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Danger Quotes
"We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility."
82
"The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly."
45
"A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand."
41
"The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts."
38
"We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment."
13
"But it is well to remember that we are dealing with nations every one of which has a direct individual interest to serve, and there is grave danger in an unshared idealism."
12
"There is the danger of over preparation, of loss of spontaneity; over rehearsal is the most terrible thing you can imagine. We do have a very close association between costume and set designer, though. And the cameraman is very important, of course."
11
"When we conquer without danger our triumph is without glory."
10
"Safety's just danger, out of place."
10
"Everybody is just a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way."
10
"In real danger sometimes even a democracy can really keep a secret."
10
"The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark."
9
"Night was spreading slowly around the spinning Earth. It should have been full of pinpricks of light. It was not. There were five billion people down there. What was going to happen soon would make barbarism look like a picnic - hot, nasty, and eventually given over to the ants."
9
"I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out."
9
"I tried to imagine how things could get much worse. The gods were in the Midwest fighting a huge monster that had almost defeated them once before. Poseidon was under siege and losing a war against the sea Titan Oceanus.Kronos was still out there somewhere. Olympus was virtually undefended. The demigods of Camp Half-Blood were on our own with a spy in our midst.Oh, and according to the ancient prophecy, I was going to die when I turned sixteen-which happened to be in five days, the exact same time Typhon was supposed to hit New York. Almost forgot that."
8
"Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria."
8
"Now we have a whole separate supplier of data for Able Danger who's verifying that same information."
8
"In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it."
8
"WikiLeaks presents a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States."
8
"If you wait until those weapons pose a direct, clear, present danger to the United States, you've probably waited too long."
8
"I wrote the original Mike Hammer as a comic, Mike Danger."
8
"There is less danger in fearing too much than too little."
8
"We don't mind that we still have troops in Germany, or that we still have troops in Japan or Korea. But they are not in danger, and we know that they are in danger in Iraq."
8
"If you don't get killed, it's a lucky day for anybody."
7
"Yes, it will go through the disciplines that all puppies go through including house training and puppy walking, then at twelve month old it the training becomes a lot more rigorous which has to be done carefully otherwise you are in danger of stressing the dog."
7
"If I'm in danger then it's usually my fault and it's up to me to get myself out of it. I am not in it just to get an adrenalin rush. No way!"
7
"A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting."
7
"About every two minutes a new wave of planes would be over. The motors seemed to grind rather than roar, and to have an angry pulsation like a bee buzzing in blind fury."
7
"Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger."
7
"The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything."
7
"Terrible fires resemble terrible people. They are unpredictable. They are selfish. they are deadly and ruinous. And no matter where they are prowling, no matter what treachery they are cooking up, they have something in common. They can be stopped."
7
"To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another."
7
"By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door."
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