Top 100 Dangerous Thing Quotes
#1. One dangerous thing about comfort is this: it always comforts and it can really stop real purpose!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#2. Because if taken in excess, it causes giddiness, recklessness, and dangerous overconfidence,' said Slughorn. 'Too much of a good thing, you know . . . highly toxic in large quantities. But taken sparingly, and very occasionally . . .
J.K. Rowling
#3. The first time it felt really dangerous, like the sort of thing you had to lock the doors and close the curtains on because if anybody saw you, God would strike you down with a thunderbolt. But I took to it like a duck to water.
Jamie Muir
#4. Well, I got to admit I still like a fight," Augustus said. "They sharpen the wits. The only other thing that does that is talking to women, which is usually more dangerous.
Larry McMurtry
#5. 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
#6. Accomplishment is such a patronizing, dangerous word, isn't it? I haven't really accomplished anything. The most accomplished thing I've done is to have lived this long - 81.
Patrick Macnee
#7. To be a writer and political is a dangerous thing. To be a writer and apolitical is even more dangerous. Art is right, left; in truth, it has only one direction and that is forward.
Chris Campanioni
#8. Coagulate, v.: It is a dangerous thing, this thickening of affection; you want it to have weight, but not to be an immovable burden.
David Levithan
#9. If you're sighing with contentment, you're either one sick fuck or you don't grasp the seriousness of the situation. While I no longer kill, I am a killer. A killer in love is a very dangerous thing.
C.J. Roberts
#10. Agitation and commitment are dangerous for the peace of humanity, and the only thing which is even more dangerous is their absence.
Hans Koning
#11. There's no such thing as a good gun. There's no such thing as a bad gun. A gun in the hands of a bad man is a very dangerous thing. A gun in the hands of a good person is no danger to anyone except the bad guys.
Charlton Heston
#12. Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous.
Madeleine L'Engle
#13. 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 in one's becoming convinced that all is taken care of and that once named, the phenomenon has also been explained.
Primo Levi
#14. 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
#15. It's one thing to break stuff and damage people's possessions, but when you start aiming at the ideology of America, that's dangerous comedy.
Adam McKay
#16. I often think to myself, at the end of an interesting life it's maybe not such a bad thing to spend your last days with your friends sitting by the blue, blue ocean reliving the story of your life while sitting in the dangerous sun.
Baz Luhrmann
#17. I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.
Tori Amos
#18. The divisiveness could be really dangerous and it can create a lot of violence I think. So we have got to heal that by embracing that everybody wants the same thing and they are just going about it in different ways.
Doreen Virtue
#19. As every authoritarian regime knows, association can be a dangerous thing. From discussion it is only a few steps to action ...
Ann Scott
#20. I never regret things. It's a really dangerous thing to say, but for anyone involved in the arts, the bad things that happen make for good material. It's not a comfortable truth, but it is true.
Antony Sher
#21. The really dangerous people believe that they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do.
Neil Gaiman
#22. There's that whole thing that happens in relationships - you can love someone but, as soon as they stop loving you so unconditionally that they stop being themselves, it can be so dangerous.
Justin Vernon
#23. It is a dangerous thing to see anything in the sphere of a vain blusterer, before the vain blusterer sees it himself.
Charles Dickens
#24. Living is dangerous. The important thing is to know the limits.
Andrea Bocelli
#25. The main thing is to write
for the joy of it. Cultivate a work-lust
that imagines its haven like your hands at night
dreaming the sun in the sunspot of a breast.
You are fasted now, light-headed, dangerous.
Take off from here.
Seamus Heaney
#26. Happiness is a fragile thing, and alcohol, as I know from the house I grew up in, is dangerous to it.
Marian Engel
#27. Wine is a dangerous thing, and should not be made the exponent of truth, let the truth be good as it may; but it has the merit of forcing a man to show his true colors.
Anthony Trollope
#28. I'm not a violent person. I didn't think I was a violent person, but right then something dangerous seemed to be waking up. Some hard dark sleeping thing from deep in my belly had opened one eye.
Carol Rifka Brunt
#29. To know the good is a dangerous thing; to know it for sure is usually fatal for somebody.
Allen Wheelis
#30. It's a dangerous thing to be married right up to the hilt, like my daughter's husband. The man is at home all day, like a damned soul in hell.
George Bernard Shaw
#31. Tedium is a dangerous thing, potentially lethal.
Nina -
#32. Lust is a dangerous thing. It can make you believe things that are not real. It can seduce your mind and lead it blindfolded to the cliff that will be its demise.
Alessandra Torre
#33. I'm restless, bored, and invisible. A dangerous thing for any woman to be.
Karen Marie Moning
#34. [Donald Trump] said some very ill-considered, dangerous thing, and it's around the world in a nanosecond.
