Quotes: danger
Quotes 1 till 15 of 174.
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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
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A Victory without danger is a triumph without glory.
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A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.
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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.
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A nation is not in danger of financial disaster merely because it owes itself money.
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A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.
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A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.
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A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation.
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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.
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A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself in his rightful place of composition, the small single unluxurious ''retreat'' of the twentieth century, the hotel bedroom.
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And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes.
Source: Out of the Silent Planet (1938) Hyoi, p. 76 -
Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger.
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As soon as there is life there is danger.
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As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.
