safe quotes

Just when you thought it was safe to get back into the water.

-Anonymous
c.1978  Publicity slogan for Jaws 2.

You are suspended in me beautiful and frozen, I preserve you, in me you are safe.

- Margaret Eleanor Atwood
  You  Are Happy,'Tricks with Mirrors'.

And he, who servilely creeps after sense, Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence.

-John Dryden
  Tyrannic Love, prologue.

Motor racing is dangerous; but what is danger? It is dangerous to climb a mountain. It is dangerous to cross main roads. It is dangerous to explore a jungle.One cannot frame regulations to make everything safe.

- Mike Hawthorn
  Shortly before his death. Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

A ship inport issafe butthat'snot what ships are builtfor.

- Grace Murray Hopper
   Address at Trinity College, Washington. Reported in Time, 22  Jun.

History teaches us that enmities between nations†do not last forever.Wemustconduct ouraffairsinsuchaway that it becomes in the communists' interests to agree on a genuine peace†to let each nation choose its own future, so long as that choice does not interfere with the choices of others. If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

-John F(itzgerald) Kennedy
  Speech,  American University, Washington DC,10  Jun.

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe.

- Martin Luther
  Speech in defence of his doctrines at the Diet of  Worms, 18  Apr.

How right it seemed that he should reach the span Of comfortable years allowed to man! Splendid to eat and sleep and choose a wife, Safe with his wound, a citizen of life. He hobbled blithely through the garden gate, And thought: 'Thank God they had to amputate!'

- Siegfried Louvain Sassoon
  'The One-Legged Man'.

Who is there in that lot one would want as a father, except perhaps MrsThatcher? That choice would be irregular but safe.

- Dame Rebecca formerly  Cecily Isabel Fairfield West
  Of British Prime Ministers.1900, introduction.

In this war, we demand nothing that is peculiar to ourselves; only thatthe world be made fit and safeto live in.The programme oftheworld'speace, therefore, is our programme.

- (Thomas) Woodrow Wilson
  The'Fourteen Points'speech to Congress, 8 Jan.