Best 1639 quotes in «danger quotes» category

Commonplaceness, the surrender to the average, that good which is not bad but still the enemy of the best - That is our besetting danger.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Controller Borasus sighed with relief. Libraries were not places of danger. It had to be a hoax.

Cops, the law's the law. You see somebody break it, you've got to be willing to enforce it. And doing that enhances the confrontational aspect of the whole circumstance. The more the confrontational aspect is ratcheted up the more danger is involved. It's gutsy work.

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Crying wolf is a real danger.

Danger comes on us more speedily when we treat it with contempt.

Cultivating inner discipline is something that takes time; expecting rapid results is simply a sign of impatience.

Danger has been a part of my life ever since I picked up a pen and wrote. Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies.

Danger knows full well that Caesar is more dangerous than he. We are two lions litter’d in one day, and I the elder and more terrible.

Danger's over, Banana Breakfast is saved.

Danger breeds best on too much confidence.

Danger is very real but fear is a choice.

Dangers breed fears, and fears more dangers bring.

Danger will wink on opportunity.

Danger is the spice of life and you’ve got to take a risk now and then…that’s what makes life worthwhile.

Dangers by being despised grow great.

Danger followed in his wake . . . followed, because it wouldn’t dare get in his way.

Danger invites rescue. ... The wrongdoer may not have foreseen the coming of a deliverer. He is accountable as if he had.

Danger is a side effect of what I do, not the reason behind it.

Danger is the very basis of superstition. It produces a searching after help supernaturally when human means are no longer supposed to be available.

... danger was always at its most lethal when disguised as respectability.

Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far distant.

Decide which is the line of conduct that presents the fewest drawbacks and then follow it out as being the best one, because one never finds anything perfectly pure and unmixed, or exempt from danger.

Delay always heeds danger.

Delay always breeds danger.

Danger, if met head on, can be nearly halved

Danger it selfe the best remedy for danger.

Danger Mouse is now working on a bunch of other records, translating his ideas about remixing into all sorts of other projects.

Dangers are sum like a kold bath, very dangerous while you stand stripped on the bank, but often not only harmless, but invigorating, if you pitch into them.

Dangers lurk in all systems. Systems incorporate the unexamined beliefs of their creators. Adopt a system, accept its beliefs, and you help strengthen the resistance to change

Do you know anything on earth which has not a dangerous side if it is mishandled and exaggerated?

Driving a car, you are in danger of killing; walking or standing, of being killed.

Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it—religious fanaticism.

Education without religion is in danger of substituting wild theories for the simple commonsense rules of Christianity.

Education is a danger... At best an education which produces useful coolies for us is admissible. Every educated person is a future enemy.

Ephemeral" It means 'which is in danger of speedy disappearance.

Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance.

Euthanasia is a long, smooth-sounding word, and it conceals its danger as long, smooth words do, but the danger is there, nevertheless.

Everybody is just a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way.

Everybody has a stunt except me. Every single person has a stunt, but I don't have a stunt, there's nothing. No wire, no pulling. I try to get in on the danger, but there's nothing.

Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.

Every crisis has both its dangers and its opportunities. Each can spell either salvation or doom.

Every generalization is dangerous, especially this one.

Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.

Everytime he brushes me with his fingers, time seems to tether for a second, like it is in danger of dissolving. The whole world is dissolving, I decide, except for us. Us.

Everything is paradox. The danger is one-dimensional thinking.

Experimental science hardly ever affords us more than approximations to the truth; and whenever many agents are concerned we are in great danger of being mistaken.

Extremes are dangerous.

Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.