Danger Quotes - page 2

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? (Thomas Henry Huxley)
The greatest danger to our future is apathy. View quote
Jane Goodall
We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy. View quote
Henry Miller
Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull. View quote
William Congreve
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. View quote
Helen Keller
Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself. View quote
Daniel Defoe
There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile. View quote
H. G. Wells
We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed science, but science of today is in danger of losing much of the natural philosophy aspect. View quote
Hannes Alfvén
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. View quote
Michelangelo
Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger. (Francis Quarles)
To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can. View quote
Sydney Smith
Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further. View quote
Rainer Maria Rilke
If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the Service and never in the House of Peers. View quote
Horatio Nelson
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity. View quote
John F. Kennedy
Let us assume that the ideal were reached; let us imagine a state of international life in which the danger of war no longer exists. Then no one would dare to demand a penny for obviously completely superfluous armaments. View quote
Ludwig Quidde
In truth, men speak too much of danger. View quote
José Martí
The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home. View quote
James Madison
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone. (Henry David Thoreau)
Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is. View quote
Tennessee Williams
Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas. View quote
Erwin Rommel
I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for -- whether it's a field, or a home, or a country. View quote
Thornton Wilder
Pain or love or danger makes you real again... View quote
Jack Kerouac