Dangerous Things Quotes

The Holy Spirit would lead us to think much upon our own sins . It is a dangerous thing for us to dwell upon the imperfections of others. ~ Ichabod Spencer

I keep forgetting I'm speaking in an American accent sometimes. The dangerous thing is that you end up forgetting what your real accent is after a while! It's really strange; I've never done a job in an American accent before. ~ Robert Pattinson

Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune. ~ Quintilian

And then I thought: 'It's for a warning,'" she continues. "You may think a bed is a peaceful thing, sir. For you it may mean rest, and comfort, and a good night's sleep. But it isn't so for everyone. There are many dangerous things that may take place in a bed. It's where we are born, that's our first peril in life. It's where women give birth, which is often their last. And it's where the act takes place between men and women sir, which I will not mention to you, but I suppose you know what it is. Some call it love, others despair, merely an indignity they must suffer through. And finally beds are what we sleep in, and where we dream, and often where we die. ~ Margaret Atwood

If the wishes came true, they came true in terrible ways. Wishes were dangerous things. That was the idea you got from fairy tales. ~ Kate DiCamillo

You have a way of looking at things. You make it seem as though everything's going to be okay. I can't imagine a more dangerous thing to have than hope like yours. ~ Lauren DeStefano

A piece of writing is a dangerous thing," he said. "It can change your life. ~ Tobias Wolff

The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform. ~ Alexis De Tocqueville

Dreaming carries no risks. The dangerous thing is trying to transform your dreams into reality. ~ Paulo Coelho

She knew this was reckless; it was dangerous, but like all dangerous things, it had a deep, thrilling undercurrent that was richer and better and more alive than anything safe. ~ Katharine McGee

Judi Bari did something that I believe is unparalleled in the history of the environmental movement. She is an Earth First! activist who took it upon herself to organize Georgia Pacific sawmill workers into the IWW ... Well guess what friends, environmentalists and rank and file timber workers becoming allies is the most dangerous thing in the world to the timber industry! ~ Darryl Cherney

Because you may think a bed is a peaceful thing, Sir, and to you it may mean rest and comfort and a good night's sleep. But it isn't so for everyone; and there are many dangerous things that may take place in a bed. ~ Margaret Atwood

I stopped writing at the age of 18. I had written incessantly before that. I read, of course, because I was in university, but I wasn't going to write. I wasn't going to do any of those dangerous things. I was going to be a stolid, bourgeois lawyer. ~ James Lipton

The dangerous thing about hate is that it seems so reasonable. ~ Enid Bagnold

But when something like Angelina's murder happens," the doctor told him (Decker), "it's human nature to assume a bunker mentality. Let's shore up our defenses and put up our guard so that when something like this happens again -- when, not if -- we won't be blindsided. Problem is, we become so risk averse, we cut ourselves off from the potentially dangerous things that could bring great happiness and joy. We stop taking chances, and without those sometimes risky chances, there's no way we can win big. Our best case scenario become losing not /too/ badly. /At least no one died/ becomes our mantra. Yes, we're trapped here in this prison that we've made, where we can't possibly be happy, but at least we're not devastated by our loss and our grief. ~ Suzanne Brockmann

The most dangerous moment comes with victory. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

Money without brains is always dangerous. ~ Napoleon Hill

Love is like fire, a dangerous thing to play with, although the best of friends and the most loyal of servants when rightly handled. ~ Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

A grown child is a dangerous thing. ~ Alice Walker

Obviously, the anti-ERA people are tickled about my ordeal because it proves that the ERA breaks up families. When they point out that feminism is a dangerous thing, I just say marriage is pretty precarious too. ~ Sonia Johnson

Remember, Little Nightingale, you can always stop doing dangerous things. And you can prove yourself trustworthy, right? Start by forgiving your uncle for his anger. That would be a nice gift. ~ Brian Selznick

Souls are dangerous things to carry straight through all the spilt saltpetre of this world. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The trouble was, explaining to a Feegle how dangerous things were going to be only got them more enthusiastic. ~ Terry Pratchett

There is on earth among all dangers, no more dangerous thing than a richly endowed and adroid reason, especially if she enters into spiritual matters which concern the soul and God. For it is more possible to teach an ass to read than to blind such a reason and lead it right; for reason must be deluded, blinded, and destroyed. ~ Martin Luther

When you are subverting the power of government, that's a fundamentally dangerous thing to democracy. ~ Edward Snowden

The brain can be a dangerous thing. Even more so if you haven't got one. ~ Dave Courtney

