Top 100 Dangerous Thing Quotes
#2. 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
#3. 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
#5. 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
#6. It is a dangerous thing, in the service of God, to decline from his own institutions; we have to do with a God who is wise to prescribe his own worship, just to require what he has prescribed, and powerful to revenge what he has not prescribed.
Matthew Henry
#7. It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.
Jack Kuehler
#8. And the dangerous thing about excuses is that if we recite them enough times, we actually come to believe they are true.
Robin S
#9. Sometimes, in a portrait, I go straight in with paint onto canvas ... Other than riding my bike up and down the hills around here, it is the most dangerous thing I do ... like tightrope-walking without a safety net!
David Cobley
#10. When you're in the editing room, the dangerous thing is that it becomes like telling a joke again and again and again. Eventually, the joke starts to not be funny. So you have to be careful that you're not throwing the baby out with the bath water.
Ridley Scott
#11. Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without.
William Sloane Coffin
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. Surgery is a complicated thing to talk about, but I guess it could also be a dangerous thing to play with if you're not very secure about what you're doing.
Elena Anaya
#15. I know from experience Dev, purposely breaking a man and leaving him with nothing left to live for can be a very dangerous thing.
-Moe
Ashley Jade
#16. 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
#17. Reaching was a dangerous thing: it indicated longing. Longing was dangerous because it indicated need. Need was exploited, need was abused, need was someone else's power over what they could touch.
Enee N. Altson
#18. Maybe hope isn't the most dangerous thing a person can have. Maybe love is.
Lauren DeStefano
#19. Magic is a dangerous thing, child. It isn't something to use lightly.
Kevis Hendrickson
#20. Ambition is a very dangerous thing because either you achieve it and your life ends prematurely, or you don't, in which case your life is a constant source of disappointment. You must never have ambition.
Jeremy Clarkson
#21. Power is a dangerous thing. Be careful that you don't abuse it or let it make a tyrant of you.
Louisa May Alcott
#22. The biggest edge I live on is directing. That's the most scary, dangerous thing you can do in your life.
Tony Scott
#23. 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
#24. The most dangerous thing about student riots is that adults take them seriously.
Georges Pompidou
#25. most dangerous thing in the world is to try and leap a chasm in two jumps,'" Paul quoted with dignified seriousness.
Glenn Michaels
#26. Maybe the one dangerous thing about reading a library's worth of books was the way your imagination got pumped up like a bodybuilder on steroids.
Dean Koontz
#27. But the most dangerous thing that camp had taught me was the awful lesson of country living: out there, in the open, in the quiet, all the emptiness pressed itself up against you, pawed at the very center of your heart, convinced you to make friends with loneliness.
Kaitlyn Greenidge
#28. [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
#29. Taking power away from a man is a dangerous thing. Someone always pays.
Glenn Close
#30. 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
#32. Hope was a dangerous thing, I knew, but it didn't stop your heart from latching on to it like a life raft.
Karina Halle
#33. It's a dangerous thing, pretense. A man ought to know who he is, even if he isn't proud to be it.
Daniel Polansky
#34. It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.
Oscar Wilde
#35. I'm really only responsible to make sure that one person is clapping at the end of my life. Because I feel like as a performer, a lot of times you live for everyone else's applause. That's a dangerous thing within the church or outside the church.
Jon Foreman
#36. 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
#37. I'm very leery of show business, having been in Los Angeles for the last 10 years. Buzz is a dangerous thing that I've heard applied to a lot of people that I've since not heard of again.
Greg Kinnear
#38. 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
#39. I feel something for you, some dangerous thing, some volatile thing.
Nora Roberts
#40. The most immoral and disgraceful and dangerous thing that anybody can do in the arts is knowingly to feed back to the public its own ignorance and cheap tastes.
Edmund Wilson
#41. It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions.
Dennis Potter
#42. A part of me so desperately wanted to believe it was possible, but the other part of me knew that holding on to false hope can be a dangerous thing.
Autumn Doughton
#44. It is a dangerous thing to unbelieve something only because it frightens you.
Marissa Meyer
#46. Hope was a dangerous thing, something best squashed before it became contagious.
Cynthia Bond
#47. You were her way here, and it's a dangerous thing to be a door.
Neil Gaiman
#48. A little learning is a dangerous thing.
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring;
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
and drinking largely sobers us again.
Alexander Pope
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. I am afraid that you have been listening to the conversation of someone older than yourself. That is always a dangerous thing to do, and if you allow it to degenerate into a habit, you will find it absolutely fatal to any intellectual development.
Oscar Wilde
#52. It's always a dangerous thing for a writer to resurrect a character. It threatens to undermine the consequences in a story, and minimizes the risks characters take. At the same time, I knew Kelsier's story - in specific - was not yet finished. Readers sensed this. There was more to be told.
