Dangerous famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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... a nation without humor is not only sad but dangerous.
-- Abby Aldrich Rockefeller -
Going up the mast is one of the most dangerous things you can do as a solo sailor.
-- Abby Sunderland -
It is always dangerous to underestimate anybody.
-- Abdallah II -
It is dangerous to exist in the world. To exist is to be threatened. We must live with threats.
-- Adam Levine -
Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
-- Adam McKay -
...Promises are more dangerous then secrets.
-- Aimee Friedman -
IPL does not allow Pakistani players because they are dangerous.
-- Alastair Cook -
I don't like perfection - I think it's dangerous. There is nothing after perfection.
-- Alber Elbaz -
It's very, very dangerous to lose contact with living nature.
-- Albert Hofmann -
It isn’t only art that is incompatible with happiness, it’s also science. Science is dangerous, we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Die gefährlichste Weltanschauung ist die Weltanschauung derer, die die Welt nie angeschaut haben. (The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those who have not viewed the world)
-- Alexander von Humboldt -
I'm a monster, you know. I'm one of the dangerous ones. No you aren't, he promised. Your one of us.
-- Alexandra Bracken -
Nothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville -
A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.
-- Alfred Adler -
You live in a dangerous place when you sacrifice integrity for security.
-- Amy Grant -
There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.
-- Andre Breton -
The one thing that tackle wasn't was high and dangerous.
-- Andy Gray -
She cared about him too much, and he was a dangerous person to love. He wouldn't love her back.
-- Ann Brashares -
Living too much in one's head can be dangerous.
-- Anna Godbersen -
A White Tiger keeps no friends. It's too dangerous.
-- Aravind Adiga -
How dangerous it is to reason from insufficient data.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
When people drink, they talk, and talk is dangerous!
-- August Strindberg -
The place that seems most dangerous is exactly where safety lies.
-- Barbara Cook -
Words are seductive and dangerous material, to be used with caution.
-- Barbara Tuchman -
The people I've encountered who are really dangerous in my life don't go around with their fangs drawn - they are dangerous because of the way they interpret what's going on.
-- Ben Mendelsohn -
The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
To protest free speech in the name of protecting women is dangerous and wrong.
-- Betty Friedan -
There are two equally dangerous extremes-to shut reason out, and to let nothing else in.
-- Blaise Pascal -
I engaged upon those activities because I believed that, in the dangerous circumstances which have been created in South Africa, it was my duty to do so.
-- Bram Fischer -
Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy.
-- Brené Brown -
Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.
-- Brené Brown -
The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous.
-- Brent Scowcroft -
Given the right set of circumstances any one of us could become dangerous - so why not show that in our programmes?
-- Bryan Cranston -
The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs.
-- C. S. Lewis -
The most dangerous ideas in a society are not the ones being argued, but the ones that are assumed.
-- C. S. Lewis -
The notion of overnight stardom is really dangerous. For almost every person who has success in this business, there are years and years of hard work to get there. To have longevity, you really have to train, and you really have to work.
-- Caitlin Fitzgerald -
If our intelligence is either manipulated or if it's shaded or if in some way it is exaggerated, it is very, very dangerous for us, particularly as we go down the road and look at other threats,.
-- Carl Levin -
To be original, or different, is felt to be "dangerous."
-- Carl Rogers -
It's not just being overweight that's dangerous. Stress is dangerous.
-- Carnie Wilson -
I knew the way lost hopes could be dangerous, how they could turn a person into someone they never thought they'd be.
-- Carol Rifka Brunt -
I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.
-- Casey Stengel -
It's better to do a dull thing with style than a dangerous thing without it.
-- Charles Bukowski -
Success is always dangerous. It can make an ***** out of anybody.
-- Charles Bukowski -
The method of authority will always govern the mass of mankind; and those who wield the various forms of organized force in the state will never be convinced that dangerous reasoning ought not to be suppressed in some way.