Gifts were dangerous things, she thought. Sometimes one succeeded only in taking far more than one gave. ~ Mary Balogh

Sometimes I put on a black scuba suit and go walking on the beach, to relax. If I could, I'd sleep in a scuba suit - on a waterbed. Not that I actually ever get in the ocean. Too many dangerous things in the water, like barracudas, sharks, and of course there are many lawyers here on the east coast. ~ Jarod Kintz

If a little knowledge was a dangerous thing, a lot was lethal. ~ Tom Sharpe

The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness. ~ John Piper

The informed, unmanaged question. That's the most dangerous thing at a press conference anywhere. ~ Ron Suskind

It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen; they cannot 'do'; they can only be done by. ~ Rumer Godden

A woman made of parts is a dangerous thing. You never know when she'll throw away a piece you may need. ~ Heidi W. Durrow

A little bit of suspicion is a dangerous thing; a drop from a pipette of poison into a bucket of otherwise clean water. ~ Bella Pollen

Having a dick is one of the most dangerous things on the planet. How many people are eaten by sharks each year? How many guys lose everything they've got because of their dick? Yet the Discovery Channel has Shark week every other fucking month. Why doesn't it have Dick Week? That would be the scariest seven days in the history of television. ~ Bill Burr

The three most dangerous things in the world are a programmer with a soldering iron, a hardware type with a program patch and a user with an idea. ~ Rick Cook

He was tall, and like so many dangerous things, effortlessly beautiful. ~ Celia Aaron

As I walked down the street while talking on the phone, sophisticated New Yorkers gaped at the sight of someone actually moving around while making a phone call. Remember that in 1973, there weren't cordless telephones, let alone cellular phones. I made numerous calls, including one where I crossed the street while talking to a New York radio reporter - probably one of the more dangerous things I have ever done in my life. ~ Martin Cooper

I guess, as an Anglican, there's always room to move, which can be a dangerous thing, but also a very healthy thing, because bits of the great biblical tradition which you haven't fully plugged into before you've got the space to grow into ... not least, the sacraments. ~ N. T. Wright

Alexa and the other guests, and perhaps even Georgina, all understood the fleeing from war, from the kind of poverty that crushed human souls, but they would not understand the need to escape from the oppressive lethargy of choicelessness. They would not understand why people like him who were raised well fed and watered but mired in dissatisfaction, conditioned from birth to look towards somewhere else, eternally convinced that real lives happened in that somewhere else, were now resolved to do dangerous things, illegal things, so as to leave, none of them starving, or raped, or from burned villages, but merely hungry for for choice and certainty. ~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

You were my baby. But babies become children, and they go to elementary schools that indoctrinate them on how to overthrow governments, and they get interested in boys and girls, or they don't, and anyway they change. They go to high schools, where they learn dangerous things. They grow into adults, and become dangerous things. ~ Joseph Fink

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
- Harkat Mulds (Hunters of the Dusk) ~ Darren Shan

I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. ~ Stephen King

My bounce-around life had taught me that dreams were dangerous things - they look solid in your mind, but you just try to reach for them. It's like gathering clouds. ~ Kirby Larson

One of the most dangerous things about the Bible is that it is big enough to say whatever we want it to say if we are willing to remove the context. ~ Jefferson Bethke

The two most dangerous things in the world are rich people and crazy people. The Roanokes are rich like pharoahs and crazier'n a snake-fucking baby. ~ Warren Ellis

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people. ~ Frederick Douglass

Twenty aspirin, a little slit alongside the veins of the arm, maybe even a bad half hour standing on a roof: We've all had those. And somewhat more dangerous things, like putting a gun in your mouth. But you put it there, you taste it, it's cold and greasy, your finger is on the trigger, and you find that a whole world lies between this moment and the moment you've been planning, when you'll pull the trigger. That world defeats you. You put the gun back in the drawer. You'll have to find another way. ~ Susanna Kaysen

I don't want to even think about what kind of creatures could be lurking out there in the dark in the middle of the sticks. Probably the same ones lurking around during the day, but I've learned that dangerous things like to wait till night to surface, when you can't see the coming. ~ Carolee Dean

