Danger famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep'rate friends.
-- Abraham Cowley -
If you don't get killed, it's a lucky day for anybody.
-- Abraham Polonsky -
Keep in mind that whenever you are in a crisis, you are in the midst of danger as well as opportunity.
-- Adeline Yen Mah -
Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing.
-- Adolphe Monod -
Change holds danger, but also the potential for something new ~ and better ~ to be born.
-- Alberto Villoldo -
God is like a computer, the more software you put in, the greater the danger that extensions will conflict.
-- Alexander Waugh -
Imitation is the greatest danger of the young [artist].
-- Alexey Brodovitch -
Freedom has its dangers as well as its joys. And the sooner we learn to get up after a fall, the better off we'll be.
-- Alice Steinbach -
Truth is often attended with danger.
-- Ammianus Marcellinus -
There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.
-- Andre Breton -
The greatest danger in art is too much knowledge.
-- Andre Derain -
People who grow bored in their own company seem to me in danger.
-- Andrei Tarkovsky -
But there is no danger of my not concentrating on cricket. I'm comfortable on the pitch, and that will never change. I have to remember what I do for a living
-- Andrew Flintoff -
...remember that the danger that is most to be feared is never the danger we are most afraid of.
-- Andrew Lang -
Where cultural representations do not reach out beyond themselves, there is the danger that they will function as the surrogates for activism, that they will constitute both the beginning and the end of political practice.
-- Angela Davis -
Beauty Lures the Stranger More Easily into Danger -Septimus Heap
-- Angie Sage -
We live in a world with so many dangers that we have to be careful whom we trust.
-- Anthony Horowitz -
Artaud sought to remove aesthetic distance, bringing the audience into direct contact with the dangers of life. By turning theatre into a place where the spectator is exposed rather than protected, Artaud was committing an act of cruelty upon them.
-- Antonin Artaud -
A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies.
-- Aristotle -
Phelps has given us a clear warning of the dangers of corporatism. I hope that more people hear and heed the warning.
-- Arnold Kling -
Sam Snead will fly anywhere in my plane with me. Sam's not as worried about the danger as he is about saving money.
-- Arnold Palmer -
Do you know anything on earth which has not a dangerous side if it is mishandled and exaggerated?
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.
-- Arthur Helps -
To know nothing about yourself is to be constantly in danger of nothingness, those voids of non-being over which a man walks the tightrope of his life.
-- Athol Fugard -
The danger sensation is exciting. The challenge is to find new dangers.
-- Ayrton Senna -
Power is what spoils people. Yes, it seems to me that the seeking after power is the great danger and the great corruptor of mankind.
-- Baldur von Schirach -
There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
-- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison -
The GSEs are adequately capitalized. They are in no danger of failing.
-- Ben Bernanke -
Danger invites rescue. ... The wrongdoer may not have foreseen the coming of a deliverer. He is accountable as if he had.
-- Benjamin Cardozo -
The point is, we can decry the dangers we face or ignore them or even allow ourselves to be paralyzed by fear.
-- Benjamin Carson -
He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
The way to secure peace is to be prepared for war. They that are on their guard, and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked, than the supine, secure, and negligent.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Beware of meat twice boiled, and an old foe reconciled.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
-- Bernard Crick -
I never wanted Ford to be a place, like the tobacco industry, where our employees were not proud of coming to work for us. I felt there was a danger of that, should we be marginalized as a major polluter.
-- Bill Ford -
The angels minister to God's servants in time of hardship and danger.
-- Billy Graham -
The best way to avoid danger is to meet it plump.
-- Boyle Roche -
There are the medical dangers of football in general caused by head trauma over repetitive hits.
-- Buzz Bissinger -
You can't talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes.
-- C. Everett Koop -
Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are in that danger.
-- C. S. Lewis -
There is far more danger of harm than there is hope of good in any radical changes.
-- Calvin Coolidge -
The danger to America is not in the direction of the failure to maintain its economic position, but in the direction of the failure to maintain its ideals.
-- Calvin Coolidge -
By the winter of 1945-1946, the Russian peoples were being warned of the dangers from the West
-- Carroll Quigley -
There's always the danger that the extreme feminist will end up quite unfulfilled as a girl.
