Safely Quotes

372 quotes by 318 authors

Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer. — Charles Caleb Colton
We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation… — Thomas Jefferson
I acknowledge that such a debt [of service to my fellow-citizens] exists, that a tour of duty in whatever line he can be most useful… — Thomas Jefferson
We owe gratitude to France, justice to England, good will to all, and subservience to none ... it was by the sober sense of our… — Thomas Jefferson
Don't get me wrong: I love nuclear energy! It's just that I prefer fusion to fission. And it just so happens that there's an enormous… — William McDonough
I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. — Henry David Thoreau
We cannot safely assume that other people's minds work on the same principles as our own. All too often, others with whom we come in… — Isabel Briggs Myers
It may be said of some very old places, as of some very old books, that they are destined to be forever new. The nearer… — Amelia B. Edwards
The science and technology which have advanced man safely into space have brought about startling medical advances for man on earth. Out of space research… — Hubertus Strughold
Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has arrested ten thousand lightning flashes… — Richard Chenevix Trench
It is better to give love. Hatred is a low and degrading motion and is so poisonous that no man is strong enough to use… — Thomas Dreier
Here I am, safely returned over those peaks from a journey far more beautiful and strange than anything I had hoped for or imagined -… — Peter Matthiessen
Every place in the country you should get a license that shows you know how to safely store it, keep it away from your children… — Michael D. Barnes
Without undervaluing any other human agency, it may be safely affirmed that the Common School, improved and energized, as it can easily be, may become… — Horace Mann
Great literature is like moral leadership; everyone deplores the lack of it, but there is a tendency to prefer it from the safely dead. — Shirley Hazzard
I want to see us to explore outer space. But I want to do it safely, without the loss of human life, and democratically: where… — Michio Kaku
By some estimates, the oil you recently discovered off the shores of Brazil could amount to twice the reserves we have in the United States.… — Barack Obama
It may be safely averred that good cookery is the best and truest economy, turning to full account every wholesome article of food, and converting… — Eliza Acton
Dangerous acts can be done safely in a community which thinks and feels rightly, which would be the way to hell if they were executed… — John Maynard Keynes
The Lord is in control. He knows the end from the beginning. He has given us adequate instruction that, if followed, will see us safely… — M. Russell Ballard

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