Quotes About Dangerous

Don't fool yourself, my dear. You're much worse than a bitch. You're a saint. Which shows why saints are dangerous and undesirable.

I like cigarettes, Miss Taggart. I like to think of fire held in a man's hand. Fire, a dangerous force, tamed at his fingertips. I often wonder about the hours when a man sits alone, watching the smoke a cigarette thinking. I wonder what great things have come from those hours. When a man thinks, there is a spot of fire alive in his mind - and it is only proper that he should have the burning point of a cigarette as his one expression.

When one makes enemies one knows that one's dangerous where it's necessary to be dangerous.

Cleopatra stood at one of the most dangerous intersections in history: that of women and power. Clever women, Euripides had warned hundreds of years earlier, were dangerous.

War teaches us to need an enemy to conquer and overcome and to see those who are different as lesser, dangerous, inhuman [Feminist Earth-based Spirituality and Ecofeminism, Healing the Wounds: The Promise of Ecofeminism ].

Tom Hearst is altogether a scapegrace, a rake, and possibly a dangerous fellow, with his likeable face, his vigourous dancing, and his easy manners; a man who might do with a woman as he liked, having once won her heart.

Colonel Quaritch likes to welcome newcomers to Pandora with a scary depiction of its dangerous life forms, in plants, the animals, the natives, all of which, according him, want nothing more than to kill humans. But Pandora would be a ferociously hazardous place eve without any life forms at all

It is dangerous that by sudden invasions men shall be drawn to the use of his weapons before he hath skill how to use it

There will always be people who think suffering leads to enlightenment, who place themselves on the verge of what's about to break, or go dangerously wrong. Let's resist them and their thinking, you and I. Let's not rush toward that sure thing that awaits us, which can dumb us into nonsense and pain.

Brooding, simmering and raging in the ground, deep beneath the earth that once loved him, Ouranos compressed all his fury and divine energy into the very rock itself, hoping that one day some excavating creature somewhere would mine it and try to harness the immortal power that radiated from within. That could never happen, of course. It would be too dangerous. Surely the race had yet to be born that could be so foolish as to attempt to unleash the power of uranium?

Come to think of it I don't know that love has a point, which is what makes it so glorious. Sex has a point, in terms of relief and, sometimes procreation, but love, like all art, as Oscar said, is quite useless. It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with.

A world where only a tiny super-elite are capable of understanding advanced science and technology and its applications would be, to my mind, a dangerous and limited one. I seriously doubt whether long-range beneficial projects such as cleaning up the oceans or curing diseases in the developing world would be given priority. Worse, we could find that technology is used against us and that we might have no power to stop it.

A world where only a tiny super-elite are capable of understanding advanced science and technology and its applications would be, to my mind, a dangerous and limited one.

I believe that the combination of pencil and memory creates a kind of practical magic, and magic is dangerous.

Directing teenage actors is like juggling jars of nitro-glycerine: exhilarating and dangerous.

there are lots of would-be censors out there, and although they may have different agendas, they all want basically the same thing: for you to see the world they see...or to at least shut up about what you do see that's different. they are agents of the status quo. not necessarily bad guys, but dangerous guys if you happen to believe in intellectual freedom.

Although love is a dangerous word when it comes from men.

Do you know what magic does, Charlie?' I thought it did all sorts of things–allowing hapless pilgrims such as myself to visit other worlds, for instance–but I shook my head. 'It gives people hope, and hope is dangerous.

Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don't have the ability to be lovable.

Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos.

love is dangerous for your tiny heart even in your dreams so please dream softly

You know they say the most dangerous person of the world is a member of the United States Congress just home from a three-day fact-finding trip.

What are you doing?" "Thinking." "That sounds dangerous.

The ability to reason combined with a lack of moral emotions is dangerous.