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6394972 The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity. opportunity inspirational chinese crisis danger John F. Kennedy
9d6e736 Love is a dangerous angel. love danger Francesca Lia Block
a480f58 You can't prepare for everything life's going to throw at you. And you can't avoid danger. It's there. The world is a dangerous place, and if you sit around wringing your hands about it, you'll out on all the adventure. life danger Jeannette Walls
6cec52d Yes, the stories are dangerous, she was right. A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back? reading danger Jeanette Winterson
f7fa717 There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general: (1) Recklessness, which leads to destruction; (2) cowardice, which leads to capture; (3) a hasty temper, which can be provoked by insults; (4) a delicacy of honor which is sensitive to shame; (5) over-solicitude for his men, which exposes him to worry and trouble. war general fault reckless temper lead worry danger cowardice shame trouble destruction homer Sun Tzu
f12d3ef Things change when you're not in danger anymore. change life danger Mitch Albom
dc8d582 It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. The fact that they exist at all, their presence in our lives, will wreak more havoc than we can begin to fathom. Nuclear weapons pervade our thinking. Control our behavior. Administer our societies. Inform our dreams. They bury themselves like meat hooks deep in the base of our brains. They are purveyors of madness. They are the ultimate colonizer. Whiter than any white man that ever lived. The very heart of whiteness. madness humanity fear truth colonizer nuclear-threat nuclear-bomb whiteness folly white nuclear-weapons danger humans mind-control Arundhati Roy
5eb28f2 ...Goldfinger could not have known that high tension was Bond's natural way of life and that pressure and danger relaxed him. bond relaxation danger Ian Fleming
a10b283 News of Daniel's disappearance does not alarm me as it might have done a week ago. Given recent events, very little alarms me as it might have done a week ago. I feel as if my supply of alarm has been exhausted, at least temporarily. worry danger Patricia C. Wrede
292cfbd Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition. emotion danger planning Barbara W. Tuchman
103bb4b a lot of human behavior was really acting out our responses to dangers long past. danger human-nature Orson Scott Card
d35a651 The human body is robust. It can gather strength when it's in mortal danger. fear death strength danger Toni Morrison
062d07d "What do you call yourself?" the Fawn said at last. Such a soft sweet voice it had! "I wish I knew!" thought poor Alice. She answered, rather sadly, "Nothing, just now." "Think again," it said: "that won't do." Alice thought, but nothing came of it. "Please, would you tell me what you call yourself?" she said timidly, "I think that might help a little." "I'll tell you, if you'll come a little further on," the Fawn said. "I can't remember here." So they walked on together through the wood, Alice with her arms clasped lovingly round the soft neck of the Fawn, till they came out into another open field, and here the Fawn gave a sudden bound into the air, and shook itself free from Alice's arms. "I'm a Fawn!" it cried out in a voice of delight. "And dear me, you're a human child!" A sudden look of alarm came into its beautiful brown eyes, and in another moment it had darted away at full speed." fear fawn deer wonderland purity innocence danger survival instinct Lewis Carroll
dea26fc Tradition was safety; change was danger. danger tradition safety Mary Doria Russell
10c2a5f "Sometimes I think Earth has got to be the insane asylum of the universe. . . and I'm here by computer error. At sixty-eight, I hope I've gained some wisdom in the past fourteen lustrums and it's obligatory to speak plain and true about the conclusions I've come to; now that I have been educated to believe by such mentors as Wells, Stapledon, Heinlein, van Vogt, Clarke, Pohl, (S. Fowler) Wright, Orwell, Taine, Temple, Gernsback, Campbell and other seminal influences in scientifiction, I regret the lack of any female writers but only Radclyffe Hall opened my eyes outside sci-fi. fairy-tales morality science hope humanist belief science-fiction secular danger utopia atheist respect sci-fi Forrest J. Ackerman
bf0c71f Previous journeys had taught me the danger of taking too much stuff. danger journey Tahir Shah
fd3c002 I took the sleeper out of Glasgow, and as the smelly old train bumped out of Central Station and across the Jamaica Street Bridge, I stared out at the orange halogen streetlamps reflected in the black water of the river Clyde. I gazed at the crumbling Victorian buildings that would soon be sandblasted and renovated into yuppie hutches. I watched the revelers and rascals traverse the shiny wet streets. I thought of the thrill and danger of my youth and the fear and frustration of my adult life thus far. I thought of the failure of my marriage and my failures as a man. I saw all this through my reflection in the nighttime window. Down the tracks I went, hardly aware that I was going further south with every passing second. divorce reflection danger failure journey Craig Ferguson
