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Quotes About Dangerous

There's a great fear of the imagination. It's a dangerous thing. It's out of control, it's subversive.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.
~ Barry Humphries
It is a mistake always to contemplate the good and ignore the evil, because by making people neglectful it lets in disaster. There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.
~ Helen Keller
I would characterize current US nuclear weapons policy as immoral, illegal, militarily unnecessary, and dreadfully dangerous
~ Robert McNamara
way agave syrup went from a miracle sweetener to a dangerous substance.
~ Jan Chozen Bays
You were mean and worried then and you're mean and worried now. The expression on your face hasn't changed one bit. It's a dangerous man who reacts more or less in the same way to good news or bad news.
~ Jane Bowles
I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously. I treasure it in the sense that I believe it's a path of great courage. It can also be the path of the foolhardy and the compulsive.
~ Jane Campion
All the dangerous glamour had been swept up by the broom of National Socialism,
~ Jane Thynne
He groaned in mounting desire. "You're a dangerous woman, Calinda Braxton," he murmured hoarsely. "So are you, Lynx Cardone," she replied in a strained voice as she pushed away from him, fighting to regain control of herself. He caught her face between his hands, drilling his smoldering gaze into her matching one. "I want you, Cal," he stated simply. -Lynx & Calinda
~ Janelle Taylor
Blackmailers never explain their thinking. They're like pirates that way. Dark-hearted, dangerous--- and cool like Johnny Depp.
~ Janette Rallison
W]hat makes patriotic and religious fanatics such dangerous opponents is not the deaths of the fanatics themselves, but their willingness to accept the deaths of a fraction of their number in order to annihilate or crush their infidel enemy.
~ Jared Diamond
The men who had been sent to terrify Europe made a simple discovery: it was easier—and far less dangerous—to terrorize at home.
~ Jason Goodwin
el fanatismo hay siempre entusiasmo, por eso es tan peligroso y contagioso, todo lo pinta muy simple y eso atrae a las multitudes.
~ Javier Marías
2 Timothy 3:1. Here it is in the Amplified Bible: "But understand this, that in the last days dangerous times [of great stress and trouble] will come [difficult days that will be hard to bear].
~ Dr. David Jeremiah
You and I wear the dangerous looseness of doom and find it becoming. Life, for eternal us, is now; and now is much too busy being a little more than everything to seem anything, catastrophic included.
~ E.E. Cummings
The mind, conditioned as it is by the past, always seeks to re-create what it knows and is familiar with. Even if it is painful, at least it is familiar. The mind always adheres to the known. The unknown is dangerous because it has no control over it. That's why the mind dislikes and ignores the present moment.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Your Paris is more dangerous than my savage jungles, Paul, concluded Tarzan
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
She had once more shown her talent for profiting by the unexpected, and dangerous theories as to the advisability of yielding to impulse were germinating under the surface of smiling attention which she continued to present to her companion.
~ Edith Wharton
He had the kind of character in which prudence is a vice, and good advice the most dangerous nourishment.
~ Edith Wharton
I then thought, and am still of the same opinion, that error, and not truth of any kind, is dangerous; that ill conclusions can only flow from false propositions; and that, to know whether any proposition be true or false, it is a preposterous method to examine it by its apparent consequences.
~ Edmund Burke
Whatever therefore is terrible, with regard to sight, is sublime too, whether this cause of terror be endued with greatness of dimensions or not; for it is impossible to look on anything as trifling, or contemptible, that may be dangerous. There are many animals, who, though far from being large, are yet capable of raising ideas of the sublime, because they are considered as objects of terror. As serpents and poisonous animals of almost all kinds.
~ Edmund Burke
Do not allow yourselves to be cajoled into supposing that political apathy is dangerous. Dictators such as Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin are raised to power, not by apathy, but by mass fanaticism.
~ Edmund Crispin
Henry James] privately characterized Roosevelt as a dangerous and ominous jingo, and the mere monstrous embodiment of unprecedented and resounding Noise.
~ Edmund Morris
the most dangerous members of the criminal class—the criminals of great wealth.
~ Edmund Morris