Danger Quotes
2549 Danger quotes by 1667 unique authors
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There is no one who does not represent a danger to someone.
— Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
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Insufficient facts always invite danger.
— Leonard Nimoy
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Everything that's fun in life is dangerous. Horse races, for instance, are very dangerous. But attempt to design a safe horse and the result is…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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So long as money can answer, it were wrong in any business to put the life in danger.
— Saadi
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No estimate is more in danger of erroneous calculations than those by which a man computes the force of his own genius.
— Samuel Johnson
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For danger levels man and brute And all are fellows in their need.
— John Dryden
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The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the…
— Karl Marx
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Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact notion of sincerity, and in the end coming to despise…
— Joseph Conrad
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That was what, ultimately, war did to you. It was not the physical dangers--the mines at sea, the bombs from the air, the crisp ping…
— Agatha Christie
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One way in which fools succeed where wise men fail is that through ignorance of the danger they sometimes go coolly about a hazardous business.
— Richard Whately
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If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.
— Sophocles
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You have to go out of your way as a suspense novelist to find situations where the protagonists are somewhat helpless and in real danger.
— Nelson DeMille
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The danger of disturbing the public tranquillity by interesting too strongly the public passions, is a still more serious objection against a frequent reference of…
— James Madison
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On the occasions when I have pondered over men's various activities, the dangers and worries they are exposed to at court or at war, from…
— Blaise Pascal
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To give a name to a thing is as gratifying as giving a name to an island, but it is also dangerous: the danger consists…
— Primo Levi
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If it were felt that the free development of individuality is one of the leading essentials of well-being; that it is not only a coordinate…
— John Stuart Mill
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A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself in his rightful…
— Cyril Connolly
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We do not run from the troubles and dangers that are truly ours, and it is better to learn what they are earlier than later,…
— Katherine Anne Porter
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There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.
— Andre Breton
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Norman Mailer in his writings is ultimately more concerned with success than with danger; danger is only a means to success.
— Susan Sontag
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The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel.
— Charles Churchill
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Driving a car, you are in danger of killing; walking or standing, of being killed.
— Mary McCarthy
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In truth, men speak too much of danger.
— Jose Marti
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Life and death are nothing but the mind. Years, months, days, and hours are nothing but the mind. Dreams, illusions, and mirages are nothing but…
— Dogen
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