Quotes About Danger

#1. Familiarity with danger makes a brave man braver, but less daring. Thus with seamen: he who goes the oftenest round Cape Horn goes the most circumspectly.

Herman Melville

#2. For in Western culture, music itself is always in danger of being regarded as the feminine Other that circumvents reason and arouses desire.

Susan McClary

#3. There is danger in courage. Cowardice is a power for good. We hardly know what it prevents.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

#4. All bands are in danger of losing their identity. Constantly.

Alex Scally

#5. Excess is part of my nature. Dullness is a disease. I really need danger and excitement. I'm never scared of putting myself out on a limb.

Freddie Mercury

#6. For our Hogwarts is in danger from external, deadly foes
And we must unite inside her or we'll crumble from within

J.K. Rowling

#7. There is far more danger of harm than there is hope of good in any radical changes.

Calvin Coolidge

#8. Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street; but the danger at present is that of finding the policeman half-way down the chimney or even under the bed.

G.K. Chesterton

#9. Running toward danger is foolhardy ... But so is closing your eyes to it. Many perils become less dangerous once you understand their potential hazards.

Brandon Mull

#10. One of the sad realities today is that very few people, especially young people, read books. Unless we can find imaginative ways of addressing this reality, future generations are in danger of losing their history.

Nelson Mandela

#11. You don't need fear to avoid unnecessary danger - just a minimum of intelligence and common sense.

Eckhart Tolle

#12. Of course, if Charles found out his father was out here, too, the damn fool would probably head right back into the maw of danger; he was that kind of heroic idiot.

Patricia Briggs

#13. All virtuous women, like tortoises, carry their house on their heads, and their chappel in their heart, and their danger in their eye, and their souls in their hands, and God in all their actions.

Jeremy Taylor

#14. Christians are not so much in danger when they are persecuted as when they are admired.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#15. I wish we could be 100% shielded from danger, but nothing is in life.

Mario Andretti

#16. I think I should know how to educate a boy, but not a girl; I should be in danger of making her too learned.

Reinhold Niebuhr

#17. And action is the only remedy to indifference, the most insidious danger of all.

Elie Wiesel

#18. I don't desire glory. Glory brings fame, and fame brings jealousy, and jealousy brings danger.

R.A. Salvatore

#19. It is a promise which eminently deserves our observation that all who are united to Christ and acknowledge Him to be Christ and Mediator will remain to the end safe from all danger, for what is said of the body of the Church belongs to each of its members since they are one in Christ.

John Calvin

#20. Danger is part of my job. It's always there, but you can't think about it too much otherwise you start to be too slow.

Heikki Kovalainen

#21. I feel like the squirrels that so often run in front of our car
& then stand paralyzed in the forward crunch of the tires
i'm torn between the compulsion to run
& the urge to stand still & hope the danger will pass

Koren Zailckas

#22. All have been, or at least all have believed themselves to be, in danger from the pursuit of someone whom they wished to avoid; and all have been anxious for the attentions of someone whom they wished to please.

Jane Austen

#23. The more you tilt your body, the more your character will get away from danger.

Kirejan Javier

#24. All reporters have a stripe of irreverence in their mental makeup. It usually keeps them from turning into toadies, a danger for those who associate, even in an adversarial way, with the rich and powerful.

Carolyn Hart

#25. I never had trouble eating or sleeping when I thought of her in danger. I didn't want to tear my heart out when she looked sad. I'm tainted, I know as much. Just let me stay near you, Dru. Please. - Christophe

Lili St. Crow

#26. Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is wrong. There is no other time.

Mark Twain

#27. A man who has been in danger,
When he comes out of it forgets his fears,
And sometimes he forgets his promises.

Euripides

#28. These are my enticements, and they are sufficent to conquer all fear and danger or death ... with the induction of the joy of a child feels when embarks a little boat.

Mary Shelley

#29. Tradition was safety; change was danger.

Mary Doria Russell

#30. Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power ...

Plato

#31. In moments of comfort, prepare for adversity.
In moments of misfortune, hope for prosperity.
In moments of blessing, plan for tragedy.
In moments of danger, fight for victory.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#32. As long as I look into the muzzles, nothing can happen to me. Only if he pulls lead am I in danger.

Hans-Joachim Marseille

#33. It means joining with allies to deploy renewable energy technologies
both at home and around the world
to confront the very real and present danger of potentially irreversible climate change.

Bernie Sanders

#34. I see Edward Snowden as someone who has chosen, at best, exile from the country he loves-with a serious risk of his assassination by agents of his government or life in prison (in solitary confinement)-to awaken us to the danger of our loss of democracy to a total-surveilla nce state

Daniel Ellsberg

#35. Besides, your imagination often plays tricks on you in moments of danger.

