I Quotes
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“It is dangerous to explain too clearly to man how like he is to the animals without pointing out his greatness. It is also dangerous to make too much of his greatness without his vileness. It is still more dangerous to leave him in ignorance of both, but it is most valuable to represent both to him. Man must not be allowed to believe that he is equal either to animals or to angels, nor to be unaware of either, but he must know both.”
Source: Human Happiness
“It is dangerous to know especially if others know you know because they will fear you will tell and defame them and might want to sabotage you...”
Source: The Impossible Proof Of Knowing Nothing
“It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.”
Source: Love and will
“It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.”
Source: Mr. Maugham Himself
“It is dangerous to live in a secure world.”
Source: Open City
“It is dangerous to maintain equality at the cost of placing the pieces passively.”
“It is dangerous to make everybody go forward by the same road: and worse to measure others by oneself.”
“It is dangerous to mention any subject having high emotional content without hastily saying where you are for or agin it.”
Source: How to Lie with Statistics
“It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.”
Source: Twilight of Empire: Memoirs of Prime Minister Clement Attlee
“It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal. It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.”
Source: Insecurity of Freedom
“It is dangerous to tell the people that the laws are unjust; for they obey them only because they think them just. Therefore it isnecessary to tell them at the same time that they must obey them because they are laws, just as they must obey superiors, not because they are just, but because they are superiors. In this way all sedition is prevented.”
Source: Pascal selections
“It is dangerous to turn a fast car. Slow down so that the universe can turn you towards the right direction.”
“It is dangerous to understand new things too quickly.”
“it is dangerous to unmask images, since they dissimulate the fact that there is nothing behind them).”
Source: Simulacra and Simulation
“It is dangerous to use our own ability to access non-traumatic memories as a standard against which we judge a trauma victim’s response.”
“It is dangerous when you start calling people from one part of the world terrorists or fanatic, and you reduce them to some abstract notion. If evil has a geographical place, and if the evil has a name, that is the beginning of fascism. Real life is not this way. You have fanatics and narrow-minded people everywhere.”
“It is dangerous, at any time, to multiply sources of weakness.”
“It is dangerously destabilizing to have half the world on the cutting edge of technology while the other half struggles on the bare edge of survival.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001
“It is Dante who decides who should be punished and where they go, what torments they suffer. It is the poet who takes those measures, yet by making himself the journeyer, he tries to make us forget: We think he too is another innocent witness to god's work.”
Source: The Dante Club
“It is dark now. The snow is deep blue and the ocean nearly black. It is time for some music.”
“It is dark. You cannot see. Only the hint of stars out the broken window. And a voice as old as the Snake from the Garden whispers, 'I will hold your hand.”
“It is darker than usual in my chamber tonight, not having you here to light the tallow candles as you usually do. I used to find comfort in your warm smile as you would spark light throughout my melancholy space.”
Source: Adira and the Dark Horse
“It is darkness that obscures light. Open your heart and let the moon come in. This is how we expand. This is how a resistant being turns into a lover. This is the holy fire.”
“It is darkness that reveals the brightest stars and most ardent wishes.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“It is day after day in this institution, borrow money, run up the debt, run up the deficits and then with a straight face say, we are going to repeal a tax that affects 1 percent of the American people, just 1 percent of the American people.”
“It is day after day. It is week after week. It is month after month. It is year after year. It is only time going and going. There is no joy. There is no lightness of heart. It is only the passing of days. I am young and alone.”
Source: I Await the Devil's Coming
“It is day by day that we go forward; today we are as we were yesterday and tomorrow we shall be like ourselves today. So we go on without being aware of it, and this is one of the miracles of Providence that I so love.”
“It is day two of the Democratic convention, and apparently they had a huge lighting problem in the convention hall today. They worked all day on it. They still couldn't get President Obama out of Bill Clinton's shadow.”
“It is death's || sad sleep || that I grieve.
For the court, || and Cunedda's || shroud.
I long for || a sea inlet, || for the sea's flow,
For the herd || and hearth || I'm longing.”
Source: The Book of Taliesin: Poems of Warfare and Praise in an Enchanted Britain
“It is death that is the guide of our life, and our life has no goal but death.”
Source: The Treasure of the Humble: Works of Maeterlinck
“It is death that makes life precious,
darkness that makes light precious,
dirt that makes flowers precious,
storms that make rainbows precious,
pain that makes pleasure precious,
chaos that makes harmony precious,
space that makes matter precious,
clutter that makes orderliness precious,
chance that makes certainty precious,
eternity that makes time precious,
truth that makes reality precious,
silence that makes speech precious,
rest that makes motion precious,
opinions that make facts precious,
strife that makes peace precious,
curiosity that makes knowledge precious,
suspicion that makes evidence precious,
fear that makes caution precious,
slavery that makes freedom precious,
oblivion that makes existence precious,
yesterday that makes tomorrow precious,
and tomorrow that makes forever precious.”
“It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of.”
“It is debatable whether blind faith is truly faith at all. Faith is the perceptive gray area where scientific facts meet an individual's experiential truths - the extreme of the former is left feeling in the dark whereas the latter is caught blinded by the light. By proper scientific method, it is intellectually dishonest for me to declare the existence of God with utmost certainty, but to my individual spirit, I would be intellectually dishonest to deny the existence of God even for a second. This leaves the best of both worlds, as the believer is called to be able to give reasons for his faith, a deviation from mere fantasy.”
Source: Killosophy
“It is debatable which is causing us more harm - hot-headed ignorance or cold-hearted intellectualism.”
“It is debatable which one of us is the insane one.”
“It is December and we must be brave.”
“It is December in Paris. It was already December when I set out from Luanda, leaving the radiance of your gaze behind me. And it will be December yet, even after the month is over, and then will come only more December and winter, and December again and always the same, until l come back to the Sunny Season, and the land which is lit everywhere, always, by your gaze.”
Source: Nação Crioula
“It is decidedly not true that "nice guys finish last," as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said.”
“It is decidedly not true that 'nice guys finish last'.”
“It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously . . .”
Source: The Lost World
“It is deep January. The sky is hard. The stalks are firmly rooted in ice.”
Source: The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play
“It is deep winter with shivering cold air, but my heart is dancing with joy and spring flowers.”
“It is deeply conservative to suggest that any sufficiently difficult woman from history -- say, one who rebelled against the constraints of femininity by dressing and acting in a masculine way -- must have been a man.”
Source: Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights
“It is deeply interesting to notice also where the citizens were put to work. Each was set to labor on the bit of all opposite his home... I do not say that men are not called to service in far distant places... But I do say that for the vast majority the task that God appoints is the task lying at the door. The nearest thing is God's thing. The nearest duty is God's duty. He who cannot find his service there is little likely to be useful anywhere.”
“It is deeply moving, powerful, and disturbing. A film that must be seen.”
“It is deeply pejorative to call someone a "climate change denier". This is because it is a phrase designedly reminiscent of the idea of Holocaust Denial.”
“It is deeply satisfying to win a prize in front of a lot of people.”
Source: In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers
“It is deeply shocking and incomprehensible to me that despite volumes of documentation and living witnesses who can attest to the horrors of the Holocaust, there are still those who would deny it.”
“It is deeply unfair to task writers of color with unique responsibilities that we don't assign to all writers.”
“It is defeat that lives on and takes the years to smother.”