If one took no chances, one would not fly at all. Safety lies in the judgment of the chances one takes. That judgment, in turn, must rest upon one’s outlook on life. Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in bed. —Charles Lindbergh More about this quote Tags: judgement risk danger safety chance cowardice Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I knew you wouldn't let anything happen to me. I always felt safe when you were around. —Nicholas Sparks in The Best of Me More about this quote Tags: safety confidence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Loving someone is such an inherently dangerous act. And yet, love, that's where safety lives. —Gayle Forman in Just One Year More about this quote Tags: danger safety loving live Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. —William Dement More about this quote Tags: safety dreams sanity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When a child first catches adults out — when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not have divine intelligence, that their judgments are not always wise, their thinking true, their sentences just — his world falls into panic desolation. The gods are fallen and all safety gone. And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. It is a tedious job to build them up again; they never quite shine. And the child's world is never quite whole again. It is an aching kind of growing. —John Steinbeck More about this quote Tags: justice wisdom learning intelligence safety gods childhood growth lying parental infallibility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees. —Marcus Aurelius More about this quote Tags: safety good community individuality belonging Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety. —James Baldwin More about this quote Tags: knowledge safety identity change world Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Leap, and the net will appear. —John Burroughs More about this quote Tags: risk safety possibility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Starting over can be the scariest thing in the entire world, whether it's leaving a lover, a school, a team, a friend or anything else that feels like a core part of our identity but when your gut is telling you that something here isn't right or feels unsafe, I really want you to listen and trust in that voice. —Jennifer Elisabeth More about this quote Tags: safety change faith trust starting over Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We have men loosening the nails on Noah's ark. —Robert Bly More about this quote Tags: cynicism safety sabatoge Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Date someone who'll wait to make sure you get inside before driving away. —Morgan Matson in Since You've Been Gone More about this quote Tags: relationships safety dating Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. —Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. More about this quote Tags: politics freedom society safety popularity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Avoid safety. The very word has a mean sound. —Constance Wagner More about this quote Tags: words safety sound Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
He felt warm and familiar. He felt solid and safe. I wanted to cling to his shirt, bury my face into the warm curve of his neck, and never let go. —Becca Fitzpatrick in Crescendo More about this quote Tags: relationships safety Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
He was my anchor in the hurricane, yet at the same time, the hurricane itself, so that I nearly always felt safe and afraid simultaneously. There was nothing in the world as confusing and powerful as being close to him. —Kristen Simmons in Article 5 More about this quote Tags: fear relationships safety Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email