Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
~By Edward Abbey ~
We wonder why we have got the Freemen or the militants. We wonder why we have got unrest in this country. It is because our government, in fact, has got out of hand and out of line, with the Endangered Species Act.
~By Don Young ~
The place of my birth, and residence for nearly sixteen years, in the early part of my life, became endeared to my feelings and affections; and more especially so after I had quitted it for an unknown place, and to associate with strangers.
~By John Britton ~
Aggressive and irresponsible steps endanger the peace and stability of the world, and the international community feels the need to protect itself from Iran.
~By Moshe Katsav ~
It was expected of me that I was to bow to the name of Andrew Jackson... even at the expense of my conscience and judgement. such a thing was new to me, and a total stranger to my principles.
~By Davy Crockett ~
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
~By Francis Bacon ~
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
~By Francis Bacon ~
I keep forgetting I'm speaking in an American accent sometimes. The dangerous thing is that you end up forgetting what your real accent is after a while! It's really strange; I've never done a job in an American accent before.
~By Robert Pattinson ~
Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world.
~By Ted Turner ~
Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
~By Marc Almond ~
We have come dangerously close to accepting the homeless situation as a problem that we just can't solve.
~By Linda Lingle ~
Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
~By Agnes Repplier ~
We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.
~By David Sarnoff ~
In truth, men speak too much of danger.
~By Jose Marti ~
Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.
~By Euripides ~
Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.
~By Leo Rosten ~
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
~By James A. Baldwin ~
I think the dangers are different now. Our abuse of the planet and our resources is an anxiety.
~By Carol Ann Duffy ~
Extremes are dangerous.
~By Jonathan Mayhew ~
An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.
~By Dan Rather ~
There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.
~By Ida Tarbell ~
The U.S. now imports over half of its oil supply from the Middle East. This dangerous dependence on foreign energy sources is an issue of national security.
~By Kenny Marchant ~
The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger.
~By Henry Walter Bates ~
Anger is a short madness.
~By Horace ~
In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.
~By Daniel Boone ~
Last year, customs officials screened only five percent of the 11 million cargo containers entering the United States. That rate is both unacceptable and dangerous to our national and economic interests.
~By Allyson Schwartz ~
When we got to the hotel, the Hawaiian Village, there were 500 screaming women there. The police were trying to keep the crowd back. It was very dangerous.
~By Minnie Pearl ~
Internet safety begins at home and that is why my legislation would require the Federal Trade Commission to design and publish a unique website to serve as a clearinghouse and resource for parents, teachers and children for information on the dangers of surfing the Internet.
~By Mike Fitzpatrick ~
One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.
~By Marquis de Sade ~
The real danger of writing a great song when you're on something is that it might get you thinking that the only way to repeat that is by only writing when you're high.
~By Barry Mann ~
It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
~By Mark Twain ~
Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.
~By Richard M. Nixon ~
It's different when you're an actor and playing a part, but when it's just you, you feel immensely vulnerable have strangers prodding and prying.
~By Helena Bonham Carter ~
My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.
~By Beverly Sills ~
Strangers still leave me self-conscious.
~By Alan Ladd ~
I think we can allow the therapeutic uses of nuclear transplant technology, which we call cloning, without running the danger of actually having live human beings born.
~By David Baltimore ~
Homeowners and business owners across the country agreed to pay premiums, communities agreed to adopt building codes to mitigate flood dangers, and the Federal Government agreed to provide insurance coverage to policyholders after a disaster.
~By Bob Ney ~
And TV is not the easiest place to be dangerous or on the edge. Especially on a Saturday night.
~By Fisher Stevens ~
The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.
~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
Power is dangerous unless you have humility.
~By Richard J. Daley ~
Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
This war is like an actress who is getting old. It is less and less photogenic and more and more dangerous.
~By Robert Capa ~
One year after the United States led the invasion of Iraq, the country remains extremely dangerous not only to our troops, but also to the stability of the world.
~By Jay Rockefeller ~
The anxiety of most parents in seeing their sons and daughters enlist does not lie only in the fear of the physical dangers they may encounter.
~By William Lyon Mackenzie King ~
I was happy in the midst of dangers and inconveniences.
~By Daniel Boone ~
In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was considered extremely dangerous and hazardous, pushing pilots to the limits of mechanical skills and human endurance. Aviation was young.
~By Mary Garden ~
The new century has brought on its own terrible dangers, which although not reaching the apocalyptic potential of the Cold War, still have the capacity to shake our world.
~By Adam Schiff ~
With the success of the last three or so years, when a lot of people start treating you differently, there's a danger that you may start to think of yourself differently. You rely on your friends to say, 'Hey, wake up!'
~By David Schwimmer ~
As a nation we have the right to decide our own affairs, to mould our own future. This does not pose any danger to anybody. Our nation is fully aware of the responsibility for its own fate in the complicated situation of the contemporary world.
~By Lech Walesa ~
Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.
~By William Shenstone ~
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
~By Thomas Huxley ~
Every time I am in danger of believing the glamour of my own press, some incident inevitably brings me back to earth.
~By Jessica Savitch ~
Here, in Cork district, you have in combination all the dangers which war can inflict.
