting Drink Safe Elements Concepts Extremes Core Shelter Calories Basic Needs

Author:Peter Singer

“I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today.”

Thinking Way Looks Today Generations Havens Safe Educate Documentaries Safe Haven

Author:Steven Spielberg

“I think the number one thing that I find important is the importance of honesty with your friends and your parents, if you can be. But I think that telling people how you really feel, being who you truly are, being safe and taking care of yourself is the most important thing.”

People Ifs Thinking Feels Important Care Parent Numbers One Thing Honesty Safe Importance Important Things Take Care Of Yourself

Author:Emma Stone

“I think we've already voted at the U.N., in the Security Council, to get rid of nuclear weapons. Let's get rid of them. Let's get rid of ours and then Iran will stop, I believe. And so everybody else will, because if everybody doesn't have them, then we're safe, at least safe from a nuclear attack.”

Ifs Thinking Believe I Believe Security Safe Weapons Nuclear Iran Nuclear Weapons Council Security Council

Author:Ted Turner

“And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard.”

Thinking Figures Safe Impress Impressive Haggard Very Impressive

Author:Warren Zevon

“If you truly love film, I think the healthiest thing to do is not read books on the subject. I prefer the glossy film magazines with their big color photos and gossip columns, or the National Enquirer. Such vulgarity is healthy and safe.”

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Author:Werner Herzog

“I'm convinced that you never have to give up liberties to be safe. I think you're less safe when you give up your liberties.”

Thinking Giving Liberty Safe Giving Up Convinced

Author:Ron Paul

“They are all alike you know. They hold their tongues for years and you think you're safe, but when the opportunity comes they remember everything.”

Thinking Knows Years Remember Opportunity Safe Tongue Remembers Everything

Book:The House of Mirth: Edith Wharton

Source: The House of Mirth: Edith Wharton

“Perhaps civilization will never be safe until we care for something else more than we care for it. The hypothesis has certain facts to support it. As far as peace (which is one ingredient in our idea of civilization)is concerned, I think many would now agree that a foreign policy dominated by desire for peace is one of the many roads that lead to war.”

Thinking Ideas War Facts Care Desire Certain Support Policy Civilization Safe Concerned Agree Ingredients Foreign Policy Hypothesis

Book:God in the Dock

Source: God in the Dock

“I think she was the love of his life. When you've got one of those, it does stuff to you. It makes you think about them even when you're doing routine things. It makes you want to protect them, to make them happy and safe.”

Thinking Want Doe Stuff Protect Safe Routine Make You Think

Author:Nora Roberts

“Lines I die but when the grave shall press The heart so long endeared to thee When earthy cares no more distress And earthy joys are nought to me. Weep not, but think that I have past Before thee o'er the sea of gloom. Have anchored safe and rest at last Where tears and mouring can not come. 'Tis I should weep to leave thee here On that dark ocean sailing drear With storms around and fears before And no kind light to point the shore. But long or short though life may be 'Tis nothing to eternity. We part below to meet on high Where blissful ages never die.”

Thinking Love Should Heart Kind May Long Light Care Age Lasts Past Joy Dies Lines Dark Sea Tears Safe Ocean Eternity Presses Storm Graves Thee Shore Distress Can Not Sailing Gloom

Author:Emily Bronte

“I heard what you said. I’m not the silly romantic you think. I don’t want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don’t want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want…a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved.”

Source: The Dream Thief

“But it does no good--solves nothing--to distance myself from the front lines of human need by using the mail as a safe shelter. I believe that serving the best ends of humanity means getting out in the middle of it just as it is, not staying home writing checks and thinking hopeful thoughts. The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are. And you're damned right that's idealistic. No apology. When idealism goes into the trash as junk mail, we're finished.”

Source: Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door

“I'm 17 years old. I'm not a straight-A student or anything. Even so, I figured out how to make an Internet that they can't wiretap. I figured out how to jam their person-tracking technology. I can turn innocent people into suspects and turn guilty people into innocents in their eyes. I could get metal onto an airplane or beat a no-fly list. I figured this stuff out by looking at the web and by thinking about it. If I can do it, terrorists can do it. They told us they took away our freedom to make us safe. Do you feel safe?”

