as the years go on a sense of deep patience comes over one; one seems to know the virtue of ripeness, and the danger of rushing events.
Great things are won by great dangers.
The combination of hatred and technology is the greatest danger threatening mankind.
You can mean more than one. You can mean thousands. I'm not in any immediate danger, I'll say to you. I'll pretend you can hear me. But it's no good, because I know you can't.
The greatest danger that threatens us is neither heterodox thought nor orthodox thought, but the absence of thought.
Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.
True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid.
The danger of what's happening right now in terms of using reconciliation is, the purpose of the Senate is going to be defeated. And that is to bring consensus to big issues in this country so that we have a reasoned and thoughtful approach and that the American public buys into it.
We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions in their danger.
There's always the danger that the extreme feminist will end up quite unfulfilled as a girl.
The more secure we feel against our liability to any error to which, in fact, we are liable, the greater must be our danger of falling into it.
Familiarity with danger makes a brave man braver, but less daring. Thus with seamen: he who goes the oftenest round Cape Horn goes the most circumspectly.
Apparently there's nothing more dangerous than a religious criminal.
The most difficult task, phase-out over the next 20-25 years of coal use that does not capture CO₂, is Herculean, yet feasible when compared with the efforts that went into World War II. The stakes, for all life on the planet, surpass those of any previous crisis. The greatest danger is continued ignorance and denial, which could make tragic consequences unavoidable.
For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it.
Most distracting of all, though, was not the threat of danger but the allure of beauty.
We are in danger of forgetting that we cannot do what God does, and that God will not do what we can do.
This is. . . one of the great tragedies of the Bush administration. The more successful they’ve been at intercepting and stopping bad guys, the less proof there is that we’re in danger. . . it’s almost like they should every once in a while have allowed an attack to get through just to remind us.
Life is always full of dangers and I don't think one should avoid dangers.