Top 100 Dangerous Things Quotes
#1. In Mongolia, the nomads always told me that wolves were the most dangerous things on the steppe, and I didn't believe them at first.
Tim Cope
#2. Expectations are dangerous things. They've probably killed more people than any creature or cryptid you care to name.
Seanan McGuire
#3. Children all over the world do ridiculous, borderline dangerous things, and no one around them questions it, because it's ingrained in their culture. So it was with child acting in Southern California.
Mara Wilson
#4. Going to a psychiatrist has become one of the most dangerous things a person can do.
Peter Breggin
#5. One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal an get away with it.
Margaret Mead
#6. Adorable. I had never seen grown women attack each other so fluently. No one tossed out adorable at Simone. No one declined Chef's tasting menu. And yet Simone wasn't stunned - she was braced. I realized that they were women who knew dangerous things about each other.
Stephanie Danler
#7. I will share one of them with you now: most people don't want trouble, but frightened people are liable to do very dangerous things.
Ann Leckie
#8. 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
#9. Assumptions are dangerous things. I like facts a lot better.
David Baldacci
#10. Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.
Oscar Wilde
#11. Don't let the pretty lights fool you. The most dangerous things in the world are beautiful.
Melissa Andrea
#13. 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
#14. You are drawn to dangerous things, princess," Neferre said with a flat laugh. "You are not very smart."
Neferre was surprised when Athica laughed as well. "No. Perhaps I am not," the princess said, looking at Neferre fondly.
Ash Gray
#15. Mirrors are dangerous things. They can just as easily tell us what we don't like as what we do. Yet in truth you can't tell anything from a reflection, as a reflection is actually empty.
Susie Staplehurst
#16. 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
#18. Going up the mast is one of the most dangerous things you can do as a solo sailor.
Abby Sunderland
#19. The trouble was, explaining to a Feegle how dangerous things were going to be only got them more enthusiastic.
Terry Pratchett
#20. Dangerous things, books."
"Look what it did to your brain.
Clive Cussler
#21. Gifts were dangerous things, she thought. Sometimes one succeeded only in taking far more than one gave.
Mary Balogh
#22. Dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes consume us completely.
Arthur Golden
#23. 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
#24. '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
#26. 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
#27. The most dangerous things in the world are immense accumulations of human beings who are manipulated by only a few heads.
Carl Jung
#28. 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
#29. Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
Agnes Repplier
#32. 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
#33. Woolf wanted to say dangerous things in Orlando but she did not want to say them in the missionary position.
Jeanette Winterson
#34. Inspiring words are potent, and sometimes dangerous, things. They can inspire idiots and devils as well as great man.
Richard Brookhiser
#35. There are not nearly enough distractions and it can all get too bloody silent, which leaves room for dangerous things, like thinking. I
Yrsa Daley-Ward
#36. Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you'll find an edge to cut you.
Mark Lawrence
#38. 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
#39. 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
#42. 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
#43. This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes they consume us completely.
Arthur Golden
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. I think quotes are very dangerous things.
Kate Bush
#49. Love makes you foolish. It makes you throw every bit of logic away, do stupid things, dangerous things.
Melissa Marr
#50. Twitter is a much more dangerous cauldron of groupthink than happy hours or dinners. On Twitter the reward comes from agreeing or loudly disagreeing with the joke, or the "smart take." In person you hash things out.
David Weigel
#51. Ah, I know that," said Tiffany, as the boat rocked on the swell. "Whales aren't dangerous, because they just eat very small things ... "
"Row like the blazes, lads!" Rob Anybody yelled.
Terry Pratchett
#52. One of the most unnecessary and most dangerous art of people is to create big tragedies from little things!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#53. All it can see in an original idea is potential change, and hence an invasion of its prerogatives. The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos.
H.L. Mencken
#54. It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.
Teresa Of Avila
#55. He knew he was being overbearing as hell, but he couldn't help it. He was a bonded male. With his pregnant female. There were few things on the planet more aggressive or dangerous. And those bastards were called hurricanes and tornadoes.
J.R. Ward
#56. I remember that I'm invisible and walk softly so as not awake the sleeping ones. Sometimes it is best not to awaken them; there are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.
Ralph Ellison
#57. Two boys, both in varsity football, kissing under the bleachers, muscular silhouettes merging against the deep purple sky. I wasn't the only one with a secret. In the grand scheme of things, my secret wasn't even as dangerous as some of theirs.
Leah Raeder
#58. It's possible that the name Bettini came up at some point during a conversation with the German Cycling Federation's anti-doping commission, but I certainly didn't claim that he gave me any drugs. They made that up. Bettini warned me: If you said that, then things could get dangerous for you.
Patrik Sinkewitz
#59. The good thing about Pro Tools is you can actually hear what you're working on, so it doesn't just become this intellectual idea. But Pro Tools can be dangerous, too. It can make things sterile.
Bjork
#60. Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
Gloria Steinem
#61. People often ask if I think my life is dangerous, if I am afraid. I am much more afraid of remaining comfortable. Matthew 10:28 tells us not to fear things that can destroy the body but things that can destroy the soul.
Katie J. Davis
#62. A real man wants two things: danger and play. Therefore he wants woman as the most dangerous plaything. Man shall be educated for war, and woman for the recreation of the warrior: all else is folly.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#63. Dudes who look dangerous should just be dangerous. Period. The end. They should not be dangerous and beautiful all at the same time. It leaves the universe out of balance, and it makes me do stupid things like stare.
Cora Carmack
#64. Yesterday people were permitted to change things. They will be permitted to advocate changing them tomorrow. It is only dangerous to think of changing anything today.