People Ifs Thinking Feels Years Persons I Can Eye Turns Stuff Can Do Technology Students Internet Safe Beats Lists Terrorist Innocent Guilty Suspects Metals Airplane Jam I Can Do It Tracking

Author:Cory Doctorow

“You may want to keep a commonplace book which is a notebook where you can copy parts of books you think are in code, or take notes on a series of events you may have observed that are suspicious, unfortunate, or very dull. Keep your commonplace book in a safe place, such as underneath your bed, or at a nearby dairy.”

Thinking Want May Book Events Bed Safe Series Notes Code Dull Copies Unfortunate Suspicious Commonplace Notebook Dairy Safe Places

Author:Daniel Handler

“When the spent sun throws up its rays on cloud And goes down burning into the gulf below, No voice in nature is heard to cry aloud At what has happened. Birds, at least must know It is the change to darkness in the sky. Murmuring something quiet in her breast, One bird begins to close a faded eye; Or overtaken too far from his nest, Hurrying low above the grove, some waif Swoops just in time to his remembered tree. At most he thinks or twitters softly, 'Safe! Now let the night be dark for all of me. Let the night be too dark for me to see Into the future. Let what will be, be.”

Thinking Knows Eye Night Voice Dark Darkness Sun Happened Heard Tree Sky Cry Quiet Safe Lows Bird Clouds Burning Remembered Breasts Rays Nests Faded Grove Hurrying Murmuring

Book:Complete Poems of Robert Frost: 1949

Source: Complete Poems of Robert Frost: 1949

“history only existed in the human mind, subject to endless revision. 'each man kills the thing he loves'-Oscar Wilde. You kill it before it kills you, but he was wrong. you killed it by accident. thinking you were doing something else. shattering, when all you wanted to do was keep it safe.”

Thinking Men Mind Humans Wanted Subjects Safe Accidents Endless Human Mind Oscars Revision Shattering Wilde

Author:Janet Fitch

“Sometimes I think it's better to suffer bitter unhappiness and to fight and to scream out, and even to suffer that terrible pain, than to just be... safe. At least she knows she's living.”

Thinking Knows Sometimes Pain Suffering Fighting Terrible Safe Bitter Unhappiness Scream

Book:A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN MAGGIE NOW

Source: A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN MAGGIE NOW

“And you've actually watched it yourself?' I asked. 'Willingly?' Sure. I had to see it, you know? Besides we should be safe. Only one in twenty viewers actually had a bad reaction. And it was mostly kids who were affected. I mean younger than you guys. I think the average age was about ten.' That made me feel somewhat better. But that was a kid's show,' said Jen. 'Maybe it affects everyone, but not that many adults were watching.' That made me feel less better. I wanted my protective bangs back.”

Thinking Knows Feels Should Mean Made Said Shows Kids Age Wanted Guy Ten Safe Adults Twenties Average Reactions Affected Viewers Bangs Protective

Author:Scott Westerfeld

“I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted.”

Thinking Christ Safe South

Author:Flannery O'Connor

“If you dare try to leave me behind, I'll follow on foot, and when I die in the snow, Ill come back and haunt you. I'll make your life a complete misery. No ghost will ever have been as inventive in its nastiness as I'll be: I'll turn your food rancid; I'll transform your drink into blood; I'll howl and moan throughout the night; there'll be no place safe from me. And don't think I couldn't do it, Thirrin, Queen of Icemark, because I can assure you, I could.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Has Beens I Can Night Dies Turns Behinds Blood Feet Drink Safe Misery Ill Dare Ghost Snow Queens Leaving Me Because I Can Howl Nastiness

Author:Stuart Hill

“It's just that, right now, I want to hear you promise me that if we do run out of time and I go mad, like Miranda, it ends with me. The curse ends here, because our baby will be safe. You will make that happen. Isn't that so?" It took him a minute. "Yes," he said finnally. "It's so. Although, if we're just going to talk about the baby, I can think of an easier way to save her." Oh? What?" I'd just lock her up from her sixteenth birthday on." Lucy didn't laugh. "Don't think I haven't thought of that too, love. but here's the thing. That parents try that in all the fairy tales. It never works.”

