“It's not just: you get off the plane, you're back home, everything's fine. Maybe the physical danger ends, but soldiers are still deeply at risk of being injured in a different way.” WayStillsDifferentEndsHomeRiskDangerFineSoldierPlanesDifferent WaysInjuredBack Home Author:Kevin Powers
“Many Christians, though keenly sensitive to the dangers of greed and discontent that come with an economy of continually increasing consumption, nevertheless feel that it is worth risking if only it can end man's physical miseries. The trouble is that it can't. In a finite world, continually increasing consumption is just not possible.” IfsMenWorldFeelsEndsChristianEconomyTroubleDangerMiseryGreedSensitiveConsumptionNeverthelessConsumerismFiniteDiscontentOverconsumption Author:Joy Davidman
“Where cultural representations do not reach out beyond themselves, there is the danger that they will function as the surrogates for activism, that they will constitute both the beginning and the end of political practice.” EndsPoliticalPracticeDangerFunctionActivismReach OutRepresentationSurrogates Author:Angela Davis
“The habit of seen the public rule, is gradually accustoming the American mind to an interference with private rights that is slowly undermining the individuality of the national character. There is getting to be so much public right, that private right is overshadowed and lost. A danger exists that the ends of liberty will be forgotten altogether in the means.” MindMeanEndsCharacterLostLibertyRightsDangerHabitForgottenIndividualityInterferenceUndermining Author:James F. Cooper
“Experimental science is a craft and an art, and part of the art is knowing when to end a fruitless experiment. There is a danger of becoming obsessed with a fruitless experiment even if it goes nowhere.” IfsArtTwoEndsKnowingPlansDangerBecomingArt IsBuiltExperimentsCraftsObsessedExperimental Science Author:Martin Lewis Perl
“The danger of education, I have found, is that it so easily confuses means with ends. Worse than that, it quite easily forgets both and devotes itself merely to the mass production of uneducated gradtuates - people literaly unfit for anything except to take part in an elaborate and completely artificial charade which they and their contemporaries have conspired to call "life".” PeopleMeanEndsFoundForgetAtheismDangerMassProductionsArtificialUneducatedMass ProductionCharades Book:Love and Living Source: Love and Living
“All of us in this country give lip service to the ideals set forth in the Bill of Rights and emphasized by every additional amendment, and yet when war is stirring in the world, many of us are ready to curtail our civil liberties. We do not stop to think that curtailing these liberties may in the end bring us a greater danger than the danger we are trying to avert.” ThinkingWorldGivingTryingMayWarEndsCountryLibertyGreaterRightsDangerReadyIdealsBillsLipsCivil RightsAmendmentsStirringCivil LibertiesBill Of RightsAvertLip Service Author:Eleanor Roosevelt
“We have a friend and protector, from whom, if we do not ourselves depart from Him, nor power nor spirit can separate us. In His strength let us proceed on our journey, through the storms, and troubles, and dangers of the world. However they may rage and swell, though the mountains shake at the tempests, our rock will not be moved: we have one friend who will never forsake us; one refuge, where we may rest in peace and stand in our lot at the end of the days. That same is He who liveth, and was dead; who is alive forevermore; and hath the keys of hell and of death.” IfsWorldMayEndsGodSpiritHellAliveTroubleJourneyRocksDangerKeysMountainMovedStormRageShakesRefugeTempestForsakeProtectorRest In PeaceOne Friend Author:Reginald Heber
“I love mysteries. To fall into a mystery and its danger ... everything becomes so intense in those moments. When most mysteries are solved, I feel tremendously let down. So I want things to feel solved up to a point, but there's got to be a certain percentage left over to keep the dream going. It's like at the end of Chinatown: The guy says, 'Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown.' You understand it, but you don't understand it, and it keeps that mystery alive. That's the most beautiful thing.” WantFeelsEndsMomentsDreamBeautifulGuyCertainFallLeftForgetAliveMysteryDangerIntenseBeautiful ThingsPercentagesForget ItLet DownJakeChinatown Author:David Lynch
