Know when to speak - for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings.
~By Robert Herrick ~
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 ~
The most dangerous thing about student riots is that adults take them seriously.
~By Georges Pompidou ~
It is very dangerous to have your self-worth riding on your results as an athlete.
~By Jim Courier ~
Able Danger consisted of approximately 20 direct individuals working for Special Forces in Tampa, Florida. The total amount of people working for Able Danger was 20.
~By Curt Weldon ~
The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.
~By Simone Weil ~
I want to speak, to sing to total strangers. It's my way of talking to the world.
~By Adrian Mitchell ~
Courage in danger is half the battle.
~By Titus Maccius Plautus ~
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 ~
It was known in the mid 90s already that Saddam Hussein was a dangerous tyrant that he had already launched aggressions against Iran, he had invaded Kuwait.
~By Douglas Feith ~
I use the music to vent, and a lot of the stuff that I am writing about or was writing about contained a lot of anger and anxiety, stress and depression, so that's how the album came out so dark.
~By Vanilla Ice ~
He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
~By A. J. P. Taylor ~
How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.
~By Alexander the Great ~
There's a great danger in making this seem more important than it is, this whole Free Cinema thing.
~By Karel Reisz ~
The essential meaning of perestroika for Gorbachev and his supporters was creating and acting on alternatives to failed and dangerous policies at home and abroad.
~By Stephen Cohen ~
The scenarios of biological or chemical warfare painted in detail by the American media during the months after September 11 only betray the inability of the government to determine the magnitude of the danger.
~By Jurgen Habermas ~
When people ask me what I do, strangers on a plane, perhaps, I tell them that I think. Thinking is excellent exercise, as much as swimming or jogging.
~By Tom Glazer ~
Unless the great majority of Americans not only have, but believe they have, a fair chance, the better American future will be dangerously compromised.
~By Herbert Croly ~
There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.
~By Wayne Dyer ~
I started radio in 1950 on the Lone Ranger radio program, a dramatic show that emanated from Detroit when I was 18 years old and just beginning college. I did that for a couple of years.
~By Casey Kasum ~
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.
~By Mae West ~
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 ~
Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
~By Miguel de Cervantes ~
We have to acknowledge peace is in danger and mankind still has not realised the priority to be given to world dialogue versus armed contradiction and bloodshed.
~By Nursultan Nazarbayev ~
Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.
~By Sydney Smith ~
I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell.
~By Edvard Munch ~
The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.
~By Jeanette Winterson ~
There is less danger in fearing too much than too little.
~By Francis Walsingham ~
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 ~
Here's the good news. If I realize that I'm insane, then I'm okay with it. I'm not dangerous insane.
~By Charlie Sheen ~
The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom; second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous; and third, that there is little the world's democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries.
~By Natan Sharansky ~
The more hidden the venom, the more dangerous it is.
~By Marguerite de Valois ~
Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
~By George William Curtis ~
The reason we're so dangerous is because we're totally harmless.
~By Cheech Marin ~
So I don't really focus too much on that, and I think it's dangerous if your goal in life is to get the other guy, then you're not going to be doing a really quality job yourself.
~By Katie Couric ~
There is a danger of changing too much in the search for perfection.
~By Agnetha Faltskog ~
Our country, the United States of America, may be the world's largest economy and the world's only superpower, but we stretch ourselves dangerously thin by taking on commitments like Iraq with only a motley band of allies to share the burden.
~By John Spratt ~
The European model is in danger if we obliterate the principle of personal responsibility.
~By Jacques Delors ~
A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle.
~By Ian Fleming ~
The expansion and sophistication of transnational crime represents one of the most dangerous threats we confront in the next millennium.
~By Rand Beers ~
Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.
~By Dorothy L. Sayers ~
The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.
~By Bill Vaughan ~
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 ~
Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs.
~By King James I ~
Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison.
~By Angela Carter ~
Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.
~By Milan Kundera ~
Armaments are necessary - or are maintained on the pretext of necessity - because of a real or an imagined danger of war.
~By Ludwig Quidde ~
Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.
~By Bob Feller ~
Be careful in dealing with a man who cares nothing for comfort or promotion, but is simply determined to do what he believes to be right. He is a dangerous uncomfortable enemy, because his body, which you can always conquer, gives you little purchase upon his soul.
~By Gilbert Murray ~
Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.
