Dangerous Things Quotes - Page 7

• It's a dangerous thing when someone gets up in the morning and has nothing to eat.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Morning, Get Up, Dangerous

  "Poverty Is a Greater Concern for Most than a Democratic Constitution". Interview with Martin Doerry, Hans Hoyng and Susanne Koelbl, www.spiegel.de. August 29, 2005.

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• ...tis a dangerous thing to ingage the authority of Scripture in disputes about the Natural World, in opposition to Reason; lest Time, which brings all things to light, should discover that to be evidently false which we had made Scripture to assert.

  Thomas Burnet

  Light, World, Scripture

  Thomas Burnet (1697). “The Theory of the Earth: Containing an Account of the Original of the Earth, and of All the General Changes which it Hath Already Undergone, Or is to Undergo Till the Consummation of All Things ...”, p.18

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• Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.

  Quintilian

  Change, Money, Men

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 289-93, De Institutione Oratoria, CCLX, 1922.

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• Know when to speak - for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings.

  Robert Herrick

  Kings, Giving, Advice

  Robert Herrick (1852). “Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine”

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• It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Practice, Ideas, Dangerous

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• The most dangerous thing I've ever encountered was a run-in with Boko Haram around 2007 in a small town in Nigeria. I got caught along with the photographer I was working with, the same one I worked with on the Afghanistan book, Seamus Murphy. We were caught in an attack by a mob after Friday prayers. And the level of violence was so extreme. It was more violent than any other mob violence I have ever seen.

  Eliza Griswold

  Friday, Running, Prayer

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• One of the most dangerous things about Fox News isn't that it's right wing but that it's nihilistic. It takes away the capacity to believe in politics.

  Zephyr Teachout

  Believe, Wings, News

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• You can go to these chat-lines. It's not hard it's really easy. Another thing the show makes clear is not talking about these issues is what leads kids to go on the Internet and find out the information themselves. And then they come across people like Mr. Healy wanting to meet them in the park. That's what leads to these kind of more-dangerous things.

  Sarah Steele

  Kids, Talking, Issues

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I stopped writing at the age of 18. I had written incessantly before that. I read, of course, because I was in university, but I wasn't going to write. I wasn't going to do any of those dangerous things. I was going to be a stolid, bourgeois lawyer.

  James Lipton

  Writing, Age, Lawyer

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. February 9, 2010.

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• The dangerous thing about hate is that it seems so reasonable.

  Enid Bagnold

  Hate, Dangerous, Reasonable

  Enid Bagnold (1970). “Four plays”

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• In much of the world, the most dangerous thing a woman can do is become pregnant.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  World, Dangerous, Can Do

  "The World's Modern-Day Lepers: Women With Fistulas" by Nicholas Kristof, www.nytimes.com. March 19, 2016.

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• A little bit of suspicion is a dangerous thing; a drop from a pipette of poison into a bucket of otherwise clean water.

  Bella Pollen

  Water, Buckets, Poison

  Bella Pollen (2011). “Midnight Cactus”, p.218, Pan Macmillan

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• Love is like fire, a dangerous thing to play with, although the best of friends and the most loyal of servants when rightly handled.

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

  Love Is, Fire, Play

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• Ah, gratitude, that's a terrible thing, a dangerous thing.

  Elizabeth Ferrars

  Gratitude, Dangerous, Terrible

  Elizabeth Ferrars (2014). “Experiment with Death”, p.26, Hachette UK

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• The most immoral and disgraceful and dangerous thing that anybody can do in the arts is knowingly to feed back to the public its own ignorance and cheap tastes.

  Edmund Wilson

  Art, Ignorance, Taste

  Edmund Wilson (1951). “Memoirs of Hecate County”

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• The most dangerous thing in American society is a self-respecting and self-loving black person, because they're on the road to freedom and that means they're gonna run up against the powers that be.

  Cornel West

  Running, Mean, Self

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• I'll not meddle with it; it is a dangerous thing; it makes a man a coward; a man cannot steal, but it accuseth him; a man cannot swear, but it checks him; a man cannot lie with his neighbor's wife, but it detects him. 'Tis a blushing, shame -faced spirit, that mutinies in a man's bosom ; it fills one full of obstacles; it made me once restore a purse of gold that by chance I found; it beggars any man that keeps it; it is turned out of all towns and cities for a dangerous thing; and every man that means to live well endeavors to trust to himself and live without it.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Mean, Men

  "King Richard III. King Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus".

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• One man's gospel truth is another man's blasphemous lie. The dangerous thing about people is the way we'll try to kill anyone whose truth doesn't agree with ours.

  Mira Grant

  Lying, Men, People

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• Socrates: So even our walks are dangerous here. But you seem to have avoided the most dangerous thing of all. Bertha: What's that? Socrates: Philosophy. Bertha: Oh, we have philosophers here. Socrates: Where are they? Bertha: In the philosophy department. Socrates: Philosophy is not department. Bertha: Well, we have philosophers. Socrates: Are they dangerous? Bertha: Of course not. Socrates: Then they are not true philosophers.

  Peter Kreeft

  Philosophy, Philosopher, Bertha

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• But the truth is a double-edged sword; it is a dangerous thing.

  Michael Scott

  Truth Is, Dangerous

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• It's a dangerous thing to be married right up to the hilt, like my daughter's husband. The man is at home all day, like a damned soul in hell.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Marriage, Daughter, Husband

  George Bernard Shaw (2004). “Heartbreak House”, p.162, 1st World Publishing

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• A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a little patronage more so.

  Charles Dickens

  Attitude, Ignorance, Littles

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.20

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• The most dangerous thing you can do in life is play it safe.

  Casey Neistat

  Play, Safe, Life Is

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• A little learning is a dangerous thing but none at all is fatal.

  Roger Bacon

  Ignorance, Littles, Dangerous

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• As every authoritarian regime knows, association can be a dangerous thing. From discussion it is only a few steps to action.

  Ann Scott

  Association, Steps, Action

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