Best safety & thinking Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net. Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care ... it is another story altogether.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Stories Problem Care America Cost Safety Blessed Access Reform Health Care Safety Net Health Care Costs

Author:Abraham Verghese

“I think that there’s going to be a rush to judgment on civil liberties, and a clamping down, a suspension of our democratic rights. And I believe that those who are good Americans would want to see this not happen and that we debate how to find a balance between the public safety and the protection of civil liberties.”

Thinking Want Believe Happens I Believe Liberty Rights Balance Civilization Judgment Safety Democratic Protection Debate Civil Liberties Suspension Public Safety Democratic Rights

Author:Barbara Lee

“I was like one of those people who is allergic to the twentieth century... I'd been brought up to think there was some order to things, but there was no safety net. Doctors accused me of being mad.”

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Author:Peter Wolf

“We tried some experiments in mind reading which were not very successful. Think mind reading contrary to common sense, wise provision of the Bon Dieu that we cannot read each others minds, twould stop civilization and everybody would take to the woods. In fifty or hundred thousand centuries when mankind have become perfect by evolution then perhaps this sense could be developed with safety to the state.”

“As for women that do not think their own safety worth their thought, that impatient of their present state, resolve as they call it to take the first good Christian that comes; that runs into matrimony, as a horse rushes into battle; I can say nothing to them, but this, that they are a sort of ladies that are to be pray'd for among the rest of distemper'd people; and to me they look like people that venture their whole estates in a lottery where there is a hundred thousand blanks to one prize.”

Source: The works of Daniel De Foe [ed.] by W. Hazlitt

“I would like to please the reader, and I think that surprise has to be an element of this, and that may necessitate a certain amount of teasing. To shock the reader is something else again. That has to be handled with great care if you're not going to alienate and hurt him, and I'm firmly against that, just as I disapprove of people who dress with that in mind - dye their hair blue and stick safety pins through their noses and so on.”

People Ifs Thinking Mind May Care Certain Hurt Hair Reader Amount Please Elements Dresses Safety Blue Sticks Surprise Noses Shock Pins Tease Safety Pins

Author:John Ashbery

“I do not think that safety should be bought at the cost of complicating the expression of good solutions to real-life problems.”

Thinking Should Real Problem Expression Cost Solutions Safety Real Life

Author:Bjarne Stroustrup

“Through positive thinking and related approaches, we seek the safety and solid ground of certainty, of knowing how the future will turn out, of a time in the future when we'll be ceaselessly happy and never have to fear negative emotions again. But in chasing all that, we close down the very faculties that permit the happiness we crave.”

Thinking Turns Emotion Knowing Positive Thinking Approach Negative Safety Certainty Related Faculty Permit Chasing Crave Negative Emotions

Author:Oliver Burkeman

“I think what's great about that relationship between an actor and a Director is you have to really blow away all your thing, the safety things that you put up.”

Thinking Actors Directors Safety Blow

Author:Hilary Swank

“If you don't think it's safe, it probably isn't.”

Ifs Thinking Safe Safety Workplace Safety

Author:Jerry Smith

“Superstition is the poetry of life. It is inherent in man's nature; and when we think it is wholly eradicated, it takes refuge in the strangest holes and corners, whence it peeps out all at once, as soon as it can do it with safety.”

Thinking Men Can Do Safety Corners Holes Superstitions Inherent Refuge

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“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.”

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Author:Keri Russell

“I was once a welfare recipient and am very aware of the successes and failures of this critical safety net. There are those that would have us believe that those receiving TANF benefits are lazy, shiftless, freeloaders who are just sitting around thinking of another way to suckle from the government teat.”

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Author:Gwen Moore

“To allow public access to orbit, we would need breakthroughs that would lower the cost by a lot more than an order of magnitude and increase safety by a factor of 100 as compared to every launch system used since the first manned space flight. I think airborne launch will be a significant part of the safety solution.”

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Author:Burt Rutan

“All the housemaid hopes is, happiness for 'em - but marriage is a lottery, and the more she thinks about it, the more she feels the independence and the safety of a single life.”

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Book:Works of Charles Dickens

Source: Works of Charles Dickens

“I think I've been really lucky to keep my career so varied, and to be open. There's safety in repetition, but there's also a trap there.”

