What I tell these young people is, the world is not as dangerous as the older generation would like you to believe. Anyone I know who has ever taken a risk and lost a job has ended up getting a better one two years later.
~By Jonathan Kozol ~
Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?
~By Nancy Mitford ~
Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.
~By Mae West ~
I myself had to grow a longer beard and Afghan clothes. I was in danger of being kidnapped by smugglers, though I didn't know it at the time.
~By Mohsen Makhmalbaf ~
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.
~By Harry Emerson Fosdick ~
I think if I were to go back on stage I might be in great danger of acting.
~By Ben Kingsley ~
Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.
~By Dorothy L. Sayers ~
You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
~By Louisa May Alcott ~
When you're young you believe it when people tell you how good you are. And that's the danger, you inhale. Everyone will tell you you're a genius, which you are not, and if you understand that, you win.
~By George Clooney ~
The danger sensation is exciting. The challenge is to find new dangers.
~By Ayrton Senna ~
Washington should revive international efforts begun during the Clinton administration to pressure countries with dangerously loose banking regulations to adopt and enforce stricter rules.
~By Kit Bond ~
Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
~By Ayn Rand ~
Thus, that one can find no place to walk through the breadth of the earth is not because the earth is not tranquil but because the danger to every step of the traveler lies generally with words.
~By Xun Zi ~
The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.
~By Jules Renard ~
In the final analysis, the incident is seen as originating from an emotional expression of the frustration and anger of the proud people of China who had been subject to ever increasing oppression from without and decadent corruption from within.
~By Chen Ning Yang ~
And so the danger for the housing industry is if we see interest rates rise.
~By Franklin Raines ~
When you start suppressing feelings at an early age, it hurts you down the road. Full expression of anger and pain is very important.
~By Andrew Shue ~
The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.
~By Thomas Aquinas ~
I want to speak, to sing to total strangers. It's my way of talking to the world.
~By Adrian Mitchell ~
If there's something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body.
~By Karl Lagerfeld ~
Kitsch is more dangerous than it looks when taken to the extreme.
~By John Cusack ~
The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.
~By Arthur Helps ~
I liked it because it was such a dangerous script and showed just what human beings are capable of. Here was a movie in which Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt, who always win in every movie they ever do, simply don't win. I felt that was outrageous for a commercial movie.
~By Kevin Spacey ~
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 ~
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 ~
What's sad is that there is an addictive quality to that, to believing your own hype; to allowing yourself to become validated by others and no longer by yourself. That's the danger of celebrity.
~By Giovanni Ribisi ~
We get more dangerous as we accumulate knowledge, and that's both a sadness and something to control, try to learn to live with, make terms with.
~By Lou Harrison ~
People who make no noise are dangerous.
~By Jean de La Fontaine ~
The reason we're so dangerous is because we're totally harmless.
~By Cheech Marin ~
It's ridiculous that time and time again we need a radioactive cloud coming out of a nuclear power-station to remind us that atomic energy is extraordinarily dangerous.
~By Pierre Schaeffer ~
The domination of western values, beliefs and way of life has angered many from the east and in developing countries.
~By Silvia Cartwright ~
Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!
~By Patrice Leconte ~
I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.
~By Clara Barton ~
The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.
~By Barbara de Angelis ~
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
~By Tennessee Williams ~
I accrued anger from people's low opinion of me and my work, and for the work I might be capable of.
~By Harrison Ford ~
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 ~
My hope is that out of all the anger and seeming hostility that we hear in some of today's music will come some sort of coalition that will become politically involved.
~By Roberta Flack ~
Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in womb?
~By Trey Parker ~
Pear Drops were exciting because they had a dangerous taste. All of us were warned against eating them, and the result was that we ate them more than ever.
~By Roald Dahl ~
One-third of our people were dangerously ill, getting worse hourly, and we felt sure of meeting the same fate, with death as our only prospect, which in such a country was much worse yet.
~By Alvar N. C. de Vaca ~
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 ~
The Anger Management Tour was another beautiful thing. I loved that tour.
