Danger Quotations | Page 2

The danger sensation is exciting. The challenge is to find new dangers.

By the winter of 1945-1946, the Russian peoples were being warned of the dangers from the West

I maintain music is not here to make us forget about life. It's also here to teach us about life: the fact that everything starts and ends, the fact that every sound is in danger of disappearing, the fact that everything is connected - the fact that we live and we die.

We must make every effort to neutralize this threat peacefully, but be ever mindful of the growing danger Iran poses not just to a safe and free America, but to our allies abroad.

Since the heady days of the 2009 Inauguration, middle-class independents have grown increasingly distant from Obama. Working-class voters - always more enamored of Clinton - have grown even more wary and distrustful of the Chicagoan. Both voting blocs pose the danger of serious defection in 2012. Without their support, Obama cannot win.

An achilles, if it doesn't heal right, there could be a danger of not playing again.

To get overprotective about particular readings of the Bible is always in danger of idolatry.

We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment.

I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.

The humble are in danger when those in power disagree.

That seems to me the great American danger we're all in, that we'll bargain away the experience of being alive for the appearance of it.

The danger of growing up surrounded by endless sweet and salty industrial concoctions is not that we are innately incapable of resisting them but that the more frequently we eat them, especially in childhood, the more they train us to expect all food to taste this way.

In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.

Too many of the elderly do not have the family or the communal attachments necessary to feel valued; too many are widowed or otherwise alone; too many live in surroundings where they are essentially without the companionship necessary to stimulate a mind in danger of deteriorating.

There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.

No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

The danger to a black child in America is not a white police officer. The danger is another black.

Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.

When the King is checked, or any valuable Piece in danger from the attack of an enemy, you are said to interpose a man when you play it between the attacked and attacking Piece.

I don't think anyone's found a way of eliminating thoughts of danger and loss. It's rather that, when they're unrealistic, you become an acrobat at marshaling evidence against them.

Within orthodoxy, there is always a danger of faith collapsing into fear.

Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

I reveled in the most basic rules and techniques that are the foundation of professional cooking. For example, it is essential to use a sharp knife: the sharper the knife, the more fluid and precise your work and the less likely you are to get hurt. Dull knives are a danger - they slip far more often.

Armaments are necessary - or are maintained on the pretext of necessity - because of a real or an imagined danger of war.

The danger in media concentration comes not from the concentration, but instead from the feudalism that this concentration, tied to the change in copyright, produces.

Many words are not wanting to show that the particular view of each court occasioned the dangers which affected the public tranquillity; yet the whole is charged to my account. Nor is this sufficient.

The danger of that - and there's a grave danger that I, myself, have to be very aware of - is that you become so involved and intrigued in the language that sometimes you lose track that that is only a means to an aesthetic experience that the listener has to get.

For most of us, the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it. We will just skim our lives instead of actually living them.

The real danger to the world's resistance movements is the attempt to distort reality and to place the blame on the resistance groups' actions without allowing them to portray their perspective, thus ignoring the reality of the occupation and the siege, like the situation in occupied Palestine.

The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.

My mother would put me on a wooden box at the stove and tell me to call her if certain things would happen. Like if the steam turns blue, that is danger!

Aspiration, it seems, is in danger of becoming the preserve of the wealthy.

The real danger of writing a great song when you're on something is that it might get you thinking that the only way to repeat that is by only writing when you're high.

Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that's a challenge, not a problem. For a problem to exist, you need time and repetitive mind activity.

When you're young you believe it when people tell you how good you are. And that's the danger, you inhale. Everyone will tell you you're a genius, which you are not, and if you understand that, you win.

One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

I'm really in no danger of being perceived as a famous movie actor!

Never revisit the past, that's dangerous. You know, move on.

In the fallen there is danger of pride and vainglory, since they prefer their own judgment to the judgment of everyone else, usurping what is not their own by setting themselves up as judges in their own cause when the rightful judge is their superior.

The danger is we're losing sight of what women really want to wear.

The danger of the Web is that you can go from idea to public announcement in under ten minutes.

I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.

A journey awakens all our old fears of danger and risk. Your life is on the line. You are living by your own resources; you have to find your own way and solve every problem on the road.

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.

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.

When I started out, nearly every architect I knew was working in public practice; that's where the radical thinking was done. But, there's always a danger of looking back as our fathers did and saying, 'Things were better then.'

Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

In real life, I am trying to save the Steve Irwin wildlife preserve. It's in Australia, up on Cape York, and it's in danger of being strip-mined.

I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.

The scriptures make the danger of delay clear. It is that we may discover that we have run out of time. The God who gives us each day as a treasure will require an accounting.

I am simply the most conspicuous part of a large, thoroughly dedicated and professional staff that extends from just behind these cameras, across this country and around the world, in too many instances, in places of grave danger and personal hardship. They're family to me.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

The danger of the Internet is cocooning with the like-minded online - of sending an email or Twitter and confusing that with action - while the real corporate and military and government centers of power go right on.

