Danger Quotes - Page 23

• In extreme danger fear feels no pity.
  [Lat., In summo periculo timor miericordiam non recipit.]

  Julius Caesar

  Fear, Pity, Feels

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• Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Lightning, Contradicting, Strikes

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2014). “The Window at the White Cat”, p.225, The Floating Press

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• artists are exposed to great temptations: their eyes see paradise before their souls have reached it, and that is a great danger.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Eye, Artist, Temptation

  Phyllis Bottome (1934). “Innocence and experience: stories”

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• Fashionable dances as now carried on are revolting to every feeling of delicacy and propriety and are fraught with the greatest danger to millions.

  Horace Bushnell

  Dancing, Feelings, Delicacy

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• There are dangers in sentimentalizing nature. Most sentimental ideas imply, at bottom, a deep if unacknowledged disrespect. It is no accident that we Americans, probably the world's champion sentimentalizers about nature, are at one and the same time probably the world's most voracious and disrespectful destroyers of wild and rural countryside.

  Jane Jacobs

  Nature, Ideas, Champion

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.445, Vintage

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• Enthusiasm is a virtue rarely to be met with in seasons of calm and unruffled prosperity. Enthusiasm flourishes in adversity, kindles in the hour of danger, and awakens to deeds of renown. The terrors of persecution only serve to quicken the energy of its purposes. It swells in proud integrity, and, great in the purity of its cause, it can scatter defiance amidst hosts of enemies.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Integrity, Adversity, Enemy

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• When a man mentally undresses a woman it's merely sex; but when a woman mentally dresses a man he's in dire danger of matrimony.

  Helen Nielsen

  Sex, Men, Dating

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• So long as we continued to attach more importance to our own narrow group membership than to the 'global village' we would propagate prejudice and ignorance. There was absolutely no harm in being part of a small group - indeed, with our hunter-gatherer band mentality it gave comfort, provided us with an inner circle of friends who could be utterly trusted, who were absolutely reliable. It helped give us peace of mind. The danger came only from drawing that sharp line, digging that ditch, laying that minefield, between our own group and any other group that thought differently.

  Jane Goodall

  Ignorance, Circles, Drawing

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• A man may be buoyed up by the efflation of his wild desires to brave any imaginable peril; but he cannot calmly see one he loves braving the same peril; simply because he cannot feel within turn that which prompts another. He sees the danger, and feels not the power that is to overcome it.

  George Henry Lewes

  Sympathy, Men, Brave

  "The Spanish Drama". Book by George Henry Lewes. Chapter 2, 1846.

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• I cannot love people in the country, I discover, because there is always this danger that they may be acquaintances, with all the perils and choleras of acquaintance implicit in them; but in London they seem as charming as rabbits.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Country, People, May

  Sylvia Townsend Warner, William Maxwell (1982). “Letters”

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• We need to be as well prepared to defend ourselves against public health dangers as we should be to defend ourselves against any foreign danger.

  Hillary Clinton

  Needs, Should, Public Health

  "Hillary Clinton voices support for electronic disease surveillance" by Frank Buckley, www.cnn.com. October 14, 1999.

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• All normal human beings are interested in their past. Only when the interest becomes an obsession, overshadowing present and future conduct, is it a danger. In much the same way healthy nations are interested in their history, but a morbid preoccupation with past glories is a sign that something is wrong with the constitution of the State.

  C. V. Wedgwood

  Past, History, Healthy

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• A woman is seldom roused to great and courageous exertion but when something most dear to her is in immediate danger.

  Joanna Baillie

  Women, Courageous, Dear

  Joanna Baillie (1853). “The dramatic and poetical works of Joanna Baillie”, p.709

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• there is a danger, when thinking of the earliest civilized people, of putting too much emphasis on technology. One tends to assume that if you don't have, at least, a lavatory and perhaps something that will take you a lot faster than your own feet, or a certain number of gadgets in the house, then you must be in some way, a bit backward and defective ... the important thing to remember is that technology is not necessarily the same thing as civilization.

  Jacquetta Hawkes

  Technology, Thinking, Civilization

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• Mystical state, madness, how it frightens people. How utterly crazy they become, remote, rude, peculiar, cruel, taunting, farouche as wild beasts who have smelled danger, the unthinkable.

  Kate Millett

  Crazy, People, Rude

  Kate Millett (1990). “The Loony-bin Trip”, p.67, University of Illinois Press

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• It stands to reason that if we direct all our efforts towards reaching a goal, we stand in grave danger of losing everything on which we have based our daily activities. For when a goal is superimposed on an activity instead of evolving out of it, we often feel cheated when we reach it.

  Viola Spolin

  Losing Everything, Daily Activities, Goal

  Viola Spolin (1999). “Improvisation for the Theater: A Handbook of Teaching and Directing Techniques”, p.12, Northwestern University Press

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• A monarchy is like a man-of-war--bad shots between wind and water hurt it exceedingly; there is danger of capsizing. But democracy is a raft. You cannot easily overturn it. It is a wet place, but it is a pretty safe one.

  Joseph Cook

  Hurt, War, Men

  Joseph Cook (1880). “Labor, with Preludes on Current Events”

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• Nothing is strong that may not be endangered even by the weak.

  Quintus Curtius Rufus

  Strong, May, Weak

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• Nothing is so secure in its position as not to be in danger from the attack even of the weak.

  Quintus Curtius Rufus

  Weak, Position, Secure

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• It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be encountered, before the adverse hosts could meet. A wide, and, apparently, an impervious boundary of forests, severed the possessions of the hostile provinces of France and England. The hardy colonist, and the trained European who fought at his side, frequently expended months in struggling against the rapids of the streams, or in effecting the rugged passes of the mountains, in quest of an opportunity to exhibit their courage in a more martial conflict.

  James F. Cooper

  War, Struggle, Book

  "The Last of the Mohicans". Book by James F. Cooper, 1826.

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• Death is what takes place within us when we look upon others not as gift, blessing, or stimulus but as threat, danger, competition.

  Dorothee Solle

  Death, Fear, Blessing

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• There is a time when to avoid trouble is to store up trouble, and when to seek for a lazy and a cowardly peace is to court a still greater danger.

  William Barclay

  Lazy, Trouble, Stores

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• Anytime your banner becomes anything other than Jesus Christ you ought to be afraid of Hell. If your banner is “I'm a Calvinist”, if your banner is “I'm a homeschooler”, if your banner is this, that, or anything else, if you're rallying under any other name than Jesus Christ; you're in danger. You are in danger!

  Paul Washer

  Jesus, Names, Hell

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• There is no danger is letting people have their say. ... There is a danger when you try to stop them from saying it.

  Helen Gahagan Douglas

  People, Trying, Free Speech

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• love is always in danger of being sentimentalized.

  Georgia Harkness

  Love Is

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