dca010a Danger confronted properly is not something a man must fear. man courage fear clancy danger Tom Clancy
f5e8a7f As long as we know what it's about, then we can have the courage to go wherever we are asked to go, even if we fear that the road may take us through danger and pain. pain bravery courage faith fear road peace-of-mind peace danger walk Madeleine L'Engle
0a100fd ... an utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward. peril danger Herman Melville
49f69a5 sometimes falling rain carries memories of betrayal there in the woods where she was not meant to be too young she believes in her right to be free in her body free from harm believing nature a wilderness she can enter be solaced believing the power that there be sacred place that there can be atonement now she returns with no fear facing the past ready to risk knowing these woods now hold beauty and danger rain woods danger Bell Hooks
99fbebe I don't like this war. I don't like the cold-blooded scheming at the beginning and the carnage at the end and the grumbling and the jealousies and the pettishness in the middle. I hate the lack of gallantry and grace; the self-seeking; the destruction of valuable people and things. I believe in danger and endeavor as a form of tempering but I reject it if this is the only shape it can take. war endeavor grace gallantry danger Dorothy Dunnett
a11f669 Courage is the antidote to danger. danger Erle Stanley Gardner
b91fb4f In moments of great uncertainty on my travels, I have always felt that something is protecting me, that I will come to no harm. travel harm danger protection Tahir Shah
6569628 "If you're in trouble, I swear I will never stop until I get to you," he called softly. Sage could've pretended she was already gone, but she couldn't leave without answering. "I know." mary-e-pearson smart-heroine tamora-pierce ya-espionage-spy-thriller kickass-heroine ya-romance danger Erin Beaty
f7c52ca Dangers were no more than odd imaginings, like ghost stories that children made up to frighten one another: things that couldn't possibly happen. fear ghost-stories danger Lois Lowry
a02321e Her beauty was a weapon. A loaded gun, with the barrel pointed at her own head. irony danger Khaled Hosseini
3f5dfbb Yet one must also recognize that morality is based on ideas and that all ideas are dangerous--dangerous because ideas can only lead to action and where the action leads no man can say. morality danger ideas James Baldwin
2c42f82 The possibility of injury or death was a strong attraction: as the online world became more and more pre-edited and slicked up, and as even its so-called reality sites raised questions about authenticity in the minds of the viewers, the rough, unpolished physical world was taking on a mystic allure. reality truth physicality web danger internet Margaret Atwood
4a5a76d ...it's strange, isn't it, how you don't know how big a part of you someone is until they're threatened? And then you think you can't possibly go on if something happens to them, but the most frightening part is that, actually, you will go on, you'll have to go on, with them or without them. There's just no telling what you'll become risk fear change heart love truth realization see understand result realize outcome worry danger threaten soul Robin Hobb
c321e55 The instinct of self-deception in human beings makes them try to banish from their minds dangers of which at the bottom they are perfectly aware by declaring them nonexistent, and a warning such as mine against cheap optimism was bound to prove particularly unwelcome at a moment when a sumptuously laid supper was awaiting for us in the next room. warning humanity optimism awaiting aware banish cheap-optimism dangers danger nonexistent supper unwelcome awareness human-beings cowardice self-deception instinct food Stefan Zweig
bc99bb1 Danger will come upon us when it will. We can't stop it. We can only try to be prepared. There's no point in looking ahead to that danger and suffering its effects even before it comes to us. dread danger Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
37f8daa Their faith in him is at once touching and alarming -- their trust that they are safe simply because he's with them, as if an adult presence warded of all possible threat, emanated an unbreachable forcefield. danger safety children Paul Murray
fb3f13c You've never been the safe, nice girl next door, despite everything you do to be that person. That's why you joined the I.S., and even there you didn't fit in, because, knowing it or not, you were a possible threat to everyone around you. People sense it on some level. I see it all the time. The dangerous are attracted by the lure of an equal, and the weak are afraid. Then they avoid you, or go out of their way to make your life miserable so you'll leave and they can continue deluding themselves that they're safe. (...) You got off on the risk. risk fit danger threat Kim Harrison
7723526 Danger sweetens the brew. Makes it more delicious. dangerous-people danger Robin Maxwell