If you are not a feminist in love, you fail to recognise someone who does not love you. Feminism makes love easier. Otherwise, there is the danger of feeling romantically drawn to someone who does not see you as an equal.

A mind concerned about danger is a clouded mind. It's paralyzing.

As soon as there is life there is danger.

Walter Lippmann suggests that the United States behaves like a society which thinks it is complete with no more to accomplish; that, for better or worse, we are what we are, and the only danger to our comfort is external.

One thing that characterizes Harriet is that she is extremely diligent. She's going to be prepared. The temptation will be great for some to try to match wits with her on constitutional issues. There's some danger that senators might demonstrate not her lack of knowledge, but their own.

Only extreme circumstances such as clear and present danger to innocent people could justify the threat of jail to gain the name of a confidential informant.

On the evidence I have seen and heard, I believe that the security situation in Northern Ireland and the continuing danger of intimidation of those called for jury service, justifies the continued scheduling of offences.

Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

If we don't get the Reading fixture out of the way we faced the danger of having to stage another league match within the play-off schedule in October. It was getting too much to take on.

I wish we could say ... that this is a time for peaceful remembrance, that we were gathering today to commemorate a danger that had long since past, ... ... But we cannot. The enemy, though seriously weakened and continuously under pressure, continues to plot attacks and the danger they pose to the free world is real and present.

I would salute the very effective American efforts to warn the populations of the imminent danger and the very successful evacuation.

My hunch is, we're watching a bureaucratic slow-roll take place, but the danger is it's happening as the situation on the ground is getting worse. The administration has been in this knot of having called the situation genocide but then failing to do anything.

One point stands out above all others, and that is that a modest global warming may put Earth in the danger zone for a major sea-level rise.

One motivation that could be at the back of European minds is the danger of the American banks coming in.

More than two dozen reporters have been subpoenaed in the past two years and are in danger of going to jail. If the current trend prevails, the Alexandria Detention Facility may have to open an entire new wing to house reporters.

No one on the bus was in any danger whatsoever.

Poor Poe! At first so forgotten that his grave went without a tomb-stone twenty-six years. . . today in danger of becoming the life study of a few professors.

No, I can't write treatments, I think there's a danger with treatments. That you... you write out your first excitement and enthusiasm in a prose treatment.

Nobody wants it right next door. These are the type of offenders ... who are not a true danger to the community, but there's a perception that they're still inmates.

Nuclear power can never be made inherently safe. There is always a danger. But there's also always a danger with any form of electricity generation. The goal is to have that risk managed to an acceptably low level.

Now we are on the right route. Everything will be solved. There is no danger to the Games.

I don't feel there's any danger issues that warrant it.

I don't feel I'm putting myself in any danger whatsoever, ... I don't lose a wink of sleep.

I don't know which team we're going to see: the team that we've known in the past that plays really well or the one we haven't seen before that's backed into a corner and in danger of not making the Big East tournament.

Last year when he came to us, he wanted someone who would believe in him and give him a run in the side. When you play for the top clubs if you have a couple of bad games you are in danger for your place.

There are people in our world today and unfortunately in our political system, they do not believe in evil. They have the modern, western, secular mind set. They don't believe evil exists. They are exactly the ones who are in danger of getting blindsided by evil. Because they're not prepared for it.

There are times when weight gain slows down and speeds up. That's perfectly normal in teenagers. But it is definitely, absolutely a danger sign if a youngster is losing weight during adolescence.

When this much money gets put out this fast, there's a real danger,

Militarily we are not in any danger of losing. We can't be defeated militarily based on what the enemy currently throws against us.

Since my pictures are large, colorful, and unframed, and since museum walls are usually immense and formidable, there is the danger that the pictures relate themselves as decorative areas to the walls.

Sixty-five percent of the country is in danger of landslides, ... The risk caused by this accumulation of water is worrying.

Sixty percent of the country is in danger of landslides, ... The risk caused by this accumulation of water is worrying.

Many kids, particularly in lower-income families, would actually benefit from more structured activities. Plenty of children, especially teenagers, thrive on a busy schedule. But just as other trappings of modern childhood, from homework to technology, are subject to the law of diminishing returns, there is a danger of overscheduling the young.

'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept.

The prime minister's life is still in danger. Every day, although we are getting further out of danger, we are still in danger.

The only people who could stop it are the police, on the grounds of safety. But sinking presents no danger to either of such well-prepared crews.

We want to make sure those haven't been breached and that there is no danger for those working around the wreckage.

When they use their breaks, they have the danger of hydroplaning.

The 'well-informed citizenry is in danger of becoming the 'well-amused audience'.

One of love's greatest drawbacks is that, for a while at least, it is in danger of making us happy.

Danger invites rescue. ... The wrongdoer may not have foreseen the coming of a deliverer. He is accountable as if he had.

War is the province of danger.

I have, I must admit, despised the English countryside for much of my life - despised it and avoided it for its want of danger and adventure.