Thinking Careers Lucky Safety Traps Repetition

Author:Martin Short

“Human beings have a drive for security and safety, which is often what fuels the spiritual search. This very drive for security and safety is what causes so much misery and confusion. Freedom is a state of complete and absolute insecurity and not knowing. So, in seeking security and safety, you actually distance yourself from the freedom you want. There is no security in freedom, at least not in the sense that we normally think of security. This is, of course, why it is so free: there's nothing there to grab hold of.”

Thinking Want Humans States Spiritual Courses Causes Human Beings Knowing Security Absolutes Safety Distance Misery Seeking Confusion Fuel Insecurity Not Knowing

Author:Adyashanti

“I have a thing about honesty; I think it's crucial to a relationship. Otherwise, one person holds all the power. It's healthy to be straightforward, and it turns out you can wind up weathering a lot. Knowing that everything is on the table - what you see is what you get - lends a sense of safety.”

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Author:Jennifer Connelly

“Mobile communications have two functions: as a safety net, and as a marketing tool. I think it'd be foolish to not carry one for safety sake. Using one for marketing is an optional activity, and I've generally stayed away from extensively using one for this purpose because it's a distraction.”

Thinking Two Purpose Communication Activity Tools Function Safety Sake Marketing Foolish Distraction Mobile Optional Safety Net

Author:Andrew Skurka

“I got a lot of mail from organizations concerned with bike safety. Then I got a couple from people who wanted my support for mandatory helmet laws. I can't support that. If you pass a law like that you'll do more harm than good, because you'll make people think they've done something about the problem when they haven't.”

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Author:Dave Barry

“I really think that people have to think safety; taking risks for higher yield is a bad idea once you're in late or latish middle age.”

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Author:Paul Krugman

“This is to think, that men are so foolish, that they take care to avoid what mischiefs may be done them by pole-cats, or foxes; but are content, nay, think it safety, to be devoured by lions.”

Thinking Men May Done Care Cat Safety Take Care Foolish Lions Foxes Mischief

Book:Two treatises of government

Source: Two treatises of government

“I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little.”

Thinking Littles Parent Perfect Concerned Safety Strict

Author:Dan O'Brien

“To secure the safety of the navigation of the Mississippi River I would slay millions. On that point I am not only insane, but mad... I think I see one or two quick blows that will astonish the natives of the South and will convince them that, though to stand behind a big cottonwood and shoot at a passing boat is good sport and safe, it may still reach and kill their friends and families hundreds of miles off. For every bullet shot at a steamboat, I would shoot a thousand 30-pounder Parrots into even helpless towns on Red, Ouachita, Yazoo, or wherever a boat can float or soldier march.”

“Many countries have food safety systems from farm to table. Everybody involved in the food supply is required to follow standard food safety procedures. You would think that everyone involved with food would not want people to get sick from it.”

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Author:Marion Nestle

“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.”

“When you talk about the security and safety of average Americans it doesn't do average Americans a lot of good to expand America's military footprint if the daily lives of average Americans are being undermined by the fact that we're no longer able to compete in a global economy. I think that's the kind of human security we have to pay more attention to.”

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Author:Peter Beinart

“Most people believe in God because they have been taught from early infancy to do it, and that is the main reason. Then I think that the next most powerful reason is the wish for safety.”

People Thinking Believe Has Beens Reason Next Wish Powerful Taught Safety Most Powerful Believe In God Infancy

Book:A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42

Source: A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42

“It is strange how a man believes he can think better in a special place. I have such a place, have always had it, but I know it isn't thinking I do there, but feeling and experiencing and remembering. It's a safety place. Everyone must have one, although I never heard a man tell of it.”

Thinking Knows Men Believe Feelings Remember Heard Special Strange Safety Special Places

Author:John Steinbeck

“All teenagers want to rebel a little and break away. But I think you are always going to want to go back to your parents for that safety they provide.”

Thinking Want Littles Parent Break Safety Teenager Rebel

Author:Saoirse Ronan

“I don't think we should ever accept the idea that someone can come along and take away our safety and our freedom.”

Thinking Should Ideas Accepting Safety

Author:Barack Obama

“I think comedy should be left up to the professionals, that way everyone's safety is protected.”

Thinking Way Should Left Comedy Safety Protected

Author:Greg Proops

“Donald Trump is not a serious kind of candidate. We need someone that thinks this through. That can lead our country to safety and security.”

