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Quotes About Dangers

The treasures, the dreams, the dangers, the glorious diversity of the world and those who live in it. She's a generous mother who offers all we need, and she's a child who needs our tending and care.
~ Nora Roberts
Then answered her son, who turns the stars in the sky: 'What way art thou bending fate, Mother? What dost thou ask For these thy ships? May vessels built by the hands Of mortal men claim an immortal right? Is Aeneas to pass, sure of the outcome, through dangers When nothing is sure? To what god is such power allowed?
~ Virgil
Spiritual urban legends aren't just harmless misunderstandings. They're spiritually dangerous errors that will eventually bring heartache and disillusionment to all who trust in them.
~ Larry Osborne
but "of all the dangers that in our whole voyage we met with
~ Laurence Bergreen
He'd forgotten: in fairylands there is evil, too. Monsters and curses. Dangers lurking in disguise. Demons, dragons, rats as big as oxen. things that could destroy you with a glance.
~ Celeste Ng
It is time to realize, however, that the real dangers to America today come not from the newly rich people of East Asia but from our own ideological rigidity, our deep-seated belief in our own propaganda.
~ Chalmers Johnson
No one knows the powers that are latent in his constitution. Called forth by imminent dangers, our efforts frequently exceed our most sanguine belief.
~ Charles Brockden Brown
Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
~ Author Unknown
Tis life you should fear--life, with its dangers, its toils, its heartbreakings.
~ Grant Allen
There are the medical dangers of football in general caused by head trauma over repetitive hits.
~ H. G. Bissinger
Why anyone should do so, knowing full well the dangers, was beyond the soldiers' comprehension, but they had learned from past experience never to underestimate the imbecility of certain individuals on occasions like these.
~ James Herbert
I place economy among the first and most important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers ... We must make our choice between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the.
~ Thomas Jefferson
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
I thought that people should know about the dangers of Satanism, and diabolism does exist - there's no question about it.
~ Christopher Lee
Chemical and biological attacks are scary and will kill a lot of people but don't rise to the level of nuclear.
~ Nelson DeMille
It was a time when formaldehyde was routinely prescribed for the common cold, arsenic for asthma, strychnine for headaches, morphine for diarrhea—and mercury for everything from anemia to yellow fever.
~ Harold Schechter
They knelt together, and the good man prayed,—for there are some feelings so agitated and tumultuous, that they can find rest only by being poured into the bosom of Almighty love,—and then, rising up, the new-found family embraced each other, with a holy trust in Him, who from such peril and dangers, and by such unknown ways, had brought them together.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
Every Soviet citizen committed at least three felonies a day, because the criminal statutes were written so broadly as to cover ordinary day-to-day activities. The Communist Party decided whom to prosecute from among the millions of possible criminals. They picked dissidents, refuseniks, and others who posed political dangers to the system. This began under Stalin when his KGB head, Lavrenti Beria, infamously said, "Show me the man and I'll find you the crime.
~ Harvey A. Silverglate
Our dangers, as it seems to me, are not from the outrageous but from the conforming; not from those who rarely and under the lurid glare of obloquy upset our moral complaisance, or shock us with unaccustomed conduct, but from those, the mass of us, who take their virtues and their tastes, like their shirts and their furniture, from the limited patterns which the market offers.
~ Learned Hand
I was also troubled by the apparent over-confidence of a generation that has only known stability, growth and prosperity. I thought our people should understand how vulnerable Singapore was and is, the dangers that beset us, and how we nearly did not make it. Most of all, I hope that they will know that honest and effective government, public order and personal security, economic and social progress did not come about as the natural course of events.
~ Lee Kuan Yew
So it wasn't tourists or encyclopaedia salesmen he was worried about.
~ Len Deighton
Alas! (exclaimed I) how am I to avoid those evils I shall never be exposed to?
~ Jane Austen
Humanity will... be confronted with dangers of unprecedented character unless, in due time, measures can be taken to forestall a disastrous competition in such formidable armaments and to establish an international control of the manufacture and use of the powerful materials.
~ Niels Bohr
All of the stunt men - these are the unsung heroes. They really are. Nobody is giving them any credibility. They're risking their necks.
~ Jason Statham