Dangers Quotes
429 Dangers quotes by 366 unique authors
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A theoretical physicist can spend his entire lifetime missing the intellectual challenge of experimental work, experiencing none of the thrills and dangers - the overhead…
— Leon M. Lederman
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The perils of overwork are slight compared with the dangers of inactivity.
— Thomas A. Edison
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As for the house, it is scrubbed to the tiniest mousehole before Passover, to avoid such dangers as even a forgotten cake crumb might cause.…
— M.F.K. Fisher
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"No," he says, taking us both in. "No, no, no. You've come farther than most people on this planet will in their lifetimes. You've overcome…
— Patrick Ness
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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When New Yorkers tell one about the dangers of their city, the muggings, the dinner parties to which no one turns up for fear of…
— Jonathan Raban
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The Puritans were obsessed with the dangers of wealth.
— Leland Ryken
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It's always better to be conservative in action. One must always consider the dangers in the world.
— Frederick Lenz
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How is it that, in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence, there are still some who would deny the dangers of climate change? Not surprisingly,…
— Nicholas Stern
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Here, in Cork district, you have in combination all the dangers which war can inflict.
— Eamon de Valera
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There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done, there are thousands to prophesy failure. There are thousands to point out to you, one…
— Edgar Guest
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Can any of us refute the wisdom of Madison and the other framers? Can anyone look at the carnage in Iran, the bloodshed in Northern…
— Barry Goldwater
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One of the grave dangers inherent in the various stages of any theatrical career-whether it be budding, quiescent or diminishing-is the advice of friends.
— Moss Hart
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In the deadly sweep Of every wave, A thousand dangers lie in wait.
— Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
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More and more people in my country recognise the dangers of having their governors appointed by Putin and having no influence in parliament because Parliament…
— Garry Kasparov
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There's a feeling of immortality you have in youth. You just don't see the dangers around you, or, if you do, maybe you're even excited…
— Michelle Forbes
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