Quotes about Danger
Patriots can flourish only where boundaries are well-defined, hostile, and dangerous.
— James Carse
For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
— Dorothy Sayers
The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
For it is a dangerous book, a book filled with the apocalyptic air of judgement.
— Karl Barth
We are in danger of developing a cult of the Common Man, which means a cult of mediocrity.
— Herbert Hoover
Snakes and monkeys are subjected to the demon more than other animals. Satan lives in them and possesses them. He uses them to deceive men and to injure them.
— Martin Luther
A garden is like those pernicious machineries which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand, and draw in his arm, his leg , and his whole body to irresistible destruction.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is considerable danger that a man will be crazy between dinner and supper; but it will not directly answer any good purposethat I know of, and it is just as easy to be sane.
— Henry David Thoreau
If a wicked man seems to have peace at death, it is not from the knowledge of his happiness, but from the ignorance of his danger.
— Thomas Watson
Avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace, we should remember also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it
— George Washington
For we cannot tarry here, We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger, We, the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on us depend, Pioneers! O pioneers!
— Walt Whitman
A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.
— Alexander Hamilton