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Quotes About Dangers

The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.
~ Franklin Pierce
When I read about the dangers of drinking, I gave up reading
~ Henny Youngman
Few men have dared to legislate as though eternal peace were at hand, in a world torn by wars and convulsions and drowned in blood; but this was what Jefferson aspired to do. Even in such dangers, he believed that Americans might safely set an example which the Christian world should be led by interest to respect and at length to imitate.
~ Henry Adams
A fig for my opinion! If you fall in love with Mr. Osmond what will you care for that? Not much, probably. But meanwhile it has a certain importance. The more information one has about one's dangers the better. I don't agree to that—it may make them dangers. We know too much about people in these days; we hear too much. Our ears, our minds, our mouths, are stuffed with personalities. Don't mind anything any one tells you about any one else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
~ Henry James
They don't really teach you how to be famous and a lot of people don't realise that this game comes with a lot of traps. So I'm just looking after myself, looking after my health and making sure I don't fall into those traps.
~ Israel Adesanya
You could go so wrong with a 'Planet of the Apes' reboot; you could make it melodramatic, you could make it campy, you could fall into so many traps with it.
~ Andy Serkis
There are so many traps, so many ways of getting screwed in this business.
~ Max Martin
Nobody is safe. Ever. Anywhere. I
~ Steve Hamilton
One of the dangers in trying to solve riddles is a temptation to force answers where they don't belong because things would look neat and pretty that way.
~ Steven Brust
Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficial. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greater dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." —Justice Louis Brandeis
~ Milton Friedman
Other than heaven, the only place where one's heart is completely safe from the dangers of love is hell.
~ C. S. Lewis
We are, almost all of us, descended from people who responded to the dangers of existence by inventing stories about unpredictable or disgruntled deities. For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations [...]. For thousands of years humans were oppressed - as some of us still are - by the notion that the universe is a marionette whose strings are pulled by a god or gods.
~ Carl Sagan
I'm a risk-taker. Most of my career has not been a joyful experience, but it has been challenging. I like the dangers.
~ Michael Douglas
I have sometimes been haunted with the idea that it was an imperative duty, knowing what I know, and having seen what I have seen, to do all that lies in my power to show the dangers and the evils of this frightful institution.
~ Fanny Kemble
Nothing escaped Karly's keen eye. She was intuitive and inquisitive, perceptive and observant. Girls born to neglectful mothers learn early that the world is fraught with dangers and they need to stay alert.
~ Karen Spears Zacharias
They were happy because they didn't have enough imagination to look ahead, he thought, and anyone who tried to tell them there were dangers was by definition an enemy of the community.
~ Kate Wilhelm
If you like a person you say 'let's go into business together.' Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.
~ Brian Tracy
and descry what shoals and what rocks must be shunned.
~ Herman Melville
And when long years and seasons wheeling brought around that point of time ordained for him to make his passage homeward, trials and dangers, even so, attended him even in Ithaca, near those he loved.
~ Homer
were among these hobgoblins. Also immigrants, people on "welfare," and certain governments—Iraq, North Korea, Cuba. By turning attention to them, by inventing or exaggerating their dangers, the failures of the American system could be concealed. Immigrants were a convenient
~ Howard Zinn
One does not simply ring Roland. Oh boy. I supposed I would get a lecture on the dangers of wandering into Mordor next.
~ Ilona Andrews
We need to make sure parents and coaches are aware of the dangers an on the look-out for the warning signs. Performance enhancing drugs are too damaging to young people for parents and coaches to not be involved.
~ Chuck Grassley
There's a feeling of immortality you have in youth. You just don't see the dangers around you, or, if you do, maybe you're even excited by them.
~ Michelle Forbes
If I can avoid doing stunts, I will. I don't want to die just for a movie. It's not worth it.
~ Eva Green