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Quotes About Dangerous

There are some people who should not be allowed on the road. Maybe they shouldn't even be allowed to walk anywhere, either. Maybe we should hang a large sign around their neck saying 'Very Dangerous', or 'No Sense', or something like that.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
She had brought all of this on herself, and so she had, in a sense, got what she deserved. But, even so, she had a soul like everyone else, and one should not crow over the defeat even of those who richly deserve to be defeated. That was dangerous, because then you yourself might get what you deserve for reveling in the misfortunes of another.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
She had brought all of this on herself, and so she had, in a sense, got what she deserved. But, even so, Mma Ramotswe reminded herself, she had a soul like everyone else, and one should not crow over the defeat even of those who richly deserve to be defeated. That was dangerous, because then you yourself might get what you deserve for reveling in the misfortunes of another.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
I saw the snake myself, and I am not one to exaggerate. It was two metres long, at the very least. And it was a mamba. I know those snakes. It was a mamba—not a hyperbole." "I would not like to be bitten by a hyperbole," muttered Mma Ramotswe. She could not stop herself; she had to say this, although more or less immediately she regretted it. "They are very dangerous, Mma," said Mma Potokwane.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
We should pray when we are in a praying mood, for it would be sinful to neglect so fair an opportunity. We should pray when we are not in a proper mood, for it would be dangerous to remain in so unhealthy a condition.
~ Donald S. Whitney
The contemporary sluggard won't go to places he should go (such as church), saying, "It's too dangerous out there on the highways!" Or he might say, "If I discipline my time for the purpose of godliness, I might miss important things on TV or the Internet, or become so busy I won't get enough rest!" And he plops down on the couch or rolls back over in bed.
~ Donald S. Whitney
The dangerous temptation of wildlife films is that they can lull us into thinking we can get by without the original models -- that we might not need animals in the flesh.
~ Doug Peacock
The great English philosopher Alfred North Whitehead had written, "It is the business of the future to be dangerous. The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur.
~ Douglas E. Richards
Alfred North Whitehead had written, "It is the business of the future to be dangerous. The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur.
~ Douglas E. Richards
To her audience in Boston she also explained how white people who see people as individuals rather than by their skin colour are in fact 'dangerous'.70 Meaning that it took only half a century for Martin Luther King's vision to be exactly inverted.
~ Douglas Murray
The fact is that the preference for ignorance over even marginal reductions in ignorance is never the moral high ground. If decisions are made under a self-imposed state of higher uncertainty, policy makers (or even businesses like, say, airplane manufacturers) are betting on our lives with a higher chance of erroneous allocation of limited resources. In measurement, as in many other human endeavors, ignorance is not only wasteful but can also be dangerous.
~ Douglas W. Hubbard
Lloyd Hey, I guess they're right senior citizens although slow and dangerous behind the wheel--can still serve a purpose. I'll be right back, don't you go dying on me
~ Dumb & Dumber
It is a society in which the subservient appearance observed among us is dangerously deceptive. The occasional warning sign the dam is about to burst is most often ignored by our keepers.
~ Dwight E. Abbott
Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.
~ Margaret Drabble
For the first time in my life, I have tasted life. Life is wonderful but very dangerous. If you have the courage to live it - it's marvelous!
~ Lionel Barrymore
The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.
~ Novalis
A repeating refrain I wrote for Bones & Ash, the theatrical adaptation of this novel, is the spine upon which the story rests: "We take blood, not life, and leave something in exchange." In order to answer any of the questions the book raises we must take blood—metaphorically speaking. That is, we must learn how to break through the surface, find the deep dangerous place where blood flows without hurting one other, and share all that we know and love in order to survive.
~ Jewelle L. Gómez
Guantanamo allows us to secure dangerous detainees without the risk of escape, while at the same time providing us with valuable intelligence information on how best to proceed in the war against terror and prevent future attacks.
~ Jim Ryun
Tommy to Zack- "Aw, come on. Just a little slow torture, then? Can't I make him scream like a girl, just once?" "I can make the worm disappear for you," Joaquin offered with a dangerous smile. "Permanently." Zack rolled his eyes. "Ignore Al Capone. Murdering the competition is never a good plan.
~ Jo Davis
If you want to live forever you are dreadfully dangerous because you're not living now.
~ Joanna Russ
The man was like heroin-seductive, addictive and a damned good way to wake up dead.
~ Joanna Wylde
I like autumn. The drama of it; the golden lion roaring through the back door of the year, shaking its mane of leaves. A dangerous time; of violent rages and deceptive calm, of fireworks in the pockets and conkers in the fist.
~ Joanne Harris
They have that most strange and dangerous of qualities," said Cosca. "They think they're in the right.
~ Joe Abercrombie
loyalty's a dangerous foundation. Tends to wash away in a storm. Self-interest stands in any weather.
~ Joe Abercrombie