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Author:Jeb Bush

“I respect unions, I think they have an important role to pay and I listen to them, we meet with them, and they raise valid points on a lot of issues like worker safety and so forth, but I also respect the right of individual workers to decide whether they want to pay that fee and whether they want to join a union.”

Thinking Want Important Individual Pay Roles Issues Raises Safety Unions Workers Fees

Author:Marco Rubio

“I'm not at all against white people adopting black children, because we're all human beings who need to give love and be nurtured in safety, but I do think it's better to be adopted by blacks.”

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Author:Kola Boof

“The first scene I ever appeared in, it was the first scene I ever shot [during my] first day on set. I walk up to my mom with a plastic bag over my head and she says that her clothes better not be on the floor, not that a plastic bag is not a safety hazard or anything. I think it's a really cute scene and also just a very vivid memory.”

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Author:Kiernan Shipka

“I think doing anything having to do with war, you walk away so very grateful for everything you have and the safety that you have.”

Thinking War Walks Safety Grateful

Author:Angelina Jolie

“I think I've been called edgy - but in all honestly, there is a safety in what I do because I'm always the idiot.”

Thinking Safety Honestly Idiot Edgy

Author:Sarah Silverman

“Shaking up whole region means that Israel needs the US for its safety and military camps are "flourishing" everywhere in the Middle East. It has been said that Barack Obama is less interested in the Middle East. I don't think so. This mess has been created and maintained. Maybe the US is pretending to be less interested, however, it allows them to take their power back when it comes to security.”

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Author:Tariq Ramadan

“I think a big misconception about GMOs is that there is a scientific consensus on their safety.”

Thinking Bigs Safety Consensus Misconception Gmos

Author:Zoe Lister-Jones

“Everything that we believe in and count on is really in question right now. Our safety net, public education, housing, health care, so many things that are fundamental to a healthy democracy, are under attack. So I think, in general we've got a lot of work to do.”

Thinking Believe Care Democracy Healthy Right Now Safety Fundamentals Health Care Housing Public Education Safety Net

Author:Ai-jen Poo

“I also think it's crucial to convey that the [Black] Movement largely succeeded because of the unwavering dedication of young people willing to risk their comfort, their safety, their lives.”

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Author:Nate Powell

“I worked with and became close with these characters [in Twilight] and the people who are portraying them and it's kind of, I think, a safety net that we had, and it's going to be kind of strange not going back to set with these people that I've become so familiar with.”

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Author:Ashley Greene

“I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.”

Thinking Kind America Law Spirit Order Causes Danger Losing Illusion Safety Substitutes Adventurous Law And Order Adventurous Spirit

Author:Jerry Garcia

“Turning pot handles the other way around on the stove, making sure you talk with your family and kids directly about fire safety and about kitchen safety, keeping your tree at least three feet from a heater or any kind of lights or flames, making sure that candles aren't left unattended. It's all things that we should know and we think about initially, but during the holidays, in the commotion it seems to get kind of lost.”

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Author:Charlie Barnett

“There are doubtless all kinds of ways of explaining why people want security, but I do not think we can start with the psychological explanations. Even psychological states like fear or desire for safety are conditioned by social and political forms of intimidation and scare-mongering that intensify those emotions, and even work to persuade people that nothing less than their survival is at stake.”

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Author:Judith Butler

“We want in the UK to have a good trading relationship with the EU. I think that's in our interests, I think that's in their interests as well. I want to continue to be cooperating on criminal justice, on security and defense, with the EU, I think that's important for the safety of Europe.”

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Author:Theresa May

“Creating safety is your first job [as therapist], and then once that's established, you can use many tools to help someone see the folly in their thinking.”

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Author:Kelly Carlin-McCall

“40 percent of people who come to visit America on a visa overstay their visa and we have no idea where they are. On 9/11, at least 2 of the hijackers were here on visa. They were traveling back and forth to the Middle East. And we really had no idea where they were or what they were doing. And they were overstaying their visa. So there are problems I think in the immigration system that need to be fixed for our safety.”

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Author:Rand Paul

“It's going to have to come to a point where politicians in their own political self-interest think it's safe and advantageous to come out on the side of drug law reform. Right now, they don't care about drug safety. They just care about their standing with the electorate.”

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Author:Rick Steves

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