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  • It is commonly a dangerous thing for a man to have more sense than his neighbors. Socrates paid for his superiority with his life; and if Aristotle saved his skin, it was by taking to his heels in time.

    Men   Skins   Neighbor  
  • The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs. There is not one of them which will not make us into devils if we set it up as an absolute guide. You might think love of humanity in general was safe, but it is not. If you leave out justice you will find yourself breaking agreements and faking evidence in trials "for the sake of humanity", and become in the end a cruel and treacherous man.

    Men   Thinking   Justice  
    C. S. Lewis (2009). “Mere Christianity”, p.22, HarperCollins UK
  • One of the most dangerous things about Fox News isn't that it's right wing but that it's nihilistic. It takes away the capacity to believe in politics.

    Believe   Wings   News  
    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • Success is a very dangerous thing and I think we have to be very careful about when we dictate what success is for somebody else. Because you don't know what it's like.

    "Lupe Fiasco Talks "Lasers" Delay, Japanese Cartoon, and "Food & Liquor II"". Interview with Insanul "Incilin" Ahmed, www.complex.com. September 11, 2010.
  • The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.

  • Get busy living, or get busy dying.

    Different Seasons "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" (1982)
  • Talent Katerina is a dangerous thing

  • Ambition is a very dangerous thing because either you achieve it and your life ends prematurely, or you don't, in which case your life is a constant source of disappointment. You must never have ambition.

  • Only gods can safely risk perfection ... it's a dangerous thing for a man.

    Men   Perfection   Risk  
  • I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.

  • The biggest edge I live on is directing. That's the most scary, dangerous thing you can do in your life.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • It's a dangerous thing when someone gets up in the morning and has nothing to eat.

    "Poverty Is a Greater Concern for Most than a Democratic Constitution". Interview with Martin Doerry, Hans Hoyng and Susanne Koelbl, www.spiegel.de. August 29, 2005.
  • A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.

  • I need not add that freedom is a dangerous thing. But it is hardly possible that we are all cowards.

    Coward   Add   Needs  
  • And the dangerous thing about excuses is that if we recite them enough times, we actually come to believe they are true.

  • 'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being; the difference between sanity and insanity; the meaning of life and death; what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice.

    Struggle   Bird   Doe  
  • Hope is a dangerous thing, Raisa thought. Once kindled, it's hard to put out. It makes wise people into fools.

    Wise   People   Fool  
  • I stopped writing at the age of 18. I had written incessantly before that. I read, of course, because I was in university, but I wasn't going to write. I wasn't going to do any of those dangerous things. I was going to be a stolid, bourgeois lawyer.

    Writing   Age   Lawyer  
    Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. February 9, 2010.
  • A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.

  • I tell myself, as sternly as possible, that is how things work here. We do dangerous things and people die. People die, and we move on to the next dangerous thing. The sooner that lesson sinks in, the better chance I have at surviving initiation.

    Moving   People   Lessons  
    Veronica Roth (2013). “Divergent Series (Books 1-3) Plus Free Four, The Transfer and World of Divergent”, p.43, HarperCollins UK
  • I guess, as an Anglican, there's always room to move, which can be a dangerous thing, but also a very healthy thing, because bits of the great biblical tradition which you haven't fully plugged into before you've got the space to grow into... not least, the sacraments.

    Moving   Biblical   Space  
    Interview with Trevin Wax, blogs.thegospelcoalition.org. November 19, 2007.
  • There's a danger of the Internet just becoming loud, ugly and boring with a thousand voices screaming for attention.

    Voice   Attention   Ugly  
  • The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

    "The Harper Book of Quotations Revised Edition". Book by Robert I. Fitzhenry, p. 356, 1993.
  • At some fundamental level, religion does not allow for compromise. It insists on the impossible. If God has spoken, then followers are expected to live up to God's edicts, regardless of the consequences. To base one's life on such uncompromising commitment may be sublime; to base our policy making on such commitments would be a dangerous thing.

    Barack Obama (2006). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.153, Crown
  • Words are dangerous things.

  • Don't be too brave. Bravery is a fine thing on some occasions, but sometimes it can be quite a dangerous thing. The stiff upper lip is not always the best.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

    "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook H 7, 1799.
  • Power is a dangerous thing. Be careful that you don't abuse it or let it make a tyrant of you.

    Power   Tyrants   Abuse  
    Louisa May Alcott (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)”, p.2377, Delphi Classics
  • I'd say the most dangerous thing I've ever done is probably bungee jumping in Thailand...

    Jumping   Done   Thailand  
    "'If you could kiss anyone in the world, who would it be?'". Interview with Francesca Gallio, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2009.
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