Cause Quote by Donna Leon Download Open image ““Perception of personal danger very often set people on the path of virtue.”” — Donna Leon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cause Character Danger Morality Virtue
“I’ve found that most people are generally a danger only to themselves.” — Eliza Maxwell Copy Share Image
“The argument of danger only applies to those who live in relative safety. (The Power and the Glory)” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Danger lies in the extreme. A man who is always cruel is evil, a man who is always compassionate will be taken advantage of.… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
“Virtue simply involves regulating your actions, words, and thoughts to create benefits rather than harms for yourself and others.” — Rick Hanson Copy Share Image
“Modern people are calibrated for a whole different level of danger acceptance.” — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“psychological safety—the belief that you can take a risk without being penalized or punished.” — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
“People who are not enjoying themselves very much always most dislike risking their lives.” — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
“Judging the actions of the many by those of the one is both human and dangerous.” — Sherwood Smith Copy Share Image
“Everywhere risk and defiance weave through the most mundane daily affairs.” — Lucia Berlin Copy Share Image
“Though it took enormous courage and virtue to risk your life in order to protect society, such selflessness also contained, at least from the… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“Vianello had the knack of getting people to talk. Especially if they were Venetians, the people he interviewed invariably warmed to this large, sweet-tempered… — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
This is a fallen world. People lie, the truth gets distorted, and that's the way it is. What's for dinner ? — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
“even the worst men wanted to be perceived as better than they were. How else could hypocrisy have risen to such delirious levels?” — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
“And will knowing what she reads make you know who she is?” “Can you think of a better way to tell?” — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be rich or successful or famous. I just wanted to be happy and have fun. — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
“Helmut thought himself above common morality. Or perhaps he thought he’d managed to create his own, different from ours, better.” — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
“Once, walking with him, Paola had stopped and asked him what he was thinking about, and the fact that she was the only person… — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
“..if you put people on a diet, they start thinking about food. Or if you make someone stop smoking, all they think about is… — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
And off in the far distance, the gold on the wings of the angel atop the bell tower of San Marco flashed in the… — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
Time travel offends our sense of cause and effect - but maybe the universe doesn't insist on cause and effect. — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
Films are tricky because for years you're getting told you're about to make it and you're about to be busy for four or six… — Mike Mills Copy Share Image
Must whales and dolphins be subjected to deafening noise that will cause more than 3.5 million instances of temporary and/or permanent hearing loss? For… — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
If I lose the ball I cause the team a problem. I am here to provide solutions. — Sergio Busquets Copy Share Image
“Until you find a cause you can die for, you are not worthy to live.” — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha Copy Share Image
Pacifism as a mass movement aims to avoid suffering; pacifists often say that no cause is worth suffering or dying for. The ethos of… — Adam Michnik Copy Share Image
War can be prevented only by broad-minded statesmanship - a statesmanship that understands how to enlist people's interests in a leading cause. — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
I think the other misconceptions when the film came out, he was very upset that it was so widely released and so widely seen.… — Terry Zwigoff Copy Share Image
When I was 7, my proudest possession would have been my bookshelf 'cause I had alphabetized all of the books on my bookshelf. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Military deployments have never been something to enjoy, but the consequence of the actions, the shared nature of the sacrifices, and the nobility of… — Pete Hegseth Copy Share Image
The most difficult idea to reconcile in war is the notion that anything is going to be solved by killing a stranger, or in… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
My tears will keep no channel, know no laws to guide their streams, but like the waves, their cause, run with disturbance till they… — John Cleveland Copy Share Image