Elizabeth Hawes
#65. And I didn't tell mom what happened. She'd already warned me that bad things could hide in the most unlikely places.
Lorraine Zago Rosenthal
#66. I think that comedy is a good defense for a child. Because you know childhood is a nightmare as it is. And so why not use comedy and being funny as a defense to get through your life as opposed to drugs, alcohol and good looks? Because those things are dangerous when your young.
Joy Behar
#67. It was easier than I expected, maybe because I was too angry and too afraid to really pay attention to what I was doing. Things are always easy when you refuse to let yourself remember how dangerous they are.
Seanan McGuire
#68. He [Hitler] seemed very depressed and upset about the Stalingrad disaster. He said that one is always liable to look on the black side of things after a defeat, a tendency which can lead one into dangerous and false conclusions.
Erwin Rommel
#69. Friends can feel such things in times of peril, as if a long, thin string holds them carefully together, tugging at one another through the open space of a dangerous world. The
Patrick Carman
#70. Let's be honest. Sometimes art is dangerous, though. And that's why governments sometimes get nervous about art. But one of the things I truly believe is if you try to suppress the arts, then I think you are suppressing the deepest dreams and aspirations of the people.
Barack Obama
#71. The press is a watchdog. Not an attack dog. Not a lapdog. A watchdog. Now, a watchdog can't be right all the time. He doesn't bark only when he sees or smells something that's dangerous. A good watchdog barks at things that are suspicious.
Dan Rather
#73. It seemed to them dreadfully dangerous to put it into words like that, for lately the things they didn't want to happen were the things that happened and the logic of this was that if you pretended not to want what you really wanted dreadfully you would be more likely to get it.
Elizabeth Goudge
#74. Everyone says there's a lack of leadership in the world these days. I think we should all be thankful, because the only reason for leadership is to convince people to do things that are either dangerous (like invading another country) or stupid (working extra hard without extra pay).
Scott Adams
#75. As he told Marshall, "things went so smoothly that I was a little worried, and remembered Stalin's proverb, 'an amiable bear is more dangerous than a hostile one.
D.K.R. Crosswell
#76. Remember who you are. Realize what you are. Do both those things, or you'll either be completely useless-or too dangerous to help anyone.
Sarah Fine
#77. There are two things a real man likes - danger and play; and he likes woman because she is the most dangerous of play things.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#78. Does a sick society get so used to its illness that it can't remember being well? what if the memory is too dangerous for the people who like things the way they are?
Neal Shusterman
#79. I believe there is no doctrine more dangerous to the Church today than to convey the impression that a revival is something peculiar in itself and cannot be judged by the same rules of causes and effect as other things.
Billy Sunday
#80. The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
Ben Macintyre
#81. I've always been attracted to stories about rebels - things that are unusual and sometimes dangerous.
Sara Sheridan
#82. It is not that I was credulous, simply that I belived in all things dark and dangerous. It was part of my young creed that the night was full of ghosts and witches, hungry and flapping and dressed completely in black.
Neil Gaiman
#83. She knew it wasn't real. She knew the holograph wouldn't hurt. But she also knew that fire was dangerous, and illusions were dangerous, and being tricked into believing things that weren't real was often the most dangerous thing of all.
Marissa Meyer
#84. Things that appear on the front page of the newspaper as 'fact' are far more dangerous than the games played by a novelist, and can lead to wars.
E.L. Doctorow
#85. ... in the library ... surrounded by things far more dangerous than what roamed the school corridors. For here thoughts were housed.
Louise Penny
#86. I'm not the kind of person who would throw himself into some exciting or dangerous situation just to get material. So I tend to go about my normal, boring life and just try to look at things a little more closely.
Adrian Tomine
#87. The most dangerous of all behaviors may consist of doing things 'because we're supposed to.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#88. I think a lot of kids are interested in two science subjects: dinosaurs and aliens. The reason is almost genetic; we're hard-wired to be interested in things that might be a little dangerous.
Seth Shostak
#89. 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
#90. Heuristics are simplified rules of thumb that make things simple and easy to implement. But their main advantage is that the user knows that they are not perfect, just expedient, and is therefore less fooled by their powers. They become dangerous when we forget that.
Anonymous
#91. Words are potentially dangerous weapons that reveal things better left unsaid.
Susan Cain
#92. I've written books as acts of discovery: things I need to know and that I need to touch. And it's very dangerous work to deal with the most toxic internal elements ... I feel like Madame Curie at my computer. I feel like I should be hemorrhaging from my eyes and ears.
Kate Braverman
#93. It is dangerous to understand new things too quickly.
Josiah Warren
#94. It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
Eugene McCarthy
#95. Awakening the mystical kundalini prematurely is dangerous, because unless you have refined your being, you'll get all screwed up, entities, weird powers ... strange things. That is why I don't teach anyone how to open up the chakras.
Frederick Lenz
#96. We've all heard that what doesn't kill us makes us stronger, but that is a dangerous oversimplification. Many of the things that don't kill you can damage you for life.
Jonathan Haidt
#97. I wanted to support things that are helpful to people and maybe bash what I think is dangerous. So I switched from being everybody to being myself.
Jenny Holzer
#98. Walter Mitty: To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other, and to feel. That is the purpose of life.
James Thurber
#99. But when we place God on our side of things, that we are now ridding the world of evil - that's very dangerous, that one nation has this role to rid the world of evil. What about the evil we have committed, that we are complicit in?
Jim Wallis
#100. One of the greatest faults of the women of the present time is a silly fear of things, and one object of the education of girls should be to give them knowledge of what things are really dangerous.
Ellen Swallow Richards