Anne Frank

#36. Last thing I needed was a fling with some well-to-do, danger-seeking fangirl. She was probably just a bored housewife, looking for the kind of hard fuck she wasn't getting from her uptight husband.

Pam Godwin

#37. The danger of crippling thought, the danger of obstructing the formation of the public mind by specially suppressing ... representations is far greater than any real danger that there is from such representations.

George Bernard Shaw

#38. The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad.

James Madison

#39. The richness of our contemporary visual world must be seen as a danger. It is an overwhelming and oppressive world. A world that manifests itself fundamentally through the image is only a few steps from totalitarian manipulation.

Edmundo Desnoes

#40. If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.

Carter G. Woodson

#41. The self-defence class was a mixed bunch, chosen because each had once been in mortal danger.

Angie Sage

#42. The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#43. God and the doctor we like adore,
But only when in danger, not before.

John Owen

#44. The tradition piece is so embedded in me I don't know that I can see it any more, but the community piece is one I've been in danger of losing.

Barbara Brown Taylor

#45. So long as money can answer, it were wrong in any business to put the life in danger.

Saadi

#46. An undertaking beset with danger.

Horace

#47. There is the danger of over preparation, of loss of spontaneity; over rehearsal is the most terrible thing you can imagine. We do have a very close association between costume and set designer, though. And the cameraman is very important, of course.

Terence Fisher

#48. Instruction tables will have to be made up by mathematicians with computing experience and perhaps a certain puzzle-solving ability. There need be no real danger of it ever becoming a drudge, for any processes that are quite mechanical may be turned over to the machine itself.

Alan Turing

#49. I really do think that every time you play a role well, you are in danger of being identified with that role until the next big thing comes along.

Michael Emerson

#50. I'll give you a list of a hundred ways that I'm more likely to be injured than belting around a race track with people who know what they're doing. It's not a place where I feel I'm in unnecessary danger.

Eric Bana

#51. Let none think to fly the danger for soon or late love is his own avenger.

Lord Byron

#52. Thou art blind to the danger of marrying a woman who feels and acts out the principle of equal rights.

Angelina Grimke

#53. We cannot teach children the danger of lying to men without feeling as men, the greater danger of lying to children.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#54. Words are some of the most powerful and important things I know ... Language is the tool of love and the weapon of hatred. It's the bright red warning flag of danger
and the stone foundation of diplomacy and peace.

Ani DiFranco

#55. In all my wild mountaineering, I have enjoyed only one avalanche ride; and the start was so sudden, and the end came so soon, I thought but little of the danger that goes with this sort of travel, though one thinks fast at such times.

John Muir

#56. Every time I am in danger of believing the glamour of my own press, some incident inevitably brings me back to earth.

Jessica Savitch

#57. A man's opinion of danger varies at different times, in consequence of an irregular tide of animal spirits; and he is actuated by considerations which he dares not avow.

Tobias Smollett

#58. The danger of our culture.- We belong to a period of which the culture is in danger of being destroyed by the appliances of culture.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#59. Danger is what makes life precious. Death is the constant danger of life.

Clarice Lispector

#60. Now's the time for sweet good-bye To what could never be, To promises we ne'er could keep, To a magic you and me. If we should try to prove our love, Our love would be in danger. Let's put our love beyond all harm. Good-bye - sweet, gentle stranger.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#61. No commandment surpasses the one concerning the liberation of hostages, for they are among the starving, the thirsting, the stripped, always in danger of death.

Elie Wiesel

#62. The danger of terrorists and rogue states is compounded by the proliferation of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear weapons.

Joe Lieberman

#63. A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t' his other virtues, They're all unseason'd without it.

Ben Jonson

#64. The air smelt of booze, sweat and cheap perfume - redolent of sex and danger. There was a kind of frontier recklessness about the atmosphere, Bond thought, and recognised its allure.

William Boyd

#65. When a man's neck's in danger, he doesn't stop to think too much about
sentiment.

Agatha Christie

#66. Fear is danger to your body, but disgust is danger to your soul.

Diane Ackerman

#67. Though it may afford momentary psychological relief, it is an illusion which physiologically, surely, must not be without danger.

Viktor E. Frankl

#68. Danger alone acquaints us with our own resources, our virtues, our armor and weapons, our spirit, and forces us to be strong.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#69. It is because I perceive the danger in the practice of mystic wonders, that I loath, abhor, and am ashamed thereof.

