Dangerous Things Quotes - Page 6

• [I]f you think that American imperialism and its globalised, capitalist form is the most dangerous thing in the world, that means you don't think the Islamic Republic of Iran or North Korea or the Taliban is as bad.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Islamic, Mean, Thinking

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• It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions.

  Dennis Potter

  Emotion, Dangerous, Instant

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• For we can only know that we know nothing, and a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

  Zhuangzi

  Knowledge, Littles, Dangerous

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• It is a very dangerous thing to know one’s friends.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Friendship, Humor

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.188, Courier Corporation

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• The most dangerous thing about power is to employ it where it is not applicable.

  David Halberstam

  Dangerous

  David Halberstam (2002). “The Best and the Brightest”, p.122, Modern Library

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• Sometimes if somebody you feel you need... the whole universe tells you that you have to have her, you start watching her favorite TV shows all night, you start buying her the things she needs, you start drinking her drinks, you start smoking her bad cigarettes, you start picking up her nuances in her voice, you sleep in safe sometimes the most dangerous thing... this is called Mojo Pin.

  Jeff Buckley

  Drinking, Sleep, Night

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• It is a dangerous thing for the perfecting of our minds to gain applause by works that do not call forth the whole of our energies; for in that case one generally comes to a standstill.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Mind, Gains, Energy

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• Sometimes when we're in love, we take the facts and spin them into pretty stories. But it's a dangerous thing to do--because one day, like it or not, you're going to see the world as it really is. You find out people aren't always who you want them to be. And if you're not ready for the truth...well, let's just say it can come as a bit of a shock.

  Kirsten Miller

  Love, People, One Day

  Kirsten Miller (2010). “The Eternal Ones”, p.44, Penguin

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• Ambition is a very dangerous thing because either you achieve it and your life ends prematurely, or you don't, in which case your life is a constant source of disappointment. You must never have ambition.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Disappointment, Ambition, Life Is

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• And the dangerous thing about excuses is that if we recite them enough times, we actually come to believe they are true.

  Robin S

  Believe, Enough Time, Excuse

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• Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing

  Charles Bukowski

  Style, Answers, Dull

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• As I walked down the street while talking on the phone, sophisticated New Yorkers gaped at the sight of someone actually moving around while making a phone call. Remember that in 1973, there weren't cordless telephones, let alone cellular phones. I made numerous calls, including one where I crossed the street while talking to a New York radio reporter - probably one of the more dangerous things I have ever done in my life.

  Martin Cooper

  New York, Moving, Phones

  "The day the mobile phone went public 38 years ago, leaving New Yorkers bemused and bewildered" by Graham Smith, www.dailymail.co.uk. April 5, 2011.

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• The biggest edge I live on is directing. That's the most scary, dangerous thing you can do in your life.

  Tony Scott

  Scary, Dangerous, Can Do

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Judi Bari did something that I believe is unparalleled in the history of the environmental movement. She is an Earth First! activist who took it upon herself to organize Georgia Pacific sawmill workers into the IWW…Well guess what friends, environmentalists and rank and file timber workers becoming allies is the most dangerous thing in the world to the timber industry!

  Darryl Cherney

  Believe, Environmental, Allies

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• Environmentalists and rank and file timber workers becoming allies is the most dangerous thing in the world to the timber industry!

  Darryl Cherney

  Allies, World, Becoming

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• Love is a dangerous thing, it can be great and it can be awful. It might make or break your life. It could even change you as a person.

  Shannon Leto

  Love Is, Make Or Break, Might

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• Music is dangerous in so many ways. It's the most dangerous thing in the world.

  Don DeLillo

  World, Way, Dangerous

  Don DeLillo (2011). “Great Jones Street”, p.42, Pan Macmillan

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• I’m really only responsible to make sure that one person is clapping at the end of my life. Because I feel like as a performer, a lot of times you live for everyone else’s applause. That’s a dangerous thing within the church or outside the church.

  Jon Foreman

  Church, That One Person, Responsible

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• Success is a very dangerous thing and I think we have to be very careful about when we dictate what success is for somebody else. Because you don't know what it's like.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Thinking, Dangerous, Careful

  "Lupe Fiasco Talks "Lasers" Delay, Japanese Cartoon, and "Food & Liquor II"". Interview with Insanul "Incilin" Ahmed, www.complex.com. September 11, 2010.

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• We must recognize that this massive economic bloc that's emerging in North America cannot be accomplished unilaterally. It must be accomplished in partnership with Mexico and Canada. And we have to work together to secure the continent in order to keep dangerous people and dangerous things out and strengthen perimeter security on a continental basis.

  Alan Bersin

  Order, America, People

  Source: www.salon.com

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• I've come to learn as an adult that love is a hell of a drug. It's one of the most dangerous things that human beings can have. It's also one of the most beautiful things that human beings can possess because love, on one hand, gives you the ability to care for a human being sometimes more than you would care for yourself. Love, unfortunately, sometimes gives you the ability to forgive somebody and blind yourself to the truth.

  Trevor Noah

  Beautiful, Love Is, Hands

  "Trevor Noah Says He Grew Up 'In The Shadow Of A Giant' (His Mom)". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 22, 2016.

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• This is why mustard gas is such a danger or any weapon of mass destruction is such a dangerous thing because it - it's victims become everyone in the end.

  George Packer

  Mass Destruction, Weapons, Victim

  Source: www.npr.org

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• [Donald Trump] said some very ill-considered, dangerous thing, and it's around the world in a nanosecond.

  Hillary Clinton

  World, Trump, Said

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.

  Teresa of Avila

  Dangerous, Satisfied

  Saint Teresa of Avila (1976). “The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila: Volume 1”, p.279, ICS Publications

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• Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.

  Agnes Repplier

  Hurt, Risk, Tools

  Agnes Repplier (1893). “Essays in Idleness”, Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin

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