danger quotes

• One man with an idea in his head is in danger of being considered a madman: two men with the same idea in common may be foolish, but can hardly be mad; ten men sharing an idea begin to act, a hundred draw attention as fanatics, a thousand and society begins to tremble, a hundred thousand and there is war abroad, and the cause has victories tangible and real; and why only a hundred thousand? Why not a hundred million and peace upon the earth? You and I who agree together, it is we who have to answer that question. (William Morris) [danger/being/men/men]
• Danger - if you meet it promptly and without flinching - you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never! (Winston Churchill) [danger/willpower/danger]
• The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but deliverance from fear. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [storm/god/danger/fear]
• The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger. (Andrew Jackson) [more/danger]
• The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions. (Alfred Adler) [danger/life/take]
• As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger. ( Akhenaton) [soul & body/danger]
• As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly. ( Akhenaton) [fortune/danger/courage]
• The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life -- knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live. ( Aristotle) [danger/give/life]
• Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us. (Jean Baudrillard) [danger]
• The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts. (Edmund Burke) [danger]
• Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it. (Miguel De Cervantes) [danger/design]
• Danger, the spur of all great minds. (George Chapman) [danger]
• Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never! (Winston Churchill) [danger/willpower/danger]
• Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body. (Charles Caleb Colton) [danger/sun/soul & body]
• Philosophy is a bully that talks loud when the danger is at a distant; but, the moment she is pressed hard by an enemy, she is nowhere to be found and leaves the brunt of the battle to be fought by her steady, humble comrade, religion. (Charles Caleb Colton) [philosophy/danger/moment/religion]
• It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck. (Charles Caleb Colton) [danger/storm]
• Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another. (Charles Caleb Colton) [courage/danger/willpower/courage]
• I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull. (William Congreve) [find/danger/being]
• Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact notion of sincerity, and in the end coming to despise truth itself as something too cold, too blunt for his purpose -- as, in fact, not good enough for his insistent emotion. From laughter and tears the descent is easy to sniveling and giggles. (Joseph Conrad) [danger/honesty/truth/cold]
• Danger breeds best on too much confidence. (Pierre Corneille) [danger/confidence]
• We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger. (Pierre Corneille) [danger]
• To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory. (Pierre Corneille) [danger]
• A Victory without danger is a triumph without glory. (Pierre Corneille) [danger]
• She feared no danger, for she knew no sin. (John Dryden) [danger/sin]
• We women are always in danger of living too exclusively in the affections; and though our affections are perhaps the best gifts we have, we ought also to have our share of the more independent life -- some joy in things for their own sake. It is piteous to see the helplessness of some sweet women when their affections are disappointed -- because all their teaching has been, that they can only delight in study of any kind for the sake of a personal love. They have never contemplated an independent delight in ideas as an experience which they could confess without being laughed at. Yet surely women need this defense against passionate affliction even more than men. (George Eliot) [women/danger/gifts/share]
• These times of ours are serious and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [life/danger]
• As soon as there is life there is danger. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [life/danger]
• The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [storm/god/danger/fear]
• We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [danger/being]
• They that are on their guard and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked than the supine, secure and negligent. (Benjamin Franklin) [danger/being]
• In comradeship is danger countered best. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [danger]

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