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Quotes About Dangerous

I do not have any fears, no fear of dying, of failure, of anything; that means I am very dangerous for my opponents.
~ Imran Khan
I'm a relatively respectable citizen. Multiple felon perhaps, but certainly not dangerous.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
~ Herman Melville
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing - it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread.
~ Samuel Johnson
Our instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited from a much more dangerous world, and contain, therefore, a larger portion of fear than they should.
~ Bertrand Russell
This was all the more dangerous in that my nature has always made me more open to the world of the possible than to that of real-life contingencies. This approach helps one to understand the human soul, but one runs the risk of being deceived by individuals.
~ Marcel Proust
Certainly we are obliged to relive our particular suffering with the courage of a physician who tries over again upon himself an experiment with a dangerous serum.
~ Marcel Proust
We have of the universe only inchoate, fragmentary visions, which we complement by arbitrary associations of ideas, creative of dangerous illusions.
~ Marcel Proust
There is nothing more dangerous than history used as a defense, or history used for preaching; history used as a tool is no longer history.
~ Unknown
We were sent to Afghanistan to carry out hugely dangerous missions. But we were also told that we could not shoot that camel drover before he blew up all of us, because he might be an unarmed civilian just taking his dynamite for a walk.
~ Marcus Luttrell
Why is a little artistic enthusiasm a perilous mistake? Because artists are more dangerous than murderers. The most prolific serial killer might have dozens of victims, but poets can lay low entire generations.
~ Marcus Sakey
Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.
~ Margaret Drabble
Knowledge does not bring wisdom, especially when it is cheaply and easily come by. There was peace in the learning of the past, because men earned it slowly, absorbing it into the very stuff and pattern of their lives. Now any glib fellow can get a smattering of it, and be none the less a fool, only the more dangerous. For his object will be neither wisdom nor peace, but the vulgar determination to make good his own ends, at no matter whose expense.' The
~ Unknown
We have all learned at an early age that the cold of ice cream is not very dangerous, and it is strange now to almost nobody. The great change in taste and attitude in our culture is not the least of the revolutions which the understanding and control of cold have wrought in our lives.
~ Unknown
Helpless as a burning city, / how can I ignore that the extremes / of pleasure are fire storms / that leave a vacuum into which / dangerous feelings (tenderness, / affection, l o v e) may rush / like gale force winds.
~ Marge Piercy
It's so easy for a child to feel all wrong in the eyes of adults. And when you have no idea that what you were doing is wrong… I hated being caught unawares. It was so dangerous, so shameful not to know what I needed to know.
~ Margo Jefferson
The more hidden the venom, the more dangerous it is.
~ Unknown
Laws change more slowly than custom, and though dangerous when they fall behind the times are more dangerous still when the presume to anticipate custom.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
Rules? Ixion is supposed to be free of rules, yet it seems as strict as Grave in its own way and more...more dangerous.
~ Unknown
You fear tomorrow: yet yesterday is just as dangerous.
~ Idries Shah
To consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Of course, there are dangers in religious freedom and freedom of opinion. But to deny these rights is worse than dangerous, it is absolutely fatal to liberty.
~ Harry S. Truman
A fool is very dangerous when in power.
~ Unknown
Yes, books are dangerous. They should be dangerous - they contain ideas.
~ Pete Hautman