Best 1639 quotes in «danger quotes» category

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Every generalization is dangerous, especially this one.

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

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.

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.

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.

Extremes are dangerous.

Fashionable dances as now carried on are revolting to every feeling of delicacy and propriety and are fraught with the greatest danger to millions.

Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.

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

For every hiker, climber or canoeist who gets into trouble, there are thousands more who don't. Peter Bronski's compelling account of misadventures in the Adirondacks is a necessary corrective for those who go into the mountains unwary of the dangers.

Fear loves the idea of danger.

Fear manifested invites danger.

Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power.

Forget about Batman, Superman, and the Power Rangers, cause I'll be your hero if you're ever in some danger.

For every apparent gain, in short, we now observe a balancing danger. This is the world we have created.

For many men that stumble at the threshold are well foretold that danger lurks within.

For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it.

Fear invites danger; concealed cowards insult known ones.

Formula One was a very dangerous sport. It still is dangerous. But the danger factor is also the exciting part.

Freedom is dangerous. Possibly crawling on all fours might be safer than standing upright, but we like the view better up there.

He had a mania for washing and disinfecting himself. . . . For him the only danger came from the microbes that attacked the body. He had not studied the microbe of conscience which eats into the soul.

For he that but conceives a crime in thought, Contracts the danger of an actual fault.

God is like a computer, the more software you put in, the greater the danger that extensions will conflict.

Greatest danger is not failure, but be successful and not know why.

He looked at their shabby clothes in puzzlement. “We were traveling anonymously for safety—” explained the magus. “But surely—” “—and then we were robbed on the road.” “Ah,” said the king, “the danger in being anonymous.

Here, in Cork district, you have in combination all the dangers which war can inflict.

He that lives alone lives in danger; society avoids many dangers.

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

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.

He was my first boyfriend, and I made him my everything - he was my new life, my new love, my new compass point. I guess that's the danger with firsts - you lose all sense of proportion.

He who goes oftenest round Cape Horn goes the most circumspectly.

He who observes the infinite horizons will see the dangers before others.

He who shares the danger ought to share the prize.

Hillary Clinton is actually telling her donors that Vladimir Putin targeted her personally because he's so afraid of her. We're dealing with some genuinely sick people here, folks, truly, I'm talking mentally ill. They're not all there. They pose a great danger.

Horror is a reaction; it's not a genre. Somebody's life would have to be in danger for it [story] to be a horror story.

How superbly brave is the Englishman in the presence of the awfulest forms of danger and death; and how abject in the presence of any and all forms of hereditary rank.

How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger.

Hope, danger's comforter