Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.
~By Jean Baudrillard ~
I mean, I really don't want the federal government to be determining whether or not a person who feels certain ways about the environment or about animals or about certain religious issues should be considered an extremist. That to me is a type of thought control, mind control, which is very dangerous.
~By Peter King ~
Don't play for safety - it's the most dangerous thing in the world.
~By Hugh Walpole ~
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 ~
In order to effectively protect our loved ones, we must provide the American public with unfettered access to know who these dangerous criminals are and where they are living.
~By Paul Gillmor ~
Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.
~By William Shakespeare ~
Life is precious and there's not a lot of room for anger.
~By Fran Drescher ~
Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.
~By Dorothy L. Sayers ~
The real threat to whales is whaling, which has endangered many whale species.
~By Dave Barry ~
I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to me career-wise.
~By Mickey Rourke ~
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
~By Robert Green Ingersoll ~
There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
~By Lily Tomlin ~
We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.
~By Marcel Proust ~
It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading.
~By Mike Tyson ~
It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That's why we're here, after all, to help others.
~By Carol Burnett ~
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
The consequence of a world full of nuclear powers to me is so incomprehensible in terms of the dangers that that implies.
~By Lawrence Eagleburger ~
Insurgents throughout Iraq continue to threaten our efforts and pose a danger to stability in the region. They fight not for their country, but rather against ours.
~By Paul Gillmor ~
Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.
~By Leo Rosten ~
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 ~
Anger is seldom without argument but seldom with a good one.
~By Lord Halifax ~
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 ~
I have been in danger of being drowned twice.
~By John Aubrey ~
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
~By Og Mandino ~
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
~By Zora Neale Hurston ~
A threatened nation can react to uncertain dangers solely through administrative channels, to the truly embarrassing situation of perhaps overreacting.
~By Jurgen Habermas ~
Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks.
~By Norman Granz ~
We know the threats - from global terrorist networks to the spread of deadly weapons. Yet we also know that embedded in this time of danger is the promise of a new day, if we have the courage and commitment to work together.
~By Valerie Jarrett ~
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
At Leeds the idea of an international labour organization appeared in a trade-union text which also drew attention to the danger to the working classes inherent in the existence of international capitalist competition.
~By Leon Jouhaux ~
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.
~By Helen Keller ~
If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other.
~By Jose Bergamin ~
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.
~By Nancy Astor ~
One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.
~By Lewis Mumford ~
I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous.
~By Bill Veeck ~
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 ~
If your mind is at work, we're in danger of reproducing another cliche. If we can keep our minds out of it and our thoughts out of it, maybe we'll come up with something original.
~By Peter Falk ~
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.
~By Hannah Arendt ~
It is extremely dangerous to talk about limits or borders. It is vital, instead, that we remain completely open, that we are always involved, and that we aim to contribute personally in social events.
~By Dario Fo ~
Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old.
~By Rowan Williams ~
Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
~By Agnes Repplier ~
The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long. It separates us from reality like a fog.
~By Alexis Carrel ~
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 ~
The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.
~By Thucydides ~
Us investigators who went out into the field were faced on occasion with a lot of anger, by people saying why has it taken you five or six year to come and see me?
~By Tony Greig ~
I do like to write nasty songs. It's a useful weapon to have, and it's cathartic as well, because I create art out of anger, something positive out of something negative.
~By Lisa Marie Presley ~
It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months.
~By David Rockefeller ~
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
~By George Eliot ~
In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
I'm amazed at how adventurous and how dangerous the music was, and still is. I haven't heard anything like it since. I'm quite surprised, because a lot of the music on there we never heard at the time.
~By Michael Giles ~
Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
~By David Hume ~
Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!
~By Patrice Leconte ~
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 ~
"Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
~By E. T. Bell ~
All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.
~By Wilson Mizner ~
Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
It is very a dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.
~By Phyllis Bottome ~
It is all right for the lion and the lamb to lie down together if they are both asleep, but if one of them begins to get active, it is dangerous.
~By Crystal Eastman ~
HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug: Heaven knows they need it.
~By Princess Diana ~
There is no question that al-Qaida operatives are currently active in Iraq. A premature exit before the threat they represent has been dealt with would endanger America and the prospects of eventual peace in the Middle East.
~By Robert Foster Bennett ~
A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.
~By Louis Auchincloss ~
I never sing in the shower. It's very dangerous.
~By Jimmy Fallon ~
From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.
~By Carl Schurz ~
If I am outspoken of the dangers of intemperance to members of our armed forces, it is because we are all especially concerned for the welfare of those who are risking their lives in the cause of freedom.
~By William Lyon Mackenzie King ~
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 ~
Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice.
~By Francis Quarles ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
If a little knowledge was a dangerous thing, a lot was lethal.
~By Tom Sharpe ~
I made many studio albums and I think the danger of studio recording is that if you do not watch out, you come out with a perfectly sterile performance.
~By Chuck Mangione ~
Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming.
~By Vaclav Klaus ~
I wrote the original Mike Hammer as a comic, Mike Danger.
~By Mickey Spillane ~
In fact, the U.S. military has bent over backwards to respect the religious beliefs of some very dangerous fanatics who want to kill us.
~By Linda Chavez ~
The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
~By Bodhidharma ~
I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive.
~By Rita Dove ~
New developments in weapon systems during the 1950s and early 1960s created a situation that was most dangerous, and even conducive to accidental war.
~By Herman Kahn ~
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
~By Warren G. Bennis ~
The commission members themselves were never briefed on Able Danger.
~By Curt Weldon ~
In real danger sometimes even a democracy can really keep a secret.
~By Stuart Symington ~
For this reason, strangers are not really conceived as individuals, but as strangers of a particular type: the element of distance is no less general in regard to them than the element of nearness.
~By Georg Simmel ~
Extremes are dangerous.
~By Jonathan Mayhew ~
The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
~By Thomas Paine ~
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 ~
The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel.
~By Charles Churchill ~
A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.
~By Alfred Adler ~
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 ~
Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in gay, fine colours, that are but skin-deep.
~By Matthew Henry ~
We spent a month in LA using a pool of musicians, a string arranger called Benjamin Wright, some great backing singers, and it gave tracks like Dynamite, which was written there, that kind of flavour.
~By Jay Kay ~
At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
~By Soren Kierkegaard ~
When you meet a stranger, look at his shoes. Keep your money in your shoes.
~By Michael Stipe ~
Our people, though capable of strong and durable feeling, were not demonstrative in their affection at any time, least of all in the presence of guests or strangers.
~By Charles Eastman ~
Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.
~By John Dryden ~
Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.
~By Beverly Sills ~
Kitsch is more dangerous than it looks when taken to the extreme.
~By John Cusack ~
Heinlein never had a best-seller. Even, I think, with Stranger in a Strange Land, I don't think it was actually on the New York Times best seller list.
~By Jerry Pournelle ~
So I'm not worried about the emotions I carry with me, because I'm happy that I have them; I think it's good for the work I do. The emotions that are not healthy are the ones you hold inside, like anger.
~By Diana Ross ~
Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.
~By Karel Capek ~
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