But there were women in the world, and from them each of our heroes had taken to himself a wife. The good ladies were no strangers to the prowess of their husbands. and, strange as it may seem, they presumed a little upon it.
~By Augustus Baldwin Longstreet ~
Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
~By Hannah More ~
The Internet's kinda in danger of getting heart disease pretty soon, I think. Arteries are getting clogged.
~By Sean Booth ~
Has there ever been a more revealing moment this year? Let me just put this in fairly simple terms: Al Jazeera now broadcasts the words of Senator Durbin to the Mideast, certainly putting our troops in greater danger. No more needs to be said about the motives of liberals.
~By Karl Rove ~
There's a danger of the Internet just becoming loud, ugly and boring with a thousand voices screaming for attention.
~By Matt Drudge ~
Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
~By Thornton Wilder ~
The European model is in danger if we obliterate the principle of personal responsibility.
~By Jacques Delors ~
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 ~
There is an element of anger among women who've been raped. There's certainly a major element of humiliation. But it really does seem like a medical condition of shock and horror.
~By Nicholas D. Kristof ~
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 ~
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 ~
Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
~By James Madison ~
You need a vanguard organization in order to overcome the dangerous potential brought about by the uneven development of class militancy and class consciousness.
~By Ernest Mandel ~
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.
~By Hannah Arendt ~
Very dangerous things, theories.
~By Dorothy L. Sayers ~
The humble are in danger when those in power disagree.
~By Phaedrus ~
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
~By Buddha ~
It is of the greatest importance that people and governments in many more countries than ours should realize that it is more dangerous to have access to nuclear arms than not to possess them.
~By Alva Myrdal ~
Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.
~By Saskya Pandita ~
That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
~By Victoria Pratt ~
Considering the fact that I've used it in the past, and know what it is, and seen the results of it, I don't view marijuana as a dangerous drug.
~By Tim Robbins ~
Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.
~By Louis L'Amour ~
Which is good, in a way, because the danger in doing something like STAR TREK is that you end up in that pigeonhole and you're doing that the rest of your life.
~By Colm Meaney ~
There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
There's no doubt that it's still a dangerous place, Afghanistan. The fortunate thing is that the United States was helping to provide security for Chairman Karzai. And it shows that the United States is committed to that regime.
~By Condoleezza Rice ~
But there is some way in which poets believe that and this is dangerous, too believe that their calling gives them a certain freedom. A certain freedom to live in a free way.
~By Peter Davison ~
Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
I've always like roadracing, but you know how it is in a family when you're young. They thought it was a little too dangerous so I started with Trials riding.
~By Sete Gibernau ~
Everybody is just a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way.
~By John Mayer ~
Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
~By Buffalo Bill ~
So when people go to the park this summer, they are not going to have the same quality of a visit. There is not going to be a ranger out on the trail to tell them about the important cultural and historic areas within the Olympic National Park.
~By Norm Dicks ~
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
~By Francis Bacon ~
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 ~
Men like me, who merely wish to establish political freedom, will in such circumstances lose all their influence, and others will get influence who may become dangerous to all established interests whatsoever.
~By Lajos Kossuth ~
Particularly in the final stages I always find that I'm rushed. It's dangerous when you're rushed in the editing stage, most of my early films are flawed in the cutting.
~By Satyajit Ray ~
Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives. In this worldwide civil war, race prejudice is our most dangerous enemy, for it is a disease at the very root of our democratic life.
~By Mordecai Wyatt Johnson ~
I also had to work through the violation of my date rape, my unhealthy relationships with men, my anger toward the people involved in the scandal, and those who exploited me afterwards.
~By Donna Rice ~
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
~By Voltaire ~
One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
~By Jean Cocteau ~
Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.
~By Mary Wollstonecraft ~
People who make no noise are dangerous.
~By Jean de La Fontaine ~
I was ordered not to go out to Abu Ghraib after dark early on, because Abu Ghraib was extremely dangerous.
~By Janis Karpinski ~
Endangered forests are being slaughtered for toilet paper.
~By Daphne Zuniga ~
To see and be acquainted with strangers, in especial with men in honour and authority.
~By Thomas Cavendish ~
The sicker mother got, the stranger the people surrounding her became. I called them The Garland Freaks.
~By Lorna Luft ~
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
~By Lord Acton ~
If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.
~By Carter G. Woodson ~
Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger.