“The bravery founded upon the hope of recompense, upon the fear of punishment, upon the experience of success, upon rage, upon ignorance of dangers, is common bravery, and does not merit the name. True bravery proposes a just end, measures the dangers, and, if it is necessary, the affront, with coldness.” IfsDoeEndsNamesCommonDangerIgnoranceBraveryRagePunishmentMeritProposeColdnessAffrontRecompense Author:Francois de la Noue
“One of the characteristics of the university is that it is made up of professors who train professors, or professionals training professionals. Education was this no longer directed toward people who were to be educated with a view to become fully developed human beings, but to specialists, in other that they might learn how to train other specialists. This is the danger of "Scholasticism," that philosophical tendency which began to be sketched at the end of antiquity, developed in the Middle Ages, and whose presence is still recognizable in philosophy today.” PeopleHumansMadeStillsEndsPhilosophyMightAgeTodayHuman BeingsViewsMiddleDangerTrainingPhilosophicalTrainUniversityTendenciesEducatedCharacteristicsProfessorsMiddle AgesAntiquitySpecialistsScholasticism Author:Pierre Hadot
“Just as children, step by step, must separate from their parents, we will have to separate from them. And we will probably suffer...from some degree of separation anxiety: because separation ends sweet symbiosis. Because separation reduces our power and control. Because separation makes us feel less needed, less important. And because separation exposes our children to danger.” FeelsChildrenImportantEndsSufferingParentStepsDangerSweetNeededDegreesAnxietyOur ChildrenSeparationPower And ControlSymbiosis Author:Judith Viorst
“However, the danger in [socially unbalanced relationships] is that the subjection of the woman temporarily calms the man's jealousy but also renders it more demanding. He ends up making his mistress live like those prisoners on whom light is shone day and night in order for them to be better watched. And things always end in tragedy.” MenEndsLightNightOrderClassDangerOne DayTragedyCalmPrisonerMistressDay And NightSubjectionUnbalanced Author:Marcel Proust
“I perfectly understand the particular attention which you pay to the question of nuclear energy, and fully realize the possible dangers and catastrophes which might result for mankind from an irresponsible attitude. In this field my wish is for Iran to put all her efforts towards the peaceful use of atomic energy. We shall continue to co-operate with all the nations of the world to attain this end in the interests of human society.” WorldHumansEndsUseMightEnergyNationsWishInterestRealizingResultsEffortPayAttentionAttitudeMankindDangerFieldsParticularNuclearPeacefulIranCatastropheIrresponsibleHuman SocietyMy WishNuclear EnergyAtomic Energy Author:Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
“We should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our Liberties if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free, fair, virtuous, and independent elections. If an election is to be determined by a majority of a single vote, and that can be procured by a party through artifice or corruption, the Government may be the choice of a party for its own ends, not of the nation for the national good.” IfsShouldMayEndsGovernmentChoicesNationsLosesPartyLibertyDangerFairsVoteSightIndependentElectionMajorityCorruptionDeterminedPurityVotingVirtuousUnfaithfulArtifice Author:John Adams
“Alas, passion is conducive to certain other things because when you have too much passion and you have too much work, you possibly end up having black holes. The danger is too much passion.” EndsCertainPassionBlackToo MuchDangerHolesAlasBlack HoleToo Much Work Author:Manolo Blahnik
“People think in narratives - in beginnings, middles and ends. The danger when you edit something too severely is that it no longer makes sense; worse still, it leaves people with the disquieting impression that something is being hidden.” PeopleThinkingStillsEndsDangerImpressionNarrativeMake SenseEdits Author:Errol Morris
“I realized that there is something else that is influencing people to behave like that, and that's the taking of the souls away from God. If you get people to sin, they get pushed further away from God and eventually God doesn't really own the soul anymore. The Devil owns the soul and that's where the danger comes in. Because in the end, there's no do-overs.” PeopleIfsSoulEndsSinInfluenceDangerDevilI RealizedBehaveInfluencing People Author:Ralph Sarchie
