Quotes about danger page 7
Diane Setterfield book The Thirteenth Tale
Source: The Thirteenth Tale
Wilkie Collins book The Woman in White
Source: Collins explaining what he calls the literary principal guiding him, in the preface of the second edition of The Woman in White. Also in Reality's Dark Light: The Sensational Wilkie Collins by Maria K. Bachman & Don Richard Cox [University of Tennessee Press, 2003, ISBN 1-572-33274-3] ( p. xiv https://books.google.com/books?id=_X8AlmIp0dwC&pg=PR14)
Jayne Ann Krentz (1948) American novelist
“Red hair, sir, in my opinion, is dangerous.”
P.G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) English author
Source: Very Good, Jeeves!
“The most dangerous food is wedding cake.”
James Thurber (1894–1961) American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright
John Adams (1735–1826) 2nd President of the United States
Notes for an oration at Braintree (Spring 1772)
1770s
Christopher Hitchens book Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
Source: Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
“Mr. Darcy began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention.”
Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“Everybody is a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way.”
John Mayer (1977) guitarist and singer/songwriter
Source: John Mayer: Battle Studies
Ally Carter book Only the Good Spy Young
Source: Only the Good Spy Young
“Really, being a librarian is a much more dangerous job than you realize.”
Libba Bray (1964) American teen writer
Source: Beauty Queens
“.. the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.”
Yann Martel book Life of Pi
Variant: We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.
Source: Life of Pi
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Devil in Winter
Howard Zinn book A People's History of the United States
Source: A People's History of the United States
“Dreaming carries no risks. The dangerous thing is trying to transform your dreams into reality.”
Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra
Source: Manuscript Found in Accra
“Blood!… Blood!… That's a good thing! A ghost who bleeds is less dangerous!”
Gaston Leroux book The Phantom of the Opera
Source: The Phantom of the Opera
Aldo Leopold book A Sand County Almanac
“February: Good Oak”, p. 6.
Source: A Sand County Almanac, 1949, "January Thaw", "February: Good Oak" & "March: The Geese Return"
“Love is every bit as violent and dangerous as murder.”
Knut Hamsun (1859–1952) Norwegian novelist and Nobel Prize recipient
“The greatest danger of bombs is in the explosion of stupidity that they provoke.”
Octave Mirbeau (1848–1917) French journalist, art critic, travel writer, pamphleteer, novelist, and playwright
Le plus grand danger de la bombe est dans l'explosion de bêtise qu'elle provoque.
Pour Jean Grave, Le Journal (19 Feb 1894)
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Binds
Richard Dawkins book A Devil's Chaplain
"Time to Stand Up"
A Devil's Chaplain (2003)
Source: A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love
“Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.”
Edward Abbey book Desert Solitaire
Source: Desert Solitaire
Isaac Asimov book Foundation
Part V, The Merchant Princes, section 13
Source: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951)
“Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.”
Paul di Filippo (1954)
Source: How To Write Science Fiction
Delmore Schwartz (1913–1966) American poet
Source: Last and Lost Poems
“Oh yeah, this was so comforting. Like a porcupine in a condom factory.’ (Danger)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist
Source: Sins of the Night
“They attacked you? (Danger)
No, I beat my own self up. What do you think? (Keller)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist
Source: Sins of the Night
Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor
Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
“In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.”
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
Anaïs Nin book The Diary of Anaïs Nin
The Diary of Anaïs Nin , Volume One 1931-1934
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)
“No man is so dangerous as the man who cannot decide what he fears.”
Robin Hobb book Royal Assassin
Source: Royal Assassin
“It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
Emily Dickinson book The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Life, p. 9
Collected Poems (1993)
Source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
“Encounters with death and danger are onlyto the survivors.”
Robert Anton Wilson book Masks of the Illuminati
Source: Masks of the Illuminati
Richard Dawkins (1941) English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author
When asked how the world had changed following the September 11, 2001 attacks <br class="br"> Has the world changed? http://books.guardian.co.uk/writersreflections/story/0,1367,567546,00.html, The Guardian (October 11, 2001)
“Unicorns," I said. "Very dangerous. You go first.”
Jim Butcher book Summer Knight
Source: Summer Knight
“The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.”
Fulton J. Sheen (1895–1979) Catholic bishop and television presenter
Second Series, p. 186
Life Is Worth Living (1951–1957)
“Humiliate your enemy is dangerous.”
Karen Armstrong (1944) author and comparative religion scholar from Great Britain
Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life
“I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.”
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
Louis L'Amour (1908–1988) Novelist, short story writer
Edward Abbey (1927–1989) American author and essayist
Source: The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader
“Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.”
David Hume book A Treatise of Human Nature
Part 4, Section 7
Source: A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40), Book 1: Of the understanding
Edward Abbey book Desert Solitaire
Preface (dated June 1987) for 1988 reprint of Desert Solitaire
Desert Solitaire (1968)
Context: May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. May your rivers flow without end, meandering through pastoral valleys tinkling with bells, past temples and castles and poets' towers into a dark primeval forest where tigers belch and monkeys howl, through miasmal and mysterious swamps and down into a desert of red rock, blue mesas, domes and pinnacles and grottos of endless stone, and down again into a deep vast ancient unknown chasm where bars of sunlight blaze on profiled cliffs, where deer walk across the white sand beaches, where storms come and go as lightning clangs upon the high crags, where something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than your deepest dreams waits for you — beyond that next turning of the canyon walls.
James Madison (1751–1836) 4th president of the United States (1809 to 1817)
Speech, Constitutional Convention (29 June 1787), from Max Farrand's Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, Vol. I http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llfr&fileName=001/llfr001.db&recNum=494&itemLink=D?hlaw:5:./temp/~ammem_kmli::%230010495&linkText=1 (1911), p. 465 <br class="br">1780s <br class="br">Context: In time of actual war, great discretionary powers are constantly given to the Executive Magistrate. Constant apprehension of War, has the same tendency to render the head too large for the body. A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The means of defence against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to excite a war, whenever a revolt was apprehended. Throughout all Europe, the armies kept up under the pretext of defending, have enslaved the people.
“When you start to live outside yourself, it's all dangerous.”
Ernest Hemingway book The Garden of Eden
Source: The Garden of Eden