Of real sensational journalism, as it exists in France, in Ireland, and in America, we have no trace in this country. When a journalist in Ireland wishes to create a thrill, he creates a thrill worth talking about. He denounces a leading Irish member for corruption, or he charges the whole police system with a wicked and definite conspiracy. When a French journalist desires a frisson there is a frisson; he discovers, let us say, that the President of the Republic has murdered three wives. Our yellow journalists invent quite as unscrupulously as this; their moral condition is, as regards careful veracity, about the same. But it is their mental calibre which happens to be such that they can only invent calm and even reassuring things. The fictitious version of the massacre of the envoys of Pekin was mendacious, but it was not interesting, except to those who had private reasons for terror or sorrow. It was not connected with any bold and suggestive view of the Chinese situation. It revealed only a vague idea that nothing could be impressive except a great deal of blood. Real sensationalism, of which
I happen to be very fond, may be either moral or immoral. But even when it is most immoral, it requires moral courage. For it is one of the most dangerous things on earth genuinely to surprise anybody. If you make any sentient creature jump, you render it by no means improbable that it will jump on you. But the leaders of this movement have no moral courage or immoral courage; ~ G.K. Chesterton

It's a dangerous thing when someone gets up in the morning and has nothing to eat. ~ Bashar Al-Assad

He recommended I read the book Words That Work, written by Republican political strategist Frank Luntz. It's brilliant. Matt added, "If someone likes that book, then I might point them to George Lakoff. He has a great seminal work from the 1980s called Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things." He loves books about framing and language. ~ Timothy Ferriss

And then, every time I didn't see her, there was a fall involved. I thought about dancing on the fifth-floor ledge outside out apartment. Every train she wasn't on felt something like hitting the pavement from five floors up. So maybe my father was right about that. Maybe happiness and excitement really are dangerous things. ~ Catherine Ryan Hyde

Love makes you foolish. It makes you throw every bit of logic away, do stupid things, dangerous things. ~ Melissa Marr

Precedents are dangerous things; let the reins of government then be braced and held with a steady hand, and every violation of the Constitution be reprehended: If defective let it be amended, but not suffered to be trampled upon whilst it has an existence. ~ George Washington

It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves. ~ Teresa Of Avila

An audience is the most dangerous thing in the world, because they paid, and they're looking at you. And they paid! And there's a lot of them! And they cast a cold eye, because they paid. To be on the stage, you have to be very secure. ~ Christopher Walken

Very dangerous things, theories. ~ Dorothy L. Sayers

Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding? ~ Pablo Picasso

Success is a very dangerous thing and I think we have to be very careful about when we dictate what success is for somebody else. Because you don't know what it's like. ~ Lupe Fiasco

Concentrated political power is the most dangerous thing on earth. ~ Rudolph Rummel

And she said the most powerful and dangerous things were locked up behind doors of death with keys of pain in the hopes that people would realize life was far too precious and the power was not worth the price. ~ Megan Derr

I agree with the British Legion that we have a responsibility to support our troops and support their families, particularly when we are asking people to do very difficult and dangerous things for our security. ~ Des Browne

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose. ~ James Baldwin

Dangerous thing, a name. Someone might catch hold of you by it, mightn't they? ~ Richard Adams

Dreams can be dangerous things. ~ Cassandra Clare

Comfort can be a dangerous thing. You stick around home all the time where it's safe and nothing ever changes, and before you know it, you get set in your ways and you quit learning, you quit changing, you don't grow anymore. ~ Frank E. Peretti

They were full of suspicion and wonder, which I had grown to recognize as two very dangerous things. ~ Erin Forbes

Successful films are very dangerous things. ~ Kristin Scott Thomas

Society and personal integrity erode one small sin at a time. The most dangerous things are the little "inconsequential" slips that we let slide every day. ~ Genieve Dawkins

The most dangerous thing you can do in life is play it safe. ~ Casey Neistat

They would not understand why people like him, who were raised well fed and watered but mired in dissatisfaction, conditioned from birth to look towards somewhere else, eternally convinced that real lives happened in that somewhere else, were now resolved to do dangerous things, illegal things, so as to leave, none of them starving, or raped, or from burned villages, but merely hungry for choice and certainty. ~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Going to a psychiatrist has become one of the most dangerous things a person can do. ~ Peter Breggin

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing. ~ Helen Rowland

Unhappiness is a dangerous thing, like carbon monoxide. You don't smell it, you don't taste it, it's formless and colourless, but it poisons slowly. It seeps into every pore of your skin until one day your heart just stops beating. ~ Bella Pollen

'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being; the difference between sanity and insanity; the meaning of life and death; what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad. ~ Michael Sheen

