Danger Quotes

Before I can become an expert on anything, I must first become an expert on me.

~ Charles F. Glassman

Usually the opposite of what we fear is our greatest fear.

~ Charles F. Glassman

It is how we nurture the good and deal with the bad that ultimately shapes our destiny.

~ Charles F. Glassman

Many ancient (and contemporary) societies considered the sexually awakened femaleas both auspicious and dangerous.

~ Srinivasan

Such a dark green, his eyes. They reminded her of the forest, of all the dangers lying dormant behind that verdant cloak of leaves.

~ Nenia Campbell

A person needed to experience real danger or they would never find joy in excelling. There had to be a risk of failure, the chance to die.

~ Brandon Sanderson

Their faith in him is at once touching and alarming -- their trust that they are safe simply because he's with them, as if an adult presence warded of all possible threat, emanated an unbreachable forcefield.

~ Paul Murray

There was a danger in asking too much of a child, but the danger of asking too little was almost equal.

~ Robin Hobb

Dangers were no more than odd imaginings, like ghost stories that children made up to frighten one another: things that couldn't possibly happen.

~ Lois Lowry

My parents won’t let me have a motorcycle, but they give me all the guns I want. I asked them for a motorcycle last Christmas and they told me I’d only kill myself. They got me this twelve-gauge instead.

~ Scott Thompson

The world (including Drapervilleh is not a nice place, and the innocent and the young have to take their chances. They cannot be watched over, twenty-four hours of the day. At what moment, from what hiding-place, the idea of evil will strike, there is no telling. And when it does, the result is not always disastrous. Children have their own incalculable strength and weakness, and this, for all their seeming helplessness, will determine the pattern of their lives. Even when you suspect why they fall downstairs, you cannot be sure. You have no way of knowing whether their fright is permanent or can be healed by putting butter on the large lump that comes out on their foreheads after a fall.

~ William Maxwell

Curiosity is called curiosity because of how curiously it can creep into people’s behavior no matter what dangers are around.

~ Elizabeth Newton

In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself credulous. The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery.

~ William Kingdon Clifford

A sense of solidarity among fifteen-to-thirty-year-olds would be a menace to civilized society even in the best of times.

~ Steven Pinker

Perhaps jungle life, despite physical danger, was a relaxing one. Surely it was free of the petty grievances, the disparate values of society. It was simple, devoid of artifice and ulcer-burning pressures.

~ Richard Matheson

Mr Judge, Jury & Executioner of Micah Xavier Johnson‬ needs to go to jail as soon as possible – he is a danger to civilized society.

~ Steven Magee

Under the guise of helping the sick, oppressed and hopeless, psychiatry is paving the way for authoritarian governments to suppress a whole society furthermore, with drugs and obscene practices that promote, not only hypnotic suggestions, but also highly suggestible individuals which, otherwise, would oppose a whole repressive system that threatens both their existence and the existence of future generations on Earth. And so, one can very well say that, psychiatry, aided by pharmaceutical corporations and power-driven governments, or merely governments fearful of their own people and the extinction of immoral politics, will contribute vastly to the extermination and full extinction of the human race.

~ Robin Sacredfire

I don’t like psychiatrists,” Alecto told her. “Not because they don’t think I’m real, but because they have no idea what they’re doing.

~ Rebecca Mcnutt

Unprovoked hostility is often but displaced self-defense: 'I must stop him before he stops me.' In many of such environments, nobody is really hateful so much as they are just fearful.

~ Criss Jami

He leaned heavily on the desk now, as if danger had strengthened him before and its lack now made him weak.

~ Kristin Cashore

If you do not have any problems, it means you have stopped being of interest to the devil; you are not dangerous to him

~ Sunday Adelaja

The human body is robust. It can gather strength when it's in mortal danger.

~ Toni Morrison

I no longer follow the voices of the sane. I follow the ill because they see farther, feel much more and change what the sane will not. This is the paradox of philosophers---trying to understand mass delusion among great people that have faith and knowledge, yet they can’t graduate from their institutions of religious theology to apply the knowledge they have gained for the shifting of Zion---- from words to action; from comfort to uncomfortable; from self serving to self giving; from competition to supporting; to tradition to unity; from bias to acceptance; from me to us.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Emotions don’t interfere in my acting, nor in my life.

~ Simona Panova

One who enjoys finding errors will then start creating errors to find.

~ Criss Jami

The danger of venturing into uncharted waters is not nearly as dangerous as staying on shore, waiting for your boat to come in.

~ Charles F. Glassman

There are two types of visions. Those that will happen no matter what, and those that can be stopped. Now more than ever, I wish I could tell them apart.

~ Emlyn Chand

As science is more and more subject to grave misuse as well as to use for human benefit it has also become the scientist's responsibility to become aware of the social relations and applications of his subject, and to exert his influence in such a direction as will result in the best applications of the findings in his own and related fields. Thus he must help in educating the public, in the broad sense, and this means first educating himself, not only in science but in regard to the great issues confronting mankind today.

~ Hermann Joseph Muller

So, apart from casting runes, what other hobbies do you have? Forbidden rituals, human sacrifices, torturing? –

~ Simona Panova

It is the business of the future to be dangerous, and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.

~ Alfred North Whitehead

Five of the most dangerous words I know: ‘What’s in it for me?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

You see, it doesn't matter if they're wrong. From 9/11 to recent shootings here in the United States, there's nothing more dangerous than a true believer on his own crazy mission.

~ Brad Meltzer

The fact that no limits exist to the destructiveness of this weapon [the 'Super', i.e. the hydrogen bomb] makes its very existence and the knowledge of its construction a danger to humanity as a whole. It is necessarily an evil thing considered in any light. For these reasons, we believe it important for the President of the United States to tell the American public and the world what we think is wrong on fundamental ethical principles to initiate the development of such a weapon.

~ Enrico Fermi

Some things should never be said. Not out loud in clear, simple words. You talk around them. You leave gaps and blanks. You use other words and talk in curves and arcs for the worst things because you need to keep them like mist. Words are dangerous. Like a spell, if you name the mist, call out all of the words that describe it sharp and clear, you turn it solid, into something that no one should ever hold in their hands. Better that it stays like water, slipping between your fingers.

~ Alexia Casale

To those who have been accustomed to the difficulties and dangers of a sea-faring life, there are no lines which speak more forcibly to the imagination, or prove the beauty and power of the Greek poet, than those in the noble prayer of Ajax:Lord of earth and air,O king! O father! hear my humble prayer.Dispel this cloud, that light of heaven restore;Give me to see - and Ajax asks no more,If Greece must perish - we Thy will obey;But let us perish in the face of day!

~ Frederick Marryat

- I believe in unlimited discovery and achievement.- I believe that dreams can become reality.- I believe in true love.- I believe in kindness and intelligence.- I trust life, regardless.

~ Elysse Poetis

What happens to those who live dangerously by being true to who they are?

~ Bryant Mcgill

There will be danger; some of you may not live to complete your lessons. It's a risk you take. This world is bigger than you and it will go on, regardless.

~ Nnedi Okorafor

Whenever a nation or a group of people is devoid of light, catastrophe comes, calamity hits, there is danger everywhere.

~ Sunday Adelaja

One foot in front of the other, more aimless than direct, Bradford left the waiting room for the outside world. Called for a taxi and then dialed Munroe again, desperate for her voice, for one ray of light in the darkness, afraid of what he might say if she did answer, afraid of himself and the inner deadening that pointed to a danger far more lethal than any rage he'd felt.

~ Taylor Stevens