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Safe Places Quotes (page 3)

It was this feminine conspiracy which made Southern society so pleasant. Women knew that a land where men were contented, uncontradicted ans safe in possession of unpunctured vanity was likely to be a very pleasant place for women to live. So, from the cradle to the grave, women strove to make men pleased with themselves, and the satisfied men repaid lavishly with gallantry and adoration. In fact, men willingly gave ladies everything in the world except credit for having intelligence. Margaret Mitchell
A classic,' suggested Anthony, 'is a successful book that has survived the reaction of the next period or generation. Then it's safe, like a style in architecture or furniture. It's acquired a picturesque dignity to take the place of its fashion. F. Scott Fitzgerald
There was a peculiar fascination for Dorothea in this division of property intended for herself, and always regarded by her as excessive. She was blind, you see, to many things obvious to others - likely to tread in the wrong places, as Celia had warned her; yet her blindness to whatever did not lie in her own pure purpose carried her safely by the side of precipices where vision would have been perilous with fear. George Eliot
Can we actually suppose that we are wasting, polluting, and making ugly this beautiful land for the sake of patriotism and the love of God? Perhaps some of us would like to think so, but in fact this destruction is taking place because we have allowed ourselves to believe, and to live, a mated pair of economic lies: that nothing has a value that is not assigned to it by the market; and that the economic life of our communities can safely be handed over to the great corporations. (from... Wendell Berry
John White Geary quote: "In isolated or country places no man's life is safe."
In isolated or country places no man's life is safe. John White Geary
I wanted to create a place where parents can come and find products that are safe for their children, as well as good for the planet. Soleil Moon Frye
Betty Ford quote: "This is a place where you can go, that you can feel safe and..."
This is a place where you can go, that you can feel safe and look inside yourself and discover yourself. Betty Ford
I think at a certain level compared - as was pointed out earlier, compared to what is happening in Europe, the United States still gets the safe-haven money. But underlying that, the United States is not the safe haven but perhaps the most dangerous place of all. Mark Steyn
Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open. Ludwig Wittgenstein
If you need to put your money in a safe and secure place and you want it to earn interest, Treasury bonds are safer than putting it in any bank as a deposit or putting it anywhere else, because they are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States Government. Jim Cooper
Michael Ondaatje quote: "The past is still, for us, a place that is not safely settled."
The past is still, for us, a place that is not safely settled. Michael Ondaatje
I feel responsible; I feel I've got to do something that will leave the kids a place where they can live healthy, safe, productive, creative and prosperous lives. Dennis Weaver
At 6 years old, the ice became a place for me to express myself. Because I was so shy off the ice, it became my safe haven, with music and freedom and self-expression. That was my emotional outlet. Kristi Yamaguchi
Jena Malone quote: "We are all searching for some form of family or foundation -..."
We are all searching for some form of family or foundation - for a place we can feel safe and secure. Jena Malone
Dolley Madison quote: "It is done... the precious portrait placed in the hands of the..."
It is done... the precious portrait placed in the hands of the gentlemen for safe keeping. Dolley Madison

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