“I took a deep breath, 'I took the nahlrout because I didn't want to faint. I needed to let them know they couldn't hurt me. I've learned that the best way to stay safe is to make your enemies think you can't be hurt.' It sounded ugly to say it so starkly, but it was the truth. I looked at him defiantly.”

Thinking Knows Way Want Hurt Enemy Needed Safe Breaths Ugly Best Way I've Learned Hurt Me Deep Breath

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“Do you realize it’s been only a century that we’ve been able to go from house to car to office to car to wherever, with the heater on, and the defroster on, protected from the rain and the cold? It hasn’t been much longer than that we’ve had lighting for streets. Think of all that darkness, all that world out there, all that mystery that we’ve turned into well-lighted concrete bunkers, safe and warm and dull.”

Thinking World Wells Able House Realizing Darkness Mystery Streets Century Car Cold Safe Office Rain Warm Dull Concrete Protected Lighting Bunkers

Author:Sheri S. Tepper

“If I had my way," Dionysus said, "I would cause your molecules to erupt in flames. We'd sweep up the ashes and be done with a lot of trouble. But Chiron seems to feel this would be against my mission at this cursed camp: to keep you little brats safe from harm." "Spontaneous combustion is a form of harm, Mr. D," Chiron put in. "Nonsense," Dionysus said. "Boy wouldn't feel a thing. Nevertheless, I've agreed to restrain myself. I'm thinking of turning you into a dolphin instead, sending you back to your father.”

“He says when your grandmother died your mother cried solidly for a week, solidly. She was crying with relief he says, it was like as if a door had been unlocked and she'd been let outside, she said to me I'm safe now. He waits, and he says this kid, when it's born, you mustn't ever let it think it's anything other than a gift and a blessing, do you hear me?”

Ifs Thinking Said Kids Mother Waiting Born Doors Week Cry Blessing Safe Died Relief Grandmother Cried Your Grandmother

Book:If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things

Source: If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things

“I don't think playing it safe constitutes a retreat, necessarily. In other words, I don't think if, by playing safe he means we are not going to delve into controversy, then if that's what he means he's quite right. I'm not going to delve into controversy. Somebody asked me the other day if this means that I'm going to be a meek conformist, and my answer is no. I'm just acting the role of a tired non-conformist.”

Ifs Thinking Mean Answers Acting Roles Safe Tired Retreat Controversy Meek Conformist Playing It Safe Non Conformist

Author:Rod Serling

“Once someone's hurt you, it's harder to relax around them, harder to think of them as safe to love. But it doesn't stop you from wanting them.”

Thinking Love Hurt Safe Harder Relax Deep Thought

Book:White Cat

Source: White Cat

“You can’t protect yourself. No matter how safe you think you are. No matter how much precaution you take, the rodents always find a way in.’ (Kiara)”

Thinking Way Matter Protect Safe Precaution Protect Yourself Rodents

Book:Born of Night

Source: Born of Night

“Atlantis: Fabled. Mystical. Golden. Mysterious. Glorious and magical. There are those who claim that it never was. But then there are also those who think they are safe in this modern world of technology and weapons. Safe from all the ancient evils. They even believe that wizards, warriors, and dragons are long dead. They are fools clinging to their science and logic while thinking it will save them. (Thrylos)”

Thinking World Believe Long Evil Technology Modern Fool Safe Weapons Logic Claims Ancient Golden Mysterious Warrior Glorious Dragons Mystical Modern World Wizards Clinging Atlantis

Book:Kiss of the Night

Source: Kiss of the Night

“Ah! Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans! I was unfortunate enough in my youth to come across a vomit-flavored one, and since then I’m afraid I’ve rather lost my liking for them — but I think I’ll be safe with a nice toffee, don’t you?” He smiled and popped the golden-brown bean into his mouth. “Alas! Ear wax!”

