When you have a person in power who punishes people for speaking their mind, it’s truly dangerous.
I feel like I’m ready for any dangerous situation that might come my way, provided I have a hammer on me.
I can only hope the federal aid made available today will be sufficient in our recovery efforts, and pray that our citizens continue to be safe from the fallout of this dangerous natural disaster.
In the ’50s, critics used to say I had a ‘dangerous’ act.
What I find really attractive is something that’s going to be a little dangerous. Something that might get me into trouble; you know, you turn up in London and you’ve just rewritten Dickens. And, of course, then you think, ‘What have I done?’
A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
We’re making it more difficult to obtain the necessary ingredients to produce meth and tightening criminal penalties for those who deal in this dangerous drug.
It’s kind of dangerous to cut in the camera, but that’s the only way I know how to direct.
But really, I can only be dangerous for the team in one place, and that is in the box.
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.
Every fight is dangerous, no matter who you’re fighting, no matter what the story behind it is.
All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.
I love to fly. I always wanted to fly. It’s been one of my dreams since I was 3 years old. I remember saying to my mom, 3 years old, every day, ‘I can fly!’ Living on the ninth floor, it was dangerous.
Putting lessons in young adult books is very dangerous.
The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.
I’m not dangerous, but I have a sharp nose. I will probably be playing bad guys forever because of my face.
Where destruction is the motive, unity is dangerous. For example, if I have evil intent and I galvanize that evil intent with many others, the capacity to destroy is immense. Where goodness is the motive, unity is phenomenal and actually has some good issues to it.
He uses his good powers for evil, and that’s when it gets to the dangerous side of it.
‘The Man Who Never Was,’ by Ewen Montagu, remains the best book about wartime espionage written by an active participant – incomplete, and dry in parts, it nonetheless summons up the ingenuity and sheer eccentricity of those who played this strange and dangerous game.
If being a spokesman for a generation is a fleeting occupation, being a symbol of an era is downright dangerous for anyone who has the bad luck to outlive it.
A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.
Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?
There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.
But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise self-censorship. At most, poets were requested not to write at all. I took advantage of this negative liberty.
In the modern era, our nation experienced constant hardship and difficulties. The Chinese nation reached the most dangerous period. Since then, countless people with lofty ideals to realise the great revival of the Chinese nation rose to resist and fight, but failed one time after another.
Ignorance is not too dangerous. If you combine it with power, then this is a toxic mix.
Mountains are not fair or unfair – they are dangerous.
It’s dangerous to buy into praise and criticism for what you do when you’re trying to present your music to people. I don’t ignore it completely, but I don’t dwell on it too much.
I think in national security, the war in Iraq is troublesome and a difficult challenge, but our troops and the military leaders we have are managing that situation, although it continues to be very risky and very dangerous.
A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.
Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.
People ask me what I do in my spare time, and I look at them blankly, truly believing that I don’t even have spare time, and if I did, I’d probably use it for something mundane, like chipping away at the mound of laundry rising to dangerous proportions in the back room.
Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.
There’s a dangerous bottom-lining, and super-summarizing that happens in a lot of our press and our media, and sort of our politicians’ talking points, that’s dangerously simple. I don’t know a better way to say it. And there’s usually a lot more complicated facts going on than what is quoted and quotable.
I think human society for tens of thousands of years has sent young men out in small groups to do things that are necessary but very dangerous. And they’ve always gotten killed doing it. And they’ve always turned it into a matter of honor and a way of gaining acceptance back into society if they survived.
Particularly in the final stages I always find that I’m rushed. It’s dangerous when you’re rushed in the editing stage, most of my early films are flawed in the cutting.
Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
Dangerous because your present Administration and its specialized agencies by all accounts know no restraint in hitting out at any perceived enemy of America, and nobody or nothing can protect one from their vindictiveness.
The most dangerous place I’ve ever performed standup is in my home state of California.
Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.
Fame can be very dangerous, because you can start to enjoy that part of it. And that’s not the good part of what I do for a living. The good part is the making of films. The unpleasant part is the fame part, if you’re not careful.
It’s good to know how to read, but it’s dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you’re reading.
Is it not dangerous to have students study together for years, copying the same models and approximately the same path?
I grew up in the East Village, in Alphabet City, when it was a very dangerous neighborhood. To survive there, I had to learn to be a little bit invisible.
Radium could be very dangerous in criminal hands.
It is of the greatest importance that people and governments in many more countries than ours should realize that it is more dangerous to have access to nuclear arms than not to possess them.
Doing stand-up is like running across a frozen pond with the ice breaking behind you. I love it because it’s dangerous.
If you make the bad guy enticing and dangerous, that’s where the excitement of playing the role really kicks in. I don’t get to do that in my normal day-to-day life. Life is too taxing to go to those dark places.
Glenn Close is a living icon. You look at the work, and I think it’s wild, because she thinks some of her best work was in Dangerous Liaisons and that’s what I believe as well.
Xenophobia is dangerous, but patriotism is a good thing.
Everything that could produce a clash between the Arab world and the West seemed dangerous to me.
The most dangerous thing for an entrepreneur to do is to actually go into a business that he does not understand fully.
An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.
I want to take a long-term view. Being distracted by short term things can be dangerous when you are making cold, calm, long-term decisions.
The brutal truth is, we’re scarcely ‘educating’ children at all. Even if you overlook the guilt, fear, bigotry, and dangerous anti-intellectual flapdoodle being funneled into young brains by schools on the religious right, what we’re doing is training kids to be cogs in the wheels of commerce.
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
We think it would be safer if the Bank of England had responsibility for solvency regulation of UK-based banks, as well as having an overall duty to keep the system solvent. Otherwise, there could be dangerous delays if a banking crisis did hit.
Lawyers have a dangerous job in Iran.
It would be dangerous territory if I wasn’t practising what I preach which is to always accept responsibility, always accept the consequences of your actions.
Here’s the good news. If I realize that I’m insane, then I’m okay with it. I’m not dangerous insane.
Maybe the bike is more dangerous, but the passion for the car for me is second to the bike.
The people I’ve encountered who are really dangerous in my life don’t go around with their fangs drawn – they are dangerous because of the way they interpret what’s going on.
We will not take Arsenal lightly for one minute, as they showed in the two matches against us last season that they can be dangerous opponents if we lose our concentration for a moment.
It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
If you take 67 brush fires times 10 years, that’s almost 700 right there. Those brush fires are incredibly dangerous, all those homes going down proved that.
