“A community is a butcher and a doctor, a minister, a town troublemaker. A "community" is not a bunch of people united by some grievance. That's just self-righteousness - incredibly dangerous and antidemocratic.” PeopleSelfCommunityUnitedDangerousDoctorsTownsBunchMinistersRighteousnessGrievanceButchersSelf RighteousnessTroublemaker Author:Fran Lebowitz
“I grew up in northern Minnesota on 40 acres of wooded land 20 miles from the nearest town, and so the wilderness was home. It was not an unsafe place. I had that advantage. But there are so many representations of the wilderness being dangerous. You know, depictions of wild animals attacking people. It's like, "No, we kill those animals in far greater numbers than they kill us."” PeopleKnowsHomeAnimalNumbersGreaterLandDangerousGrewGrew UpAdvantageTownsMilesWildernessRepresentationAttackingAcresWild AnimalMinnesotaUnsafeDepiction Author:Cheryl Strayed
“The most dangerous thing I've ever encountered was a run-in with Boko Haram around 2007 in a small town in Nigeria. I got caught along with the photographer I was working with, the same one I worked with on the Afghanistan book, Seamus Murphy. We were caught in an attack by a mob after Friday prayers. And the level of violence was so extreme. It was more violent than any other mob violence I have ever seen.” BookRunningPrayerLevelsViolenceDangerousTownsPhotographerCaughtExtremesViolentAfghanistanSmall TownFridayNigeriaDangerous ThingsMurphyBoko HaramHaram Author:Eliza Griswold
“Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.” IfsMenWorldBelieveLiteratureGreaterDangerousExampleModelsTownsPursuitNativeRole ModelsAspirePursuit Of Knowledge Author:Mary Wollstonecraft
“what sets wilderness apart in the modern day is not that it's dangerous (it's almost certainly safer than any town or road) or that it's solitary (you can, so they say, be alone in a crowded room) or full of exotic animals (there are more at the zoo). it's that five miles out in the woods you can't buy anything.” AnimalRoomsFiveModernDangerousTownsWoodsMilesWildernessSolitaryCrowdedExoticZoosModern DayExotic Animals Book:The Age of Missing Information Source: The Age of Missing Information
“We are to regard existence as a raid or great adventure; it is to be judged, therefore, not by what calamities it encounters, but by what flag it follows and what high town it assaults. The most dangerous thing in the world is to be alive; one is always in danger of one's life. But anyone who shrinks from that is a traitor to the great scheme and experiment of being.” WorldExistenceAliveDangerousDangerAdventureTownsRegardExperimentsEncountersJudgedFlagsSchemesAssaultShrinksCalamityTraitorDangerous ThingsGreat Adventure Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“The public library is the most dangerous place in town” DangerousTownsLibraryPublic LibraryDangerous Places Author:John Ciardi
“I'll not meddle with it; it is a dangerous thing; it makes a man a coward; a man cannot steal, but it accuseth him; a man cannot swear, but it checks him; a man cannot lie with his neighbor's wife, but it detects him. 'Tis a blushing, shame -faced spirit, that mutinies in a man's bosom ; it fills one full of obstacles; it made me once restore a purse of gold that by chance I found; it beggars any man that keeps it; it is turned out of all towns and cities for a dangerous thing; and every man that means to live well endeavors to trust to himself and live without it.” MenWellsMeanMadeSpiritLyingFoundChanceCitiesWifeDangerousGoldTownsObstaclesNeighborEvery ManStealingChecksCowardEndeavorSwearBosomsBeggarPursesDangerous ThingsLive WellBlushingMutiny Author:William Shakespeare
“Instinct told me it was dangerous. I could handle dangerous. Dangerous and me went back a long way. We did lunch when dangerous was in town.” WayLongDangerousTownsInstinctHandleLunchLong Way Book:Magic to the Bone Source: Magic to the Bone
“Wickedly Dangerous translates a terrifying figure from folklore , the Baba Yaga, into the smart, resourceful, motorcycle-riding Barbara Yager, who travels with her dragon-disguised-as-a-dog best friend, righting wrongs and helping those in need. But when she stumbles into a town whose children are vanishing, and meets the haunted young sheriff trying to save them, what was a job becomes very personal. This is urban fantasy at its best, with all the magic and mayhem tied together with very human emotions, even when the characters aren't quite human.” NeedsTryingHumansChildrenCharacterHelpingTogetherJobsYoungEmotionFantasyMagicDogDangerousFiguresSmartTownsDragonsRidingTiedTranslateUrbanMotorcycleFolkloreBabaVanishingHuman EmotionsResourcefulBarbaraMayhemSheriffsThose In NeedDog Best FriendMotorcycle Riding Author:Alex Bledsoe