Quotes on Danger

If I'm in danger then it's usually my fault and it's up to me to get myself out of it. I am not in it just to get an adrenalin rush. No way!

Author: Kate Adie

It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.

Author: Kate Adie

Crying wolf is a real danger.

Author: David Attenborough

Terrorism is a big danger to Pakistan's independence. We will fight this danger for the sake of independence of Pakistan and will defeat it at all levels.

Author: Shaukat Aziz

The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers.

Author: Jacques Barzun

Yes, it will go through the disciplines that all puppies go through including house training and puppy walking, then at twelve month old it the training becomes a lot more rigorous which has to be done carefully otherwise you are in danger of stressing the dog.

Author: David Blunkett

I remember when we were doing the first Dragon's Lair, I got really involved with coming up with all the little rooms and what was the danger in the room and going into it with bats and spiders and snakes.

Author: Don Bluth

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

Author: Edmund Burke

The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger.

Author: George Bush

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Author: Winston Churchill

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Author: Charles Colton

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

Author: Confucius

Safety's just danger, out of place.

Author: Harry Connick, Jr.

When we conquer without danger our triumph is without glory.

Author: Pierre Corneille

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Author: Pierre Corneille

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Author: Pierre Corneille

The European model is in danger if we obliterate the principle of personal responsibility.

Author: Jacques Delors

In liberating Iraq, we have rid the nation and the rest of the world from the danger of Saddam Hussein.

Author: Elizabeth Dole

We don't mind that we still have troops in Germany, or that we still have troops in Japan or Korea. But they are not in danger, and we know that they are in danger in Iraq.

Author: Thelma Drake

Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.

Author: Euripides

I am a danger to myself if I get angry.

Author: Oriana Fallaci

There is a danger of changing too much in the search for perfection.

Author: Agnetha Faltskog

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.

Author: Sally Field

There is the danger of over preparation, of loss of spontaneity; over rehearsal is the most terrible thing you can imagine. We do have a very close association between costume and set designer, though. And the cameraman is very important, of course.

Author: Terence Fisher

The uncertainty of the danger belongs to the essence of terrorism.

Author: Jurgen Habermas

The state is in danger of falling into disrepute due to the evidence of its inadequate resources.

Author: Jurgen Habermas

Now we are in a situation in which for a significant part of the industrial world too much could become a danger, especially too much of the things which are really not good for us in such large quantities.

Author: Marvin Harris

The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.

Author: Arthur Helps

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Author: Heraclitus

The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.

Author: Frank Herbert

A sea setting us upon the ice has brought us close to danger.

Author: Henry Hudson

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.

Author: Jacky Ickx

Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.

Author: Samuel Johnson

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.

Author: Carl Jung

Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture.

Author: Leon Kass

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

Author: Helen Keller

WikiLeaks presents a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States.

Author: Peter King

Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger.

Author: Christopher Lasch

But it is well to remember that we are dealing with nations every one of which has a direct individual interest to serve, and there is grave danger in an unshared idealism.

Author: Henry Lodge

A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.

Author: Vince Lombardi

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

Author: Niccolo Machiavelli

In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.

Author: James Madison

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.

Author: Og Mandino

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.

Author: Barry Mann

Through danger safety comes - through trouble rest.

Author: John Marston

There are times when I flick through magazines and think I'm in danger of becoming a prisoner of my own hair.

Author: Brian May

Everybody is just a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way.

Author: John Mayer

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

Author: Michelangelo

The channel is known only to the natives; so that if any stranger should enter into the bay without one of their pilots he would run great danger of shipwreck.

Author: Thomas More

Religious freedom is too sacred a right to be restricted or prohibited in any degree without convincing proof that a legitimate interest of the state is in grave danger.

Author: Frank Murphy

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

Author: Jawaharlal Nehru

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.

Author: Kwame Nkrumah

There is not much danger of the smaller nations if the big nations will behave.

Author: George Norris

When in doubt or danger, run in circles, scream and shout.

Author: Laurence Peter

We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment.

Author: Ludwig Quidde

A world is in danger, this planet is in great danger!

Author: Sun Ra

And so the danger for the housing industry is if we see interest rates rise.

Author: Franklin Raines

The best way to avoid danger is to meet it plump.

Author: Boyle Roche

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.

Author: Karl Rove

The German Air Force was not sufficient to protect the sea crossing on its own. While the leading part of the forces might have landed, there was the danger that they might be cut off from supplies and reinforcements.

Author: Gerd Rundstedt

When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.

Author: Mark Rutherford

A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting.

Author: George Savile

McGovern is so far left that he is in danger of falling off the earth.

Author: John Schmitz

I've always believed the greater danger is not aiming too high, but too low, settling for a bogey rather than shooting for an eagle.

Author: Peter Scott

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Author: Lucius Seneca

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Author: George Shaw

Many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!

Author: Logan Smith

To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can.

Author: Sydney Smith

I believe the world is increasingly in danger of becoming split into groups which cannot communicate with each other, which no longer think of each other as members of the same species.

Author: Carrie Snow

I wrote the original Mike Hammer as a comic, Mike Danger.

Author: Mickey Spillane

Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria.

Author: Richard Stallman

When the King is checked, or any valuable Piece in danger from the attack of an enemy, you are said to interpose a man when you play it between the attacked and attacking Piece.

Author: Howard Staunton

If you wait until those weapons pose a direct, clear, present danger to the United States, you've probably waited too long.

Author: John Sununu

In real danger sometimes even a democracy can really keep a secret.

Author: Stuart Symington

One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

Author: Publilius Syrus

The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent.

Author: John Tillotson

The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.

Author: Linus Torvalds

By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.

Author: Peter Ustinov

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.

Author: Lech Walesa

There is less danger in fearing too much than too little.

Author: Francis Walsingham

The commission members themselves were never briefed on Able Danger.

Author: Curt Weldon

Able Danger was a top-secret military planning operation, established in '99 by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to identify cells of al-Qaida worldwide and to take out al Qaida terrorists. They identified five cells worldwide, one of them in Brooklyn.

Author: Curt Weldon

Now we have a whole separate supplier of data for Able Danger who's verifying that same information.

Author: Curt Weldon

To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.

Author: Richard Whately

Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.

Author: Thornton Wilder

I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for.

Author: Thornton Wilder

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.

Author: Xun Zi

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.

Author: Ernst Zundel