Danger Quotes
2549 Danger quotes by 1667 unique authors
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Every gift contains a danger. Whatever gift we have we are compelled to express. And if the expression of that gift is blocked, distorted, or…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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The fact the enemies of God must face is that modern civilization has conquered the world, but in doing so has lost its soul. And…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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God and the Doctor we alike adore But only when in danger, not before; The danger o'er, both are alike requited, God is forgotten, and…
— Robert Owen
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That 'change makes us uncomfortable' is now one of the most widely promoted, widely accepted, and under-considered half-truths around. [I]t is not change by itself…
— Robert Kegan
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What is too often forgotten is that nature obviously intends the botched to die, and that every interference with that benign process is full of…
— H. L. Mencken
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Our safety is not in blindness, but in facing our dangers.
— Friedrich Schiller
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Nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger... . Between violence and cowardly flight I can only prefer violence to cowardice.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I'm never going to be in danger of getting the Nobel Prize for literature.
— David Eddings
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This is a grave danger: the stoppage of information between the parts of the planet. Contemporary science knows that such stoppage is the way of…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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The more hidden the venom, the more dangerous it is.
— Margaret of Valois
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I don't like to be described as a Southern writer. The danger is, if you're described as a Southern writer, you might be thought of…
— Walker Percy
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Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost; psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths; it strips us of our impurities, of all…
— Emile M. Cioran
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The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time,…
— Robert Frost
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Blackened skeleton arms of wood by the wayside pointed upward to the convent, as if the ghosts of former travellers, overwhelmed by the snow, haunted…
— Charles Dickens
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The music of life is in danger of being lost in the music of the voice.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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To run away from danger, instead of facing it, is to deny one's faith in man and God, even one's own self. It were better…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opponents than from his fervent supporters. For…
— Walter Lippmann
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For many men that stumble at the threshold are well foretold that danger lurks within.
— William Shakespeare
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The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. True enough, robots do…
— Erich Fromm
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A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain, but teaches us at every…
— William Hazlitt
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Some of the more fatuous flag-waving Americans are in danger of forgetting that you can't extract gratitude as you would extract a tooth; that unless…
— Max Lerner
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What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we…
— John Cheever
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Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are necessities.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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It is the fine rain that soaks us through.
— Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
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