Up Close And Dangerous Quotes

#1. What makes our poetry so contemptible nowadays is its paucity of ideas. If you want to be read, invent. Who the Devil wouldn't like to read something new?

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#2. Al leaned close, voice dangerous as he whispered, "We don't forget, Rachel, and it's not as if it was our ancestors who were betrayed. It was us.

Kim Harrison

#3. I have brain damage, remember? I'm not responsible for my actions
or for the actions of my hand, which acted of its own volition and without my knowledge.' Cam to Bailey

Linda Howard

#4. It is dangerous to build systemic reforms on a close association with one particular government. Systemic reforms need broad public participation and support. That is what makes them irreversible.

George Soros

#5. The supporters ... It is true that they are dangerous when they run close to the riders. From there to throwing a punch. That is a step ...

Gilberto Simoni

#6. Story is a butterfly whose wings transport us to another world where we receive gifts that change who we are and who we want to be.

Harley King

#7. Glenn Close is a living icon. You look at the work, and I think it's wild, because she thinks some of her best work was in Dangerous Liaisons and that's what I believe as well.

Anthony Anderson

#8. I can feel him step close, then his hands lay on my shoulders, and they burn in the most delicious way, only reminding me how dangerous Benjamin is to me, to my soul. How fast I would get lost in him, only to end up with a broken heart when I could not be the woman he expected me to be.

Nicole Kiefer

#9. She wasn't going there again. Ever. Nope, she needed transparency from a man. And Parker, for all his bad-boy, cowboy 'tude and cocky swagger, wasn't anything close to transparent. At all. And that made him downright dangerous to her.

Jill Shalvis

#10. Taking power away from a man is a dangerous thing. Someone always pays.

Glenn Close

#11. I think that if you get too close to the character, if you do too much historical research, you may find yourself defending your view of a character against the author's view, and I think that's terribly dangerous.

Tim Curry

#12. He's like my wolf - dangerous, alluring and protective - but I can never get close enough or else he'll bite me.

Krista Ritchie

#13. The victims of problems of the family are the children. The children. Even of problems that neither husband nor wife have a say in.

Pope Francis

#14. We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

Ronald Reagan

#15. She thought secretly that there is no more dangerous item in the world than a pretty young woman on the loose. Luckily, the older woman thought, when we are girls we don't know that we are like sticks of dynamite or like fireworks in a box too close to a fire.

Doris Lessing

#16. You can't close your eyes to the lies perpetrated by dangerous fools / 'cos they're handing out rules

Kim Wilde

#17. Religion is for people who're afraid of going to hell. Spirituality is for those who've already been there.

Vine Deloria Jr.

#18. The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.

Minna Antrim

#19. To punish MPs because of the distance they live from London - those with fast train journeys quite close to London as well as those at some distance from both the capital or an appropriate airport - is perverse, but also dangerous to democracy.

David Blunkett

#20. As they walked, he leaned low and close to her ear. Don't worry. I won't have anything dangerous for dinner, at least, not a weapon.

Cat Johnson

#21. Darius squared his shoulders, wishing he had something other than his handkerchief to keep his hands occupied while she stood this close, looking so angry and at the same time as wildly beautiful, dangerous, and breathtaking as a thunderstorm at sea. A face to sink a thousand ships...

Jayne Fresina

#22. You can't build a life
on another human being. We're foundations
of sand. We're Atlas buckling under the sky.

Elisabeth Hewer

#23. The first time it felt really dangerous, like the sort of thing you had to lock the doors and close the curtains on because if anybody saw you, God would strike you down with a thunderbolt. But I took to it like a duck to water.

Jamie Muir

#24. Listening is the most dangerous thing of all, listening means knowing, finding out about something and knowing what's going on, our ears don't have lids that can instinctively close against the words uttered, they can't hide from what they sense they're about to hear, it's always too late.

Javier Marias

#25. Keep close," he said. "It only gets more dangerous from here."
I patted his shoulder. "Don't be afraid. I'll protect you.

Courtney Allison Moulton

#26. I was in close quarters with some representative specimens of the most dangerous creature in the history of the world, the white man in a suit.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#27. The connection between the language in which we think/program and the problems and solutions we can imagine is very close. For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.

Bjarne Stroustrup

#28. If you are close to a precipice, go away a bit; if you are far from it, come close a bit! Enjoy the safety, enjoy the view! Without safety, it is dangerous; without view, it is dull! Life is an art of adjusting the distances!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#29. Then there is the third category, the category of people who need to be constantly before the eyes of the person they love. Their situation is a dangerous as the situation in the first category. One day the eyes of their beloved will close, and the room will go dark.

Milan Kundera

#30. Human affairs are not governed ultimately by historical events, fate, or chance, but by God ... Divine purpose moving steadily from beginning to end.

Eugenia Price

#31. Many a suicide might be averted if the person contemplating it could find the proper assistance when such a crisis impends.

Clifford Whittingham Beers

#32. She shouldn't be this close to Cole, not alone, not even when she was pissed beyond belief. It was too dangerous, since she had yet to find a cure for I-hate-you-but-I-want-to-fuck-your-brains-out-itis.

Jennifer Bonds

#33. Unless a man has considerable skill with and reliance in his weapon, he will not remain cool in the presence of dangerous game close by.

Townsend Whelen

#34. As far as I see it you just can't give Messi space in the dangerous areas - we have to close him down, get tight and give him as little room as we can because if you don't, he can destroy you.

Frank Lampard

#35. Young Shia who have been brought up with nothing, who are pretty anarchic, pretty dangerous. In 2004 when they came close to killing me, and of course they have killed very large numbers of other Iraqis. That's a major source of strength for Muqtada.

Patrick Cockburn

#36. He had learned that close-held secrets could often be cracked by going all the way to the top and there making himself unbearably unpleasant. He knew that such twisting of the tiger's tail was dangerous, for he understood the psychopathology of great power.

Robert A. Heinlein

#37. All she could think was 'This is how close a kiss is'. It felt every bit as dangerous as she'd imagined.

Maggie Stiefvater

#38. Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were alive today? 1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War. 2) Advising the President. 3) Desperately clawing at the inside of his coffin.

David Letterman

#39. Nico knew something about ghosts. Letting them get inside your head was dangerous. He wanted to help Reyna, but since his own strategy was to deal with his problems alone, spurning anyone who tried to get close, he couldn't exactly criticize Reyna for doing the same thing.

Rick Riordan