~By Timothy Radcliffe ~
Strangers he gulls, but friends make fun of him.
~By Phaedrus ~
I think it's dangerous to be optimistic. Things could go terribly wrong virtually overnight.
~By Nicholas D. Kristof ~
My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.
~By Billy Connolly ~
That is what has happened to the United States in the international economic scene. We have deteriorated into a debtor status so that we are now dependent upon the kindness of strangers. That is not where the world's leading power should find itself.
~By Paul Sarbanes ~
If you want to live your life through to the end, you have to live dangerously.
~By Jeanne Moreau ~
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
~By Louis D. Brandeis ~
The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.
~By Elbert Hubbard ~
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 ~
I never sing in the shower. It's very dangerous.
~By Jimmy Fallon ~
Is it not dangerous to have students study together for years, copying the same models and approximately the same path?
~By Theodore Gericault ~
Fettuccine Alfredo is dangerous for your health.
~By Robert M. Parker, Jr. ~
A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.
~By Vince Lombardi ~
The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.
~By Mary Wollstonecraft ~
Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.
~By Jean de La Fontaine ~
The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a species to decline.
~By Norm Dicks ~
There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.
~By Ralph Ellison ~
A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.
~By Marshall McLuhan ~
Fundamentalist governments and organizations endanger stability in the world.
~By Moshe Katsav ~
I believe there is no doctrine more dangerous to the Church today than to convey the impression that a revival is something peculiar in itself and cannot be judged by the same rules of causes and effect as other things.
~By Billy Sunday ~
Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!
~By Patrice Leconte ~
A sea setting us upon the ice has brought us close to danger.
~By Henry Hudson ~
In truth, men speak too much of danger.
~By Jose Marti ~
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 ~
Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
~By Alexander Pope ~
Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.
~By Eric Sevareid ~
Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.
~By Georg C. Lichtenberg ~
In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.
~By Margaret J. Wheatley ~
I think it is quite dangerous for an organisation to think they can predict where they are going to need leadership. It needs to be something that people are willing to assume if it feels relevant, given the context of any situation.
~By Margaret J. Wheatley ~
Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.
~By Thomas Fuller ~
If it's not some daring, dangerous affair, it's just not interesting, or so it seems. So, here you have two people - a famous American iconic couple - who actually like each other sexually, in marriage. Imagine.
~By Shelley Long ~
You've just got to have a sense of respect for the person you have children with. Anger doesn't help anybody. Ultimately you have to say forgiveness is important, and honoring what you had together is important. But it's easy to say and harder to do.
~By Nicole Kidman ~
My family was loving... they were very supportive and very affectionate, and basically I could do what I wanted, and basically it wasn't anything dangerous, thank God.
~By Bob Balaban ~
The danger of what's happening right now in terms of using reconciliation is, the purpose of the Senate is going to be defeated. And that is to bring consensus to big issues in this country so that we have a reasoned and thoughtful approach and that the American public buys into it.
~By Tom Coburn ~
The domination of western values, beliefs and way of life has angered many from the east and in developing countries.
~By Silvia Cartwright ~
By the winter of 1945-1946, the Russian peoples were being warned of the dangers from the West.
~By Carroll Quigley ~
The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.
~By David Lloyd George ~
This war is like an actress who is getting old. It is less and less photogenic and more and more dangerous.
~By Robert Capa ~
Know when to speak - for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings.
~By Robert Herrick ~
Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
~By George William Curtis ~
I was happy in the midst of dangers and inconveniences.
~By Daniel Boone ~
You can't pretend that everybody likes Versace. It would be boring. It's better to create a reaction than to create no reaction. That's dangerous.
~By Donatella Versace ~
The first actor I ever saw was The Lone Ranger. I thought, That's what I want to do.
~By Michael Caine ~
In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
A closet full of wire hangers can be the most dangerous place in the world.
~By Paul Lynde ~
To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
~By George Santayana ~
Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.
~By Niccolo Machiavelli ~
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 ~
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
The act of voting by ordinary Iraqis in the face of extreme danger confirms President Bush's belief that people around the globe, when given a chance, will choose liberty and democracy over enslavement and tyranny.
~By John Ensign ~
I'm on the air five hours, and I blurt out anything in my head. Dangerous? Maybe.
~By Howard Stern ~
If you're a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that's dangerously close to arrogance.
~By Trevor Nunn ~
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