~By Ani DiFranco ~
I did not want to put myself on the line, as an Australian playing Britain's greatest comic actor. The fans of Sellers are obsessive, possessive - and aggressive. I did not want to risk their anger - or my own reputation.
~By Geoffrey Rush ~
A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.
~By Marshall McLuhan ~
That is why, as soon as I felt a real attraction for my first passion which was the motorcycle, and in spite of the danger it could represent, they encouraged me.
~By Jacky Ickx ~
There is not much danger of the smaller nations if the big nations will behave.
~By George William Norris ~
When distrust exists between governments, when there is a danger of war, they will not be willing to disarm even when logic indicates that disarmament would not affect military security at all.
~By Ludwig Quidde ~
If slavery, limited as it yet is, now threatens to subvert the Constitution, how can we as wise and prudent statesmen, enlarge its boundaries and increase its influence, and thus increase already impending dangers?
~By William H. Seward ~
Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.
~By Sydney J. Harris ~
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 ~
The danger sensation is exciting. The challenge is to find new dangers.
~By Ayrton Senna ~
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 ~
I think there's a danger of a being typecast as the all-American mom forever.
~By JoBeth Williams ~
Anger is implanted in us as sort of sting, to make us gnash with our teeth against the devil, to make us vehement against him, not to set us in array against each other.
~By Richard Savage ~
Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.
~By Edgar Rice Burroghs ~
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 ~
Fairest and dearest, your wrath and anger are more heavy than I can bear; but learn that I cannot tell what you wish me to say without sinning against my honour too grievously.
~By Marie de France ~
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 ~
The President of the United States thinks that for the Japanese opium is more dangerous than war.
~By Townsend Harris ~
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
~By Charles de Montesquieu ~
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 ~
Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire.
~By Marguerite Duras ~
The danger of that - and there's a grave danger that I, myself, have to be very aware of - is that you become so involved and intrigued in the language that sometimes you lose track that that is only a means to an aesthetic experience that the listener has to get.
~By Leo Ornstein ~
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 ~
Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
~By Shirley MacLaine ~
The actual danger is nothing, and the positive advantages very great.
~By William John Wills ~
You don't need a rope to pinch a stranger's butt.
~By Phil McGraw ~
We live in a dangerous world where rogue nations are developing longer range missiles. We have to make a strong effort at developing defenses against this threat.
~By Jim Saxton ~
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
~By Lord Acton ~
Democracy is an extraordinary adventure. It's difficult, full of daring and risk and danger. But it's the greatest gift we have.
~By Jon Voight ~
Everybody is just a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way.
~By John Mayer ~
Right now, my career is in three directions: as a performer, as an arranger, as an author - and I don't give any one of them true precedent, or true top marks, as opposed to the other two.
~By Mel Torme ~
People say New Yorkers can't get along. Not true. I saw two New Yorkers, complete strangers, sharing a cab. One guy took the tires and the radio; the other guy took the engine.
~By David Letterman ~
I was a schooled musician. When I made 'Blue Velvet', I told everyone what to do. I was an arranger. I learned music in school I told the band to play this. I told the guitar to do that.
~By Bobby Vinton ~
Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.
~By Duke Ellington ~
Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of "crackpot" than the stigma of conformity.
~By Thomas John Watson, Sr. ~
I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.
~By Kevin Bacon ~
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 ~
My mom has a good way of engaging me in a conversation about the choices I make, listening, being objective and open-minded, and respecting those choices so long as they don't put me in danger.
~By Casey Affleck ~
A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.
~By William Allen White ~
There are times when I flick through magazines and think I'm in danger of becoming a prisoner of my own hair.
~By Brian May ~
You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy.
~By Adrian Edmondson ~
And Hale was devoted to President Kennedy, and there was some talk following the assassination that Hale had warned the President not to go to Dallas, and the connotation was that it would be physically dangerous for him to do so.
~By Lindy Boggs ~
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 ~
Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.
~By Bill Condon ~
I know it can be dangerous, but I love racing. I worry my wife, but she knows it's important to me.
~By Patrick Dempsey ~
Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal.
~By Don Van Vliet ~
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
~By Christian Nestell Bovee ~
My character had been in the chair for seven years. He had gone through his anger, depression, drug and alcohol abuse. He had gone through everything, now he was up, he was happy, he was filled with his dream.
~By Gregory Hines ~
I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America's role as a light among nations. But there are no values that matter to me that will not be gravely endangered if we lose this war.
~By Orson Scott Card ~
In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.
~By Daniel Boone ~
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