I think the most dangerous influence for a young writer is to be treated with cynicism or discouragement.

Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings who don't have all the answers to think that they do.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set-up by the non-dreamers

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

I'm not dangerous, but I have a sharp nose. I will probably be playing bad guys forever because of my face.

It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.

Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk.

I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.

The most dangerous of our impulses reign in ourselves against ourselves. To dissolve them is a creative act.

He was living in an age much more dangerous, more painful, much more on the edge than our own particular age.

Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

I know of nothing that is so degenerating and so dangerous as idleness, for the brain will seek out mischief.

[Gonturan] is a true friend, but a friend with thoughts of her own, and the thoughts of others are dangerous.

African nationalism is meaningless, dangerous, anachronistic, if it is not, at the same time, pan-Africanism.

The idea of reasoning with terrorists without force or with appeasement is naive, and I think it's dangerous.

You gotta be really careful what you bite off. Don't bite off more than you can chew. It's a dangerous world.

I'd love to do an action movie. Something with lots of stunts. Anything fast and dangerous and involving guns.

The search for Reality is the most dangerous of all undertakings, for it destroys the world in which you live.

Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet it alone.

I think a human animal is far more wild and unpredictable and dangerous and destructive than any other animal.

In the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is dangerous.

Men are so unwilling to displease a Prince, that it is as dangerous to inform him right, as to serve him wrong.

The most dangerous thing for an actor is to refuse to listen to anyone else, to feel you know more than anybody.

The war is like an actress who is getting old. It's less and less photogenic and more and more dangerous. (1944)

But shortcuts are dangerous; we cannot delude ourselves that our knowledge is further along than it actually is.

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

Doc still loved true things but he knew that it was not a general love and it could be a very dangerous mistress.

Whining is not only graceless, but it can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood.

We all make mistakes. It's human. Just learn from them. Repeating them and being aware of it is the dangerous bit.

Lincoln is me. He is America. He is what makes us a great nation and a dangerous nation, all wrapped up in one man.

Nothing is more dangerous that the politician who uses politics as a surrogate for an unsatisfactory personal life.

Given the right set of circumstances any one of us could become dangerous - so why not show that in our programmes?

Learning is a good thing, but unless it's tempered by faith and a love of freedom, it can be very dangerous indeed.

It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading.

I greatly fear some of America's greatest and most dangerous enemies are such as think themselves her best friends.

The suburbs are incredibly oppressive. I actually believe that the suburbs are much more dangerous than the ghettos.

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.

When some systems are stuck in a dangerous impasse, randomness and only randomness can unlock them and set them free.

Nothing is more difficult than to understand the dead, I've found; but nothing is more dangerous than to ignore them.

Well you know it's dangerous in politics, because especially in the Philippines there's a lot of killing in politics.

I knew the way lost hopes could be dangerous, how they could turn a person into someone they never thought they'd be.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

It's very dangerous to wave to people you don't know because what if they don't have hands? They'll think you're cocky.

Rules? Ixion is supposed to be free of rules, yet it seems as strict as Grave in its own way and more...more dangerous.

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.

I've used drugs that I do consider to be dangerous, drugs that are potentially detrimental to kids and society at large.

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