Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?
Jimmy Johnson

There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be.
Norman Mailer

Risk more than others think safe.
Howard Schultz

And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If you're just safe about the choices you make, you don't grow.
Heath Ledger

A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.
Grace Hopper

Banks properly established and conducted are highly useful to the business of the country, and will doubtless continue to exist in the States so long as they conform to their laws and are found to be safe and beneficial.
Martin Van Buren

Child abuse and neglect offend the basic values of our state. We have a responsibility to provide safe settings for at-risk children and facilitate permanent placement for children who cannot return home.
Matt Blunt

The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.
Kin Hubbard

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

In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
Taylor Caldwell

What has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the sense of fear of specific weapons, so much as it's been memory. The memory of what happened at Hiroshima.
John Hersey

The logical process will often be the safe one. I tend, when I'm given that choice, to go the way that's not safe.
Sting

What to an outsider will be no more than the vigorous presentation of a conviction, to an employee may be the manifestation of a determination which it is not safe to thwart.
Learned Hand

I love to play; a stage is a safe place for me to be. It's not that way for most folks, but I'd be lost without it.
Rick Danko

Some people get into this business and they're so afraid to lose anything. They try to protect their position like clinging to a beachhead. These actors end up making really safe choices. I never wanted to go that route. If I go down, I'm going down swinging.
Matt Damon

As a bull market continues, almost anything you buy goes up. It makes you feel that investing in stocks is a very easy and safe and that you're a financial genius.
Ron Chernow

Even in comedies, you've got to feel safe for things to just happen in a way that is natural and free, and recognizable as human.
Richard Gere

What we're doing is making sure that we have a safe and secure border region from San Diego all the way to Brownsville. And that means manpower, it means technology, it means infrastructure, it means interior enforcement. All, you know, kind of layered in appropriate ways, and making sure, like I said before, the border is safe and secure.
Janet Napolitano

When you work as an actor, you've got to feel safe even in what appears to be the simplest things.
Richard Gere