Scilla Elworthy Quotes
I flew aeroplanes, parachuted, walked on my own across the Himalayas - you name it; if it was dangerous, I did it.
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It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.
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I'd heard it was dangerous to walk around Miami.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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I started kite boarding when I was 13. My dad was a kite boarder, and I begged him to teach me until he finally agreed. He made me wait because it can be dangerous.
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
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I tend to play the dangerous characters, the boyfriend, that sort of thing.
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The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.
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A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.
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Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
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A squirrel attacked me. I got attacked by a squirrel in Battersea Park. They're dangerous. It's rare. I've torn most of the ligaments in my knee. So no football for me. It's early retirement now. I've got a floating knee-cap!
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It’s dangerous to assume that because a person is drawn to holiness in his study that he is thereby a holy man. There is irony here. I am sure that the reason I have a deep hunger to learn of the holiness of God is precisely because I am not holy. I am a profane man—a man who spends more time out of the temple than in it. But I have had just enough of a taste of the majesty of God to want more. I know what it means to be a forgiven man and what it means to be sent on a mission. My soul cries for more. My soul needs more.
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If there was another real one, it could be dangerous. People could be hurt. We have to act just like we would if this were real.
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Rattlesnakes would be a lot more dangerous if they didn't have the rattle.
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Art is not chaste. Those ill prepared should be allowed no contact with art. Art is dangerous. If it is chaste, it is not art.
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Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.
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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.
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Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.
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A mind ill with negative attitudes is more dangerous than a sick body, for its sickness is always contagious.
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She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very, dangerous to live even one day.
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After one has been in a lowly position, one knows how dangerous it is to climb to a high place, Once one has been in the dark, one knows how revealing it is to go into the light. Having maintained quietude, one knows how tiring compulsive activity is. Having nurtured silence, one knows how disturbing much talk is.
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I'm not the kind of male who has to put my imprint on everything.
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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.
