Dangerous Thing Quotes

Ego can be a dangerous thing. We all have one but it needs to be contained.

I’d say the most dangerous thing I’ve ever done is probably bungee jumping in Thailand.

I think censorship in the name of fighting fake news is a dangerous thing for Pakistan.

He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be – a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

If a little knowledge was a dangerous thing, a lot was lethal.

When you know who you are, you know who you are. That’s the real dangerous thing in Hollywood, because they all want to create you and mold you.

The most dangerous thing a member of Congress could do is to ignore the citizenry who have taken up the mantle of reporting since they weren’t getting the truth from the co-opted mainstream outlets.

I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.

The most dangerous thing for an entrepreneur to do is to actually go into a business that he does not understand fully.

It is very a dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.

If every small nation with a border dispute believes they can go ahead and launch a pre-emptive war and that it will be approved by the greatest power, that is a very dangerous thing.

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.

I would really want all my films to make money. But this weekend calculation is the most dangerous thing because, based on the amount collected in the first weekend, they start declaring the film a hit or a flop. It can’t be.

I wanted music to be a career. To base everything on fame to me seemed a dangerous thing – I wanted my foundations to be about improving as a performer and writer. No one could push me into going down that route of being a celebrity singer.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.

You can stay in situations just for the sake of it. That can be a very dangerous thing and tough on your soul and heart.

It turns out we are all quite easily swayed if someone knows what they are doing – which is a great thing and a dangerous thing.

It’s such a dangerous thing for desperation to drive litigation.

Don’t play for safety – it’s the most dangerous thing in the world.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

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

I think I did a good job of compartmentalizing my life. It’s crazy to say it, but even if football was this dangerous thing, it was a place where I could focus all my energy. I’m sure it’s not the healthiest thing to direct stress from football into football, but that’s basically what I did.

If there’s a partnership in doing a dangerous thing, there’s a real sense of bonding. Plus, the feeling of freedom is sexy.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.

Ambition is a very dangerous thing because either you achieve it and your life ends prematurely, or you don’t, in which case your life is a constant source of disappointment. You must never have ambition.

A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.

In my opinion, the most dangerous thing an artist can do in this day and age is not embrace the present.

The most dangerous thing for a branded product is low interest.

It’s a dangerous thing to build pipelines underground.

I don’t know why the leaders of social networks have overlooked the idea of rules. Real-life behavior is becoming more reflective of social media instead of vice versa, and that’s a dangerous thing.

It’s something I’ve seen a lot of: these tortured geniuses, or self-proclaimed tortured geniuses, who kind of take their damage out on others. I think being a showrunner, you have a lot of unchecked power and I think that can be a very dangerous thing.

The most dangerous thing, when you have a serious mental illness, is convincing yourself that you don’t have it. And you see it all the time. People get on medication, and they feel better, and they stop taking it. And some flirt with unreality on some levels. But it feels so convincing to them that it feels real.

It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions.

When people are overlooking somebody like Phil Davis, it’s a dangerous thing.

The most dangerous thing about student riots is that adults take them seriously.

Generally speaking, moving water is the most dangerous thing you can encounter underground.

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.

To be against something or someone, it’s a dangerous thing.

Fame is a dangerous thing. It’s what the post-industrial society wants. They want fame and many followers on Twitter. But to really make the world understandable, that challenge is remaining.

When you are subverting the power of government, that’s a fundamentally dangerous thing to democracy.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

The most dangerous thing Iraq could have ever had was a nuclear weapon. The nuclear weapon Iraq was trying to build was not deliverable by bomb or ballistic missile. It was a large, bulky device that they hoped to bury and set off to let the world know they had a nuclear weapon. They never achieved that.

Liberal democracy is in regression all over the world, and it’s a dangerous thing.

Just having the internet is a weird and dangerous thing because people become accustomed to knowing things when they want to know them and not having to work for it. I definitely see the value in not knowing everything and having mystery in life and mystery in people.

Large swathes of people losing faith in democracy is a dangerous thing. Conflict, desperation, totalitarianism are the products of that loss of faith.

Hindsight is the most dangerous thing imaginable for me. I imagine that’s the case for most filmmakers. And I would love to be a filmmaker who was an exception to that rule, but I’m certainly not.

The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.

The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness.

The informed, unmanaged question. That’s the most dangerous thing at a press conference anywhere.

Surgery is a complicated thing to talk about, but I guess it could also be a dangerous thing to play with if you’re not very secure about what you’re doing.

Are black people conscious of how excruciatingly self-conscious white people have become in their every interaction with black people? Is this self-consciousness an improvement? Maybe not, because I’m thinking of people in categories rather than as people, which is a famously dangerous thing to do.

The biggest edge I live on is directing. That’s the most scary, dangerous thing you can do in your life.

A man in high heels is the most dangerous thing in the world.

The way people train is the most dangerous thing because we train, like, everyday.

Innocence is a pretty dangerous thing, you know. Revisit Dostoevsky’s ‘The Idiot’ or, for that matter, Greene’s ‘The Quiet American’ to find out how destructive it can be.

If you’ve driven your kids to the store, and you leave them for five minutes, by far the most dangerous thing you’ve done is just put your kid in the car and driven them to the store.

When you go into a ‘WWE’ ring, you know you’re going to compete. You know that things are going to hurt. It is a dangerous, dangerous place. No matter what people think or say, it’s a very, very dangerous thing.

Children find prescriptive reading lists daunting, and they are a dangerous thing to have in schools.

Cooking is a dangerous thing for me. I’m pretty inept in the kitchen.