Dangerous Things Quotes

• I think quotes are very dangerous things.

  Kate Bush

  Thinking, Dangerous

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• A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

  Alexander Pope

  Education, Spring, Learning

  An Essay on Criticism l. 215 (1711) See Drayton 2

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• A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Witty, Sarcasm

  'The Critic as Artist' pt. 2 in 'Intentions' (1891)

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  The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

  Albert Einstein

  Peace, Integrity, Patriotic

  "The Harper Book of Quotations Revised Edition". Book by Robert I. Fitzhenry, p. 356, 1993.

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• I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice.

  Morgan Freeman

  Struggle, Bird, Doe

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• Get busy living, or get busy dying.

  Stephen King

  Inspirational, Life, Movie

  Different Seasons "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" (1982)

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• I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright.

  Stephen King

  Bird, Prison Life, Redemption

  "The Shawshank Redemption". www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

  Helen Rowland

  Love, Relationship, Littles

  Helen Rowland (1909). “Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”

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• Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Diversity, May, Dangerous

  William Sloane Coffin (2011). “The Heart Is a Little to the Left: Essays on Public Morality”, p.83, UPNE

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• A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.

  William Allen White

  Mistake, Doe, Littles

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• Don't be too brave. Bravery is a fine thing on some occasions, but sometimes it can be quite a dangerous thing. The stiff upper lip is not always the best.

  Jeremy Brett

  Bravery, Lips, Sometimes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The most dangerous thing Iraq could have ever had was a nuclear weapon. The nuclear weapon Iraq was trying to build was not deliverable by bomb or ballistic missile. It was a large, bulky device that they hoped to bury and set off to let the world know they had a nuclear weapon. They never achieved that.

  Scott Ritter

  Iraq, Trying, Nuclear

  "Ex-weapons inspector berates war plans". Interview with David Wallis, www.sfgate.com. September 14, 2002.

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• Playing on stereotypes was meant to be humorous. If it doesn't tickle you in certain spots, it's not going to be funny. Falling down the stairs is a seriously dangerous thing, but watching it is HILARIOUS!

  Manila Luzon

  Humorous, Fall, Were Meant To Be

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Only gods can safely risk perfection ... it's a dangerous thing for a man.

  Frank Herbert

  Men, Perfection, Risk

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• Self-knowledge is a dangerous thing, tending to make man shallow or insane.

  Karl Shapiro

  Men, Self, Insane

  Karl Shapiro (1964). “the Bourgeois Poet”

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• Sometimes, in a portrait, I go straight in with paint onto canvas... Other than riding my bike up and down the hills around here, it is the most dangerous thing I do... like tightrope-walking without a safety net!

  David Cobley

  Safety, Portraits, Riding

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• Very dangerous things, theories.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Theory, Dangerous

  The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club Chapter 4

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• Hurricanes are dangerous things, and they're no fun to go through. And if you come out of it in one piece and your house comes out of in one piece, it's no fun living with no electricity for a day or a week, a month, whatever it is. And I speak, unfortunately, from personal experience on that matter.

  Bernard Goldberg

  Fun, House, Matter

  "Bernie Goldberg on New York Times Editor Insulting the Eucharist and Media Hype of Hurricane Irene". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. August 29, 2011.

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• As a society, we pick words that are offensive based on what we're most afraid of. We associate sounds with some dangerous idea, and right now the most dangerous thing to us are the differences between us.

  Richard Dooling

  Dangerous Ideas, Differences, Sound

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• The inertia of a jungle village is a dangerous thing. Before you know it your whole life has slipped by and you are still waiting there.

  Tahir Shah

  Waiting, Village, Dangerous

  Tahir Shah (2013). “House of the Tiger King Paperback”, p.88, Lulu.com

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• Obviously, the anti-ERA people are tickled about my ordeal because it proves that the ERA breaks up families. When they point out that feminism is a dangerous thing, I just say marriage is pretty precarious too.

  Sonia Johnson

  People, Feminism, Eras

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• There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Life, Dangerous

  Jawaharlal Nehru (195?). “Important speeches: being a collection of most significant speeches delivered from 1922 to 1951”

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• Promises are dangerous things to ask or to give.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Giving, Promise, Dangerous

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1826). “Works of Maria Edgeworth: Tales of fashionable life. 1826.- -v. 7. Patronage. 1825”, p.270

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• The informed, unmanaged question. That's the most dangerous thing at a press conference anywhere.

  Ron Suskind

  Dangerous, Conferences, Presses

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