Hillary Clinton
#35. But somewhere, deep within her, she knew that if she opened up to this man, it would be the most dangerous thing she ever did. He made her want to believe that she could share her burdens. When the truth was that she was alone. And she always would be.
Sarah MacLean
#36. The worst thing is to have all that clout and not know your own mind. If she says her (Marilyn Monroe's)favorite color is beige, that has to be a definite possibility. Then she will be as dangerous as a Chinese Empress.
Colin Clark
#37. All I did was go to sleep. There shouldn't be anything safer than that. (Kiara) Spoken like a true civilian. Trust me, princess, that's the most dangerous thing anyone does ... Well, that, and go to the can. (Nykyrian)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#38. The only thing more dangerous then your enemy knowing how powerful you are, is your enemy not knowing how powerful you are.
Joshua Teya
#39. He was always teasing me about not reading books, but one day he said: Reading a book is a dangerous thing, Justine. A book can make you find room in yourself for something you never thought you'd understand. Or worse, something you never wanted to understand.
Glen Duncan
#40. Advice is a dangerous thing," the Watcher responded. "It should be given only rarely and cautiously, and taken in small doses with skepticism.
Jan Siegel
#41. But the truth is a double-edged sword; it is a dangerous thing.
Michael Scott
#42. I need not add that freedom is a dangerous thing. But it is hardly possible that we are all cowards.
Jack Parsons
#43. Just having the internet is a weird and dangerous thing because people become accustomed to knowing things when they want to know them and not having to work for it. I definitely see the value in not knowing everything and having mystery in life and mystery in people.
Adam Driver
#44. It was dangerous lunacy, but it was also the kind of thing a real connoisseur of edge-work could make an argument for.
Hunter S. Thompson
#45. It's a dangerous thing to name yourself wrongly or to name yourself unjustly.
John O'Donohue
#46. 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
#47. The anonymity of the internet is a dangerous but powerful thing - to any fool who will listen.
P.S. Bartlett
#48. One thing I can say about our band is this. If you got something good to lay on us, enlighten us, but if you got something bad to lay on us, you can get your teeth knocked clean down your throat man. Dangerous people. Lovely people.
Duane Allman
#49. I wanted to protect you, but I'm starting to think that the best thing you can do for people is teach them how to protect themselves. Every girl needs to be at least a little dangerous.
Kai Cheng Thom
#50. The heart is a strange thing; it always craves the things it can't get. Desire is a dangerous thing, it can make or break one's life, and humans are difficult creatures always seeking things they cannot have.'
My 7th book is coming soon....!
Tim I. Gurung
#51. Magic is a dangerous thing, child. It isn't something to use lightly.
Kevis Hendrickson
#52. It is a dangerous thing to bring a dream to life ... I have watched my deepest, dearest hopes take shape, and I am not entirely sure I like the shape they have taken.
Jacqueline Carey
#53. The most dangerous thing about student riots is that adults take them seriously.
Georges Pompidou
#54. [I]f you think that American imperialism and its globalised, capitalist form is the most dangerous thing in the world, that means you don't think the Islamic Republic of Iran or North Korea or the Taliban is as bad.
Christopher Hitchens
#55. There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous.
Neil Gaiman
#56. 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
#57. Today it is very popular to do a thing we call channeling. People are trying to channel entities and have these beings come through them. In my estimation this is downright ridiculous and dangerous.
Frederick Lenz
#59. Failure is hard, but success is far more dangerous. If you're successful at the wrong thing, the mix of praise and money and opportunity can lock you in forever.
Po Bronson
#60. I don't apologize for my behavior anymore. Whatever I do or don't do shouldn't matter. Moral certainty is dangerous. Moral certainty is what makes people go to war unnecessarily and illegally. Morality, as any halfway intelligent human being would tell you, is a very subjective thing.
Steve Coogan
#61. Playing on stereotypes was meant to be humorous. If it doesn't tickle you in certain spots, it's not going to be funny. Falling down the stairs is a seriously dangerous thing, but watching it is HILARIOUS!
Manila Luzon
#62. Shadow found himself starting to like Smith. He told himself that liking this man was not a sensible thing to do. He had met people like Smith before, people without consciences, without scruples, without hearts, and they were uniformly as dangerous as they were likeable.
Neil Gaiman
#63. The notion of making the television - the very thing that we allow into our living room and our kid's bedroom - something that's potentially dangerous, to me, is just so incredibly delicious that I can't tell you.
Rockne S. O'Bannon
#64. By the time a little girl has become a young woman she has learned how dangerous a thing it is to dream.
Meg Howrey
#65. Hope was a dangerous thing, something best squashed before it became contagious.
Cynthia Bond
#66. This is the dangerous thing about musicals. Most of them assume that as soon as you find your voice, you'll use it to sing to someone else.