Thinking Enough Lost Nice Youth Safe Mouths Ears Golden Brown Unfortunate Flavor Alas Beans Toffee

Author:J. K. Rowling

“I think of the snarling, cruel exchange back on the hovercraft. The bitterness that followed. But all I say is "I can't believe you didn't rescue Peeta." "I know," he replies. There's a sense of incompleteness. And not because he hasn't apologized. But because we were a team. We had a deal to keep Peeta safe. A drunken, unrealistic deal made in the dark of night, but a deal just the same. And in my heart of hearts, I know we both failed. "Now you say it," I tell him. "I can't believe you let him out of your sight that night," says Haymitch.”

Thinking Knows Believe Heart Made I Can Night Dark Deals Team My Heart Safe Sight Bitterness Rescue Peeta Haymitch Incompleteness Snarling Hovercrafts

Author:Suzanne Collins

“My life has been the polar opposite of safe, but I am proud of it and so is my son, and that is good enough for me. I would do it all over again without changing the beat, although I have never recommended it to others. That would be cruel and irresponsible and wrong, I think, and I am none of those things.”

Thinking Has Beens Enough Would Be Son Proud Safe Beats Opposites My Son Good Enough Irresponsible Polar Opposites

Book:Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F

Source: Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F

“Assuming I survive our hunt for the Horcruxes, I’ll find Mum and Dad and lift the enchantment. If I don’t – well, I think I’ve cast a good enough charm to keep them safe and happy. Wendell and Monica Wilkins don’t know that they’ve got a daughter, you see.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Wells Enough Dad Safe Daughter Assuming Casts Lifts Charm Good Enough Mum Hunts Enchantment Hermione Monica Mum And Dad Horcruxes

Author:J. K. Rowling

“I needed to let them know they couldn't hurt me. I've learned that the best way to stay safe is to make your enemies think you can't be hurt.”

Thinking Knows Way Hurt Enemy Needed Safe Best Way I've Learned Hurt Me

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“You think you're safe. Until you see a picture like that. And then you know you'll always be a slave to the present because the present is more powerful than the past, no matter how long ago the present happened.”

Thinking Knows Long Matter Past Powerful Happened Safe Slave Knees Long Ago Be A Slave

Book:Fall On Your Knees

Source: Fall On Your Knees

“Sometimes maybe you should let someone you love travel great distances away from you. You shouldn’t think you needed to set out to retrieve them and put them back where they belonged. Sometimes they were only safe and happy, like Annabelle Aurora. And then other times, it was just possible they were lost at sea. It would be your duty, then, to get out into the boat and search, even if the waves were choppy and the wind was howling the protests of the dead.”

Ifs Thinking Should Sometimes Would Be Lost Sea Wind Duty Needed Safe Distance Wave Boat Protest Away From You Someone You Love Aurora Annabelle Lost At Sea

Book:Stay

Source: Stay

“Change is freedom, change is life. It's always easier not to think for oneself. Find a nice safe hierarchy and settle in. Don't make changes, don't risk disapproval, don't upset your syndics. It's always easiest to let yourself be governed. There's a point, around age twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities. Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfil my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to go unbuild walls.”

Thinking Age Social Virtue Nice Risk Wall Easier Safe Function Twenties Oneself Settling Upset Prisoner Organisms Hierarchy Rest Of Your Life Making Changes Disapproval

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“The right belief is like a good cloak, I think. If it fits you well, it keeps you warm and safe. The wrong fit however, can suffocate.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Belief Fit Safe Warm Cloaks

Book:Mistborn Trilogy

Source: Mistborn Trilogy

“I shook my head. “I don’t think so. This isn’t a good idea. This isn’t right.” “There’s all kinds of right,” he murmured. “On the spectrum, we’re still in the safe zone.” ... “Definitely right. Usually right,” Patch continued. “Mostly right. Maybe right.”

Thinking Kind Stills Ideas Safe All Kinds Zone Good Ideas Spectrum Patches

Book:Hush, Hush Parts 1 & 2: includes Hush, Hush and Crescendo

Source: Hush, Hush Parts 1 & 2: includes Hush, Hush and Crescendo

“I will hurt you for this. I don't know how yet, but give me time. A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in your mouth, and you'll know the debt is paid.”

