Danger Quotes - Page 20

• The danger of having the military take over intelligence is that the military has a very different perspective on the world.

  Pete Hoekstra

  Military, Perspective, Different

  "Transcript: Rep. Pete Hoekstra on 'FNS'". "FOX News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. May 7, 2006.

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• Man is never watchful enough against dangers that threaten him every hour.
  [Lat., Quid quisque vitet nunquam homini satis
  Cautum est in horas.]

  Horace

  Men, Hours, Enough

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• An undertaking beset with danger.

  Horace

  Undertakings

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• Where Jack isn't safe, Tom's in danger.

  George Eliot

  Safe, Toms

  George Eliot (1871). “Felix Holt, the Radical”, p.235

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• One never finds anything perfectly pure and ... exempt from danger.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Pure

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• He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  May, Able, Firsts

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2010). “The Prince”, p.24, FastPencil Inc

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• Courage in danger is half the battle.
  [Lat., Bonus animus in mala re, dimidium est mali.]

  Plautus

  Courage, Battle, Bonus

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• We are ashamed of our fear; for we know that a righteous man would not suspect danger nor incur any. Wherever a man feels fear, there is an avenger.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fear, Men, Righteous Man

  Henry David Thoreau, John C. Broderick, Robert Sattelmeyer (1981). “Journal”, p.159, Princeton University Press

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• The only real danger to our country is from within, that we forget our own power to be what we want to be.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Country, Real, United States

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• The great characteristic of men of active genius is a sublime self-confidence, springing not from self-conceit, but from an intense identification of the man with his object, which lifts him altogether above the fear of danger and death, which gives to his enterprise a character of insanity to the common eye, and which communicates an almost superhuman audacity to his will.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Character, Eye, Self Confidence

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Literature and life, lects”, p.87

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• A man is in no danger so long as he talks his love; but to write it is to impale himself on his own pothooks.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Writing, Men, Long

  Douglas William Jerrold, Blanchard Jerrold (1859). “Specimens of Douglas Jerrold's wit: together with selections, chiefly from his contributions to journals, intended to illustrate his opinions”, p.48

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• War, like all other situations of danger and of change, calls forth the exertion of admirable intellectual qualities and great virtues, and it is only by dwelling on these, and keeping out of sight the sufferings and sorrows, and all the crimes and evils that follow in its train, that it has its glory in the eyes of men.

  William C. Bryant

  War, Eye, Men

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• There are circumstances of peculiar difficulty and danger, where a mediocrity of talent is the most fatal quantum that a man can possibly possess. Had Charles the First and Louis the Sixteenth been more wise or more weak, more firm or more yielding, in either case they had both of them saved their heads.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Wise, Men, Peculiar

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.96

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• Reform is a good replete with paradox; it is a cathartic which our political quacks, like our medical, recommend to others, but will not take themselves; it is admired by all who cannot effect it, and abused by all who can; it is thought pregnant with danger, for all time that is present, but would have been extremely profitable for that which is past, and will be highly salutary for that which is to come.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Past, Political, Reform

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.76

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• It has been said that men carry on a kind of coasting trade with religion. In the voyage of life, they profess to be in search of heaven, but take care not to venture so far in their approximations to it, as entirely to lose sight of the earth; and should their frail vessel be in danger of shipwreck, they will gladly throw their darling vices overboard, as other mariners their treasures, only to fish them up again when the storm is over.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Sight, Heaven

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.97

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• If thou hadst simplicity and purity, thou wouldst be able to comprehend all things without error, and behold them without danger. The pure heart safely pervades not only heaven, but hell.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Heart, Errors, Simplicity

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• Voices of the glorified urge us onward. They who have passed from the semblances of time to the realities of eternity call upon us to advance. The rest that awaits us invites us forward. We do not pine for our rest before God wills it. We long for no inglorious rest. We are thankful rather for the invaluable training of difficulty, the loving discipline of danger and strife. Yet in the midst of it all the prospect of rest invites us heavenward. Through all, and above all, God cries, "Go forward!" "Come up higher!

  William James

  Reality, Voice, Discipline

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 564, 1895.

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• Every generalization is dangerous, especially this one.

  Mark Twain

  Dangerous, Generalization

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• [On the Internet and activism:] The danger of the Internet is cocooning with the like-minded online - of sending an email or twitter and confusing that with action - while the real corporate and military and government centers of power go right on. In a way, the highest purpose of the Internet is to bring us together for empathy and action. After all, the reflector cells and empathy-producing chemicals in our brains only work when we're physically together with all five senses. You can't raise a baby online.

  Gloria Steinem

  Baby, Military, Real

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• Pleasant is the recollection of dangers past.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Past, Recollection, Pleasant

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• Nothing is so high and above all danger that is not below and in the power of God.
  [Lat., Nihil ita sublime est, supraque pericula tendit
  Non sit ut inferius suppositumque deo.]

  Ovid

  God, Sublime, Power Of God

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• My bark, once struck by the fury of the storm, dreads again to approach the place of danger.

  Ovid

  Storm, Bark, Dread

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• She only is chaste, who is chaste where there is no danger of detection: she who does not, because she may not, does.

  Ovid

  Doe, May, Chaste

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• A successful author is equally in danger of the diminution of his fame, whether he continues or ceases to write.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Successful, Fame

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.39

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• Differences, we know, are never so effectually laid asleep as by some common calamity; an enemy unites all to whom he threatens danger.

  Samuel Johnson

  Differences, Enemy, Common

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.150

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