~By Eamon de Valera ~
There is a danger of changing too much in the search for perfection.
~By Agnetha Faltskog ~
Nuclear proliferation - the proliferation of WMDs altogether - is one of the greatest dangers of our time.
~By Timothy Garton Ash ~
Anybody who spends time off of Louisiana's shores can recognize that these oysters are not endangered. To classify them as such risks great harm to not only fishermen who make their living collecting oysters in the Gulf, but also to Louisiana's economy in total.
~By Bobby Jindal ~
People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
~By Walter Lippmann ~
The best way to avoid danger is to meet it plump.
~By Boyle Roche ~
I have health. I have a wonderful support system. I have the admiration of millions of strangers, which I do not underestimate.
~By Kathleen Turner ~
The United States stands with our friends in Britain as they recover from today's shock of terrorism. These barbaric acts strengthen our resolve and remind us all of the danger of complacency during our continued war on terror.
~By Mark Foley ~
We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves.
~By Daniel Boone ~
I'd rather hang out with five people that I love than with 400 strangers at a club who are all doing the up-and-down inspection thing. They appraise everybody from head to toe - the outfit, the handbag, the shoes, how much they weigh... I can't stand it!
~By Sophia Bush ~
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.
~By Samuel Butler ~
That is a big danger, losing your inspiration. When I work in film and television I try to do each take a little differently. I never want to do the same thing twice, because then you're not being spontaneous, you're just recreating something.
~By Karl Urban ~
Ultimately, it has been a struggle- but I was in Minneapolis and Austin a couple of weeks ago, sitting in theaters with complete strangers watching this weird movie that Kirk and I thought up and I was excited to be making film.
~By Donal Logue ~
My father is black and my mother is white. Therefore, I could answer to either, which kind of makes me a racial Lone Ranger, caught between two communities.
~By Wentworth Miller ~
This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent.
~By Floyd Abrams ~
We... our war began September the 3rd 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany, and thereafter the great state of danger in England at that time, with the bombings, necessitated the evacuation of children.
~By Peter Shaffer ~
The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
~By James Thurber ~
The most dangerous area where our laws are not being faithfully executed are the laws designed to protect Americans against the millions of aliens who enter our country illegally every year.
~By Phyllis Schlafly ~
Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!
~By Patrice Leconte ~
The danger is not so much in the economic structure of a society but in its intellectual structure.
~By Philip Kaufman ~
We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
The use and threat of force, when world peace is not in danger, are no longer valid frames of reference for achieving the ends sought today by sovereign nations.
~By Carlos Salinas ~
I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.
~By Harriet Tubman ~
CNN was one of the first news organizations in the world to train and equip its journalists before deploying them to dangerous areas.
~By Jim Walton ~
It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species.
~By Arianna Huffington ~
I pass over the toil and suffering and danger which attended the redemption and cultivation of their lands by the colonists, and turn to their civil condition and to the conduct and history of the government.
~By William H. Wharton ~
Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.
~By Edward Everett Hale ~
How many wives have been forced by the death of well-intentioned but too protective husbands to face reality late in life, bewildered and frightened because they were strangers to it!
~By Hortense Odlum ~
I looked in the audience. There were no strangers. Everybody was singing and cheering and hugging. That was a beautiful picture to look at.
~By Celine Dion ~
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
~By Bob Edwards ~
Indeed, Miss Manners has come to believe that the basic political division in this country is not between liberals and conservatives but between those who believe that they should have a say in the love lives of strangers and those who do not.
~By Judith Martin ~
Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.
~By Jean de La Fontaine ~
No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion is left free to grapple with them.
~By William Gilmore Simms ~
Very dangerous things, theories.
~By Dorothy L. Sayers ~
As Taiwan's friend and ally, I believe it is important for the United States to monitor the situation in the Taiwan Strait very carefully to help ensure Taiwan is not forced into a position which would endanger its freedom or its democracy.
~By Jim Costa ~
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.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
Suddenly you're surrounded by strangers who want something from you. The thing is, they don't know what they want, and you don't know what they want, unless it's an autograph, and you just sort of stand there grinning at one another.
~By Parker Stevenson ~
The buffalo isn't as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more Americans are killed in automobile accidents than are killed by buffalo.
~By Art Buchwald ~
A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.
~By Philip Sidney ~
Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
~By Jean Paul ~
The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.
~By Georg C. Lichtenberg ~
The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.
~By Jeanette Winterson ~
Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?
~By Pablo Picasso ~
That generation of Germans, along with volunteers from Denmark, Holland, even England and the Free India division and so on, we Europeans were alert and awake to the danger of Bolshevism.
~By Ernst Zundel ~
Many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!
~By Logan Pearsall Smith ~
Why do people believe that there are dangerous implications of the idea that the mind is a product of the brain, that the brain is organized in part by the genome, and that the genome was shaped by natural selection?
~By Steven Pinker ~
I am a fighter. I believe in that which is right, and the truth is, I have been the Lone Ranger for the past thirty years and I will not give up the fight. I love my public and I'll fight for you. I'll continue to make personal appearances for my thousands of fans.
~By Clayton Moore ~
I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked kiddie shows, Ranger House show with the hand puppets and things like that.
~By Barry Levinson ~
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