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Quotes About Dangerous

If you're heading downtown from Centeral Park, my advice is to take the subway. Flying pigs are faster but way more dangerous
~ Unknown
Yes, books are dangerous. They should be dangerous—they contain ideas.
~ Pete Hautman
parlous state
~ Peter Ackroyd
Socrates: So even our walks are dangerous here. But you seem to have avoided the most dangerous thing of all. Bertha: What's that? Socrates: Philosophy. Bertha: Oh, we have philosophers here. Socrates: Where are they? Bertha: In the philosophy department. Socrates: Philosophy is not department. Bertha: Well, we have philosophers. Socrates: Are they dangerous? Bertha: Of course not. Socrates: Then they are not true philosophers.
~ Peter Kreeft
While catching up on the news is merely depressing to the citizen who has no stocks, it is a dangerous habit for the investor.
~ Peter Lynch
It was exciting at first... Then it became routine. I guess everything does, even if it's dangerous.
~ Peter Mayle
The world news had been depressing throughout most of his life, but this past two or three years, it had seemed even more so, with the parade of creepy and dangerous clowns that British and American politics had become, the nuclear threat growing and Russia up to her old habits.
~ Peter Robinson
So Rwandan history is dangerous. Like all of history, it is a record of successive struggles for power, and to a very large extent power consists in the ability to make others inhabit your story of their reality - even, as is so often the case, when that story is written in their blood.
~ Philip Gourevitch
If true, this meant Billing was guilty, if not of treason, then certainly insurrection. In a world worried by revolution and the rise of the radical right, he was a dangerous man.
~ Philip Hoare
One big problem in postmodernism is that people can check books on Goodreads without having an account on Goodreads... This illusion of knowledge must be stopped before it destroys all forms of civilization! You can't have fun without a personal account. You can't even ask for someone else's account to check private updates, it's dangerous! We are on the brink of a dystopian catastrophe.
~ Philip K. Dick
Looking at them now, thought Jim, you'd never believe they weren't in love with each other, and not with a hopeless, doomed obsession like poor Isabel Meredith. This was what love ought to be like: playful and passionate and teasing, and dangerous, too, with sharp intelligence in it.
~ Philip Pullman
Tienen expresiones más glaciales; los encuentros de miradas parecen peligrosos de la forma en que pueden ser peligrosos los encuentros de miradas en el metro. Las mujeres suelen llevar atuendos que te sugieren lo que puedes ver de ellas cuando no llevan atuendos
~ David Foster Wallace
to let the military direct the entire process...is so dangerous that it must be resisted at all costs.
~ Unknown
Hella is only a little dangerous. On a scale of one to ten, with ten being instantly fatal-like the surface of Luna, where I've never been, but I've read about it-Hella is only a three, which is equal to some parts of Earth. It's safe to go outside without protective gear if you stay out of the sun, if you keep your breathing steady and shallow, and if you don't drink any water you didn't bring with you.
~ David Gerrold
I don't know why people think adventures are so wonderful. Mostly they hurt, they're boring, and they're dangerous.
~ David Gerrold
We were swimmers in a dusty yellow smell and sometimes overpower with the occasional stink of dung. If it was from a herbivore, the dung would have a grassy smell. If it was from a predator, it had a darker stink, sometimes so bad I could smell it in the helmet. Some of the piles of dung were as tall as Marley and moist though fortunately not steaming that would have meant we were way close to something dangerous.
~ David Gerrold
it is always dangerous to treat simultaneity as causation
~ David Harvey
Temptation is attractive; otherwise it wouldn't be tempting. And it's dangerous because it's attractive.
~ David Jeremiah
I am not dangerous. Only the stories are dangerous. Only the fictions we create, especially when they become expectations.
~ David Levithan
coagulate, v.: It is a dangerous thing, this thickening of affection; you want it to have weight, but not to be an immovable burden.
~ David Levithan
You know who I am. --- I know your reputation. --- Then you know I am a dangerous man. --- I know you were said to be such once.
~ David Maine
You know who I am. --- I know your reputation. --- Then you know I am a dangerous man. --- I know you were said to be such once. --- So you know that I am shunned by man and God alike. --- Be thankful then that I am neither.
~ David Maine
The man beside me, apropos of nothing, raises his hand and says that there is 'a story' that man started society because he was 'cast out of a garden because of a sin.' He doesn't attribute this anecdote, leaving it a blind item from a source we might not know. He seems nice enough but potentially dangerous.
~ David Rakoff
Snowball just leads elves on, elves and Santas. He is playing a dangerous game.
~ David Sedaris