#anger

Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#dangerous #everything #frightening #how #nothing

But I think the bomb instead constitutes merely a first step in a new control by man over the forces of nature too revolutionary and dangerous to fit into old concepts. ↗

— Henry L. Stimson

#concepts #constitutes #control #dangerous #first

We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous. ↗

— David Suzuki

#children #connecting #dangerous #dirty #facebook

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#facing #fearless #let us #pray #sheltered

If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and so is always either terrible or ridiculous. ↗

— Jeremy Taylor

#anger #cause #either #fury #great

America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but a failure of love. ↗

— Cal Thomas

#dangerous #developed #diseases #failure #immunity

I grew up in a rural area, I was from kind of a poor family and my parents weren't showbiz people. But going back was strange, and perhaps stranger for the other students. ↗

— Henry Thomas

#back #family #going #grew #i

As a species, taking all in all, we are still too young, too juvenile, to be trusted. We have spread across the face of the earth in just a few thousand years, no time at all as evolution clocks time, covering all livable parts of the planet, endangering other forms of life, and now threatening ourselves. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#clocks #covering #earth #endangering #evolution

The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most of all, we need to preserve the absolute unpredictability and total improbability of our connected minds. That way we can keep open all the options, as we have in the past. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#agency #any #connected #dangerous #entrusted

Were British protesters, armed with little more than a frisbee and a bag of plastic toy soldiers, really in danger of being shot by the US military in Gloucestershire? ↗

— Mark Thomas

#bag #being #british #danger #frisbee