“I Must warn you, Iris, that I'm not a believer. And though I'm sure that the revelations of other men must be a source of infinite satisfaction to them, individually, I shouldn't for one second be so presumptuous as to make a choice among the many thousands of recorded revelations of truth, accepting one at the expense of all the others: I might so easily choose wrong and get into eternal trouble. And you must admit that the selection is wide, and dangerous to the amateur.” MenMightChoicesAcceptingTroubleAtheismDangerousSourceEternalInfiniteSatisfactionPositive AtheismWideBelieverRevelationsExpensesSelectionPresumptuousIrises Author:Gore Vidal
“The trouble with the new world we have watched being created over the past decade is that it sees no further than money. People have always been obsessed with money, of course - greed is as old as history. But when the institutions that govern all our lives forget there was ever anything else, then it gets dangerous.” PeopleWorldPastCoursesForgetMoneyOur LivesTroubleDangerousInstitutionsGreedDecadesObsessedNew WorldOver The Past Book:Take it personally: how to make conscious choices to change the world Source: Take it personally: how to make conscious choices to change the world
“I don't know but a book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf--at any rate it is safer from criticism. And taking a book off the brain, is akin to the ticklish & dangerous business of taking an old painting off a panel--you have to scrape off the whole brain in order to get at it with due safety--& even then, the painting may not be worth the trouble.” KnowsMenMayBookWholeOrderBrainCreativityTroubleDangerousPaintingCriticismSafetyRateBoundsDuesBetter OffCalvesTicklish Author:Herman Melville
“Many respected economists and statesmen believe our national debt is neither unwieldy nor a dangerous burden on the country. The trouble is that a vast majority of the American people think otherwise.... It violates basic American ideas of thrift and money management. These strong public feelings cannot be ignored forever.” PeopleThinkingBelieveIdeasCountryFeelingsStrongForeverTroubleDangerousManagementMajorityBurdenDebtIgnoredEconomistStatesmenThriftMoney ManagementNational Debt Author:Mo Udall
“Monsieur, sit down; listen to me. I am not a heathen, I am not hard-hearted, I am not unchristian, I am not dangerous, as they tell you; I would not trouble your faith; you believe in God and Christ and the Bible, and so do I.” BelieveHardChristTroubleDangerousBelieve In GodHeartedListen To MeHeathenUnchristian Author:Charlotte Bronte
“The idea of a government is to create an ordered, willing work force where there's no trouble. I think idlers are generally seen as potentially dangerous because they're asking questions.” ThinkingIdeasGovernmentForceTroubleDangerousWillingAskingAsking QuestionsIdlers Author:Tom Hodgkinson
“It's kind of interesting and sick that the intellectual culture called the 1960s, "time of troubles," a dangerous period in which a lot of harm was done to the society. And the reason is because we were civilized and that's dangerous. That increased the commitment to democracy, to rights and so on, and this left people much less obedient.” PeopleKindReasonDoneCultureLeftInterestingDemocracyRightsTroubleDangerousPeriodsIntellectualCommitmentSickHarmCivilized1960sObedientTimes Of Trouble Author:Noam Chomsky
“Bombing is a very dangerous option because it's so convenient and because at home it's politically acceptable because our boys aren't dying on the ground, it gets us into tremendous trouble, which, of course, in general is true of bombing.” HomeBoysTroubleDyingDangerous Author:Pierre Sprey
“Looking good kept me out of trouble. When I worked for Michael Alig, everybody was overdoing partying. It would take me so long to get ready, because I was never one of those girls that were naturally the cover of Vogue. I had to really work hard to look nice. I would take hours and hours to get ready. If you have high heels on, if you're dressed nice, you really can't be drunk or sloppy because it's dangerous. It's part of being a lady, so it really kept me out of trouble.” LongGirlHoursPartyNiceTroubleDangerousHard WorkDrunkHeelsLooking GoodVogue Author:Amanda Lepore