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
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
Loving someone is such an inherently dangerous act. And yet, love, that's where safety lives.
—Gayle Forman in Just One Year
Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
—William Dement
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
That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.
—Marcus Aurelius
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
Leap, and the net will appear.
—John Burroughs
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
We have men loosening the nails on Noah's ark.
—Robert Bly
Date someone who'll wait to make sure you get inside before driving away.
—Morgan Matson in Since You've Been Gone
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
—Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
Avoid safety. The very word has a mean sound.
—Constance Wagner
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
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