Best 961 quotes in «dangerous quotes» category

Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are. We are often like rivers: careless and forceful, timid and dangerous, lucid and muddied, eddying, gleaming, still.

Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.

Excel spreadsheets might as well be one of the most dangerous recent inventions.

Extremes are dangerous.

Familiarity makes the lion more dangerous.

Fashion is a dangerous road to go down. Anybody who is going to have children later in life had best not be too fashionable because the photos will come back to haunt them.

Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren't susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.

Flirting is a cheap, dangerous shortcut to get something you can't hold after you get it.

Flattery, the dangerous nurse of vice.

For anyone with the traits - of feeling himself victimized, of seeking to be the strongman who resolves everything, yet sees truth only through his own self and negates all other truth outside of it - is bound to become more malignant when he has power. Power then breeds an intensification of all this because the power can never be absolute power - to some extent it's stymied - but the isolation while in power becomes even more dangerous. Think of it as a vicious circle. The power intensifies these tendencies and the tendencies become more dangerous because of the power.

For every great temptation there will be many small ones. Wolves and bears are more dangerous than flies, but we are bothered most by flies.

For all you know, the way I act could very well be an act. Or maybe it isn't. I could be the most dangerous, most vicious one of the bunch, because no one takes me seriously!

For true patriots to be silent, is dangerous.

General rules are dangerous of application in particular instances.

For we can only know that we know nothing, and a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

Freedom is a dangerous intoxicant and very few people can tolerate it in any quantity.

Friendship is a difficult, dangerous job. It is also (though we rarely admit it) extremely exhausting.

Genocide is not war! It is more dangerous than war!

[Gonturan] is a true friend, but a friend with thoughts of her own, and the thoughts of others are dangerous.

Going to a psychiatrist has become one of the most dangerous things a person can do.

Getting typecast is a dangerous thing to do.

Given the right set of circumstances any one of us could become dangerous - so why not show that in our programmes?

Going up the mast is one of the most dangerous things you can do as a solo sailor.

Guns are dangerous and damaging even when no one gets shot. They really do loom.

Grief can choke you. It’s dangerous, something else you have to beat.

Happiness is the pleasantest of emotions; because of this, it is the most dangerous. Having once felt happiness, one will do anything to maintain it, and losing it, one will grieve.

Having your own space is getting rarer and rarer these days. It's dangerous giving someone like me - who grew up fantasizing about studios and records - the freedom and resources to build your own studio. I would just live in it, which is what I pretty much did for all of the '90s.

He (Dave Brower) is an emotionalist in an age of dangerous reason.

Heaven forbid we've got a problem where we could have prevented a terrorist attack or apprehended someone who is engaged in dangerous activity, but we didn't do so simply because of inaction in the Senate.

Hey, I took karate when I was 17 years old, I am dangerous.

He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

He is mad, bad and dangerous to know.

Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.

Hillary and I will do immigration enforcement and we'll vet refugees based on whether they're dangerous or not. We won't do it based on discriminating against you from the country you come from or the religion that you practice.

He has that uncanny ability to be dangerous and pull the public in [on Michael Barrymore

Heterosexual men terrified me. I found them to be dangerous. Not all of them, of course, but it took me some time to learn to be comfortable.

He was living in an age much more dangerous, more painful, much more on the edge than our own particular age.

He who loves a dictator is much more dangerous than the dictator himself.

Honesty - however dangerous - should be as valuable as radium it seems to me.

How dangerous a master human emotion is!

How dangerous can false reasoning prove!

How dangerous emperors are when they go mad.

Humans are inscrutable. Infinitely unpredictable. This is what makes them dangerous.

I agree with the sentiment that it's probably more dangerous to believe some things that aren't so than to not believe something - you know, to believe in a lie.

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.

I can't overlook any opponent because all fighters are dangerous. Every fighter is dangerous.

I am not dangerous. Only the stories are dangerous. Only the fictions we create, especially when they become expectations.

I am portrayed as a dangerous individual who can be fought thanks to their ideas.

Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.

I did some thinking.” “That is a very dangerous pastime,” Ghastek said.