Steven Millhauser Quotes

I saw that I was in danger of becoming ordinary, and I understood that from now on I would have to be vigilant.

Steven Millhauser

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• The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • True
  • Liberty
  • Danger

• In Europe, we will work towards having a common stance, while in France, we will strengthen our protection for asylum seekers whose lives are in danger because of their sexual orientation.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Work
  • Danger
  • France

• I am an ordinary person.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Person
  • Ordinary

• The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Brain
  • Direction
  • Ordinary

• I am a danger to myself if I get angry.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Angry
  • Danger

• Lynch is an ordinary, smalltown guy and he just sees strange things in people.

  

  Jack Nance
  • People
  • Guy
  • Strange

• To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Life
  • Profound
  • Danger

• Most activism is brought about by us ordinary people.

  

  Patricia Hill Collins
  • People
  • Most
  • Ordinary

• When we preach the love of God there is a danger of forgetting that the Bible reveals not first the love of God but the intense, blazing holiness of God, with His love at the center of that holiness.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Love
  • Bible

• We are in danger of forgetting that we cannot do what God does, and that God will not do what we can do.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Danger
  • Forgetting

• The greatest danger in art is too much knowledge.

  

  Andre Derain
  • Art
  • Knowledge
  • Danger

• You can tell someone you love them first. You can try to speak only the truth for a whole week. You can jump out of an airplane or spend Christmas Day all by your lonesome. You can help people who need help and fight real bad guys. You can dance fast or take an improv class or do one of those Ironman things… Adventure and danger can be good for your heart and soul.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • People
  • Good
  • Real

• When a house is on fire and you know that there are people in it, it is a sin to straighten pictures in that house. When the world about you is in great danger, works that are in themselves not sinful can be quite wrong.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• But we have received a sign, Edith - a mysterious sign. A miracle has happened on this farm... in the middle of the web there were the words 'Some Pig'... we have no ordinary pig." "Well", said Mrs. Zuckerman, "it seems to me you're a little off. It seems to me we have no ordinary spider.

  

  E. B. White
  • Words
  • Miracle
  • Mysterious

• The petition of an empty hand is dangerous.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Hand
  • Hands
  • Dangerous

• The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

  

  Aristotle
  • Life
  • Danger
  • Conditions

• In every sort of danger there are various ways of winning through, if one is ready to do and say anything whatever.

  

  Socrates
  • Winning
  • Danger
  • Ready

• This, for instance, is what Egon Bahr said on June 26, 1990: "If we do not now undertake clear steps to prevent a division of Europe, this will lead to Russia's isolation."Bahr, a wise man, had a very concrete suggestion as to how this danger could be averted.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Men
  • Wise
  • Danger

• I myself had to grow a longer beard and Afghan clothes. I was in danger of being kidnapped by smugglers, though I didn't know it at the time.

  

  Mohsen Makhmalbaf
  • Danger
  • Kidnapped
  • Smugglers

• Sleep is such a potent, liminal state, and I don't want to drag anything in there that doesn't need to be there.

  

  Bellamy Young
  • Sleep
  • Drag
  • Potent

• Micro managing anything is not a great role for government.

  

  William Weld
  • Government
  • Roles

• It’s true, I had an extremely delicious life, but that was my life at home, and perhaps because I was only a child, or for whatever reasons, I found the company of others, especially other boys, quite terrifying and upsetting.

  

  Harry Mathews
  • Life
  • Child
  • Company

• I saw that I was in danger of becoming ordinary, and I understood that from now on I would have to be vigilant.

  

  Steven Millhauser
  • Danger
  • Ordinary
  • Vigilant