Top 100 Quotes About A Dangerous Thing
#1. Is there Gawker ethics? I mean, I guess there's Gawker ethics. It's a dangerous thing to talk about.
Nick Denton
#2. There's a great fear of the imagination. It's a dangerous thing. It's out of control, it's subversive.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#3. The most dangerous thing any nation faces is a citizenry capable of trusting a liar to lead them.
Andy Andrews
#4. Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
Gloria Steinem
#5. A conscience can be a dangerous thing
Kyra Dune
#6. 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
#7. When you are subverting the power of government, that's a fundamentally dangerous thing to democracy.
Edward Snowden
#8. Ever wonder if you've done the right thing?" I asked him finally.
"Frequently," he replied. "Legalities notwithstanding, to not wonder indicates a dangerous lack of awareness of the near-infinite array of choices presented by life. More tea?
Karen Lord
#9. 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
#10. The informed, unmanaged question. That's the most dangerous thing at a press conference anywhere.
Ron Suskind
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. The clearest thing about a dangerous road is that you evidently understand how childish, how dull, how stagnant and how corrosive the easy road is! To gleam glamorously, chose the dangerous roads!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#14. 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
#15. Only gods can safely risk perfection ... it's a dangerous thing for a man.
Frank Herbert
#16. We appear to have found a place where safe and dangerous are the same thing.
Rob Davis
#17. 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
#18. The thing is, it's very dangerous to have a fixed idea. A person with a fixed idea will always find some way of convincing himself in the end that he is right
Atle Selberg
#19. 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
#20. As every authoritarian regime knows, association can be a dangerous thing. From discussion it is only a few steps to action ...
Ann Scott
#21. Religion is not a nice thing. It is potentially a very dangerous thing because it involves a heady complex of emotions, desires, yearnings and fears.
Karen Armstrong
#22. The sightseers would have been disappointed, as the real thing always makes a poorer show than the fake. ("I'm Dangerous Tonight")
Cornell Woolrich
#23. In a war the most dangerous thing is to understand the enemy. To understand is to forgive. And we
have no right to do that - we never have had, not since the creation of the world.
Sergei Lukyanenko
#24. Children find prescriptive reading lists daunting, and they are a dangerous thing to have in schools.
Malorie Blackman
#25. So why was his stomach tightening and twisting with every step up those stairs? Because hope was a dangerous thing. It said the failure would be his own fault alone.
Kelley Armstrong
#26. First, the newcomers are eager to come in front of the camera, and later they are like, 'No, sorry, sorry, no pictures'. What is this? I say fame is a very dangerous and bitter thing.
Boman Irani
#27. As he slipped the lock into place again he realized his hand was trembling. He held up his shaky fingers where he could see them better and wondered at the equally weak flutter in his chest.
Hope was a dangerous, disquieting thing, but he thought perhaps he liked it.
Nora Sakavic
#28. Happiness is a fragile thing, and alcohol, as I know from the house I grew up in, is dangerous to it.
Marian Engel
#29. Popular disregard, even disdain, for demonstrable truth is the most dangerous thing that can happen to a democracy.
Gordy Slack
#30. Speculation is a dangerous thing without any evidence to back it up.
Jane Casey
#31. To know the good is a dangerous thing; to know it for sure is usually fatal for somebody.
Allen Wheelis
#32. 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
#33. It awoke something in her, to see someone so kind and giving, so full-hearted, and yet so lost, so wretchedly bent on his own destruction. She had left home, ashamed of herself and the fury she'd caused, but now the prospect of love didn't seem like such a dangerous thing at all. He
Leslie Parry
#34. The hushing of the criticism of honest opponents is a dangerous thing. It leads some of the best of the critics to unfortunate silence and paralysis of effort, and others to burst into speech so passionately and intemperately as to lose listeners.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#35. You can be a giant among artists without ever attaining any great skill. Facility is a dangerous thing. When there is too much technical ease the brain stops criticizing. Don't let the hand fall into a smart way of putting the mind to sleep.
John French Sloan
#36. The brain can be a dangerous thing. Even more so if you haven't got one.
Dave Courtney
#37. 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
#38. I'm restless, bored, and invisible. A dangerous thing for any woman to be.
Karen Marie Moning
#39. Monsters are easy, Miss Rook. They're monsters. But a monster in a suit? That's basically just a wicked man, and a wicked man is a more dangerous thing by far.
