Dangerous Things Quotes - Page 9

• I am afraid that you have been listening to the conversation of someone older than yourself. That is always a dangerous thing to do, and if you allow it to degenerate into a habit, you will find it absolutely fatal to any intellectual development.

  Oscar Wilde

  Intellectual, Listening, Degenerates

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (2008). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.248, Oxford University Press

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• It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

  Oscar Wilde

  Change, Reform, Dangerous

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.14, Oscar Wilde

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• Listening is the most dangerous thing of all, listening means knowing, finding out about something and knowing what’s going on, our ears don’t have lids that can instinctively close against the words uttered, they can’t hide from what they sense they’re about to hear, it’s always too late.

  Javier Marías

  Mean, Knowing, Listening

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• A 'why' is a dangerous thing... It challenges old, comfortable ways, forces people to think about that they do instead of just mindlessly doing it. (Haplo) ... I think the danger is not so much in asking the 'why' as in believing you have come up with the only answer. (Alfred)

  Margaret Weis

  Believe, Thinking, People

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• Advertising is like learning - a little is a dangerous thing.

  P. T. Barnum

  Humorous, Littles, Advertising

  P. T. Barnum (2015). “The Art of Money Getting, or Golden Rules for Making Money”, p.45, Booklassic

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• Talent Katerina is a dangerous thing

  Ally Carter

  Talent, Dangerous

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• Granny sighed. "You have learned something," she said, and thought it safe to insert a touch of sternness into her voice. "They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

  Terry Pratchett

  Ignorance, Voice, Half

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Equal Rites: (Discworld Novel 3)”, p.80, Random House

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• He pulled her back, off balance so that she fell against him, and he took her face in his two hands and held it very still while his eyes looked down into hers. Somber, truthful, painfully honest. "I love you, Chloe," he said. "Which is the most dangerous thing I could do.

  Anne Stuart

  Love You, Eye, Hands

  Anne Stuart (2005). “Black Ice”, Mira Books

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• Maybe hope isn't the most dangerous thing a person can have. Maybe love is.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Love Is, Dangerous, Maybe Love

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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• You were her way here, and it's a dangerous thing to be a door.

  Neil Gaiman

  Doors, Way, Dangerous

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• You have a way of looking at things. You make it seem as though everything's going to be okay. I can't imagine a more dangerous thing to have than hope like yours.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Way, Imagine, Dangerous

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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• Hope is a dangerous thing, Raisa thought. Once kindled, it's hard to put out. It makes wise people into fools.

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Wise, People, Fool

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• I tell myself, as sternly as possible, that is how things work here. We do dangerous things and people die. People die, and we move on to the next dangerous thing. The sooner that lesson sinks in, the better chance I have at surviving initiation.

  Veronica Roth

  Moving, People, Lessons

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Divergent Series (Books 1-3) Plus Free Four, The Transfer and World of Divergent”, p.43, HarperCollins UK

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• Distance was a dangerous thing, she knew. Distance changed people.

  Rohinton Mistry

  Distance, People, Dangerous

  Rohinton Mistry (2010). “A Fine Balance”, p.316, Vintage

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• Fantasy is not antirational, but pararational; not realistic but surrealistic, a heightening of reality. In Freud's terminology, it employs primary not secondary process thinking. It employs archetypes which, as Jung warned us, are dangerous things. Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Thinking, Reality, Insanity

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• A little learning is a dangerous thing.

  Alexander Pope

  Education, Learning, Knowledge

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

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• Don't play for safety - it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

  Hugh Walpole

  Inspirational, Courage, Work

  Hugh Walpole (2007). “Fortitude”, p.350, 1st World Publishing

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• One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Animal, Welfare

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• But just as a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing, a little bit of energy, in the hands of someone hell-bent on suicide, is a very dangerous thing.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Suicide, Suicidal, Hands

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• The expression "following suit" is a curious one, because it has nothing to do with walking behind a matching set of clothing. If you follow suit, it means you do the same thing somebody else has just done. If all of your friends decided to jump off a bridge into the icy waters of an ocean or river, for instance, and you jumped in right after them, you would be following suit. You can see why following suit can be a dangerous thing to do, because you could end up drowning simply because somebody else thought of it first.

  Daniel Handler

  Ocean, Mean, Expression

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• Unhappiness is a dangerous thing, like carbon monoxide. You don't smell it, you don't taste it, it's formless and colourless, but it poisons slowly. It seeps into every pore of your skin until one day your heart just stops beating.

  Bella Pollen

  Heart, Smell, Unhappy

  Bella Pollen (2011). “Midnight Cactus”, p.17, Pan Macmillan

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• It is a dangerous thing to ask why someone else has been given more. It is humbling - and indeed healthy - to ask why you have been given so much.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Educational, Healthy, Given

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Dreaming carries no risks. The dangerous thing is trying to transform your dreams into reality.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Reality, Risk

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• A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.

  Alexander Pope

  Education, Money, Drinking

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• The most dangerous thing is illusion.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Illusion, Danger, Dangerous

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