Slowly, Finley rose from the sofa, tilted her head back and looked him dead in the eye. "I have no desire to be any more in your debt than I already am."
He looked thoughtful for a moment. "Would it make you more comfortable if I demanded something in return? Would that put you at ease?"
When he put it like that, it made her sound like an awful sort of person for thinking the worst. "It would, yes. At least that would be honest."
It might have been laughter that came scoffing from his throat, but there was little humor in it. He shook his head, the light reflecting glints of russet in his hair. "I'd like to meet whomever it was who made you so distrusting and pull his teeth out one by one."
The vehemence in his tone startled her, yet was strangely warming. "'Twas more than just one."
His face darkened, like clouds overtaking the sun. Suddenly, this was no longer just some seemingly kind, bored aristocrat standing before her, but a young man capable of many dangerous things. ~ Kady Cross

Granny sighed. "You have learned something," she said, and thought it safe to insert a touch of sternness into her voice. "They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance. ~ Terry Pratchett

Theories then are dangerous things. ~ Virginia Woolf

No. just warning him about sleeping with dangerous things. Tigers are rare treasures - and they will eat you and not give it a second thought. ~ Patricia Briggs

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort. ~ Epictetus

The most dangerous things in the world are immense accumulations of human beings who are manipulated by only a few heads. ~ Carl Jung

Don't be too brave. Bravery is a fine thing on some occasions, but sometimes it can be quite a dangerous thing. The stiff upper lip is not always the best. ~ Jeremy Brett

Criticizing others is a dangerous thing, not so much because you may make mistakes about them, but because you may be revealing the truth about yourself ... ~ Harold Medina

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. ~ Oscar Wilde

Promises are dangerous things to ask or to give. ~ Maria Edgeworth

It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions. ~ Dennis Potter

Inspiring words are potent, and sometimes dangerous, things. They can inspire idiots and devils as well as great man. ~ Richard Brookhiser

He pulled her back, off balance so that she fell against him, and he took her face in his two hands and held it very still while his eyes looked down into hers. Somber, truthful, painfully honest. "I love you, Chloe," he said. "Which is the most dangerous thing I could do. ~ Anne Stuart

There is nothing more dangerous than a man who has nothing to gain. ~ Non Nomen

One man's gospel truth is another man's blasphemous lie. The dangerous thing about people is the way we'll try to kill anyone whose truth doesn't agree with ours. ~ Mira Grant

Know when to speak - for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings. ~ Robert Herrick

Words are dangerous things. ~ Corra May Harris

Why did she do it? Nobody dared to ask. Because - what courage! Who had the courage to burn herself? Twenty aspirin, a little slit alongside the veins of the arm, maybe even a bad half hour standing on a roof: We've all had those. And somewhat more dangerous things, like putting a gun in your mouth. But you put it there, you taste it, it's cold and greasy, your finger is on the trigger, and you find that a whole world lies between this moment and the moment you've been planning, when you'll pull the trigger. That world defeats you. You put the gun back in the drawer. You'll have to find another way.

What was that moment like for her? The moment she lit the match. Had she already tried roofs and guns and aspirins? Or was it just an inspiration?

I had an inspiration once. I woke up one morning and I knew that today I had to swallow fifty aspirin. It was my task: my job for the day. I lined them up on my desk and took them one by one, counting. But it's not the same as what she did. I could have stopped, at ten, or at thirty. And I could have done what I did do, which was go onto the street and faint. Fifty aspirin is a lot of aspirin, but going onto the street and fainting is like putting the gun back in the drawer.

She lit the match. ~ Susanna Kaysen

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? ~ Thomas Henry Huxley

It's a dangerous thing to name yourself wrongly or to name yourself unjustly. ~ John O'Donohue

What is fantasy? On one level, of course, it is a game: a pure pretense with no ulterior motive whatever. It is one child saying to another child, "Let's be dragons," and then they're dragons for an hour or two. It is escapism of the most admirable kind - the game played for the game's sake.
On another level, it is still a game, but a game played for very high stakes. Seen thus, as art, not spontaneous play, its affinity is not with daydream, but with dream. It is a different approach to reality, an alternative technique for apprehending and coping with existence. It is not antirational but pararational; not realistic, but surrealistic, superrealistic, a heightening of reality. In Freud's terminology, it employs primary, not secondary process thinking. It employs archetypes, which, Jung warned us, are dangerous things. Dragons are more dangerous, and a good deal commoner, than bears. Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a real wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe. And their guides, the writers of fantasy, should take their responsibilities seriously. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin

Maybe hope isn't the most dangerous thing a person can have. Maybe love is. ~ Lauren DeStefano

Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt. ~ Agnes Repplier

I tell myself, as sternly as possible, that is how things work here. We do dangerous things and people die. People die, and we move on to the next dangerous thing. The sooner that lesson sinks in, the better chance I have at surviving initiation. ~ Veronica Roth