Danger Quotes
Sad Quotes about Danger

When written in Chinese, the word "crisis"
is composed of two characters.
One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy

Anger spells dANGER.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The fact is, that to do anything in the 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.
- Robert Cushing

The wise man in the storm prays God,
not for safety from danger,
but for deliverance from fear.
It is the storm within which endangers him,
not the storm without.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage is not always about action,
and it doesn't always involve danger,
but courage is always doing what is right.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Avoiding danger is no safer
in the long run than outright exposure.
he fearful are caught as often as the bold.
- Helen Keller

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
- Alfred Adler

In this world there is always danger
for those who are afraid of it.
- George Bernard Shaw

During the first period of a man's life
the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
- Soren Kierkegaard

There is danger that we lose sight of
what our friend is absolutely,
while considering what she is to us alone.
- Henry David Thoreau

As soon as there is life there is danger.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I hear music, I fear no danger.
I am invulnerable. I see no foe.
I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
- Henry David Thoreau

Naturally, the common people don't want war ...
but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy,
and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along,
whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship,
or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship.
Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought
to the bidding of the leaders.
That is easy. All you have to do is tell them
they are being attacked,
and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism
and exposing the country to danger.
It works the same in every country.
- Hermann Goering

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.
- Helen Keller

The man who promises everything, is sure to fulfill 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.
- Carl Jung

While the laughter of joy is in
full harmony with our deeper life,
the laughter of amusement
should be kept apart from it.
The danger is too great of thus learning
to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery,
and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.
- Lewis Carroll

Any man today who returns from work,
sinks into a chair,
and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger.
- Bill Cosby

Anger and Danger are intimately intertwined.
An angry person is a dangerous person,
whether that person crosses our path
or whether the angry person is ourself.
To complete the anger/danger cycle,
whenever we feel threatened -
when we believe we are in danger -
we tend to exhibit anger as well as fear.
We look for someone to blame for the dangerous situation,
and direct our anger toward them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is better to lead from behind
and to put others in front,
especially when you celebrate victory
when nice things occur.
You take the front line when there is danger.
Then people will appreciate your leadership.
- Nelson Mandela

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

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

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men,
but that men will begin to think like computers.
- Sydney J. Harris

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern:
every class is unfit to govern.
- Lord Acton

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day,
he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer.
But if he spends his days as a speculator,
shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time,
he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
- Henry David Thoreau

Security is not the absence of danger,
but the presence of God,
no matter what the danger.
- Anonymous

The danger of the past was that men became slaves.
The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
- Erich Fromm

Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great
design is often to ruin it.
- Miguel de Cervantes

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.
- Heraclitus

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

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

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.
- Simone Weil

I mean, in general, the danger is from Oriental faiths and Islam.
- Vladimir Zhirinovsky

War is the province of danger.
- Karl Von Clausewitz

The best way to avoid danger is to meet it plump.
- Boyle Roche

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.
- Thucydides

As an unmarried woman, I was thought to be a danger.
- Grace Kelly

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.
- Henry Cabot Lodge

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity;
whenever there is opportunity,
there lurks danger.
The two are inseparable.
They go together.
- Earl Nightingale

The Internet's kinda in danger of getting heart disease pretty soon,
I think.
Arteries are getting clogged.
- Sean Booth

I am a danger to myself if I get angry.
- Oriana Fallaci

The commission members themselves were never briefed on Able Danger.
- Curt Weldon

My mother would put me on a wooden box at the stove
and tell me to call her if certain things would happen.
Like if the steam turns blue, that is danger!
- Paul Prudhomme

We must make every effort to neutralize this threat peacefully,
but be ever mindful of the growing danger Iran poses
not just to a safe and free America,
but to our allies abroad.
- Dave Reichert

But if you're going to go out on a military unit,
you've got to allow yourself to be under the control
of the commander because you really could put the troops in danger.
- Bob Schieffer

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.
- Pierre Corneille

When we conquer without danger our triumph is without glory.
- Pierre Corneille

The danger sensation is exciting.
The challenge is to find new dangers.
- Ayrton Senna

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger,
but in seeing it, and conquering it.
- Jean Paul

Through danger safety comes - through trouble rest.
- John Marston

McGovern is so far left that he is in danger of falling off the earth.
- John G. Schmitz

It's human nature to start taking things for granted
again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.
- David Hackworth

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.
- Saskya Pandita

My life would be in danger if I return to Mexico.
- Gloria Trevi

It wouldn't sit easily on one's conscience that you
had been warned and there could be danger,
but nevertheless you went ahead and said let's dispense these drugs.
- Thabo Mbeki

I did not imagine that the second half of my life would
be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to humanity created by science.
- Joseph Rotblat

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.
- Thomas More

Privacy was in sufficient danger before TV appeared,
and TV has given it its death blow.
- Louis Kronenberger

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

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger
of taking educated people seriously.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

The Past: Our cradle, not our prison;
there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour.
The past is for inspiration, not imitation,
for continuation, not repetition.
- Israel Zangwill

Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger.
- Christopher Lasch

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!
- Winston Churchill

Iran has long sponsored terrorists who carry out homicide
bombings in Israeli cities.
However, it is a mistake to believe the danger Iran
poses is directed at Israel alone.
- John Doolittle

We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor.
Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.
- Ronald Reagan

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.
- Thelma Drake

But the watchful care of the parent is endless.
The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference.
- William Godwin

There is less danger in fearing too much than too little.
- Francis Walsingham

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

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.
- James A. Baldwin