In Danger Quotes

One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.

A certain amount of danger is essential to the quality of life.

At least Manhattan, in terms of danger and eccentricity, is much more of a theme park now. You couldn't really shoot the old Law & Order in New York today. It's a different city.

The sovereign state has in our times become a lethal danger to human civilization because technical developments enable it to employ an infinite number and variety of means of destruction.

In secluding himself too much from society, an author is in danger of losing that intimate acquaintance with life which is the only sure foundation of power in a writer.

For Lily, there was only her phantom lover, bold enough, arrogant enough, crazy enough to dare follow her here when he was in far more danger than she could ever be.

Isolation of the caretaker role is a real danger. That way lies sadness.

If you want to do something dangerous... Don't tell your girlfriend!

I would say that ISIS wants us to think so. And I think that's the real danger here. It's that what ISIS wants the narrative to be is that they are the true Muslims.

Poor Lucas, always trying to protect me from danger. He’d never guessed that I was the dangerous one.

Tom Ridge announced a new color-coded alarm system. ... Green means everything's okay. Red means we're in extreme danger. And champagne-fuschia means we're being attacked by Martha Stewart.

I think there's a danger, for me at least, in retreating and going inward and depression. I have to stay diligent against that tendency.

By far the single greatest danger facing humankind - in fact, all living beings on our planet - is the threat of nuclear destruction.

What excites me is danger! I like to do daring things. I've bungee jumped three times. The only thing I haven't tried is skydiving.

The danger in writing about a world you don't know very well is that you can get lost in it, and sometimes I'll end up with a hundred pages I don't know what to do with.

Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself when apparent to the eyes ; and we find the burden of anxiety greater, by much, than the evil which we are anxious about.

The world is not in any sense in danger from itself. The world is in fact not in any danger at all. It is we who are in danger.

What you do is take the power [popularity] gives you - which is very temporary and minor but significant - and use it. The danger is that you use it on a vanity project that no one wants to watch.

I don't think there's any danger of my ever becoming complacent about losing. I always hated to lose, regardless of what it was, even when the family was playing Yahtzee.

The danger with running for president is sooner or later some sound bite is going hit.

A little touch of chaos and danger makes a city sexy.

I don't believe that crime, danger and poverty make for good art. That's bullshit.

The risk of an all-out nuclear holocaust destroying all life on the planet has diminished, but the danger of actual nuclear weapons use has increased.

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.

He was my first boyfriend, and I made him my everything - he was my new life, my new love, my new compass point. I guess that's the danger with firsts - you lose all sense of proportion.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

There is a danger, if you cast someone who is 18, 19 or 20 to play 14 or 15, that very subtly, almost unconsciously, the audience is, "Oh, this isn't so bad."

The Age of Oil has really exhausted its usefulness, and it has actually become a danger to our lives and our ability to survive on the planet.

The docks were said to be quite tough, but there were pubs you didn't go into if you were a respectable... but um, I never felt a sense of danger in Liverpool.

Bill Clinton says the middle-class folks in Topeka who contribute to The 700 Club or Focus on the Family are radicals whose beliefs pose a mortal danger to this nation!

The design of everyday things is in great danger of becoming the design of superfluous, overloaded, unnecessary things.

In America, we have an infrastructure that's so bad, our roads, our highways, our schools, our tunnels, our bridges. Look at our bridges. Half of them have reports that they are in serious danger.

obedience is a great danger.

Not she with trait'rous kiss her Saviour stung, Not she denied him with unholy tongue; She, while apostles shrank, could danger brave, Last at his cross and earliest at his grave.

What both the left and the right overlook is our Founders' wisdom about the limits and dangers of government.

The proof of a man is the danger test, That shows him up at his worst or best.

He who does not believe in hell is in the greatest danger of landing there.

There's a real danger in the way our representative government functions today. It functions properly only when paired with accountability.

No commandment surpasses the one concerning the liberation of hostages, for they are among the starving, the thirsting, the stripped, always in danger of death.

And action is the only remedy to indifference, the most insidious danger of all.

People in London are so much more exposed to danger, or bad things. It took me quite a long time to grow up in that environment.

To drink for pleasure may be a distraction, but to drink from misery is always a danger.

... woman's narrow and purist attitude toward life makes her a greater danger to liberty wherever she has political power. Man haslong overcome the superstitions that still engulf women.

American seekers of happiness are in danger of deluding themselves into believing that only one part of the world exists, the part that gladdens their egos.

..in the harshest days of leaf-bare clanmate turns upon clanmate danger lurks behind familiar faces and one more warrior may be lost forever

'Safety', the wife of Pablo said. 'There is no such thing as safety. There are so many seeking safety here now that they make a great danger. In seeking safety now you lose all.'

The questioners had that beautiful detachment and devotion to stern justice of men dealing in death without being in any danger of it.

I never liked to hunt, you know. There was always the danger of having a horse fall on you.

The truth holds the greatest magic, the greatest beauty, and sometimes the greatest danger.

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