“As the stag which the huntsman has hit flies through bush and brake, over stock and stone, thereby exhausting his strength but not expelling the deadly bullet from his body; so does experience show that they who have troubled consciences run from place to place, but carry with them wherever they go their dangerous wounds.” DoeShowsBodyRunningDangerousConscienceStonesWoundsBulletsExhaustingBrakeStags Author:Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
“Different types of dangerous lives-You have no idea what you are living through; you rush through life as if you were drunk and now and then fall down some staircase. But thanks to your drunkenness you never break a limb; your muscles are too relaxed and your brain too benighted for you to find the stones of these stairs as hard as we do.” IfsIdeasDifferentHardFallBrainBreakDangerousTypeStonesDrunkThanksNo IdeaMusclesNow And ThenRelaxedLimbsFalling DownStairsDrunkennessStaircases Book:The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs Source: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
“I've made a contribution to my time and my generation through being myself, not through what I shared with the Rolling Stones. It's very bad for me and very dangerous to see myself as someone who had an influence on this song or that song. It immediately puts me in the position where my worth is dependent on how much of my soul I shared with Mick Jagger, and it's just not valid. You can use the gossip you've heard. You're not getting it from me.” MadeSoulUseSongGenerationsHeardInfluenceDangerousPositionStonesMy SoulMy TimeContributionDependentGossipRollingMy GenerationRolling StonesBeing MyselfJagger Author:Marianne Faithfull
“Everything we knew condemned us, and our questioning condemned us most of all. Knowledge was the way of our people, and knowledge was dangerous. It was the first thing that freed you and the thing that put you in peril. It was the key to the ten gates. I saw them clearly now, each and every one, the gates that were there for me. Ashes, Bones, Grass, Heart, Stone, Love, Sorrow, Blood, Earth, Sky.” PeopleWayFirstsHeartEarthSawsBloodSkyDangerousKeysSorrowTenStonesBonesGrassGatesQuestioningAshesPerilSorrow Love Author:Alice Hoffman
“He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stonecutter more obstinate, no manager more lucid or dangerous, than a poet.” CommonDyingDangerousPoetStonesCommon SenseManagersObstinateCholeraCutters Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“...we were like two people standing apart on separate mountain peaks, recklessly leaning forward to throw stones at one another, unaware of the dangerous chasm that separated us.” PeopleTwoDangerousMountainStandingStonesChasmsMountain PeaksStanding Apart Book:The Joy Luck Club Source: The Joy Luck Club
“You forgot to cough!” he said. “Sorry.” She coughed. “Your sneakiness is dangerous. Next time that chisel will lodge itself in my head.” “Now, Peder, there’s plenty of stone around here for carving. No need to practice on your own face.” He stroked his chin. “You’re right, my jaw is already chiseled to perfection.” She agreed, but she felt too silly to say so aloud.” NeedsSaidFacesNextFeltPracticeDangerousStonesPerfectionSorrySillyPlentyNext TimeChinsLodgesCarvingChisels Author:Shannon Hale