Best fall & danger Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“My whole life has been spent walking by the side of a bottomless chasm, jumping from stone to stone. Sometimes I try to leave my narrow path and join the swirling mainstream of life, but I always find myself drawn inexorably back towards the chasm's edge, and there I shall walk until the day I finally fall into the abyss.”

Trying Has Beens Sometimes Whole Fall Sides Walks Path Danger Walking Stones Edges Whole Life Mainstream Abyss Jumping Chasms Narrow Path

Book:Edvard Munch: The Man and the Artist

Source: Edvard Munch: The Man and the Artist

“Virgil is so exact in every word, that none can be changed but for a worse; nor any one removed from its place, but the harmony will be altered. He pretends sometimes to trip; but it is only to make you think him in danger of a fall, when he is most secure.”

Thinking Sometimes Fall Danger Changed Harmony Secure Altered Make You Think

Book:The art of painting of Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy

Source: The art of painting of Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy

“The danger is that we may fail to perceive life's greatest meaning, fall short of its highest good, miss its deepest and most abiding happiness, be unable to render the most needed service, be unconscious of life ablaze with the light of the Presence of God - and be content to have it so - that is the danger. That some day we may wake up and find that always we have been busy with the husks and trappings of life - and have really missed life itself.”

May Has Beens Light Fall Failing Missing Danger Needed Highest Wake Up Busy Perceive Unconscious Abiding Presence Of God

Author:Phillips Brooks

“You can be a giant among artists without ever attaining any great skill. Facility is a dangerous thing. When there is too much technical ease the brain stops criticizing. Don't let the hand fall into a smart way of putting the mind to sleep.”

Way Mind Hands Artist Fall Sleep Brain Too Much Dangerous Danger Skills Smart Ease Giants Criticize Facility Dangerous Things

Author:John French Sloan

“As a boy holding to a post or a pillar whirls about it with headlong speed without any fear or falling, so perform your worldly duties, fixing your hold firmly upon God, and you will be free from danger.”

Fall Boys Danger Duty Speed Posts Worldly Pillars Fixing

Book:Sayings: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120

Source: Sayings: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120

“Because if we make the wrong choice, then the danger is that we'll get hit again, that we'll be hit in a way that will be devastating from the standpoint of the United States, and that we'll fall back into the pre-9/11 mind set if you will, that in fact these terrorist attacks are just criminal acts, and that we're not really at war. I think that would be a terrible mistake for us.”

Ifs Thinking Way Mind War States Facts Would Be Choices Fall United Mistake United States Danger Terrible Criminals Terrorist Standpoint Fall Back Mind Set Terrorist Attacks Wrong Choices

Author:Dick Cheney

“Status Anxiety: A worry, so pernicious as to be capable of ruining extended stretches of our lives, that we are in danger of failing to conform to the ideals of success laid down by our society and that we may as a result be stripped of dignity and respect; a worry that we are currently occupying too modest a rung or are about to fall to a lower one.”

May Happiness Success Fall Results Worry Our Lives Failing Danger Anxiety Capable Ideals Dignity Our Society Modest Conform Pernicious Dignity And Respect

Author:Alain de Botton

“If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger. [Lat., Si cadere necesse est, occurendum discrimini.]”

Ifs Should Fall Danger

Author:Tacitus

“There is no slight danger from general ignorance; and the only choice which Providence has graciously left to a vicious government is either to fall by the people, if they are suffered to become enlightened, or with them, if they are kept enslaved and ignorant.”

People Ifs Government Choices Fall Left Danger Ignorance Ignorant Enlightened Providence Vicious

Book:The Friend: a series of essays ... First American, from the second London edition

Source: The Friend: a series of essays ... First American, from the second London edition

“Be not too rash in the breaking of an inconvenient custom; as it was gotten, so leave it by degrees. Danger attends upon too sudden alterations; he that pulls down a bad building by the great may be ruined by the fall, but he that takes it down brick by brick may live to build a better.”

May Fall Danger Building Degrees Customs Ruined Bricks Inconvenient Alterations

Book:Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

“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.”

Want Feels Ends Moments Dream Beautiful Guy Certain Fall Left Forget Alive Mystery Danger Intense Beautiful Things Percentages Forget It Let Down Jake Chinatown

Author:David Lynch

“Democracy appears to be safer and less liable to revolution than oligarchy. For in oligarchies there is the double danger of the oligarchs falling out among themselves and also with the people; but in democracies there is only the danger of a quarrel with the oligarchs. No dissension worth mentioning arises among the people themselves. And we may further remark that a government which is composed of the middle class more nearly approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is the safest of the imperfect forms of government.”

Source: On man in the universe: Metaphysics, Parts of animals, Ethics, Politics, Poetics

“The President of the United States has super star status. He's not a normal person, because he's protected like no other person in the world and if this man's life is in danger, the whole world is kind of in peril in a way, because the leader of the free world could fall into the hands of terrorists.”

Ifs Men World Way Kind Persons States Whole Hands Life Is Fall Stars President United Leader United States Danger Normal Terrorist Whole World Protected Peril Free World Super Star

Author:Roland Emmerich

“... with every Asiatic country where we operate in cooperation with the existing culture, the need for intelligent understanding of that country and its ways of life will be crucial. These nations will very likely not respond to appeals with which we are familiar, and not value rewards which seem to us irresistible. The danger--and it would be fatal to world peace--is that in our ignorance of their cultural values we shall meet in head-on collision and incontinently fall back on the old pattern of imposing our own values by force.”

“While extremely sensitive as to the slightest approach to slander, you must also guard against an extreme into which some people fall, who, in their desire to speak evil of no one, actually uphold and speak well of vice.”

People Wells Desire Fall Evil Speak Danger Approach Vices Extremes Sensitive Slander

Book:The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]

Source: The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]

“It is at the approach of extreme danger when a hollow puppet can accomplish nothing, that power falls into the mighty hands of nature, of the spirit giant-born, who listens only to himself, and knows nothing of compacts.”

Knows Hands Spirit Fall Born Danger Approach Extremes Accomplish Giants Hollow Puppets Accomplish Nothing

Author:Friedrich Schiller

“The health of the soul is as precarious as that of the body; for when we seem secure from passions, we are no less in danger of their infection than we are of falling ill when we appear to be well.”

Wells Soul Body Seems Fall Passion Danger Ill Secure Infection Precarious

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The more secure we feel against our liability to any error to which, in fact, we are liable, the greater must be our danger of falling into it.”

Feels Facts Fall Greater Danger Errors Secure Liable Liability

Book:Selections from the Writings of Dr. Whately

Source: Selections from the Writings of Dr. Whately

“The health of the soul is something we can be no more sure of than that of the body; and though a man may seem far from the passions, yet he is in as much danger of falling into them as one in a perfect state of health of having a fit of sickness.”

Men May Soul States Body Seems Fall Passion Perfect Danger Health Fit Sickness

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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