Gautama Buddha

#70. God is like a computer, the more software you put in, the greater the danger that extensions will conflict.

Alexander Waugh

#71. The danger is in acting on what you believe satisfies the customer. You will inevitably make wrong assumptions. Leadership should not even try to guess at the answers; it should always go to customers in a systematic quest for those answers.

Peter F. Drucker

#72. Wit is its own remedy. Liberty and commerce bring it to its true standard. The only danger is the laying an embargo. The same thing happens here as in the case of trade: impositions and restrictions reduce it to a low ebb; nothing is so advantageous to it as a free port.

Anthony Ashley Cooper

#73. Atheists are like wild feral dogs wih no master. But Christians are like loving dogs with a giving and loving master. Domesticated dogs will love you always, but Feral wild dogs HAVE to be put down. they are a danger to us all.

Roger Bacon

#74. It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.

Graham Greene

#75. Beware of the danger signals that flag problems: silence, secretiveness, or sudden outburst.

Sylvia Porter

#76. Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas.

Erwin Rommel

#77. What terrorists gain, novelists lose. The degree to which they influence mass consciousness is the extent of our decline as shapers of sensibility and thought. The danger they represent equals our own failure to be dangerous.'
'And the more clearly we see terror, the less impact we feel from art.

Don DeLillo

#78. Memories are killing. So you must not think of certain things, of those that are dear to you, or rather you must think of them, for if you don't there is the danger of finding them, in your mind, little by little.

Samuel Beckett

#79. Oh, pilot! 'tis a fearful night, There's danger on the deep.

Thomas Haynes Bayly

#80. Besides, morality is not about whether the human race survives, but about what kind of survival it gets. We marry; guppies don't. We don't eat our young; they do. Yet neither species is in danger of extinction.

J. Budziszewski

#81. I made many studio albums and I think the danger of studio recording is that if you do not watch out, you come out with a perfectly sterile performance.

Chuck Mangione

#82. But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.

William Tecumseh Sherman

#83. We are at the point in time and terror where nothing short of a strong uniform policy of domestic disarmament will alleviate the danger which is crystal clear and perilously present. Let us take the guns away from the people.

Patrick V. Murphy

#84. Research cannot be forced very much. There is always danger of too much foliage and too little fruit.

Theobald Smith

#85. The real danger in life is not death, but living an evil life.

Socrates

#86. There is a very real danger that financial regulation will become a wolf in sheep's clothing.

Henry Paulson

#87. When someone is trapped in a burning building, you don't try to work out what caused the fire and then decide whether the people inside get your sympathy. When people are in danger of burning up, you rush to save them. Especially if you remember how much it hurts to be burned.

Christine Caine

#88. It (the dash ) is a comfortable punctuation mark since even the most rigorous critic can seldom claim that any particular example of it is a misuse. Its overuse is its greatest danger, and the writer who can't resist dashes may be suspected of uncoordinated thinking.

Bergen Evans

#89. I had always served beauty. Davy and I together had loved beauty. Now, maybe, I was worshipping beauty in the Christian God while Davy was worshipping God. There may be danger in the love of beauty, though it seems treason to say it. Perhaps it can be a snare.

Sheldon Vanauken

#90. Jesus did not send us to declare the gospel only where people are responsive or where our witness is welcome. He did not expect us to be on mission to disciple peoples only where there is no danger or risk involved. He was unequivocal in His mandate to disciple the nations (peoples) - all of them!

Ed Stetzer

#91. Cooperation will save the future. And America should lead it. Every time humanity has been in danger of extinguishing itself, our consciousness and our conscience have led us to come together. That's the big issue of the 21st century.

William J. Clinton

#92. A philosophy which no longer asks the question of the meaning of life would be in great danger of reducing the merely accessory functions, with no real passion for the search for truth.

Pope John Paul II

#93. I don't want to sound like the old guy, but cynicism is a potential danger. It colors our way of looking at the world.

Bob Newhart

#94. To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.

Steven Brust

#95. I learned that danger is relative, and the inexperience can be a magnifying glass.

Charles Lindbergh

#96. Works of art are born of those who confront danger, who go to the limit of an experience, to a point beyond which no human can go. The farther one ventures, the more distinctive, the more personal, the more unique life becomes.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#97. Love is always in danger of being sentimentalized.

Georgia Harkness

#98. Power is what spoils people. Yes, it seems to me that the seeking after power is the great danger and the great corruptor of mankind.

Baldur Von Schirach

#99. For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing.
The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.

Jerry Garcia

#100. Reading without thinking will confuse you.Thinking without reading will place you in danger.

Confucius