Dangerous Quotes

I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It's for others; it's for others to use.

This created world really helped me as an actor. It heightened everything, which made it more dangerous, more interesting and more liberating.

Magic is wild, dangerous stuff. You never realize how useful limitations are until it's much too late.

I had thought Felicity dangerous a moment ago, when she felt powerful. I was wrong. Wounded and powerless, she is more dangerous than I could imagine.

Babies were dangerous . . . they made you fall in love before you knew what was happening.

I'm not much of a political person and even if I was, look, Rock 'n' Roll is supposed to be fun and sexy and a little bit dangerous.

I think the combination of genius and celebrity, in the case of Bobby Fischer, was a dangerous cocktail.

And they are beginning to realize that the world they live in is a place where the right thing is often hard, sometimes dangerous, and frequently unpopular.

It is dangerous, at any time, to multiply sources of weakness.

There's not a sea the passenger e'er pukes in, Turns up more dangerous breakers than the Euxine.

Greece is at a dangerous crossroads. Other countries-Portugal, Ireland, maybe Spain-are coming behind it.

Too much of whatever is dangerous.

All the great amusements are dangerous for the Christian life.

Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.

I really love nature. I grew up in the country. But one of the things about nature is that it is beautiful but it's also very dangerous.

And then I did laugh, even though the future was a dangerous place, because I loved her, and she loved me, and the world was beautiful.

The truth is that cowardice itself is violence of a subtle type and therefore dangerous and far more difficult to eradicate than the habit of physical violence.

A cat that's inside of your house that is angry and dissatisfied and hostile is more dangerous to you than a full-grown lion is on the outside.

Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.

making final judgements about poets, cities or regions on the basis of an anthology is always dangerous: anthologies are mirages created, finally, by their editors.

Love is like fire, a dangerous thing to play with, although the best of friends and the most loyal of servants when rightly handled.

Thinking is always dangerous to the status quo. [...] The moment you start thinking, you'll want to change something.

It had been wishful thinking, plain and simple, dangerous for me to indulge in. Hope, happiness and freedom were not in my future.

I gave him a bored look. I had been threatened many times before and had learned that the men who didn’t make verbal threats were the most dangerous.

One should leave the piano when Oscar comes in. This man is dangerous.

Rules? Ixion is supposed to be free of rules, yet it seems as strict as Grave in its own way and more...more dangerous.

Honesty - however dangerous - should be as valuable as radium it seems to me.

Nothing is so dangerous for our security as large groups of desperate people.

I don't like the tendency on the part of so many people today to think that those who don't agree with them are bad. In fact, I find that very dangerous.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

Well...can't be any more dangerous than your crazy hospital break-in yeah?"-Tess (pg 59)

Marilyn Manson is simply too dangerous for Darien Lake.

It's fear that makes a situation dangerous.

In my country we say that ignorance is the warm bath in which it is comfortable to sit but dangerous to lie down.

I’m not a pro, but I know enough to be dangerous.

Personal publicity is apt to be dangerous to any writer's integrity; for the moment he begins to fancy himself as quite a person, a taint creeps into his work.

I'm terribly nostalgic, but I'm with the Elizabethans who thought nostalgia was a disease. It's a dangerous place to be because you can get caught up in it.

People with a lot of theological study and no prayer life are dangerous... and not in a good way.

Mr. Bush is flaky, incompetent, and the most dangerous American president in a generation.

A Rick Santorum presidency would be very, very dangerous for America.

The fact is that it's the most dangerous place to be on the political scale is to brand those on the other side as racist. That's the atomic bomb. That's the nuclear weapon of an American.

Learn from the mistakes of others - you won't live long enough to make them all yourself. He's opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer him the position.

Hey, if I had my choice for social engineering, I'd declare an automatic R-rating for any movie that depicts television commercials. There's a truly dangerous influence on our children.

There is on earth among all dangers no more dangerous thing than a richly endowed and adroit reason...Reason must be deluded, blinded, and destroyed.

It is the most ungodly and dangerous business to abandon the certain and revealed will of God in order to search in to the hidden mysteries of God.

Grunge, man, that was incredible. It was dangerous. It was not verse/chorus. Songs could be short, long, a lark, majestic. You were constantly being surprised.

The dangerous glorification of the nation state, and the baiting of minorities that goes along with it, releases an anti-democratic energy.

Donald Trump must be taken seriously. He is fulfilling his dangerous campaign promises.

[Formula One racing looking after Jackie Stewart in 1968] was not so intense and, yes, it was much more dangerous - what was definitely different back then was the level of safety.

It was the spirit of the workers that was dangerous. The tired, gray crowds ebbing and flowing perpetually into the mills had waked and opened their mouths to sing.