Brandon Sanderson
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. I guess I was inching and crawling my way toward Elizabeth Bennett's words about unconditional love. That it was a dangerous thing without heavy doses of mutual respect.
Deb Caletti
#57. I'd say the most dangerous thing I've ever done is probably bungee jumping in Thailand.
Simon Cowell
#58. Little knowledge is dangerous thing
Er.teji
#59. A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
Frederick Douglass
#60. A piece of writing is a dangerous thing," he said. "It can change your life.
Tobias Wolff
#61. She reminded him of a snowcat - a beautiful, dangerous thing from a cold, high place
Lena Coakley
#62. I love music in general. It's like girls and their clothes and shoes; when you love shoes, you love shoes. So, for me, I think it's a really dangerous thing to say I'm going to write the best dance song in the world.
Nadia Ali
#63. But just as a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing, a little bit of energy, in the hands of someone hell-bent on suicide, is a very dangerous thing.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#64. Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.
Margaret Deland
#65. A 'why' is a dangerous thing ... It challenges old, comfortable ways, forces people to think about that they do instead of just mindlessly doing it. (Haplo)
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I think the danger is not so much in asking the 'why' as in believing you have come up with the only answer. (Alfred)
Margaret Weis
#66. Hate isn't the most dangerous thing, he'd said. Indifference is.
Lauren Oliver
#67. Advertising is like learning - a little is a dangerous thing.
P.T. Barnum
#68. Distance was a dangerous thing, she knew. Distance changed people.
Rohinton Mistry
#69. There is no more dangerous thing for a democracy than a foreign policy based on presidential preventive war.
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
#70. If a little knowledge was a dangerous thing, a lot was lethal.
Tom Sharpe
#71. 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
#72. The most dangerous thing is to buy something at the peak of its popularity. At that point, all favourable facts and opinions are already factored into its price and no new buyers are left to emerge
Howard Marks
#74. I speak in reality. I don't try to hide anything from anybody, and that's the most dangerous thing about our music that parents are so afraid of.
Marilyn Manson
#75. I learned two things growing up in Texas. 1: God loves you, and you're going to burn in hell forever. 2: Sex is the dirtiest and most dangerous thing you can possibly do, so save it for someone you love.
Molly Ivins
#76. There was some new quiet in her, but it didn't shrink or wilt her. Rather, it seemed to enlarge her. She was no mere weapon as she was trained to be, but a woman in full command of her power, unbowed and unbroken, and that was a dangerous thing.
Laini Taylor
#77. 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
#78. 534. Life is a dangerous thing. Insecurity is the price of living. Only those who died and those who will never be born are absolutely safe.
Alija Izetbegovic
#79. Too much happiness ... is a dangerous thing.
M. Pierce
#80. 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
#81. People want power but not wisdom. Power without wisdom is a very dangerous thing. Better to have wisdom first.
Frederick Lenz
#82. Dangerous thing, a name. Someone might catch hold of you by it, mightn't they?
Richard Adams
#83. Tis a dangerous thing to ingage the authority of Scripture in disputes about the Natural World, in opposition to Reason; lest Time, which brings all things to light, should discover that to be evidently false which we had made Scripture to assert.
Thomas Burnet
#84. While I was at Carlucci I learned how to dust a tiramisu and pair cordials. I learned having a pocket filled with cash is a dangerous thing. I learned that I was getting way too good at a job that was not my life's passion.
Amy Poehler
#85. You see, it is a very dangerous thing to listen. If one listens one may be convinced; and a man who allows himself to be convinced by an argument is a thoroughly unreasonable person. lady basildon.
Oscar Wilde
#86. Knowledge can be a dangerous thing - " "Not as dangerous as ignorance.
Anne Fortier
#87. The most dangerous thing about power is to employ it where it is not applicable.
David Halberstam
#88. It's a dangerous thing when you have love without faith and trust ... No one wants to feel unsure when they give their heart away.
Solange Nicole
#89. Self-knowledge is a dangerous thing, tending to make man shallow or insane.
Karl Shapiro
#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. The most dangerous thing I've ever done is sit on a public toilet.
Anonymous
#92. It's an uncommonly dangerous thing to be left without any padding against the shafts of disease.
George Eliot
#93. If pain in the mind, then the most dangerous thing is it.
Anuj Kr. Thakur
#94. The dangerous thing about hate is that it seems so reasonable.
Enid Bagnold
#95. 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
#96. Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing. To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it. To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art.
Charles Bukowski
#97. Also with that money comes the idea, "Let your imagination run wild." Which I think is a very dangerous thing. I think it's dangerous because you can get into pretty wacky territory. There are things that are too crazy.
Taika Waititi
#98. It's better to do a dull thing with style than a dangerous thing without it.
Charles Bukowski
#99. A woman in love with a man who only rejects her could just about be the most dangerous thing on the planet.
Julie Hockley
#100. 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
