Dangerous Quotes - Page 8

• True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Funny, Education, Learning

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• Remain in wonder if you want the mysteries to open up for you. Mysteries never open up for those who go on questioning. Questioners sooner or later end up in a library. Questioners sooner or later end up with scriptures, because scriptures are full of answers. And answers are dangerous, they kill your wonder.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Magic, Library

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• Love is the most dangerous thing in the world.

  Jennifer Beals

  Love Is, World, Danger

  PlanetOut Inc. Interview, 2004.

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• Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.

  Eric Sevareid

  Humor, Power, Honor

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• The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life. If it be true that optimism compels the world forward, and pessimism retards it, then it is dangerous to propagate a pessimistic philosophy.

  Helen Keller

  Family, Philosophy, Optimism

  Helen Keller (2010). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.102, Courier Corporation

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• You know they say the most dangerous person of the world is a member of the United States Congress just home from a three-day fact-finding trip.

  Johnny Isakson

  Pregnancy, Home, United States

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• Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

  John Bradshaw

  Children, Risk, World

  John Bradshaw (2013). “Creating Love: A New Way of Understanding Our Most Important Relationships”, p.115, Bantam

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• Questioners sooner or later end up in a library... And answers are dangerous; they kill your wonder.

  Rajneesh

  Library, Answers, Wonder

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• Too many times we're looking for ways to get around deep waters and dangerous fires, rather than through them. Has this ever been your experience?

  James MacDonald

  Fire, Deep Water, Way

  James MacDonald (2011). “Always True: God's 5 Promises When Life Is Hard”, p.119, Moody Publishers

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• Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?

  Nancy Mitford

  Kings, Royalty, Glory

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• Living on Earth has always been a dangerous way to spend your time.

  Anne Lamott

  Life, Earth, Way

  Anne Lamott (1997). “Rosie: A Novel”, Penguin Books

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• Nothing's dangerous if you know what you're doing.

  Johnny Unitas

  Nfl, Buffets, Sad Feeling

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• It's people who are repressed and cannot express their fears that are dangerous.

  Julie Taymor

  People, Repressed

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• You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy.

  Ade Edmondson

  Land, Entering, Comedy

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• Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos.

  William Irwin Thompson

  Order, Roots, Chaos

  William Irwin Thompson (1977). “Evil and world order”

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• But I think the bomb instead constitutes merely a first step in a new control by man over the forces of nature too revolutionary and dangerous to fit into old concepts.

  Henry L. Stimson

  Men, Thinking, Bombs

  Henry L. Stimson (2016). “On Active Services In Peace And War”, p.416, Read Books Ltd

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• ... obsessions are always dangerous.

  Agatha Christie

  Obsession

  Agatha Christie (1944). “Crime reader”

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• The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous. They want to achieve a return to the Islamic purity of the Middle Ages.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Islamic, Age, Elements

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In school they told me I was a Jew, "a filthy Jew." At first I asked myself what exactly that was. But then I began to understand. I was a Jew, I was a member of the Jewish faith, the Jewish community. One time, when I was giving a reading at a school, someone asked me: "If it was so dangerous to be Jewish, why didn't you convert to Christianity?" My response was: "It's not as easy you think. When you're a Jew, you're a Jew.

  Anita Lasker-Wallfisch

  Reading, School, Thinking

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Actors, it's very hard for them to make value judgments when they play characters. It's very dangerous if you start thinking of yourself as a bad guy.

  Stacy Keach

  Thinking Of You, Character, Play

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Playing the sex object may not be dangerous for Miley Cyrus, with her bodyguards to protect her, but for a 13-year-old girl hanging out at a party at night, it can be. So I think it's fair to say to musicians: "Objectifying yourself is not the best choice."

  Keli Goff

  Girl, Sex, Party

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• You saw the traumas that people lived through, and wondered what it will take to move us as a human community, as humanity, to help in these dangerous situations.

  Kofi Annan

  Moving, Dangerous Situations, People

  "Kofi Annan on 40 Years Trying to End War, Promote Peace at the United Nations". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. September 17, 2012.

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• Make it dangerous or it's not worth doing.

  Maurice Sendak

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• Speak nothing but the truth, and you'll soon be considered dangerous.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Speak, Nothing But The Truth

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