Danger Quotes - Page 32

• The nature of a coward is to avoid death. If such a man courts peril there can be only two reasons. Either he is not a coward at all or there is no danger.

  David Gemmell

  Men, Two, Coward

  "Stormrider". Book by David Gemmell, ch. 4, 2002.

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• The perpetual danger which besets religion is that it may substitute gentility and aestheticism for prophetic insight and power.

  Georgia Harkness

  Religion, May, Substitutes

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• A woman is seldom roused to great and courageous exertion but when something most dear to her is in immediate danger.

  Joanna Baillie

  Women, Courageous, Dear

  Joanna Baillie (1853). “The dramatic and poetical works of Joanna Baillie”, p.709

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• When a man mentally undresses a woman it's merely sex; but when a woman mentally dresses a man he's in dire danger of matrimony.

  Helen Nielsen

  Sex, Men, Dating

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• Nothing is so secure in its position as not to be in danger from the attack even of the weak.

  Quintus Curtius Rufus

  Weak, Position, Secure

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

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Cowardice, Knows

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (1972). “The last and the first”

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• The danger in mysticism is that you push yourself too far into the nagual too soon. This is obsession.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Obsession, Push Yourself

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• Danger hides in beauty and beauty in danger.

  Belva Plain

  Beauty

  Belva Plain (2010). “Crescent City”, p.507, Dell

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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 mind concerned about danger is a clouded mind. It's paralyzing.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Mind, Concerned, Clouded

  "Buzz Aldrin: The Right Stuff". Interview with Jim Clash, www.askmen.com.

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• The danger with mentioning names is that you hurt the feelings of people that you leave out.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Hurt, Names, People

  "Rush Limbaugh Gives Sean a Rare Interview". "Hannity & Colmes" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. October 19, 2005.

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• Understanding the long, sordid history of gun control in America is key to understanding the dangers of disarming.

  Niger Innis

  Gun, Keys, America

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• After visits to several Communist countries (USSR, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Slovenia, East Germany, Vietnam, China, Cuba), I feel strongly that most "revolutionary" types around the world don't realize the importance of freedom of the press and the air, a right to peaceably assemble and discuss anything, including the dangers of such discussions.

  Pete Seeger

  Country, East Germany, Air

  Source: portside.org

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• We will never know everything. But I think if we can learn within the next few decades to face the danger we all are in, I believe there will be tens of millions, maybe hundreds of millions, of human beings working wherever they are to do something good.

  Pete Seeger

  Believe, Thinking, Next

  Source: portside.org

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• Being fat is the absolute nadir of the misfit. You're a misfit because nothing fits. You don't fit in. You're not fit. You're fat. Fat doesn't have the poetic cachet of alcohol, the whiff of danger in the drug of choice. You're just fat. Being fat is so un-American, so unattractive, unerotic, unfashionable, undisciplined, unthinkable, uncool. It makes you invisible. It makes you conspicuous.

  Claudia Shear

  Alcohol, Choices, Drug

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• No risk? Then no danger of losing and finally no thrill in winning.

  Sandeep Kumar

  Motivational, Winning, Risk

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• The danger with the internet is that you don't need to think about music, you just search for it and you find the answer. Singing used to be part of everyday life. Women sang while pounding corn. Men sang while paddling canoes.

  Pete Seeger

  Men, Thinking, Everyday

  Source: peoplesworld.org

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• The danger lies not in the big ears of little pitchers, but in the large mouths.

  Ethel Mumford

  Lying, Ears, Mouths

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• Today the great gift of God's Creation is exposed to serious dangers and lifestyles which can degrade it. Environmental pollution is making particularly unsustainable the lives of the poor of the world ... we must pledge ourselves to take care of creation and to share its resources in solidarity.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Environmental, Care, Today

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• Anytime your banner becomes anything other than Jesus Christ you ought to be afraid of Hell. If your banner is “I'm a Calvinist”, if your banner is “I'm a homeschooler”, if your banner is this, that, or anything else, if you're rallying under any other name than Jesus Christ; you're in danger. You are in danger!

  Paul Washer

  Jesus, Names, Hell

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• Though the worship of riches is an old religion, there has never been a danger that it might become the sole religion. And yet that is what is surely going to happen in the world.

  J. E. Buckrose

  World, Might, Riches

  Annie Edith Foster Jameson, J. E. Buckrose (1923). “What I Have Gathered”

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• All American and Israeli goods and products should be boycotted in a way that undermines American and Israeli interests so as to act as deterrence to their war against Muslims and Islam that is being waged under the pretence of fighting terrorism. This boycott should become an overwhelming trend that makes these two states feel that their economies are in a real and actual danger.

  Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

  Real, War, Fighting

  "Boycott of Israeli and US companies gaining momentum" by Shatha Khalil and Abdul Adil, archive.muslimnews.co.uk. June 28, 2002.

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• A major danger in using highly abstractive methods in political philosophy is that one will succeed merely in generalizing one's own local prejudices and repackaging them as demands of reason. The study of history can help to counteract this natural human bias.

  Raymond Geuss

  Philosophy, Political, Prejudice

  "Outside Ethics". Book by Raymond Geuss, 2005.

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• Race was a word that bred arrogance, danger and violence. When had incitement to race served a peaceful purpose? Race was a fuel and it needed only a match to light it. Any match - my hostility, your ambition, a third person's advantage.

  Nayantara Sahgal

  Ambition, Light, Race

  Nayantara Sahgal (1963). “From fear set free”

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• Your property is in danger when your neighbour's house is on fire.

  Horace

  Fire, House, Property

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