Thinking Knows Giving Joy Turns Hurt Know How Safe Mouths Give Me Paid Debt Ashes Fire And Ice Song Of Ice And Fire Clash Of Kings

Book:A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows

Source: A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows

“It's not a loup cage, you know,' I told her. 'It's a holding cell. Or safe room. or secure room. I don't think Jim ever settled on a term he could live with.' 'Aha. It's a loup cage.' Andrea cleared her throat. 'I touched it with my finger and it hurt. Is that in case of marital problems?”

Thinking Knows Problem Term Hurt Rooms Cases Safe Fingers Secure Cells Touched Throat It Hurts Cages Andrea

Author:Ilona Andrews

“Fantasy is not antirational, but pararational; not realistic but surrealistic, a heightening of reality. In Freud's terminology, it employs primary not secondary process thinking. It employs archetypes which, as Jung warned us, are dangerous things. Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.”

Thinking Feels Should Reality Process Fiction Fantasy Dangerous Safe Primaries Insanity Wilderness Mysticism Realistic Dangerous Things Archetype Jung Terminology

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“It is never quite safe to think we have done with life. When we imagine we have finished our story fate has a trick of turning the page and showing us yet another chapter.”

Thinking Life Done Stories Fate Imagine Safe Pages Finished Tricks Chapters

Book:L. M. MONTGOMERY – Premium Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry & Autobiography (Including Anne Shirley Novels, Chronicles of Avonlea & The Story Girl Series): Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, The Golden Road, Kilmeny of the Orchard, The Watchman, Songs of the Sea & many more

Source: L. M. MONTGOMERY – Premium Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry & Autobiography (Including Anne Shirley Novels, Chronicles of Avonlea & The Story Girl Series): Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, The Golden Road, Kilmeny of the Orchard, The Watchman, Songs of the Sea & many more

“They held me and told me everything would be fine, that sadness would rise from our bones and evaporate in sunlight the way morning fog burned off the river in summer. My mother rubbed the kites on my hands and arms and told me to think of my lungs as balloons. I just want to feel safe, I said.”

Thinking Way Want Feels Said Hands Would Be Mother Morning Sadness Arms Fine Safe Summer Rivers Bones Sunlight Burned Fog Lungs Balloons Kites

Book:Light Boxes: A Novel

Source: Light Boxes: A Novel

“Control was just wishful thinking, and you controlled things to hedge your bets, to be safe, to guard against loss.”

Thinking Loss Safe Controlled Wishful Thinking

Book:The Six Rules of Maybe

Source: The Six Rules of Maybe

“Maybe it was a good thing that Bones was putting Don's remains away instead of me. With my current emotional state, I'd probably think the only safe place for his ashes was tucked inside my clothes next to the garlic and weed.”

Thinking States Next Emotional Safe Clothes Remains Good Things Currents Bones Weed Ashes Garlic Safe Places

Author:Jeaniene Frost

“The most often repeated commandment in the Bible is 'Do not fear.' It's in there over two hundred times. That means a couple of things, if you think about it. It means we are going to be afraid, and it means we shouldn't let fear boss us around. Before I realized we were supposed to fight fear, I thought of fear as a subtle suggestion in our subconscious designed to keep us safe, or more important, keep us from getting humiliated. And I guess it serves that purpose. But fear isn't only a guide to keep us safe; it's also a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.”

Source: A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

“So as I think back on it now, I think it is safe to say that music is something you both hear and feel. I also realize that feelings change frequently and that for the most part, they are not a constant. They change from high to low, happy to sad, content to ecstatic and back down again. Not all music has the same purpose, but most music makes you feel "something.”

Thinking Feels Feelings Purpose Realizing Safe Music Is Lows Constant Ecstatic Feelings Change

Book:Chords of Strength: A Memoir of Soul, Song and the Power of Perseverance

Source: Chords of Strength: A Memoir of Soul, Song and the Power of Perseverance