Scilla Elworthy Quotes
I flew aeroplanes, parachuted, walked on my own across the Himalayas - you name it; if it was dangerous, I did it.
Scilla Elworthy
Quotes to Explore
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Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.
Oscar Wilde
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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.
Oscar Wilde
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Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.
Oscar Wilde
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Self-approval is a dangerous state of mind.
Napoleon Hill
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Generalizations, one is told, are dangerous. So is life, for that matter, and it is built up on generalization - from the earliest effort of the adventurer who dared to eat a second berry because the first had not killed him.
Freya Stark
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Where utopianism is advanced through gradualism rather than revolution, albeit steady and persistent as in democratic societies, it can deceive and disarm an unsuspecting population, which is largely content and passive. It is sold as reforming and improving the existing society's imperfections and weaknesses without imperiling its basic nature. Under these conditions, it is mostly ignored, dismissed, or tolerated by much of the citizenry and celebrated by some. Transformation is deemed innocuous, well-intentioned, and perhaps constructive but not a dangerous trespass on fundamental liberties.
Mark Levin
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Nothing is so dangerous for our security as large groups of desperate people.
Marianne Williamson
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In the vaults of our hearts and brains, danger waits. All the chambers are not lovely, light and high. There are holes in the floor of the mind, like those in a medieval dungeon floor - the stinking oubliettes, named for forgetting, bottle-shaped cells in solid rock with the trapdoor in the top. Nothing escapes from them quietly to ease us. A quake, some betrayal by our safeguards, and sparks of memory fire the noxious gases - things trapped for years fly free, ready to explode in pain and drive us to dangerous behavior.
Thomas Harris
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Yoga helps me with a composed and serene state of mind, which is good for writing.
Damon Galgut
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Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral bak'd meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.
William Shakespeare
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I flew aeroplanes, parachuted, walked on my own across the Himalayas - you name it; if it was dangerous, I did it.
Scilla Elworthy