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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• I'd heard it was dangerous to walk around Miami.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Dangerous
  • Walk
  • Miami

• The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Power
  • More
  • Dangerous

• 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.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Teach

• A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Thing
  • Dangerous
  • Sincerity

• I tend to play the dangerous characters, the boyfriend, that sort of thing.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
  • Play
  • Dangerous
  • Boyfriend

• The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Dangerous
  • Mountains
  • Places

• A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Man
  • Honor
  • Dangerous

• Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Success
  • Dangerous
  • Copy

• 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.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Time
  • God
  • Soul

• 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.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • People
  • Real
  • Hurt

• Rattlesnakes would be a lot more dangerous if they didn't have the rattle.

  

  Louis Sachar
  • Dangerous
  • Ifs
  • Would Be

• 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.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Should
  • Dangerous

• Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Dangerous
  • Modern
  • Quite

• It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Thing
  • Dangerous
  • Reform

• Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Dangerous
  • Worth

• Self-approval is a dangerous state of mind.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Mind
  • Dangerous
  • Self-approval

• 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
  • Life
  • Up
  • Effort

• 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
  • Nature
  • Society
  • Revolution

• Nothing is so dangerous for our security as large groups of desperate people.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • Security
  • Dangerous

• 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
  • Heart
  • Brain
  • Forget

• Yoga helps me with a composed and serene state of mind, which is good for writing.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Mind

• Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral bak'd meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Funeral
  • Meat
  • Tables

• I flew aeroplanes, parachuted, walked on my own across the Himalayas - you name it; if it was dangerous, I did it.

  

  Scilla Elworthy
  • Dangerous
  • Flew
  • Aeroplanes