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Quotes About Dangers

Each of the pathways to nuclear terrorism, when examined carefully, turns out to have gantlets of improbabilities.
~ Steven Pinker
Freud had a point. He was, after all, a genius. You can tell that because people still hate him. But there are disadvantages to the detached and somewhat distant approach recommended by Freud. Many of those who seek therapy desire and need a closer, more personal relationship (although that also has its dangers). This is in part why I have opted in my practice for the conversation, instead of the Freudian method—as have most clinical psychologists.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
Big risks come with big rewards," she pressed. "And even bigger dangers.
~ Erin Hunter
For dangers past—an old soldier's laugh. For those to come—a full glass, though death and the devil grin there, as long as the wine was good.
~ Ernst Junger
not all drugs are good.. some of them are great
~ Bill Hicks
One thing you gotta take into consideration is that it's professional wrestling, and you know it going in. There's dangers to every profession, and our particular profession, concussions is one thing.
~ Bobby Lashley
And, above all, beware of the cat.
~ Hans Christian Andersen
I don't think art is in danger of dissolution or disappearance, and we don't trust enough in its ability and power to create critical consciousness as much as we think we do.
~ Fady Joudah
Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
~ Simone Weil
meeting dangers is no part of the essential purpose of economic organisations, or of governmental organisations concerned with internal affairs. But lifeboats and fire-brigades, like armies and navies, are constructed for the purpose of meeting dangers. In a certain less immediate sense, this is also true of religious bodies, which exist in part to allay the metaphysical fears that are buried deep in our nature.
~ Bertrand Russell
The hours that made them were good, and so were the moments that made the hours. I have had responsibilities and work, dangers and pleasure, good friends, and a world without walls to live in. These things I still have, I remind myself — and shall have until I leave them.
~ Beryl Markham
upon us and he wishes you by his side. He compelled me to tell you that he is safe. I, though, must warn of dangers. The people are emboldened by the appearance of a Messiah and there is much talk of revolution. Jesus teaches each day in the Temple and the Jewish authorities set spies upon us the moment we enter the gates.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
Taoism has fostered both material and mental progress, both technological development and awareness of the potential dangers of that very development, always striving to encourage balance between the material and spiritual sides of humankind.
~ Sun Tzu
They sat quietly, both thinking of Marty Gray, and of all the bad things that can happen to young girls who are shy and good and obedient. The secret keepers. The easily led.
~ Joshilyn Jackson
If you look at the purported dangers of salt or fat, there is no consensus of support in scientific literature. So I would ask first: 'Is it possible to have an informed government that actually follows the science?' From what I've seen, it's not likely.
~ Tim Ferriss
Primates will continue to play social games without the least insight into what is killing them.
~ Keith Henson
The Internet can be used to hurt many people.
~ Frank Abagnale
From Farbod Mimeh at LCG this morning: "With markets having already priced in a rate increase, a surprise decision from the Fed could spark major volatility and panic for equities." http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-dangers-of-getting-cocky-ahead-of-interest-rate-decisions-2015-12-16
~ Farbod Mimeh
We face dangers every day of which we are not even aware. Often God intervenes on our behalf through the use of His angels.
~ Billy Graham
Every stage of life has its own temptations and dangers, and Satan will do all he can to exploit them . . .the time to prepare is now, not when it arrives.
~ Billy Graham
When the headlines get black and foreboding, the sale of alcohol and barbiturates rises in the country, as millions try to escape from the grim realities of [such] dangers.
~ Billy Graham
And when the war broke out, its real horrors, its real dangers, its menace of real death were a blessing compared with the inhuman reign of the lie, and they brought relief because they broke the spell of the dead letter.
~ Boris Pasternak
Science fiction used to be a dangerous literature. Now, it is a very commercial genre, and whatever dangers might still lurk within seem to have been safely sanitized for the marketplace. The real crime is that the lobotomy has been self performed. [David Gerrold - Afterword]
~ Harlan Ellison
Everybody in wrestling is looking at the information coming in on concussions. Everyone from the NFL to the WWE to TNA to the youth soccer groups around the country are realizing that there are dangers that weren't previously known.
~ Mick Foley