Quotes on Dangerous Things

Woolf wanted to say dangerous things in Orlando but she did not want to say them in the missionary position.

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.

As I walked down the street while talking on the phone, sophisticated New Yorkers gaped at the sight of someone actually moving around while making a phone call. Remember that in 1973, there weren't cordless telephones, let alone cellular phones. I made numerous calls, including one where I crossed the street while talking to a New York radio reporter - probably one of the more dangerous things I have ever done in my life.

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

Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.

But if it's tolerable mediocrity, and you're like, 'Well, you know it could be worse. At least I'm getting paid.' Then you wind up in a job that is slowly killing your soul and you're allowing that to happen. Comfort can be a very, very dangerous thing.

It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen; they cannot 'do'; they can only be done by.

There is no more dangerous thing for a democracy than a foreign policy based on presidential preventive war.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

Fantasy is not antirational, but pararational; not realistic but surrealistic, a heightening of reality. In Freud's terminology, it employs primary not secondary process thinking. It employs archetypes which, as Jung warned us, are dangerous things. Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.

Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.

Money without brains is always dangerous.

It's better to do a dull thing with style than a dangerous thing without it.

The combination of hatred and technology is the greatest danger threatening mankind.

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.

The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs.

The constant pressure to bring about conformity is a dangerous thing.

Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing

Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you'll find an edge to cut you.

When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.