Danger Quotes

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

A world is in danger, this planet is in great danger!

The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery.

I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.

I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to humanity created by science.

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

When in doubt or danger, run in circles, scream and shout.

As a lifelong practitioner of martial arts, I'm trained to remain calm in the face of adversity and danger.

In 1795, I sent him another letter, telling him, that danger still stood before us, and that the truth of what I had written in 1792 was to be proved by 12 men.

I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.

I get to do the most amazing things. We call it Host in Peril quite often, because people love to see me risk my life or be in danger.

I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you're afraid to the point where you censor yourself.

But it is well to remember that we are dealing with nations every one of which has a direct individual interest to serve, and there is grave danger in an unshared idealism.

The act of voting by ordinary Iraqis in the face of extreme danger confirms President Bush's belief that people around the globe, when given a chance, will choose liberty and democracy over enslavement and tyranny.

The danger with running for president is sooner or later some sound bite is going hit.

The danger I faced was not accepted as reasonable grounds for deferring my tax payments, as authorities, who despite being told all of this, still chose to pursue action against me, as opposed to finding an alternative solution.

That is why, as soon as I felt a real attraction for my first passion which was the motorcycle, and in spite of the danger it could represent, they encouraged me.

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

I am deeply concerned that, without peace and a two-state solution, the Jewish and democratic nature of Israel is in danger. That's why I have opposed Israel's settlement policy since 1973, and that's why I have favored a two-state solution since 1967.

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.

A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.

There is the danger of over preparation, of loss of spontaneity; over rehearsal is the most terrible thing you can imagine. We do have a very close association between costume and set designer, though. And the cameraman is very important, of course.

Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria.

You would see people going back to homes that had been burned, putting thatch over their structures again. They still couldn't leave the area without the danger of men being killed or women being raped, but it was a start.

The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.

I have done everything I can to move Britain out of the financial danger zone.

I live to feel myself in danger.

Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

It makes me proud, and it makes me scared. More than anything, I want to be an actor and I want to keep working, and I think there's a danger in being perceived as a poster boy for something.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.