Dangerous Things Quotes

• A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

  Alexander Pope

  Education, Spring, Learning

  An Essay on Criticism l. 215 (1711) See Drayton 2

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• A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Witty, Sarcasm

  'The Critic as Artist' pt. 2 in 'Intentions' (1891)

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• I think quotes are very dangerous things.

  Kate Bush

  Thinking, Dangerous

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  The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

  Albert Einstein

  Peace, Integrity, Patriotic

  "The Harper Book of Quotations Revised Edition". Book by Robert I. Fitzhenry, p. 356, 1993.

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• I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice.

  Morgan Freeman

  Struggle, Bird, Doe

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• Get busy living, or get busy dying.

  Stephen King

  Inspirational, Life, Movie

  Different Seasons "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" (1982)

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• I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright.

  Stephen King

  Bird, Prison Life, Redemption

  "The Shawshank Redemption". www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

  Helen Rowland

  Love, Relationship, Littles

  Helen Rowland (1909). “Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”

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• Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Diversity, May, Dangerous

  William Sloane Coffin (2011). “The Heart Is a Little to the Left: Essays on Public Morality”, p.83, UPNE

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• A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.

  William Allen White

  Mistake, Doe, Littles

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• Don't be too brave. Bravery is a fine thing on some occasions, but sometimes it can be quite a dangerous thing. The stiff upper lip is not always the best.

  Jeremy Brett

  Bravery, Lips, Sometimes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Dangerous, Bigots, Conscience

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• A piece of writing is a dangerous thing," he said. "It can change your life.

  Tobias Wolff

  Inspirational, Writing, Pieces

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• A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Military, History, Nuclear Missiles

  Margaret Thatcher's speech at Soviet official banquet at St George's Halls, The Kremlin, www.margaretthatcher.org. March 30, 1987.

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• Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.

  Gertrude Stein

  Inspiring, Fear, Scary

  Everybody's Autobiography (1937) ch. 2

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• A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Learning

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• 'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being; the difference between sanity and insanity; the meaning of life and death; what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad.

  Michael Sheen

  Real, Differences, Life And Death

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

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• Things like microphones are dangerous things because you never know when they might feedback and squeal.

  Temple Grandin

  Might, Feedback, Microphones

  "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 20, 2006.

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• It's impossible to consider living without ideals. However, when ideas lead to ideology, that's a very dangerous thing. Ideology then leads to creating the image of an enemy, and it leads to the murder and massacre that we've seen since the beginning of time.

  Michael Haneke

  Ideas, Creating, Enemy

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. December 30, 2009.

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• When you are subverting the power of government, that's a fundamentally dangerous thing to democracy.

  Edward Snowden

  Government, Democracy, Dangerous

  "Opinion Roundup: Edward Snowden And The NSA Leaks". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. June 10, 2013.

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• But the most dangerous thing in the world in the world is to run the risk of waking up one morning and realizing suddenly that all this time you've been living without really and truly living and by then it's too late. When you wake up to that kind of realization, it's too late for wishes and regrets. It's even too late to dream.

  Kinky Friedman

  Running, Dream, Morning

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• The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.

  Tennessee Williams

  Brother, Tongue, Dangerous

  Tennessee Williams (2008). “Camino Real”, p.20, New Directions Publishing

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• It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen; they cannot 'do'; they can only be done by.

  Rumer Godden

  Dolls, Done, Sometimes

  Rumer Godden (2015). “The Dolls' House”, p.9, Pan Macmillan

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• We are to regard existence as a raid or great adventure; it is to be judged, therefore, not by what calamities it encounters, but by what flag it follows and what high town it assaults. The most dangerous thing in the world is to be alive; one is always in danger of one's life. But anyone who shrinks from that is a traitor to the great scheme and experiment of being.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Adventure, Encounters, Flags

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