a122a35 "People should be more careful about what they read to their kids," Park said. "Some of this stuff sounds dangerous." kids read danger dangerous Jennifer Crusie
45b8dd8 Lenin was always prone to overestimate the physical danger to himself: in this respect he was something of a coward. russian-revolution lenin danger Orlando Figes
baeb2d7 To venture ... close (to a lion) on foot ... would mean the sudden shattering of any kindly belief that the similarity of the lion and the pussy cat goes much beyond their whiskers. But then, since men still live by the sword, it's a little optimistic to expect the lion to withdraw his claws, handicapped as he is by his inability to read our better effusions about the immorality of bloodshed. killing lions danger Beryl Markham
d31ec3f I touch the double row of silver hoop earrings hanging from his left ear, trail along his jawline, his neck, down his shoulder, to the flaming tail of the dragon on his arm. He leans into the caress, and my own body feels on fire with the continued way his eyes gaze upon me. The first moment I saw him, the night people clamored over each other to step out of his way, I was frightened. The guy with earrings and tattoos and an energy radiating danger. Now--inside and out--all I see is beauty. rachel-young isaiah tattoos earrings danger touch Katie McGarry
52674ec As far as I was concerned, a little danger of head-shrinking is a small price to pay in return for a people who have remained true to an ancient code. danger Tahir Shah
7e61195 I asked my mother why we couldn't have books and she said, 'The trouble with a book is that you never know what's in it until it's too late.' I thought to myself, 'Too late for what? reading sedition danger censorship Jeanette Winterson
5058335 There was a danger in asking too much of a child, but the danger of asking too little was almost equal. risk youth teach demand equal kid little much require show child danger children young Robin Hobb
2d90572 The water, the surf, the colors on the shore. You think they make the beauty of the tropical sea, aye, lad? They do not. 'Tis the knowledge of what lurks below the surface of it, that awful-looking thing, as you call it, that carries death with every move that it makes. So it is, so it is with all beauty. fear death love danger James M. Cain
2b489db The dangerous secrets used to be held outside the government. Plots, conspiracies, secrets of revolution, secrets of the end of the social order. Now it's the government that has a lock on the secrets that matter. All the danger is in the White House, from nuclear weapons on down. government danger secrets power Don DeLillo
ca225a2 Why do we live in Spooksville? It's not just because our families live here. It's because this is a place of adventure. The unknown surrounds us every time we leave our homes. I know what I'm doing is dangerous. All great adventures are. christopher-pike spooksville watch-waverly aliens danger the-unknown Christopher Pike
eb34ba9 The world (including Drapervilleh is not a nice place, and the innocent and the young have to take their chances. They cannot be watched over, twenty-four hours of the day. At what moment, from what hiding-place, the idea of evil will strike, there is no telling. And when it does, the result is not always disastrous. Children have their own incalculable strength and weakness, and this, for all their seeming helplessness, will determine the pattern of their lives. Even when you suspect why they fall downstairs, you cannot be sure. You have no way of knowing whether their fright is permanent or can be healed by putting butter on the large lump that comes out on their foreheads after a fall. parenting danger evil William Maxwell
229d908 "You quit? I thought you said it was too dangerous to quit, Alex. You said people who try to get out die." "I almost did. If it weren't for Gary Frankel, I probably wouldn't have made it. . . ." "Gary Frankel?" The nicest, geekiest guy in school? For the first time I scan Alex's face and see a faint, new scar above his eye and nasty ones by his ear and neck. "Oh, God! W-what did they d-do to you?" He takes my hand and places it on his chest. His eyes are intense and dark, like they were the first time I noticed him in the parking lot that first day of school senior year. "It took me a long time to realize I needed to fix everything The choices I made. The gang. Bein' beaten to within an inch of my life and branded like cattle was nothin' compared to losin' you. If I could take back every word I said in the hospital, I would. I thought if I pushed you away, I'd be protectin' you from what happened to Paco and my dad." He looks up and his eyes pierce mine. "I'll never push you away again, Brittany. Ever. I swear." Beaten? Branded? I'm feeling sick to my stomach and tears sting my eyes. "Shh." He puts his arms around me, rubbing his hands across my back. "It's all right. I'm okay," he chants over and over again, his voice catching." comfort beaten brittany-ellis quit gang crying danger tears Simone Elkeles
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