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Quotes About Dangerously

optimism is highly valued, socially and in the market; people and firms reward the providers of dangerously misleading information more than they reward truth tellers. One
~ Daniel Kahneman
[Donald Trump] said on MSNBC's Morning Joe program, "My primary consultant is myself." While this may make consensus easy, the range of perspective is dangerously narrow.
~ David Krieger
We corrupt the Word of God most dangerously, when we throw any doubt on the plenary inspiration of any part of Holy Scripture.
~ J. C. Ryle
Once I asked Teichman what he thought of Bird's chess: "Same as his health," he replied, "always alternating between being dangerously ill and dangerously well."
~ William Ewart Napier
He'd reached that perilous stage of being drunk enough to think himself a good dancer… but was dangerously close in tipping over to the point where he'd act like an arse
~ Iain Clements, Tweet Of Faith
The collective egoic mind is the most dangerously insane and destructive entity ever to inhabit this planet.
~ Eckhart Tolle
I never liked this continual talk of resistance and revolution, or the practice of making the extreme medicine of the constitution its daily bread. It renders the habit of society dangerously valetudinary: it is taking periodical doses of mercury sublimate, and swallowing down repeated provocatives of cantharides to our love of liberty.
~ Edmund Burke
Politics do not necessarily mean party politics, though in this country, at this moment, the one runs dangerously near to implying the other.
~ Alfred Austin
For the first month of the siege FBI commanders had isolated us from all contact with the outside world in order to preserve the official view that we were dangerously weird.
~ David Thibodeau
Designing new low-yield nuclear weapons for limited strikes dangerously lowers the threshold for their use.
~ Dianne Feinstein
We had a certain kind of material that was not dangerously esoteric.
~ Ronnie Corbett
We are living in a world of fear. The life of man today is corroded and made bitter by fear: fear of the future, fear of the hydrogen bomb, fear of ideologies. Perhaps this fear is a greater danger than the danger itself because it is fear, which drives men to act thoughtlessly, to act dangerously.
~ Sukarno
Rockefeller denigrated his critics as blackmailers, sharpsters, and crooks. He was now dangerously impervious to criticism.
~ Ron Chernow
A Tong can perhaps be defined as a mutual benefit society for people with a common interest which is illegal or dangerously marginal - hence, the necessary secrecy.
~ Hakim Bey
Tyler caught her wrist. You can't walk home now. It's raining. Believe me, it won't bother me a bit. Now, Carlie, don't be obstinate. Tyler, I'm dangerously close to laying you low. She had to get away from him. Now. Violence? My, my, your cold is making you surly. She tugged, but he didn't release her. Tyler, what did you intend to do today, before you came here and decided to harass me? I was going to harass Brenda, but you'll do better.
~ Lori Foster
All err the more dangerously because each follows a truth. Their mistake lies not in following a falsehood but in not following another truth.
~ Blaise Pascal
The art of writing fiction is to sail as dangerously close to the truth as possible without sinking the ship
~ Kinky Friedman
Such assertions, I would submit, are not only an excessive distraction from the main issues, but dangerously counterproductive. They invite ridicule—and, as we have seen, there is no shortage of people who ache to provide it.
~ Bill Bryson
Well, the problem is that when you mix discussion of official United States government business with discussion of your personal business, you can tread dangerously close to the bribery statutes.
~ Richard Painter
His eyes flared dangerously. Did the lass think to share such intimacies with him and then rescind them? Och, nay, Dageus MacKeltar didn't go backward. She would find that out soon enough.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Today, despite free speech and the mass media, the prevailing social vision is dangerously close to sealing itself off from any discordant feedback from reality.
~ Thomas Sowell
Mumbai is on a seismically sensitive zone; it is also dangerously exposed to the sea.
~ Sucheta Dalal
I'm a strong-and-stable-dollar advocate, and the Fed has been moving dangerously away from that mission.
~ Kevin Brady
Everything in the room is like that: unnecessarily solid, abnormally heavy and dangerously sharp.
~ Christopher Isherwood