David Levithan
#67. But if it's tolerable mediocrity, and you're like, 'Well, you know it could be worse. At least I'm getting paid.' Then you wind up in a job that is slowly killing your soul and you're allowing that to happen. Comfort can be a very, very dangerous thing.
Tim Ferriss
#68. and wasn't it an awful dangerous thing, a text message, because once you pressed that little send button, that was it. Like pulling a trigger of a shotgun and sending a pellet into a little rabbit's brain as he sniffed the sweet spring air. You couldn't undo it. You couldn't ever take it back.
Donal Ryan
#69. A piece of writing is a dangerous thing," he said. "It can change your life.
Tobias Wolff
#71. Love is a dangerous thing, it can be great and it can be awful. It might make or break your life. It could even change you as a person.
Shannon Leto
#72. The comic book world is so dangerous, you know what I mean? You say one thing and people - they're ravenous - they are very opinionated fans. But they're great fans.
Chris Evans
#73. There's no doubt that it's still a dangerous place, Afghanistan. The fortunate thing is that the United States was helping to provide security for Chairman Karzai. And it shows that the United States is committed to that regime.
Condoleezza Rice
#74. The more potential dangerous thing than not being able to see forest because of the trees is not being to see the trees because of the forest
Anonymous
#75. One more thing," Ash said in his dangerous, soft voice as we turned away. "If you do not return with her," Ash continued, staring him down, "if she comes to any harm while she is with you, I will turn this entire camp into a bloodbath. That is my promise, lieutenant.
Julie Kagawa
#76. I wasn't very good at the bike thing. Really, it was just dangerous to trust two skinny little wheels and spindly brakes with the considerably uncoordinated woman that is me.
Kathryn Smith
#77. Mysterious thing, Time. Powerful, and when meddled with, dangerous.
J.K. Rowling
#78. The most dangerous thing about an academic education is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract thinking instead of simply paying attention to what's going on in front of me.
David Foster Wallace
#79. That was the dangerous thing about dreams-how quicly you became tangled in it all. People naturally let their guard down when they slept.
Alexandra Bracken
#80. There are some people in occult history who warned against using the Ouija Board, who said: "This is a dangerous door to the unconscious. Don't approach this thing."
Mitch Horowitz
#81. Dangerous? Do you remember what Xavier's power is? Teleportation. Limited Teleportation, They guy can move about 10 feet. Worst thing he could do to me? Poke me in the eyes, and go "Nyuk, Nyuk, Nyuk" and Zip away before I can smack him," - Elena
Kelley Armstrong
#82. Is this because I'm a - " I start to say, but she presses her hand to my mouth. "Don't say that word," she hisses. "Ever." So Tori was right. Divergent is a dangerous thing to be. I just don't know why, or even what it really means, still.
Veronica Roth
#84. You know that saying 'A little knowledge is a dangerous thing'? That's so true of positive psychology. Our latest research tells us that the pursuit of happiness is a delicate art. Certain approaches to seeking happiness are now known to backfire, whereas others are effective.
Barbara Fredrickson
#85. Teachings about the "infantile-perverse-criminal" unconscious have led people to make a dangerous monster out of the unconscious, that really very natural thing. As if all that is good, reasonable, beautiful and worth living for had taken up its abode in consciousness!
C. G. Jung
#86. It was like being threatened by wolves dressed as sheep, who had sunk so deep into their method acting that they were now unclear about the whole 'being dangerous' thing.
Jonathan L. Howard
#87. 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
#88. If you have any fault to find with anyone, tell him, not others, of what you complain; there is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back.
Robert E.Lee
#89. The most dangerous thing I've ever done is sit on a public toilet.
Anonymous
#90. I think television's become a downright dangerous thing. It has no moral barometer whatsoever. If you want to talk about something that is all about money, just watch the television.
Tom Petty
#91. Sometimes the greatest tests of our strength are situations that don't seem so obviously dangerous. Sometimes surviving is the hardest thing of all.
Richelle Mead
#92. Too much happiness ... is a dangerous thing.
M. Pierce
#93. Beware the man (or jinni) of action when he finally seeks to better himself with thought. A little thinking is a dangerous thing.
Salman Rushdie
#94. I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.
Federico Fellini
#96. She might have to use her employee discount to buy something more threatening today, although at the moment the most dangerous thing she could think of that Neiman Marcus had to offer was the employee discount itself.
Stephanie Bond
#97. If a little knowledge was a dangerous thing, a lot was lethal.
Tom Sharpe
#98. Advertising is like learning - a little is a dangerous thing.
P.T. Barnum
#99. Hate isn't the most dangerous thing, he'd said. Indifference is.
Lauren Oliver
#100. A loosening in my chest, the faintest stirrings of hope. But hope was a dangerous, fragile thing, easily shattered. I couldn't afford it.
Erica O'Rourke
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