Quotes About Danger

The cliché is dead poetry. English, being the language of an imaginative race, abounds in clichés, so that English literature is always in danger of being poisoned by its own secretions.

The more rhymethere isin poetry the more dangerof its tricking the writer into something other than the urge in the beginning.

Be careful, darling. Your footsteps land heavy here. Your racket will wake the dragons.

A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.

The most dangerous diminutions of freedom come from those who are convinced of their moral rectitude.

There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.

The argument [behind climate change] is absolute crap. However, the politics of this are tough for us. Eighty per cent of people believe climate change is a real and present danger.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

The world is a dangerous place to live - not because of the people who are evil but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

Behind every wolf in sheep's clothing is a trail of dead sheep - rjs

Woe to any sheep that hunts with wolves - rjs

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.

Anger is one letter short of danger.

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word "crisis." One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity.

Our world is in profound danger. Mankind must establish a set of positive values with which to secure its own survival.

There is danger in reckless change but greater danger in blind conservatism.

Do not underestimate the power of an enemy, no matter how great or small, to rise against you another day.

Those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.

The mere possession of a gun is, in itself, an urge to kill, not only by design, but by accident, by madness, by fright, by bravado.

The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

Nothing's as dangerous as power with impunity.

The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but in charity there is no excess; neither can angel nor man come in danger by it.

The world is a terrifying place these days. We're all operating right there on the edge of tilt, all the time. This shit can just happen. There are monsters around every corner. Pianos fall from the sky.