Dangerous Quotes
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Men like M. de Talleyrand are like sharp instruments with which it is dangerous to play.
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Part-time information and full-time opinions can be very dangerous.
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I don't want it to appear that I'm standing up and saying I'm the expected one. That's a dangerous, ego-driven kind of thing.
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Of all ignorance, the ignorance of the educated is the most dangerous. Not only are educated people likely to have more influence, they are the last people to suspect that they don't know what they are talking about when they go outside their narrow fields.
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The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow.
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I learnt that fame is an illusion and everything about it is just a joke. I'm far more dangerous now, because I don't care at all.
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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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An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.
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Be suspicious of people who have, or crave, power. Never, ever go near power. Don't become friends with anyone who has real power. It's dangerous.
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Loneliness is dangerous ... because if aloneness does not lead to God, it leads to the devil. It leads to the self.
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I've used drugs that I do consider to be dangerous, drugs that are potentially detrimental to kids and society at large.
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The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness.
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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
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Ah, gratitude, that's a terrible thing, a dangerous thing.
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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.
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To throw oneself into strange teachings is quite dangerous.
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A word is all it takes to put a man in prison, or to seize his property, or to end his life. A saber might be stopped by a shield. A bullet might be dodged by a stroke of luck. But you can't dodge a word. If one is flung at you, it will hit its mark unerringly. No Garritt, there's nothing in the world more dangerous than talk.
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Screenplays are not writing. They're a fake form of writing. It's a lot of dialogue and very little atmosphere. Very little description. Very little character work. It's very dangerous. You'll never learn to write.
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Study without reflection is a waste of time; reflection without study is dangerous.
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This isn't about grabbing people's guns; this isn't about changing the Second Amendment. This simply says that someone who is on the terrorist watch list - a dangerous terrorist - should not be able to purchase a gun.
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That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art - it's safe.
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He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.
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There is no practice more dangerous than that of borrowing money; for when money can be had in this way, repayment is seldom thought of in time, the interest becomes a loss, exertions to raise it by dent of industry cease, it comes easy and is spent freely, and many things are indulged in that would never be thought of if they were to be purchased by the sweat of the brow.
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And none of these people, not one of them, had loved any of the others well enough. Failures, he thought, we're all failures... He wanted his love to be the wine and bread, and the blood and flesh. He reached for her, a dangerous stranger in a city of dangerous strangers, but she turned away from him and walked unsteadily through the crowd. How many loveless people walk among the barely loved?
