“In skating over thin ice our safety is our speed.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Prudence
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variant: In skating over thin ice our safety is our speed.
“I am fascinated by the idea that our civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness”
Herzog on Herzog (2002)
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“This is what aesthetics, development and progress depend upon: that we go out on thin ice.”
Asger Jorn (1914–1973) Danish artist
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1959 - 1973, Various sources
“I can see why you like it here, there's a thin layer of nerd all over everything.”
Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels
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“a waiting, stagnant darkness, thick and silent as the ocean deeps”
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Paul Klee (1879–1940) German Swiss painter
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“If I'm walking on thin ice, I might as well dance my way across.”
Mercedes Lackey (1950) American novelist and short story writer
Bono (1960) Irish rock musician, singer of U2
National Prayer Breakfast (2006)
Context: I close this morning on … very... thin... ice.
This is a dangerous idea I've put on the table: my God vs. your God, their God vs. our God... vs. no God. It is very easy, in these times, to see religion as a force for division rather than unity.
And this is a town — Washington — that knows something of division.
But the reason I am here, and the reason I keep coming back to Washington, is because this is a town that is proving it can come together on behalf of what the Scriptures call the least of these.
This is not a Republican idea. It is not a Democratic idea. It is not even, with all due respect, an American idea. Nor it is unique to any one faith.
"Do to others as you would have them do to you." [Luke 6:30] Jesus says that.
"Righteousness is this: that one should... give away wealth out of love for Him to the near of kin and the orphans and the needy and the wayfarer and the beggars and for the emancipation of the captives." The Koran says that. [2.177]
Thus sayeth the Lord: "Bring the homeless poor into the house, when you see the naked, cover him, then your light will break out like the dawn and your recovery will speedily spring fourth, then your Lord will be your rear guard." The Jewish scripture says that. Isaiah 58 again.