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Dangerous Quotes (page 54)

Any historian of warfare knows that it is in good part a comedy of errors and a museum of incompetence; but if for every error and every act of incompetence one can substitute an act of treason, we can see how many points of fascinating interpretation are open to the paranoid imagination: treason in high places can be found at almost every turning -- and in the end the real mystery, for one who reads the primary works of paranoid scholarship, is not how the United States has been brought to... Richard Hofstadter
Michael Crichton quote: "Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully,..."
Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life finds a way. Michael Crichton
Take care," he said, "take care how you cut yourself. It is more dangerous that you think in this country." Then seizing the shaving glass, he went on, "And this is the wretched thing that has done the mischief. It is a foul bauble of man's vanity. Away with it!" And opening the window with one wrench of his terrible hand, he flung out the glass, which was shattered into a thousand pieces on the stones of the courtyard far below. Then he withdrew without a word. It is very annoying, for I do... Bram Stoker
Michael Ondaatje quote: "He never used words or reason. He just moved dangerously..."
He never used words or reason. He just moved dangerously among us." The Cat's Table Michael Ondaatje
Leo Tolstoy quote: "intriguing people have to invent a noxious, dangerous party..."
intriguing people have to invent a noxious, dangerous party... Leo Tolstoy
When the bombers got back to their base, the steel cylinders were taken from the racks and shipped back to the United States of America, where factories were operating night and day, dismantling the cylinders, separating the dangerous contents into minerals. Touchingly, it was mainly women who did this work. The minerals were the shipped to specialists in remote areas. It was their business to put them into the ground, to hide them cleverly, so that they would never hurt anybody ever again. Kurt Vonnegut
I sighed. "Show me the damn ring, Edward."He shook his head. "No."I studied his expression for a long minute."Please?" I asked quietly, experimenting with my newly discovered weapon. I touched his face lightly with the tips of my fingers. "Please can I see it?"His eyes narrowed. "You are the most dangerous creature I have ever met," he muttered. But he got up and moved with unconscious grace to kneel next to the small bedside table. Stephenie Meyer
There is something frightful in the fact that the most dangerous thing of all, playing at Christianity, is never included in the list of heresies and schisms. Soren Kierkegaard
But doubt is wily and cunning and never, as it is sometimes said to be, loud or defiant. It is unassuming and sly, not bold or assertive - and the more unassuming, the more dangerous. Soren Kierkegaard
Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance. Isaac Asimov
Penelope Fitzgerald quote: "Helping other people is a drug so dangerous that there is no..."
Helping other people is a drug so dangerous that there is no cure short of total abstention. Penelope Fitzgerald
R. A. Salvatore quote: "To Han Solo, the galaxy seemed a more dangerous place by far."
To Han Solo, the galaxy seemed a more dangerous place by far. R. A. Salvatore
Arthur Conan Doyle quote: "horses: dangerous on both ends and crafty in the middle"
horses: dangerous on both ends and crafty in the middle Arthur Conan Doyle
Can't you just thank me and get over it?"Thank you." I waited, fuming and expectant."You're not going to let it go, are you?"No."In that case . . . I hope you enjoy disappointment."We scowled at each other in silence. I was the first to speak, trying to keep myself focused. I was in danger of being distracted by his livid, glorious face. It was like trying to stare down a destroying angel."Why did you even bother?" I asked frigidly. He paused, and for a brief moment his stunning face was... Stephenie Meyer
Nicaragua sounded dangerous; she liked the word. Nicaragua! It sounded like some kind of spider. There it goes, under the table - Nicaragua! Dave Eggers

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