Dangerous Quotes

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

First of all, whoever didn't want to be a member of this association or the other association, was branded, you know, like a dangerous individualist, you know, infected by the Western decadence, you know. So everybody joined.

Oh, there's nothing more dangerous in life at getting hurt at than love itself. People are hurt in love affairs and never recover, more than a boxing match.

I think talent is dangerous to have if you take it for granted. If you use it well and put hard work with it together, it's hard to catch that guy. And I think that's what you're seeing right now.

American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.

Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits - the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of.

Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs.

You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

I think the attempt to draw a comparison between Iran and Syria is false, misleading and dangerous.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.

Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives. In this worldwide civil war, race prejudice is our most dangerous enemy, for it is a disease at the very root of our democratic life.

It's fun to be hopelessly in love. It's dangerous, but it's fun.

It is always dangerous to generalize, but the American people, while infinitely generous, are a hard and strong race and, but for the few cemeteries I have seen, I am inclined to think they never die.

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.

In Iraq, embedding allows us to put reporters in situations that would otherwise be too dangerous for them.

I must apologise because I know all writers have memories of being on the outer because it's the children on the side of the playground who become the dangerous writers.

Property in man, always morally unjust, has become nationally dangerous.

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

It is extremely dangerous to talk about limits or borders. It is vital, instead, that we remain completely open, that we are always involved, and that we aim to contribute personally in social events.

There's no doubt that it's still a dangerous place, Afghanistan. The fortunate thing is that the United States was helping to provide security for Chairman Karzai. And it shows that the United States is committed to that regime.

If a foreign country doesn't look like a middle-class suburb of Dallas or Detroit, then obviously the natives must be dangerous as well as badly dressed.

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world.

And, you know, money is - the money edge is really dangerous to democracy. Because what you have right now - people have said to me that, look, you'll always be outspent, so how can you ever win?

Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.

If you're creating anything at all, it's really dangerous to care about what people think.

In addition, each barrel of oil we save through conservation further decreases our dangerous reliance on unstable Middle East oil.

Obama's personality traits, coupled with his extreme-leftist agenda, make him particularly dangerous to the American ideal and to the preservation of our founding principles, as well as to the liberty and prosperity they guarantee.

I'm probably one of the most dangerous men in the world if I want to be. But I never wanted to be anything but me.