Danger Quotes - Page 2

• If you are out of trouble, watch for danger.

  Sophocles

  Advice, Watches, Trouble

  David Grene, Sophocles (1959). “Sophocles”, [Chicago] : University of Chicago Press

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• The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Life, Leadership, Determination

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• A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

  Seneca the Younger

  Fear, Philosophical, Light

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Lord Byron

  Love Is, Thinking, Literature

  Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.165, Xist Publishing

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• Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Fog, Sun, Mystery

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.182

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• Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger.

  Christopher Lasch

  Hygiene, Remains, Disintegration

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• We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

  David Sarnoff

  Death, Fear, Funeral

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• Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sea, Brave, Secret

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.131

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• Sometimes, in a portrait, I go straight in with paint onto canvas... Other than riding my bike up and down the hills around here, it is the most dangerous thing I do... like tightrope-walking without a safety net!

  David Cobley

  Safety, Portraits, Riding

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• The act, the doing, the taking up of paint and putting it down - the immediate impact upon your psyche or soul that occurs when you do that - has so much danger in it.

  Milton Resnick

  Impact, Soul, Paint

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• The petition of an empty hand is dangerous.

  Bill Vaughan

  Hands, Empty, Petitions

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• Danger for danger's sake is senseless.

  Leigh Hunt

  Sake

  Leigh Hunt (1870). “Table-talk: To which are Added Imaginary Conversations of Pope and Swift”, p.90

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• The danger, I find, is that you can become too formulaic, like some commissioned portrait painters who develop a methodology.

  Jamie Wyeth

  Portraits, Methodology, Painter

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• We should never so entirely avoid danger as to appear irresolute and cowardly; but, at the same time, we should avoid unnecessarily exposing ourselves to danger, than which nothing can be more foolish.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Foolish, Should, Exposing

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1902). “De Officiis”

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• I believe the world is increasingly in danger of becoming split into groups which cannot communicate with each other, which no longer think of each other as members of the same species.

  Bill Vaughan

  Believe, Thinking, Groups

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• We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Military, Pearls

  Ronald Reagan, Mark J. Green, Gail MacColl (1983). “There he goes again: Ronald Reagan's reign of error”, Pantheon

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• Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Government, Elements, Literature

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• Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Death, Art, Honor

  Ernest Hemingway (2002). “Death in the Afternoon”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• Thank Heaven! The crisis /The danger is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last /, and the fever called ''Living'' is conquered at last.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Inspiring, Death, Past

  1850 'ForAnnie'.

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• Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing.

  Adolphe Monod

  Inspirational, Dream, Goal

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• That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.

  John Stuart Mill

  Success, Time, Work

  John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.202, Hackett Publishing

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• In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.

  John F. Kennedy

  Freedom, Responsibility, Long

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

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• There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.

  H. G. Wells

  Suffering, Purpose, Revolution

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• I think if I were to go back on stage I might be in great danger of acting.

  Ben Kingsley

  Thinking, Acting, Might

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• At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Suicide, Spring, Civil War

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.32, Penguin

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