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“If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.”
Woody Allen
“The coward threatens when he is safe”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.”
C.S. Lewis
“Rockabye Baby, in the treetopDont you know a treetopis no safe place to rock?And who put you up there,and your cradle too?Baby,I think someone down herehas got it in for you!”
Shel Silverstein
“A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded.”
Abraham Lincoln
“It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity”
Dag Hammarskjold
“Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand -- a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods -- or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values.”
Willa Sibert Cather
“Lord keep her safe since you can't keep her sane.”
Gloria Naylor
“Most dreams of glory are safe because we never venture to put them into practice.”
Charles Curothe
“It is respectable to have no illusions - and safe - and profitable, and dull”
Joseph Conrad