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Danger Quotes
"We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility."
71
"A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand."
37
"The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts."
28
"The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly."
20
"We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment."
10
"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."
7
"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."
6
"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."
6
"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."
6
"WikiLeaks presents a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States."
6
"When we conquer without danger our triumph is without glory."
6
"If you wait until those weapons pose a direct, clear, present danger to the United States, you've probably waited too long."
6
"Safety's just danger, out of place."
6
"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."
6
"In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it."
5
"Has there ever been a more revealing moment this year? Let me just put this in fairly simple terms: Al Jazeera now broadcasts the words of Senator Durbin to the Mideast, certainly putting our troops in greater danger. No more needs to be said about the motives of liberals."
5
"Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger."
5
"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."
5
"Oh, why had the Labyrinth brought me here?As soon as I thought this, I chided myself: Of course it would bring me where I least wanted to be. Austin had been wrong about the maze. It was still evil, designed to kill. It was just a little subtler about its homicides now."
5
"The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything."
5
"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."
5
"McGovern is so far left that he is in danger of falling off the earth."
5
"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."
5
"The closest fires were near enough for us to hear the crackling flames and the yells of firemen. Little fires grew into big ones even as we watched. Big ones died down under the firemen's valor only to break out again later."
4
"To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory."
4
"There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation."
4
"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."
4
"Many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!"
4
"The commission members themselves were never briefed on Able Danger."
4
"There is less danger in fearing too much than too little."
4
"Everybody is just a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way."
4
"In real danger sometimes even a democracy can really keep a secret."
4
"We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger."
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