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. It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.
Teresa Of Avila
#3. 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
#4. The constant pressure to bring about conformity is a dangerous thing.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#6. Power in the hands of the stupid is often a dangerous thing. Hitler proved it.
Siddharth Katragadda
#7. Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
Gloria Steinem
#8. A conscience can be a dangerous thing
Kyra Dune
#9. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
- Harkat Mulds (Hunters of the Dusk)
Darren Shan
#10. Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.
Stephen King
#11. Knowledge is a dangerous thing. But ignorance is no protection.
Masha Du Toit
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. The inertia of a jungle village is a dangerous thing. Before you know it your whole life has slipped by and you are still waiting there.
Tahir Shah
#15. 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
#16. A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
Oscar Wilde
#17. 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
#18. True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
Pauline Phillips
#19. For to keep dark the mind of the mageborn, that is a dangerous thing.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#20. Only gods can safely risk perfection ... it's a dangerous thing for a man.
Frank Herbert
#21. I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.
Tori Amos
#22. Don't be too brave. Bravery is a fine thing on some occasions, but sometimes it can be quite a dangerous thing. The stiff upper lip is not always the best.
Jeremy Brett
#23. When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.
Charles Dickens
#24. [I]t is a dangerous thing to ask why someone else has been given more. It is humbling - and indeed healthy - to ask why you have been given so much.
Condoleezza Rice
#25. A true piece of writing is a dangerous thing. It can change your life.
Tobias Wolff
#26. As every authoritarian regime knows, association can be a dangerous thing. From discussion it is only a few steps to action ...
Ann Scott
#28. Children find prescriptive reading lists daunting, and they are a dangerous thing to have in schools.
Malorie Blackman
#29. 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
#30. Confidence can be a dangerous thing. Fear can keep you safe, sometimes.
Terry Goodkind
#31. It is a dangerous thing to see anything in the sphere of a vain blusterer, before the vain blusterer sees it himself.
Charles Dickens
#32. On one level, a roomful of men is always a dangerous thing. Competition is usually in the air, so the potential for violence is always nearby.
Brennan Manning
#33. 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
#34. Speculation is a dangerous thing without any evidence to back it up.
Jane Casey
#35. To know the good is a dangerous thing; to know it for sure is usually fatal for somebody.
Allen Wheelis
#36. 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
#37. It is commonly a dangerous thing for a man to have more sense than his neighbors. Socrates paid for his superiority with his life; and if Aristotle saved his skin, it was by taking to his heels in time.
Christoph Martin Wieland
#38. I have always suspected that too much knowledge is a dangerous thing. It is a boon to people who don't have deep feelings; their pleasure comes from what they know ... But this only emphasizes the difference between the artist and the scholar.
Margaret Caroline Anderson
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. Tedium is a dangerous thing, potentially lethal.
Nina -
#43. It's a dangerous thing when someone gets up in the morning and has nothing to eat.
Bashar Al-Assad
#44. The brain can be a dangerous thing. Even more so if you haven't got one.
Dave Courtney
#45. It is a dangerous thing for the perfecting of our minds to gain applause by works that do not call forth the whole of our energies; for in that case one generally comes to a standstill.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#46. 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
#47. I'm restless, bored, and invisible. A dangerous thing for any woman to be.
Karen Marie Moning
#48. A woman made of parts is a dangerous thing. You never know when she'll throw away a piece you may need.
Heidi W. Durrow
#49. Hope is a dangerous thing, Raisa thought. Once kindled, it's hard to put out. It makes wise people into fools.
Cinda Williams Chima
#50. Dreaming awake is sometimes a dangerous thing. In trying to get to heaven you may end up in the hell.
Stevan V. Nikolic
#51. A book's value rests in the knowledge it contains, and knowledge is ever a dangerous thing.
Anthony Ryan
#52. Fear is a dangerous thing. Once it is sanctioned by the state there is no telling where it might lead. It is always a short path to walk from being suspicious of our fellow citizens to taking actions to restrict their liberty.
Justin Trudeau
#53. 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
#55. 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
#56. But the truth is a double-edged sword; it is a dangerous thing.
Michael Scott
#57. Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.
Helen Rowland
#58. I need not add that freedom is a dangerous thing. But it is hardly possible that we are all cowards.
Jack Parsons
#59. Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice. Birth and good manners are essential; but a little learning is by no means a dangerous thing in good company; on the contrary, it will do very well.
Jane Austen
#61. For we can only know that we know nothing, and a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
Zhuangzi
#62. The first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report card.
Mark Twain
#63. A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.
William Allen White
#64. 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
#65. Fame is a dangerous thing. It's what the post-industrial society wants. They want fame and many followers on Twitter. But to really make the world understandable, that challenge is remaining.
Hans Rosling
#66. It's a dangerous thing to name yourself wrongly or to name yourself unjustly.
John O'Donohue
#67. Belief is a dangerous thing," Norbert said. "It can blind you. It can consume you. It can make you unable to admit you're wrong.
Alex Siegel
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.
Jack Kuehler
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. Magic is a dangerous thing, child. It isn't something to use lightly.
Kevis Hendrickson
#77. Power is a dangerous thing. Be careful that you don't abuse it or let it make a tyrant of you.
Louisa May Alcott
#78. 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
#79. Taking power away from a man is a dangerous thing. Someone always pays.
Glenn Close
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.
Oscar Wilde
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions.
Dennis Potter
#88. 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
#89. It is a dangerous thing to unbelieve something only because it frightens you.
Marissa Meyer
#91. Hope was a dangerous thing, something best squashed before it became contagious.
Cynthia Bond
#92. You were her way here, and it's a dangerous thing to be a door.
Neil Gaiman
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. 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
#98. A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
Frederick Douglass
#99. A piece of writing is a dangerous thing," he said. "It can change your life.
Tobias Wolff
