In Danger Quotes

I know no real worth but that tranquil firmness which seeks dangers by duty, and braves them without rashness.

That's the danger of having too much success. You lose that magic, that feeling of not being in control, which I feel now, it's too controlled.

My books depend on someone in danger, putting pieces together and figuring things out. They do a lot of thinking, and that gets lost in the movie.

"Victoria?" she hissed. "Laurent?" I nodded, a teensy bit alarmed by the expression in her black eyes. I pointed at my chest. "Danger magnet, remember?"

But on a clear, sunny day? How would she know to flee when she couldn't see any place for danger to hide?

There's obviously always danger in making music or art for art's sake. Even as Christians we can be guilty of that, being more about the art than the Artist who gave us this gift.

Rush to danger; wind up nowhere.

I'm as guilty as anyone, because I helped to herald the digital era with Jurassic Park. But the danger is that it can be abused to the point where nothing is eye-popping any more.

In real danger sometimes even a democracy can really keep a secret.

... danger was always at its most lethal when disguised as respectability.

Norman Mailer in his writings is ultimately more concerned with success than with danger; danger is only a means to success.

I'm neurotic about children. I see dangers everywhere - sharp corners, stairs.

There's danger in glorifying negative emotions as fuel for art.

There's a real danger when people get distracted by peripheral issues. They get distracted by democracy building. They get distracted about military conflicts. We need to focus on defeating jihadism.

The danger is [in using psychedelic drugs], just to put it out there, is madness.

...the little man's total obliviousness to all forms of danger somehow made danger so discouraged that it gave up and went away.

The meteor flag of England Shall yet terrific burn, Till danger's troubled night depart, And the star of peace return.

For he that but conceives a crime in thought, Contracts the danger of an actual fault.

There is a danger in being persuaded before one understands.

Oh, pilot! 'tis a fearful night, There's danger on the deep.

I needed some real danger and some mortal risk to run, to tranquilize me.

If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.

The greatest danger of being gifted, is that you may never learn how to make an effort.

The presence of danger has a way of making you feel fully awake.

I don't enjoy any kind of danger or volatility. I don't have that kind of 'I love the bad guys' thing. No, no thank you. I like nice people.

A man's opinion of danger varies at different times, in consequence of an irregular tide of animal spirits; and he is actuated by considerations which he dares not avow.

Danger is an aphrodisiac.

Prions are highly indestructible.

The danger with playing a part that defines you is that it swallows up everything else.

The argument [behind climate change] is absolute crap. However, the politics of this are tough for us. Eighty per cent of people believe climate change is a real and present danger.

There are tens, perhaps hundreds of millions of people living in poverty and danger who might readily seek to enter a Western country if the opportunity is there.

Did the record [Danger] do well? I believe it did what it should have. It showed the hip hop community that Tony Sunshine is doing well and looking great.

A dangerous book will always be in danger from those it threatens with the demand that they question their assumptions. They'd rather hang on to the assumptions and ban the book.

Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light?

Suffering is dysfunctional, except as a bodily warning against danger. Psychologically and socially it's merely destructive.

I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different. All your life you've been training to forget yourself, so when you're in danger, it becomes your first instinct

If I have not been exposed and am not in any danger of pursuit. But I have been exposed, I am pursued - by myself! That is a pursuer that does not readily let go.

I would rather him to bear patiently with it than to put himself in danger of a greater evil.

Russia is probably one of the first countries to have been confronted with this problem of terrorism. It took some time before the international community realised the danger terrorism poses.

We're facing a danger that economics is rigorous deduction based upon faulty assumptions. Science after science gets that way from time to time. When it does, we're in real trouble.

To articulate the past historically does not mean to recognize it "the way it really was"...It means to seize hold of a memory as it flashes up at a moment of danger.

What people see as fearlessness is really persistence. Because I am focused on the solution, I don't see the danger.

The danger is to stupidly believe that depicting facts gives us much insight. If facts were the only thing that counted, the telephone directory would be the book of books.

What we're doing pop culturally is like burning the rain forest. The biodiversity of pop culture is really, really in danger.

The quest for homeland security is heading ... toward the quasi-militarization of everyday life ... If danger might lurk anywhere, maybe everything must be protected and policed.

A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain, but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being.

In our efforts to battle terrorism and cyber attacks and biological weapons, all of us must be extremely aggressive. We must protect our people from danger and keep America safe and free.

Life is made up of danger and heartbreak, I laugh in the face of both!

When a man knows how to live amid danger, he is not afraid to die. When he is not afraid to die, he is, strangely, free to live.

The love of wicked men converts to fear; That fear to hate, and hate turns one or both To worthy danger and deserved death.