Quotes About Dangerous

Miss Strike. It's nice to see you again. It looks as if you turned out to be dangerous after all." "You remember." Kiki was impressed. "I would never forget a student," said Principal Wickham. "Particularly one with such unusual ambitions.

A tower of illusion, all of it, made of illusory bricks and full of holes. If life were made up only of imporant things, it really would be a dangerous house of glass, scarcely to be handled carelessly. But everyday life was exactly like the headlines. And so everybody, knowing the meaninglessness of existence, sets the centre of his compass at his own home.

For me, the towns where the two-legged beasts lurk are far more dangerous than the fields where the wolves roam.

Human aggression is instinctual. Humans have not evolved any ritualised aggression-inhibiting mechanisms to ensure the survival of the species. For this reason man is considered a very dangerous animal.

With all the risks they were taking, love was probably the most dangerous choice of all.

Hope. A shiny thing, a lure for the unwary. She knew how seductive it could be, and how dangerous.

All one's neighbours are in the grip of some uncontrolled and uncontrollable fear. . . In lunatic asylums it is a well-known fact that patients are far more dangerous when suffering from fear than when moved by rage or hatred.

If a man imagined that I was his arch-enemy and killed me, I should be dead on account of mere imagination. Imaginary conditions do exist and they may be just as real and just as harmful or dangerous as physical conditions. I even believe that psychic disturbances are far more dangerous than epidemics [of physical disease] or earthquakes.

The state is a terrible concretization,but if such things begin to concretize it is the very devil, as Nietzsche feels […] But surely the state is not the word of God. It is the invention of the many and therefore dangerous and poisonous; it is a devilish invention replacing the eternal plan of God that should rule the world. It is man instead of the divine competence, the limited mind instead of the infinite mind, things based upon temporal assumptions instead of upon eternal verities.

The paradigm of Western culture is that the essence of persons is dangerous; thus, they must be taught, guided and controlled by those with superior authority.

Kind-hearted people might of course think there was some ingenious way to disarm or defeat an enemy without too much bloodshed and might imagine this is the true goal of the art of war. Pleasant as it sounds, it is a fallacy that must be exposed; war is such a dangerous business that the mistakes which come from kindness are the very worst.

Essentially stupid people are dangerous and damaging because reasonable people find it difficult to imagine and understand unreasonable behaviour.

Bubbles are far more dangerous when they are fueled by debt, as in the case of the global housing price explosion of the early 2000s.

I want someone to pinch me so I can feel something, anything. I'm sick of this numbness, of feeling so alone and outside of everything, but I know it's too dangerous to wake up." —Ruth Mendenberg

My mind is a dangerous place to be alone without supervision.

But I could feel resentment inside me, and I knew it would keep growing until it changed into something far more dangerous.

The idea of "great and dangerous offenses" is an excellent shorthand for the views of the ratifiers—at least if we understand such offenses as including egregious abuses or misuses of official authority.

One of the most dangerous sports a family can play together is running a business. That is why royal families are not known for having good relations with their relations.

there is nothing so offensive to God or so dangerous to the human soul as pride and self-sufficiency. Of all sins it is the most hopeless, the most incurable.

And when you have it, what then? Some secrets are safer kept hidden. Some secrets are too dangerous to share, even with those you love and trust.

Some allies are more dangerous than enemies.

Some secrets are safer kept hidden. Some secrets are too dangerous to share with those you love and Trust Ned Stark

The glass candle is meant to represent truth and learning, rare and beautiful and fragile things. It is made in the shape of a candle to remind us that a maester must cast light wherever he serve, and it is a sharp to remind us that knowledge can be dangerous.

Words are weapons, and it is dangerous in speculation, as in politics, to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy