Quotes with danger

Quotes 141 till 160 of 174.

  • Benjamin Franklin 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
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Angelina Grimké Thou art blind to the danger of marrying a woman who feels and acts out the principle of equal rights.
    Angelina Grimké
    American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879)
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  • Abraham Cowley Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Daniel Defoe Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.
    Robinson Crusoe (1719)
    Daniel Defoe
    English writer (1660 - 1731)
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  • Pierre Corneille To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.
    Pierre Corneille
    French playwright (1606 - 1684)
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  • Plutarch To do an evil act is base. To do a good one without incurring danger, is common enough. But it is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds though he risks everything in doing them.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Og Mandino To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
    Og Mandino
    American author (1923 - 1996)
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  • Adolph P. Gouthey To get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without work, is as impossible as it is to live without being born.
    Adolph P. Gouthey
    American writer
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  • Victor Hugo To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost - that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization - is to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Lord Shaftesbury True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.
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  • Cass Sunstein Trump is more performance artist than zealot. But he's finding enemies everywhere, whether they are judges of Mexican ancestry, parents of those killed in war, the current president, or children of immigrants. Whether or not he has a sense of decency, he is in grave danger of losing it.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Harold Robbins Haldeman We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.
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  • Hubert Humphrey We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Burning Spear We don't need no more danger, we don't need no more difficulties, we don't need no more misunderstanding, and we don't need no more violence. We need the people to see each other and know of each other, feel each other, touch each other, share with each other, and change hearts with each other.
    Burning Spear
    Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, vocalist and musician (1945 - )
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  • Henry Miller We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Kwame Nkrumah We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.
    Kwame Nkrumah
    Ghanaian politician and revolutionary (1909 - 1972)
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  • Pierre Corneille We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.
    Pierre Corneille
    French playwright (1606 - 1684)
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  • Ronald Reagan We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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