Danger Quotes - Page 16

There is, to be sure, sometimes only a small difference between being alert to possible danger and allowing oneself to become terrified to the point of paralysis by seeming or imagined portents.

When excesses such as lax lending standards become widespread and persist for some time, people are lulled into a false sense of security, creating an even more dangerous situation. In some cases, excesses migrate beyond regional or national borders, raising the ante for investors and governments. These excesses will eventually end, triggering a crisis at least in proportion to the degree of the excesses. Correlations between asset classes may be surprisingly high when leverage rapidly unwinds.

The local TV news is the greatest danger in your life. It's all crap.

Perhaps to lose a sense of where you are implies the danger of losing a sense of who you are.

An enemy despised is the most dangerous of all enemies.

Timidity can be as dangerous as rashness.

A good picture, any picture, has to be bristling with razor blades.

We are in danger of being stern where God is tender, and of being tender where God is stern.

When some systems are stuck in a dangerous impasse, randomness and only randomness can unlock them and set them free.

The greatest danger of traditional education is that learning may remain purely verbal.

That seems to me the greatest American danger we're all in, that we'll bargain away the experience of being alive for the appearance of it.

There are dangers, but only dangers if people don't understand where technology is taking us.

Perhaps women were once so dangerous that they had to have their feet bound

It is as well not to have too great an admiration for your master's work. You will be in less danger of imitating him.

When fear makes your choices for you, no security measures on earth will keep the things you dread from finding you. But if you can avoid avoidance - if you can choose to embrace experiences out of passion, enthusiasm, and a readiness to feel whatever arises - then nothing, nothing in all this dangerous world, can keep you from being safe.

One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.

Nothing is more dangerous for society's future than having its young people grow old before their time.

The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.

The only antidote to dangerous ideas is strong alternatives vigorously advocated.

Only love and courage will make this world a safer place. Hatred and fear will make it more dangerous.

Through danger safety comes - through trouble rest.

I'd love to do an action movie. Something with lots of stunts. Anything fast and dangerous and involving guns.

I don't like writers. They're dangerous people.

Young love needs dangers and barriers to nourish it.

A woman and a glasse are ever in danger. [A woman and a glass are ever in danger.]