Dangerous Quotes

The main problem with American power is not that it is American... No, the main problem with American power is the power itself. It would be dangerous even for an archangel to wield so much power.

Will Ferrell is a dangerous man. If he thinks you're in his way in show business, he will crack your head open. He's the Jeff Gillooly of comedy.

It’s no more dangerous to society than a radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds.

I think writers tend to hear a different message from the ones our friends and acquaintances intend. We see what's revealed, which makes us dangerous.

Anyone who maintains absolute standards of good and evil is dangerous. As dangerous as a maniac with a loaded revolver.

When a situation feels dangerous to you, it's probably more safe than you know; when a situation feels safe, that is precisely when you should feel on guard.

I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.

One can't be too dangerous, if they like to eat pancakes. Especially with jam on it.

If you happen to capture my imagination for some reason and I decide to write about you and you don't like what I wrote about you, which is entirely possible, then yes, I'm a dangerous writer.

Grace is the most dangerous, expectation-wre cking, smile-creating, counterintuitiv e reality there is.

A dangerous book will always be in danger from those it threatens with the demand that they question their assumptions. They'd rather hang on to the assumptions and ban the book.

I do think it's dangerous when you are overly secularizing, and sometimes you get very smart, and sometimes [you] gain a lot of smarts, but you lose a lot of wisdom.

A made-up proverb from Dreams of the Compass Rose says, "In the desert, the only god is a well." I love exploring the intensity of such juxtaposition, the dangerous edge.

Chirren [children] is the most dangerous creatures on the earth, with the exception of young girls between the ages of fifteen and forty-two.

How dangerous a master human emotion is!

I've been around Hollywood and filmmaking long enough to know that it's a tricky dangerous business when you go on camera, you got to watch yourself.

I used to think all poets were Byronic Mad, bad and dangerous to know. And then I met a few. See Lamb 486:25.

I actually think that one of the most dangerous phenomena is the bowing to expertise, whether it's in international relations or how to use technologies.

Many, many things are dangerous in our world, commercials and TV are dangerous, and so is the world of sitcoms. But nobody does anything about them because they're turning in alot of money.

Within the mind there are no lies-no possibility of deceiving oneself; and yet, somehow we all manage to bypass the safety of truth in pursuit of dangerous desires.

I work from almost a dangerous place in my mind sometimes.

Ideas are indeed the most dangerous weapons in the world. Our ideas of freedom are the most powerful political weapons man has ever forged.

Come, go with us, speak fair; you may salve so, Not what is dangerous present, but the los Of what is past.

My will enkindled by mine eyes and ears, Two traded pilots 'twixt the dangerous shores Of will and judgment.

Danger knows full well that Caesar is more dangerous than he. We are two lions litter’d in one day, and I the elder and more terrible.

Ornament is but the guiled shore to a most dangerous sea.

And then you think about what you think, which is very dangerous.

All adventuring is rash, and all innovations dangerous. But not nearly so dangerous as stagnation and dry rot. From grooves, cliques, clichés and resignation - Good Lord deliver us!

It is no use dealing with illusions and make-believes. We must look at the facts. The world ... is too dangerous for anyone to be able to afford to nurse illusions. We must look at realities.

Books make dangerous devils out of women.

I mean, so what if it's a little dangerous? A one-armed kid is comedy gold.

Partial legalization, as some are suggesting, is a dangerous path, and we need only look at France and Germany to see how unwise it is to create a permanent underclass.

I existed in a cocoon, wrapped in daydreams. It's dangerous to be too much alone with an imagination.

The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.

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

Some memories were all right, but others were dangerous.

It is dangerous to be right, when the government is wrong

Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.

Mr Judge, Jury & Executioner of Micah Xavier Johnson‬ needs to go to jail as soon as possible – he is a danger to civilized society.

It wasn’t that Nell was weak. It was that the world was dangerous.

The most dangerous enemy is the one who can easily make friends with his potential victims!

Speed is dangerous if your direction is wrong.

Life is fragile.Be cautious in life.

Minding his own business had been his motto living in a strange foreign country with a world-recognized social issue of failing morals.

We don't like security rules and laws, but without them men will be animals, perhaps the most dangerous animals.

I'm a Joker. Dangerous and silly at the same time.

so dangerously beautiful but you will not dare to ask her or tell her how you feel love hurts in the worst ways

The most dangerous irony is, people are angry with others because of their own incompetence.

A certain wise man once said that God didn't play dice with the universe, but that man was wrong. Sometimes I think He must even try Russian roulette.