Danger Quotes - Page 29

• The idea of safety had shrunk into particles - one snug moment, then the next. Meanwhile, the brain piped fugues of worry and staged mind-theaters full of tragedies and triumphs, because unfortunately, the fear of death does wonders to focus the mind, inspire creativity, and heightens the senses. Trusting one's hunches only seems gamble if one has time for seem; otherwise the brain goes on autopilot and trades the elite craft of analysis for the best rapid insights that float up from its danger files and ancient bag of tricks.

  Diane Ackerman

  Creativity, Ideas, Worry

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• For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing.
  The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.

  Jerry Garcia

  Thinking, Guitar, Important

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• Industrial combination is not wrong in itself. The danger lies in taking government into partnership.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Lying, Government, Partnership

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• The beginnings of all things are weak and tender. We must therefore be clear-sighted in the beginnings, for, as in their budding we discern not the danger, so in their full growth we perceive not the remedy.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Growth, Weak, Clear

  Michel de Montaigne (1964). “Selected essays of Montaigne: in the translation of John Florio”

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• The world allured me & in an unguarded moment I listened to her siren voice. From that moment I seemed to lose interest in heavenly things. Friends reasoned with me & told me of the danger I was in. I felt my danger & was alarmed, but I had rambled too far to return & ever since my heart has been growing harder.

  Emily Dickinson

  Heart, Voice, Atheism

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• You are nipping in the bud fancies which I let blossom. The shore is safer, but I love to buffet the sea - I can count the bitter wrecks here in these pleasant waters, and hear the murmuring winds, but oh, I love the danger!

  Emily Dickinson

  Wind, Sea, Water

  Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.104, Harvard University Press

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• And to think of this great country in danger of being dominated by people ignorant enough to take a few ancient Babylonian legends as the canons of modern culture. Our scientific men are paying for their failure to speak out earlier. There is no use now talking evolution to these people. Their ears are stuffed with Genesis.

  Luther Burbank

  Country, Men, Thinking

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• [Dr. Constain James] refuted so well the aberrations of Darwinism.... [A system] which is repugnant at once to history, to the tradition of all people, to exact science, to observed facts, and even to reason itself, would seem to need no refutation. But the corruption of this age, the machinations of the perverse, the danger of the simple, demand that such fancies, altogether absurd though they are, should - since they borrow the mask of science - be refuted by true science.

  Pope Pius IX

  Simple, People, Scary

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• With government deregulation and the triumph of financial liberalization, the dangers of systemic risks, the possibility of a financial tsunami, sharply increased.

  Noam Chomsky

  Government, Risk, Triumph

  "'The United States Has Essentially a One-Party System'". Interview with Gabor Steingart, www.spiegel.de. October 10, 2008.

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• I'm a very circumspect and prudent person, and I eliminate danger as far as it can be done.

  Werner Herzog

  Done, Prudent, Persons

  Interview with Mark Kermode, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2009.

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• I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Innovation, Reason, Disgusted

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.86, Stanford University Press

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• The ordinary man is as courageous and invulnerable as a hero when he does not recognize any danger, when he has no eyes to see it.Conversely, the hero's only vulnerable spot is on his back, and so exactly where he has no eyes.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Courage, Hero, Eye

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• Brave people may be persuaded to an action by representing it as being more dangerous than it really is.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Courage, People, Brave

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• We belong to an age whose culture is in danger of perishing through the means to culture.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Age, Culture

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.182, Cambridge University Press

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• We are in the greatest danger of being run over when we have just gotten out of the way of a carriage.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Running, Way, Carriages

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• We seldom break a leg as long as we are climbing wearily upwards in our lives, instead we do it when we start going easy on ourselves and choosing the comfortable paths.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Break A Leg, Climbing, Long

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• The passions are the humors of the mind, and the least excess sickens our judgment. If the disease spreads to the mouth, your reputation will be in danger.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Passion, Mind, Excess

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• Does it follow that because there are poisonous toadstools
  which resemble mushrooms, both are dangerous?

  Marianne Moore

  Mushrooms, Doe, Poison

  Marianne Moore (2016). “Observations: Poems”, p.56, Macmillan

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• It is a curious fact about British Islanders, who hate drill and have not been invaded for nearly a thousand years, that as danger comes nearer and grows they become progressively less nervous; when it is imminent the are fierce, when it is mortal they are fearless.

  Winston Churchill

  Hate, Years, Fearless

  Winston Churchill (1986). “The Gathering Storm”, p.354, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is Israel, for us at least. What no other generation had, we have. We have Israel in spite of all the dangers, the threats and the wars, we have Israel. We can go to Jerusalem. Generations and generations could not and we can.

  Elie Wiesel

  War, Israel, Generations

  Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.96, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The state exists for man, not man for the state. The same may be said of science. These are old phrases, coined by people who saw in human individuality the highest human value. I would hesitate to repeat them, were it not for the ever recurring danger that they may be forgotten, especially in these days of organization and stereotypes.

  Albert Einstein

  Time, Anger, Men

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• I must beg you to indulge me in the matter of hyphens.... You will find that I have marked out a great many in the proofs. We arein danger of Germanizing our printing by using them so much, and I have a very decided preference in the matter.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Style, Matter, Great Men

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• By a divine instinct, men's minds mistrust ensuing danger; as, by proof, we see the waters swell before a boisterous storm.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Water, Mind

  William Shakespeare (2016). “King Richard III”, p.56, Pan Macmillan

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• Just as children, step by step, must separate from their parents, we will have to separate from them. And we will probably suffer...from some degree of separation anxiety: because separation ends sweet symbiosis. Because separation reduces our power and control. Because separation makes us feel less needed, less important. And because separation exposes our children to danger.

  Judith Viorst

  Sweet, Children, Parent

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• But oh, beamish nephew, beware of the day,
  If your Snark be a Boojum! for then
  You will softly and suddenly vanish away,
  And never be met with again!

  Lewis Carroll

  Nephew, Mets, Ifs

  'The Hunting of the Snark' (1876) 'Fit the Third: The Baker's Tale'

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