-- Charles Sanders Peirce -
Wealth is a dangerous inheritance, unless the inheritor is trained to active benevolence.
-- Charles Simmons -
The word “future†and females is a dangerous combination.
-- Chetan Bhagat -
Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.
-- Christian Lous Lange -
We live in a world where there are dangerous people, there are bad people.
-- Chuck Hagel -
Anybody who knows how to make a good movie, knows that it's a collaborative undertaking. To deny that its really dangerous.
-- Claire Danes -
The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like that of the circus for the crowd. There is always the hope that something dangerous will happen.
-- Claude Debussy -
Climate deniers are less immoral than Holocaust deniers, although they are undoubtedly more dangerous.
-- Clive Hamilton -
We live in very, very, very dangerous times.
-- Craig Shirley -
You can't take away knowledge, and it's dangerous to pretend you never had it.
-- Cynthia Heimel -
The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.
-- D. H. Lawrence -
the most dangerous enemy is that which no one fears!
-- Dan Brown -
Who will guard the guards ? If we're the guards of society, then who will watch us and make sure that we're not dangerous?
-- Dan Brown -
Humans are inscrutable. Infinitely unpredictable. This is what makes them dangerous.
-- Daniel H. Wilson -
The most dangerous diminutions of freedom come from those who are convinced of their moral rectitude.
-- Daniel Hannan -
It is dangerous to mention any subject having high emotional content without hastily saying where you are for or agin it.
-- Darrell Huff -
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing." - Harkat Mulds (Hunters of the Dusk)
-- Darren Shan -
The brain can be a dangerous thing. Even more so if you haven't got one.
-- Dave Courtney -
Being trendy is dangerous. I've never been trendy, which is why I've never really fallen out of favour.
-- David Bailey -
Assumptions are dangerous things. I like facts a lot better.
-- David Baldacci -
It's almost always dangerous to be right too soon.
-- David Gerrold -
The most dangerous thing about power is to employ it where it is not applicable.
-- David Halberstam -
There is nothing more dangerous than to leap a chasm in two jumps.
-- David Lloyd George -
Of course, we should all be aware of what we're packing in our carry-on luggage - anything that might be considered dangerous could be confiscated at a security checkpoint.
-- David Neeleman -
Are the most dangerous creatures the ones that use doors or the ones that don't?
-- David Wong -
Being a celebrity can be dangerous. Nobody says 'no.'
-- Demi Lovato -
Nothing is more dangerous that the politician who uses politics as a surrogate for an unsatisfactory personal life.
-- Denis Healey -
It is dangerous to attach probability zero to anything other than a logical impossibility.
-- Dennis Lindley -
It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions.
-- Dennis Potter -
He was living in an age much more dangerous, more painful, much more on the edge than our own particular age.
-- Derek Jacobi -
It was never physically dangerous except when I nearly fell off a horse, but it was physically arduous - especially when you were working late at night.
-- Derek Jacobi -
Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don't have the ability to be lovable.
-- Dick Gregory -
The female of all species are most dangerous when they appear to retreat.
-- Don Marquis -
And the most dangerous place on earth— Is where you’re safe.
-- Don Winslow -
There is nothing more seductive — and dangerous — than being listened to.
-- Donald Antrim -
Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don't want it.
-- Duke Ellington -
It is... treading on dangerous ground to paint the picturesque as I am at times doing.
-- E. J. Hughes -
I fare the best when I'm in dangerous situations.
-- Eddie Alvarez -
The more dangerous the situation I put myself into, the more I rise, the better I become.
-- Eddie Alvarez -
Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
-- Edward Abbey -
Art is nowhere near as dangerous as it should be.
-- Edward Albee -
I think the attempt to draw a comparison between Iran and Syria is false, misleading and dangerous.
-- Ehud Olmert -
Surgery is a complicated thing to talk about, but I guess it could also be a dangerous thing to play with if you're not very secure about what you're doing.
-- Elena Anaya -
In the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is dangerous.
-- Elie Wiesel
