Grave Danger Quotes

#1. This is a grave danger: the stoppage of information between the parts of the planet. Contemporary science knows that such stoppage is the way of entropy, of universal destruction.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#2. All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization.

Gerald Durrell

#3. I am simply the most conspicuous part of a large, thoroughly dedicated and professional staff that extends from just behind these cameras, across this country and around the world, in too many instances, in places of grave danger and personal hardship. They're family to me.

Tom Brokaw

#4. Humankind has suddenly entered into a brand new relationship with our planet. Unless we quickly and profoundly change the course of our civilization, we face an immediate and grave danger of destroying the worldwide ecological system that sustains life as we know it.

Al Gore

#5. Any outlaw regime that has ties to terrorist groups or seeks to possess weapons of mass destruction is a grave danger to the civilised world and will be confronted.

George W. Bush

#6. There is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment.

John F. Kennedy

#7. ...progress of civilization has brought along with it much beclouding of realities and grave danger. Apparent economies may easily deceive us. But technical progress should never be the goal, only the means.

Tenny Pinheiro

#8. Pleasure represents a great good but also a grave danger.

Philip Yancey

#9. A people's wrath voiced abroad bringeth grave Danger, no less than public curse pronounced.

Aeschylus

#10. Nothing is so irretrievably lost to a society as the sense of fear it felt about a grave danger that was subsequently coped with.

George F. Will

#11. It stands to reason that if we direct all our efforts towards reaching a goal, we stand in grave danger of losing everything on which we have based our daily activities. For when a goal is superimposed on an activity instead of evolving out of it, we often feel cheated when we reach it.

Viola Spolin

#12. I send him an email back informing him that since this is his nineteenth relative in grave danger, he needs to either consult a tantric to remove a curse on his family or to simply stop lying to take extra days off. I shut my computer and hurriedly get ready to reach the office.

Twinkle Khanna

#13. But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave danger. If I had let it go just a few more years I could have broken my hip or spine just picking up my granddaughter.

Sally Field

#14. He who lets the sea lull him into a sense of security is in very grave danger.

Hammond Innes

#15. I know that I might die but that seems a happier end than being without you and anyway it seems to me that looking in the face of hard things and still being able to move forward even when the end includes grave danger and the possibility of death is the mark of a man.

Anna Godbersen

#16. We are in grave danger of losing forever not just millions of years of evolution on earth, but the eons of change that have produced man and his natural environment.

Charles Lindbergh

#17. This bad habit of fault-finding, criticizing and complaining is a tool that grows keener by constant use, and there is grave danger that he who at first is only a moderate kicker may develop into a chronic knocker, and the knife he has sharpened will sever his head. Hooker

Elbert Hubbard

#18. We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment.

Ludwig Quidde

#19. We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.

H.R. Haldeman

#20. Impeachment is not a remedy for private wrongs; it's a method of removing someone whose continued presence in office would cause grave danger to the nation.

Charles Ruff

#21. The danger of that - and there's a grave danger that I, myself, have to be very aware of - is that you become so involved and intrigued in the language that sometimes you lose track that that is only a means to an aesthetic experience that the listener has to get.

Leo Ornstein

#22. Religious freedom is too sacred a right to be restricted or prohibited in any degree without convincing proof that a legitimate interest of the state is in grave danger.

Frank Murphy

#23. We live in a world of diverse cultures, and we know very little about social engineering and how to 'build nations.' And when we cannot be sure how to improve the world, hubristic visions pose a grave danger.

Joseph Nye

#24. By 1914, the royal families of Europe were inbred to the point of pantomine. You feel about them as you do about koalas. Nothing so stupid has any right to exist on the planet. On the other hand, they are rather cute, and in grave danger of extinction due to their specialised needs.

Nancy Banks-Smith

#25. We need to be on a war footing. We need to understand that our nation is in grave danger.

Benjamin Carson

#26. But it is well to remember that we are dealing with nations every one of which has a direct individual interest to serve, and there is grave danger in an unshared idealism.

Henry Cabot Lodge

#27. The life doesn't simply get erased. It gets imprinted and remembered.

Judith Butler

#28. What is past, one cannot change,
so each backward glance is a bit of the present slipping away.

James Conroyd Martin

#29. I am the love of my life, the marriage between my mind and my body.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#30. Not she with trait'rous kiss her Saviour stung, Not she denied him with unholy tongue; She, while apostles shrank, could danger brave, Last at his cross and earliest at his grave.

Eaton Stannard Barrett

#31. What is the meaning of life? Why are we here? Philosophers have pondered that question for centuries. I'm afraid the answer is disappointingly simple: Mating. That's it.

Oliver Markus

#32. I used to think that humor was the only way to appreciate how wonderful and terrible the world is, to celebrate how big life is. But now I think the opposite. Humor is a way of shrinking from that wonderful and terrible world.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#33. Imagine teaching a fifteen-year-old how to drive a car with manual transmission. First, you have to press down the clutch. Then you have to whisper a secret into one of the cup holders.

Joseph Fink

#34. When you hunt predators, the best camouflage is weakness.

Andrew Vachss

#35. It is no wonder that I had tears of relief, to find out, finally, the truth - to discover an explanation, a diagnosis that explained not one or two of my symptoms or behaviours but ALL of them. Finally, someone saw me

Jeannie Davide-Rivera

#36. I always thought of being together as the end of the work. Turns out it's where the work starts.

Joe Abercrombie

#37. He is pushing his face in all the time and telling us about his private life. Nobody's interested. He should just go away.

Steven Morrissey

#38. To me punk rock is thinking outside of the box, outside of the program, outside the establishment.

Madonna Ciccone

#39. Strong on desire but short on smarts, these

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#40. By George!" cried the inspector. "How did you ever see that?"
Because I looked for it.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#41. In time of this grave national danger, when all excess income should go to win the war, no American citizen ought to have a net income, after he has paid his taxes, of more than $25,000 a year.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#42. I was always fascinated by science-fiction shows, shows like 'Star Trek' and 'Lost in Space.'

Michael P. Anderson