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Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes. -- Euripides
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions. -- Alfred Adler
When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity. -- John F. Kennedy
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. -- Michelangelo
It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership. -- Nelson Mandela
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 is an aphrodisiac. -- Tobsha Learner
Danger has a bracing effect. -- Sun Tzu
Danger will wink on opportunity. -- John Milton
Danger for danger's sake is senseless. -- Leigh Hunt
Danger's over, Banana Breakfast is saved. -- Thomas Pynchon
Danger is real, fear is a choice -- Will Smith
Danger, the spur of all great minds. -- George Chapman
Danger breeds best on too much confidence. -- Pierre Corneille
Danger hides in beauty and beauty in danger. -- Belva Plain
Danger sweetens the brew. Makes it more delicious. -- Robin Maxwell
Danger it selfe the best remedy for danger. -- George Herbert
Danger is very real but fear is a choice. -- Will Smith
Danger is like wine, it goes to your head. -- Madame de Stael
Danger could be my middle name... But it's John. -- Eddie Izzard
Danger is the snack food of a true sleuth. -- Mac Barnett
Danger, if met head on, can be nearly halved -- Winston Churchill
Danger is ever-present in life, more for some than others. -- T.I.
Danger confronted properly is not something a man must fear. -- Tom Clancy
Beauty Lures the Stranger More Easily into Danger -Septimus Heap -- Angie Sage
The commission members themselves were never briefed on Able Danger. -- Curt Weldon
I wrote the original Mike Hammer as a comic, Mike Danger. -- Mickey Spillane
Danger came in different packages, at different points in a lifetime. -- Jodi Picoult
Danger comes on us more speedily when we treat it with contempt. -- Publilius Syrus
A people's wrath voiced abroad bringeth grave Danger, no less than public curse pronounced. -- Aeschylus
Danger lurks when people are dissociated and detached from their own story or feelings. -- Eve Ensler
Danger is a side effect of what I do, not the reason behind it. -- Mira Grant
Oh yeah, this was so comforting. Like a porcupine in a condom factory.' (Danger) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Jesse James's next tattoo should be a warning label: Danger. Loving this man could break you. -- Alafair Burke
They attacked you? (Danger) No, I beat my own self up. What do you think? (Keller) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Delay always breeds danger. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Crying wolf is a real danger. -- David Attenborough
Never was anything great achieved without danger. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies. -- Aristotle
I am a danger to myself if I get angry. -- Oriana Fallaci
I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror. -- Edgar Allan Poe
There is a very real danger that financial regulation will become a wolf in sheep's clothing. -- Henry Paulson
The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home. -- James Madison
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk. -- Soren Kierkegaard
Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it. -- William Tecumseh Sherman
In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority. -- James Madison
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern. -- Lord Acton
It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door. -- David Hackworth
The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it. -- Linus Torvalds
Panic causes tunnel vision. Calm acceptance of danger allows us to more easily assess the situation and see the options. -- Simon Sinek
The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Our new world rests on order. The danger is disorder. And in today's world, it can now spread like contagion. -- Tony Blair
He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger. -- Confucius
He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger. -- Confucius
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. -- Helen Keller
The brave man, inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger. -- Andrew Jackson
Impeachment is not a remedy for private wrongs; it's a method of removing someone whose continued presence in office would cause grave danger to the nation. -- Charles Ruff
The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it. -- Pericles
I think we can allow the therapeutic uses of nuclear transplant technology, which we call cloning, without running the danger of actually having live human beings born. -- David Baltimore
We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet. -- Stephen Hawking
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. -- Michelangelo
Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish. -- Pope John Paul II
There's a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that more and more information is enough, that you don't have to think, you just have to get more information - gets very dangerous. -- Edward de Bono
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. -- Helen Keller
The clear and present danger of climate change means we cannot burn our way to prosperity. We already rely too heavily on fossil fuels. We need to find a new, sustainable path to the future we want. We need a clean industrial revolution. -- Ban Ki-moon
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. -- Hamilton Jordan
Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it's on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you've got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration. -- Taylor Swift
Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow. -- Dorothy Thompson
But we're born as children and we look at the world with open eyes... And we don't judge and we don't betray. We're not jealous. We're not envious. We're not even weary, which is a danger also as kids. They have to learn a certain amount of awareness. -- Colin Farrell
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never! -- Winston Churchill
You have plenty of courage, I am sure," answered Oz. "All you need is confidence in yourself. There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have in plenty. -- L. Frank Baum
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. -- Henry David Thoreau
At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide. -- Abraham Lincoln
When you are on assignment, you stick to the facts, limit your vision, and often cut out the most revealing material. There is no texture, no shades of gray. In fiction, you can bring the reader on the perilous journey with your characters as they discover that war is more like a wilderness of mirrors, full of danger and uncertainty. -- Leslie Cockburn
Dangers by being despised grow great -- Edmund Burke
Three removes are as bad as a fire -- Benjamin Franklin
The petition of an empty hand is dangerous -- John Salisbury
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. -- Jonathan Kozol
There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern -- John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers -- Jacques Barzun
The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry -- Simone Weil
The person who says "I'm not political" is in great danger. Only the fittest will survive, and the fittest will be the ones who understand their office's politics -- Jean Hollands
But if you are in danger, then (say your prayers) on foot or on horseback; and when you are secure, then remember Allah, as He has taught you what you did not know. (The Cow 2.239) -- quran
Hope, danger's comforter -- Thucydides
Delay always heeds danger -- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Delay always heeds danger. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Security will produce danger. -- Samuel Johnson
Fear manifested invites danger... -- Lord Chesterfield
Insufficient facts always invite danger. -- Leonard Nimoy
obedience is a great danger. -- E. M. Broner
The danger lies in forgetting. -- Elie Wiesel
An undertaking beset with danger. -- Horace
Tradition was safety; change was danger. -- Mary Doria Russell
In comradeship is danger countered best. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Truth is often attended with danger. -- Ammianus Marcellinus
Safety's just danger, out of place. -- Harry Connick, Jr.
Courage is the antidote to danger. -- Erle Stanley Gardner
In the foolishness lies the danger. -- Omar Torrijos
Rush to danger; wind up nowhere. -- Morrissey
War is the province of danger. -- Carl von Clausewitz
I've been in the danger zone -- Randy Savage
Fear loves the idea of danger. -- Joseph Joubert
There is a joy in danger. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Rush to danger; wind up nowhere. -- Morrissey
The more honor, the more danger. -- Aesop
A little danger adds spice to life. -- Megan Whalen Turner
Withough danger you cannot go beyond danger. -- George Herbert
Our fears vanish as the danger approaches. -- Seneca the Younger
Be aware of danger-but recognize the opportunity -- John F. Kennedy
I live to feel myself in danger. -- Eric Cantona
I, who wanted danger, adventure, and love -- Beatrice Wood
Nobody heeds danger when they're making money. -- James Cook
No danger can perturb my spirit's calm. -- Sri Aurobindo
There's action only if there is danger. -- Howard Hawks
Where Jack isn't safe, Tom's in danger. -- George Eliot
Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger. -- Christopher Lasch
There is a danger in democracy itself. -- Danny Kaye

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