Dangerous Quotes - Page 16

Poor children live in a particularly dangerous world--an urban world of broken stair railings, of busy streets serving as playgrounds, of lead paint, rats and rat poisons, or a rural world where families do not enjoy the minimal levels of public health accepted as standard for nearly a century. Whether in city or country, this is a world where cavities go unfilled and ear infections threatening permanent deafness go untreated. It is world where even a small child learns to be ashamed of the way he or she lives.

It's people who are repressed and cannot express their fears that are dangerous.

Extremes are dangerous.

The unasked questions are the most dangerous to answer.

The most dangerous states in the international system are continental powers with large armies.

Economics is a very dangerous science.

The public library is the most dangerous place in town

Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.

It's dangerous to get too far from what they identify you with.

I think you cannot be too complacent. I think that's dangerous and you cannot take anything for granted.

you might want to decide fast. We live in a dangerous world. If you see a chance to be happy, you have to fight for it, so later you have no regrets.

I'm on the air five hours, and I blurt out anything in my head. Dangerous? Maybe.

Without imagination, nothing is dangerous.

When I was coming up, it was a dangerous world, and you knew exactly who they were. It was us vs them, and it was clear who them was. Today, we are not so sure who the they are, but we know they're there.

To do anything that suggested a taste for solitude, even to go for a walk by yourself, was always slightly dangerous. There was a word for it in Newspeak: ownlife.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.

I try to avoid saying 'fantastic' too often and 'obviously' is a dangerous word for all broadcasters.

And TV is not the easiest place to be dangerous or on the edge. Especially on a Saturday night.

Souls are dangerous things to carry straight through all the spilt saltpetre of this world.

Strength that goes wrong is even more dangerous than weakness that goes wrong.

Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet it alone.

American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.

He was living in an age much more dangerous, more painful, much more on the edge than our own particular age.