Best 1639 quotes in «danger quotes» category

The sense of danger made her lift up her head higher. There were battles coming. But life was meant to be a battle, wasn't it? There was nothing to fear.

These times of ours are series and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.

The sick are the greatest danger for the healthy; it is not from the strongest that harm comes to the strong, but from the weakest.

The sirens sing sotto voce these days, and the young already have enough wax in their ears to pass them by without danger.

The sort of sweeping parochial espionage and attempts to extract information from all sorts of institutions are well documented, but I think in this context there's a danger of oversimplifying and seeing that sector of cyber as a one-way street.

The specific danger is us; we are rampant; this earth is our only friend; we are destroying it increment by increment at a horrific rate. We must understand that we can't buy it back.

The spirit of militarism has already permeated all walks of life. Indeed, I am convinced that militarism is a greater danger here than anywhere else, because of the many bribes capitalism holds out to those whom it wishes to destroy.

The state or global forms of power that seek to protect populations considered in danger may well extend their own power through those acts of protection.

The state is in danger of falling into disrepute due to the evidence of its inadequate resources.

The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.

The terrorism danger to the United States "is even worse than September 11th, when 19 hijackers murdered almost 3,000 Americans.

The term 'Pre-Raphaelite' is in danger of becoming one of the most misused tags in art history

The virtuous woman flees from danger; she trusts more to her prudence in shunning it than in her strength to overcome it.

The U.S. prosecution service is eating at the soul of the American republic. It is an absolute danger to everyone.

The uncertainty of the danger belongs to the essence of terrorism.

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.

Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep'rate friends.

Things were somehow so good that they were in danger of becoming very bad because what is fully mature is very close to rotting

The 'well-informed citizenry is in danger of becoming the 'well-amused audience'.

The wife, where danger or dishonour lurks, Safest and seemliest by her husband stays, Who guards her, or with her the worst endures.

This is why mustard gas is such a danger or any weapon of mass destruction is such a dangerous thing because it - it's victims become everyone in the end.

Those engaged in directing the actions of others are always in danger of overlooking the importance of the sequential development of those they direct.

To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

To elope is cowardly; it is running away from danger; and danger has become so rare in modern life.

To delve into history entails, besides the grievance of hard work, the danger that in the depths one may lose one’s scapegoats.

To get overprotective about particular readings of the Bible is always in danger of idolatry.

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.

To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero.

Too much of whatever is dangerous.

To a freedom fighter hope is what a lifebelt is to a swimmer - a guarantee that one will keep afloat and free from danger.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Truth is always in danger of being sacrificed on the altars of good taste and social stability.

Voting is no substitute for the eternal vigilance that every friend of freedom must demonstrate towards government. If our freedom is to survive, Americans must become far better informed of the dangers from Washington -- regardless of who wins the Presidency.

We are in danger of valuing most highly those things we can measure most accurately, which means that we are often precisely wrong rather than approximately right

War is the province of danger.

We are ashamed of our fear; for we know that a righteous man would not suspect danger nor incur any. Wherever a man feels fear, there is an avenger.

We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.

We are in danger of being stern where God is tender, and of being tender where God is stern.

We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.

We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions in their danger.

We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.

We live in constant danger of coming apart. The mystery of why we do not always come apart is the animating tension of all art.

We have a society that's trying to make sure that nobody gets any adventures because adventures are dangerous and danger is bad.

We hope all danger may be overcome; but to conclude that no danger may ever arise would itself be extremely dangerous.

We live in a world with so many dangers that we have to be careful whom we trust.

We may worship a picture as God, but not God as the picture. God in the picture is right, but the picture as God is wrong. God in the image is perfectly right. There is no danger there. This is the real worship of God. But the image-God is a mere Pratika.

Well, I enjoy sharing in the dangers that we ask our men and women in uniform to share in almost every day.

We need to be as well prepared to defend ourselves against public health dangers as we should be to defend ourselves against any foreign danger.

We must move into the universe. Mankind must save itself. We must escape the danger of war and politics. We must become astronauts and go out into the universe and discover the God in ourselves.

We're finite creatures, doomed to never get a fraction of what wisdom it would take to deal with infinity. My book has a lot to do with the unbelievable power and beauty of that almost unattainable freedom. Since none of us really gets to know it, we don't know what extremely powerful dangers might lurk in it.