William Ritter
#40. Maybe the most dangerous thing about the "Illuminati" isn't that such a master cabal has ever existed, but that some people believe it should and wreak havoc under the delusion they run the world.
Richard B. Spence
#41. Hope is a dangerous thing, Raisa thought. Once kindled, it's hard to put out. It makes wise people into fools.
Cinda Williams Chima
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. The National Debt is a very Good Thing and it would be dangerous to pay it off for fear of Political Economy.
W.C. Sellar
#45. Since 'A Dangerous Method,' I've had meetings with everyone from J.J. Abrams to the producers of 'Drive.' And they all have the same thing in common; they say: 'Wow you worked with Cronenberg.' He gave me instant film cred.
Sarah Gadon
#46. 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
#47. Religion is a very dangerous thing. By that I mean being so caught up in rules and regulations and not focusing on the thing that matters most- a personal relationship with God.
Joyce Meyer
#48. Never think negatively, for the negative thinker does a very dangerous thing. He pumps out negative thoughts into the world around him and thus activates the world negatively.
Norman Vincent Peale
#49. As a society, we pick words that are offensive based on what we're most afraid of. We associate sounds with some dangerous idea, and right now the most dangerous thing to us are the differences between us.
Richard Dooling
#50. 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
#51. Bankers regard research as most dangerous a thing that makes banking hazardous due to the rapid changes it brings about in industry.
Charles Kettering
#52. The good thing is that I have always had wonderful people around me. It's dangerous when you start earning a lot of money and you become famous when you are too young.
Penelope Cruz
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.
Jack Kuehler
#58. The anonymity of the internet is a dangerous but powerful thing - to any fool who will listen.
P.S. Bartlett
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. There is such a thing as too much beauty in a woman and it is often a burden as crippling as homeliness and far more dangerous. It takes much luck and integrity to survive the gift of perfect beauty, and its impermanence is its most cunning betrayal.
Pat Conroy
#62. 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
#63. Magic is a dangerous thing, child. It isn't something to use lightly.
Kevis Hendrickson
#64. Power is a dangerous thing. Be careful that you don't abuse it or let it make a tyrant of you.
Louisa May Alcott
#65. The sense of purity is a puzzling, and at times a fearful thing. It seems so noble, and it starts at one with morality. But it is a dangerous guide, and can lead us away not only from what is gracious, but also from what is good.
E. M. Forster
#66. there is one thing more dangerous then making a deal with the devil, that thing was me
Charlie
#67. It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.
Oscar Wilde
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. 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
#72. It is a dangerous thing to unbelieve something only because it frightens you.
Marissa Meyer
#74. I'm beginning to think of hope as a dangerous, terrifying thing.
Tahereh Mafi
#75. Hope was a dangerous thing, something best squashed before it became contagious.
Cynthia Bond
#76. You were her way here, and it's a dangerous thing to be a door.
Neil Gaiman
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. Hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's dangerous, that it's painful and risky, that it's making a dare in the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?
Patrick Ness
#80. 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
#81. It's impossible to consider living without ideals. However, when ideas lead to ideology, that's a very dangerous thing. Ideology then leads to creating the image of an enemy, and it leads to the murder and massacre that we've seen since the beginning of time.
Michael Haneke
#82. If you're small and can speak clearly and you're a cute kid, that's the craft, really. The whole child actor thing can be dangerous sometimes. Other kids were taking piano lessons; I did ballet and acting.
Rose McIver
#83. Blood! ... Blood! ... That's a good thing! A ghost who bleeds is less dangerous!
Gaston Leroux
#84. 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
#85. One thing I can guarantee, is that the world will never change itself because of our weaknesses. In fact, it has ways of actually becoming more dangerous when we approach it with a bad attitude.
J.Z. Colby
#86. It's better to do a dull thing with style than a dangerous thing without it.
Charles Bukowski
#88. It is very a dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.
Phyllis Bottome
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.
Elizabeth Bishop
#93. The most dangerous thing I've ever done is sit on a public toilet.
Anonymous
#94. 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
#95. Time travel is a thing. It can be very dangerous, and it's also very - it's an expensive thing to do.
Don Hertzfeldt
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. If a little knowledge was a dangerous thing, a lot was lethal.
Tom Sharpe
#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
