Dangerous Quotes · Page 196

Precedents are dangerous things; let the reins of government then be braced and held with a steady hand, and every violation of…

— George Washington

Only gods can safely risk perfection ... it's a dangerous thing for a man.

— Frank Herbert

We know a little bit about a lot of things. Just enough to make us dangerous.

— Dean Winchester

For the first time in my life, I have tasted life. Life is wonderful but very dangerous. If you have the courage…

— Lionel Barrymore

the most dangerous temptations are not due to the active, sudden flames of desire, 'the lusts of the flesh,' but to the…

— Sigrid Undset

As is widely accepted, putting a price on carbon pollution is the lowest cost and most efficient way to tackle dangerous climate…

— Wayne Swan

On the one hand we want to preserve the integrity of the judicial branch, and we want to talk about judicial independence,…

— Dahlia Lithwick

It is dangerous and unbelievably fast and entirely different from the kind of track I am used to racing on

— Valentino Rossi

Dragons are more dangerous, and a good deal commoner, than bears. Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Extending amnesty to those who came here illegally or overstayed their visas is dangerous waters...We are a nation of laws, and I…

— Jim Sensenbrenner

I know the way this city works. We have one of the most corrupt cities in the country. The reason it's so…

— Zoey Tur

The lesson I learned from the Cung Le fight is this: What we do is very dangerous and really shouldn't be played…

— Frank Shamrock

I grew up in the East Village, in Alphabet City, when it was a very dangerous neighborhood. To survive there, I had…

— Josh Pais

Pretending that the world’s religions are the same does not make our world safer. Like all forms of ignorance, it makes our…

— Stephen Prothero

There are some plain common-sense considerations applicable to all these attempts at world planning. They can be briefly stated: 1. To talk…

— Norman Thomas

It is dangerous to engage in even the most innocuous-seeming discourse with the FBI/ Homeland Security/ a local detective.

— Ingrid Newkirk

The suburbs are incredibly oppressive. I actually believe that the suburbs are much more dangerous than the ghettos.

— Aaron Rose

Any comedian who tells you how dark and dangerous they are, they're not dark and dangerous.

— Patton Oswalt

The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority

— Henrik Ibsen

The truth is, poverty's the environment for alcoholism, and the reservations aren't rich. Maybe cleaning people up in fiction is just as…

— Stephen Graham Jones

One should leave the piano when Oscar comes in. This man is dangerous.

— Marian McPartland

love is dangerous for your tiny heart even in your dreams so please dream softly

— Mathias Malzieu

Sometimes, in a portrait, I go straight in with paint onto canvas... Other than riding my bike up and down the hills…

— David Cobley

Light can be gentle, dangerous, dreamlike, bare, living, dead, misty, clear, hot, dark, violet, springlike, falling, straight, sensual, limited, poisonous, calm and…

— Sven Nykvist

The most dangerous evils of society are the ones we don't speak of.

— Anubhav Sinha