~By Obie Trice ~
Our border patrol does a great job under these very dangerous conditions. They use very sophisticated equipment, including gamma rays, to detect drugs and illegal immigrants as they enter the U.S.
~By Timothy Murphy ~
A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.
~By Pope Paul VI ~
My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.
~By Gary Oldman ~
Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
~By Carl Sandburg ~
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 ~
The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory.
~By Douglas Haig ~
Times of my life, brief periods without music, have completely felt dangerously over the edge.
~By Tom Jenkinson ~
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
~By Eugene McCarthy ~
There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.
~By Alan Bleasdale ~
But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave danger. If I had let it go just a few more years I could have broken my hip or spine just picking up my granddaughter.
~By Sally Field ~
A lot of places I go are dangerous, like Tel Aviv or Rio, but that never stops me from going there and putting on a show. I have good security. I don't worry about that.
~By Madonna Ciccone ~
Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.
~By Earl Warren ~
A sea setting us upon the ice has brought us close to danger.
~By Henry Hudson ~
Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.
~By Ford Frick ~
You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.
~By Buddha ~
In the world of commercial speech, tobacco advertising bears the earmarks of an endangered species.
~By Jef I. Richards ~
Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
~By James A. Baldwin ~
Many words are not wanting to show that the particular view of each court occasioned the dangers which affected the public tranquillity; yet the whole is charged to my account. Nor is this sufficient.
~By Robert Walpole ~
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 ~
It's people who are repressed and cannot express their fears that are dangerous.
~By Julie Taymor ~
Crying wolf is a real danger.
~By David Attenborough ~
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 ~
When the franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it.
~By Gordon Sinclair ~
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.
~By Christian Nestell Bovee ~
Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
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 ~
Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.
~By Angela Davis ~
Assuming that his talent can survive the increasing strain, there is one scarcely avoidable danger that lies ahead of the pupil on his road to mastery.
~By Eugen Herrigel ~
I think in the corridors of power these dangerous kinds of orders are issued in a much more vague way, passed down two or three levels of command before they're given to the assassin.
~By Eddie Campbell ~
Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail.
~By Don DeLillo ~
Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.
~By Stella Benson ~
Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.
~By Beverly Sills ~
It is a high patriotic duty that we support and sustain the men who have been placed in position of difficulty, burden, responsibility, and even danger as the result of our suffrages.
~By Bainbridge Colby ~
Once I got the Lone Ranger role, I didn't want any other.
~By Clayton Moore ~
I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
She's in a situation she tried to, that's what's complicated. She followed orders; she called off the raid. This is a dangerous situation. Somebody in DC police went ahead and started.
~By Julianne Moore ~
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
~By Carl Jung ~
As an unmarried woman, I was thought to be a danger.
~By Grace Kelly ~
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
~By James Thurber ~
If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything.
~By William Faulkner ~
Anger is seldom without argument but seldom with a good one.
~By Lord Halifax ~
Ski racing, especially downhill, is a dangerous activity and there are many accidents. It would be really too bad to lose everything because of a crash.
~By Hermann Maier ~
To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.
~By Steven Brust ~
I think we're entering a very dangerous time. The West has set itself up, decided it's in charge, not for good intentions, not for the benefit of mankind.
~By Thom Yorke ~
The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.
~By Wayne Dyer ~
If either player abandon the game by quitting the table in anger, or in an otherwise offensive manner; or by momentarily resigning the game; or refuses to abide by the decision of the Umpire, the game must be scored against him.
~By Howard Staunton ~
Simon Hale, the British arranger, does all string and wood arrangements on my records.
~By Duncan Sheik ~
Never revisit the past, that's dangerous. You know, move on.
~By Robert Redford ~
People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
~By Walter Lippmann ~
For while the threat of nuclear holocaust has been significantly reduced, the world remains a very unsettled and dangerous place.
~By William S. Cohen ~
A Victory without danger is a triumph without glory.
~By Pierre Corneille ~
The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it's so much fun.
~By Jerry Seinfeld ~
It was never physically dangerous except when I nearly fell off a horse, but it was physically arduous - especially when you were working late at night.
~By Derek Jacobi ~
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