-- Catherine Marshall -
Impeachment is not a remedy for private wrongs; its a method of removing someone whose continued presence in office would cause grave danger to the nation.
-- Charles Ruff -
By looking at the difference between perceived danger and actual danger, you can fundamentally change your reaction.
-- Chris Hadfield -
Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger.
-- Christopher Lasch -
Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it—religious fanaticism.
-- Clarence Darrow -
Poor Lucas, always trying to protect me from danger. He’d never guessed that I was the dangerous one.
-- Claudia Gray -
The commission members themselves were never briefed on Able Danger.
-- Curt Weldon -
Cultivating inner discipline is something that takes time; expecting rapid results is simply a sign of impatience.
-- Dalai Lama -
I was happy in the midst of dangers and inconveniences.
-- Daniel Boone -
In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.
-- Daniel Boone -
Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.
-- Daniel Defoe -
We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.
-- David Sarnoff -
It's easier not to make a particular joke in case it offends. But every joke will offend someone, and I've always believed that the audience is bigger than one person. The danger is that things will become bland.
-- David Walliams -
That danger which is despised arrives the soonest.
-- Decimus Laberius -
There's a real danger in doing a sequel. There are some benefits, but that all hinges on how well you execute. Quite frankly, most sequels don't execute well
-- Donnie Wahlberg -
You know, the mountains are full of dangers, and they swallow you up. But mostly, they give.
-- Doug Coombs -
It is... treading on dangerous ground to paint the picturesque as I am at times doing.
-- E. J. Hughes -
Here, in Cork district, you have in combination all the dangers which war can inflict.
-- Eamon de Valera -
Danger could be my middle name... But it's John.
-- Eddie Izzard -
I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.
-- Edgar Allan Poe -
To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero.
-- Edmond Rostand -
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
-- Edmund Burke -
I've always hated the danger part of climbing, and it's great to come down again because it's safe.
-- Edmund Hillary -
I believe that at this point in history, the greatest danger to our freedom and way of life comes from the reasonable fear of omniscient State powers kept in check by nothing more than policy documents.
-- Edward Snowden -
No commandment surpasses the one concerning the liberation of hostages, for they are among the starving, the thirsting, the stripped, always in danger of death.
-- Elie Wiesel -
By far the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.
-- Eliezer Yudkowsky -
With young people, there's often that carelessness, allowing yourself to get into danger - recklessness, I suppose.
-- Emily Browning -
To live outside of God's will puts us in danger; to live in his will makes us dangerous.
-- Erwin McManus -
Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas.
-- Erwin Rommel -
... the truth holds the greatest magic, the greatest beauty, and sometimes the greatest danger....
-- Esther M. Friesner -
To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald -
Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it...
-- Francis Quarles -
There is less danger in fearing too much than too little.
-- Francis Walsingham -
We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger....
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.
-- Franklin Pierce -
And so the danger for the housing industry is if we see interest rates rise.
-- Franklin Raines -
Always presume that the enemy has dangerous designs and always be forehanded with the remedy. But do not let these calculations make your timid.
-- Frederick The Great -
Our safety is not in blindness, but in facing our dangers.
-- Friedrich Schiller -
Heroics are not easily had for the young in our times. Perhaps that is why they go to such extremes to create their own dangers.
-- Gail Godwin -
There is a particular danger with a war that God commands. What if God should lose?
-- Garry Wills -
The greatest danger in life is not to take the adventure.
-- George Leigh Mallory -
There is not much danger of the smaller nations if the big nations will behave.
-- George W. Norris -
[L]eave nothing to the uncertainty of procuring a warlike apparatus at the moment of public danger.
-- George Washington -
If we once get above our Bibles and cease making the written Word of God our sole rule both as to faith and practice, we shall soon lie open to all manner of delusion and be in great danger of making shipwreck of faith and a good conscience.
-- George Whitefield -
The most dangerous of our calculations are those we call illusions.
-- Georges Bernanos -
The danger is not to set your goal too high and fail to reach it. It’s to set your goal too low and reach it
-- Georges St-Pierre -
Without imagination, nothing is dangerous.
-- Georgette Leblanc -
The perpetual danger which besets religion is that it may substitute gentility and aestheticism for prophetic insight and power.
-- Georgia Harkness -
love is always in danger of being sentimentalized.
-- Georgia Harkness
