Quotes About Dangers

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided.

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.

Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.

Protein is the subject of many myths. The bottom line on protein is this: High-protein diets are dangerous. Many formula diets emphasize high-protein foods and contain very little carbohydrate. This type of diet is not a formula for success. It can cause a rapid, and usually temporary, water loss. But usually the weight comes back on very quickly. In addition, there are serious dangers to high-protein diets: osteoporosis and kidney disease.

For no medium is excessively dangerous if its users understand what its dangers are. It is not important that those who ask the questions arrive at my answers or Marshall McLuhan's (quite different answers, by the way). This is an instance in which the asking of the questions is sufficient. To ask is to break the spell.

Technology would present fewer dangers if manipulating it were not so simple for the imbecile and so profitable for the thief.

j'ai pris conscience que ce qui est en mouvement – en dépit de ses dangers – sera toujours meilleur que ce qui est immobile, et que le changement sera toujours quelque chose de plus noble que l'invariance ; car ce qui stagne est voué inévitablement à la dégénérescence, à la décomposition et, en fin de compte, au néant, alors que tout ce qui évolue saura durer, et même éternellement.

electrical cords, dangerous cleaning supplies, household chemicals, sugar free gum with xylitol (which can be fatal to dogs) and potentially toxic plants, like lilies and philodendrons. Put irreplaceable items, such as photo albums or a toy that a child uses as a security blanket out of reach.

I spent my youth building this wall to keep dangerous things away. I sometimes wonder now if I've kept them inside.

Sometimes fear and confusion can blunt your perceptions. You become so driven to make sense of things, to identify the dangers lurking around the next corner, that you neglect to see the wonders all around you.

J'avançais avec ce sentiment de légèreté qui vous prend quelque fois dans les rêves. Vous ne craignez plus rien, tous les dangers sont dérisoires.

Sounding a bit like Arthur Sackler when he dismissed the dangers of Valium, Romagosa asserted that fears of people becoming hooked on morphine had been overblown, because addiction "is a psychological malady" and only occurred when morphine was misused by "those who do not need it.

Two dangers constantly threaten the world order and disorder.