“My problem has been with purely digital films. I feel the danger there is that the kind of short-cuts you end up having to take are the ones that are most telling in the main characters.” FeelsKindHas BeensEndsCharacterProblemFilmCuttingDangerDigitalMain CharactersShort Cuts Author:Rick Heinrichs
“Works of art always spring from those who have faced the danger, gone to the very end of an experience, to the point beyond which no human being can go. The further one dares to go, the more decent, the more personal, the more unique a life becomes.” HumansArtEndsHuman BeingsGoneDangerUniqueSpringDareDecentWorks Of Art Author:Rainer Maria Rilke
“I guess my parents wasn't f***ing with me being with X. It was more less, they thought that my life was in danger. They felt it was hurting more, then it was helping. So they ended up pulling me out of the deal. It was actually a blessing in disguise because everything worked out for the best at the end of the day.” EndsHelpingFeltParentHurtDealsDangerBlessingThe End Of The DayDisguisePullingBlessings In Disguise Author:Yung Berg
“My assessment is that we have a crisis in national political leadership. When will America recognize the danger we face? When will the corrosive partisanship of American politics end and allow for a bipartisan solution to arguably the most dangerous threat our nation has faced in over 60 years?” YearsEndsAmericaFacesPoliticalNationsDangerousDangerSolutionsCrisisThreatAmerican PoliticsAssessmentBipartisanPartisanshipPolitical Leadership Author:Ricardo Sanchez
“The Fun Girl video which was directed by Bijoux Altamarino really came out of her vision. I feel she understood the mystery, danger and power of the song and It really came through in the end.” FeelsEndsSongGirlFunVisionMysteryDangerUnderstoodVideo Author:Nomi Ruiz
“The danger in writing about a world you don't know very well is that you can get lost in it, and sometimes I'll end up with a hundred pages I don't know what to do with.” KnowsWorldWritingWellsEndsSometimesLostDangerPagesHundred Author:Dan Chaon
“If I don't commit to fighting for the future, 20 years later, 30 years later, after the end of the expiration date of the joint declaration, Hong Kong will be more at risk and in greater danger.” IfsYearsEndsFightingGreaterRiskDangerCommitDeclarationJointsHong Kong Author:Joshua Wong
“When I'm with my kids, I definitely try and be in the moment and wait till the end unless the mess poses a real danger, like slipping. But when I am cooking by myself, I definitely clean as I go to simplify.” TryingRealEndsMomentsKidsWaitingDangerCookingCleanMessSimplifySlippingTill The End Author:Sarah Michelle Gellar
“Danger is to adventure what garlic is to spaghetti sauce. Without it, you just end up with stewed tomatoes.” EndsDangerAdventureSauceTomatoesSpaghettiGarlicSpaghetti Sauce Author:Tom Robbins
“This is why mustard gas is such a danger or any weapon of mass destruction is such a dangerous thing because it - it's victims become everyone in the end.” EndsDangerousDangerWeaponsMassDestructionVictimGasWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionDangerous ThingsMustardMustard Gas Author:George Packer
“I can only hope that Trump comes to realize the grave dangers of adopting a policy of confrontation toward Iran. Among these dangers is the likelihood that hardliners would again gain the upper hand in the governing process in Tehran, and the moderates who have sought to end national and regional tensions would be marginalized, or worse.” I CanEndsHandsWould BeProcessRealizingDangerPolicyTrumpGainsGravesTensionIranModeratesGoverningConfrontationLikelihoodAdoptingMarginalizedTehranUpper Hand Author:Richard A. Falk
“When I moved into one of the worst inner-cities in America to do missionary work I had to do risk assessment, and It was a risk. My family could have been in danger, house could get robbed at any minute but I count it all as nothing compared to knowing Jesus it was all worth it at the end of the day.” Has BeensEndsAmericaHouseJesusCitiesKnowingRiskMinutesWorstDangerMy FamilyMovedThe End Of The DayMissionaryWorth ItCould Have BeenAssessmentInner CityMissionary WorkKnowing Jesus Author:LeCrae
“Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.” WayArtEndsArtistResultsGoneDangerArt Is Book:Letters on Cézanne Source: Letters on Cézanne
“Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it's on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you've got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.” EndsFallPassionInterestingEmotionDangerColorRedFalling In LoveObsessionFrustrationInfatuationSpectrumFalling In Love With YouAnger And Frustration Author:Taylor Swift
“From this experience, I understood the danger of focusing only on what isn't there. What if I came to the end of my life and realized that I'd spent every day watching for a man who would never come to me? What an unbearable sorrow it would be, to realize I'd never really tasted the things I'd eaten, or seen the places I'd been, because I'd thought of nothing but the Chairman even while my life was drifting away from me. And yet if I drew my thoughts back from him, what life would I have? I would be like a dancer who had practiced since childhood for a performance she would never give.” IfsMenGivingEndsWould BeRealizingChildhoodDangerSorrowUnderstoodPerformancesDancerWhat IfMy ThoughtsUnbearableChairmanDriftingGeishaMemories Of A GeishaDrifting Away Author:Arthur Golden
“Life is an adventure of passion, risk, danger, laughter, beauty, love; a burning curiosity to go with the action to see what it is all about, to go search for a pattern of meaning, to burn one's bridges because you're never going to go back anyway, and to live to the end.” EndsActionLife IsPassionRiskDangerAdventureLaughterCuriosityPatternsBurningBridgesLife Is An AdventureBeauty Love Author:Saul Alinsky
“A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the highest 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. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the end to the means.” MeanEndsSelfCountryWould BeLawEnjoyLosesFreedomLibertyVirtueWrittenSacrificeDangerHigherCitizensHighestPropertyObligationOur CountrySavingStrictPreservationSelf PreservationGood CitizenObservanceAdherenceStrict Laws Author:Thomas Jefferson
“Another real danger to young men is thoughtlessness and lack of consideration. Lack of thought is one simple reason why thousands of souls are cast away forever. Men will not consider,-will not look forward,-will not look around them,-will not reflect on the end of their present course, and the sure consequences of their present ways,-and awake at last to find they are damned for lack of thinking.” ThinkingMenWayLooksRealSoulEndsReasonLastsYoungCoursesSimpleForeverDangerConsequenceCastsReason WhyYoung ManAwakeConsiderationCast AwayThoughtlessness Author:J. C. Ryle
“The other thing that troubled me: Dad was clutching his workbag. Usually when he does that, it means we're in danger. Like the time gunmen stormed into our hotel in Cairo. I heard shots coming from the lobby and ran downstairs to check on my dad. By the time I got there, he was just calmly zipping up his workbag while three unconscious gunmen hung by their feet from the chandelier, their robes falling over their heads so you could see their boxer shorts. Dad claimed not to have witnessed anything, and in the end the police blamed a freak chandelier malfunction.” MeanDoeEndsFallThreeHeardFeetDangerDadShotsPoliceMy DadChecksRanUnconsciousHotelFreakHungBoxersRobesShortsCairoMalfunctionChandeliersGunmen Author:Rick Riordan
“It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass.” KnowsWorldWayWantEndsSometimesStoriesLordDarknessHappenedDangerShadowRingsPassingPassingsTowersWorth Fighting ForSun ShinesFrodoFrodo BagginsTwo TowersThings Worth Fighting ForSamwiseGreat HobbitFantasy StoriesSam Gamgee Author:J. R. R. Tolkien
“Almost halfway down the aisle, she saw someone she wasn't expecting, and she almost stumbled on her satin heels. Kingsley Martin stood at the end of a pew, his arms crossed. He was wearing a tuxedo as well. Just like any other guest. What was he doing here? He was supposed to be in Paris! He was supposed to be gone! He looked directly at Mimi. She heard his voice loud and clear in her head. Leave him. Why should I? What do you promise me? Nothing. And everything. A life of danger and adventure. A chance to be yourself. Leave him. Come with me.” ShouldWellsEndsVoiceChanceGoneClearSawsHeardDangerAdventureArmsPromiseSupposed To BeLoudParisBeing YourselfGuestsExpectingHeelsShould IHalfwayAisleSatinPromise MeTuxedosMimi Author:Melissa de la Cruz