#danger

Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty. ↗

— Patrick Dempsey

#creature #dangerous #delicate #destroyed #empty

Things change when you're not in danger anymore. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#change #danger #life #change

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#advance #cannot #danger #every #fearing

Desperate people are dangerous people. ↗

— Bob Ritter

#assessments #dangerousness #presidents #psychological-profile #secret-service

I was no longer troubled when he pulled out a machete in a crowded bar, tried to pick up schoolgirls, or threatened to scalp us, then rip off our heads and scoop out our brains. ↗

— Tahir Shah

#death #fear #machete #threat #death

How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true! ↗

— Logan Pearsall Smith

#dreaming #dreams

- I believe in unlimited discovery and achievement. - I believe that dreams can become reality. - I believe in true love. - I believe in kindness and intelligence. - I trust life, regardless. ↗

— Elysse Poetis

#crying #danger #divorce #dreams-that-become-reality #humanity

The only disadvantage in surviving a dangerous experience lies in the fact that your story of it tends to be anticlimactic. You can never carry on right through the point where whatever it is that threatens your life actually takes it -- and get anybody to believe you. The world is full of sceptics. ↗

— Beryl Markham

#storytelling #experience

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#dangerous #sincere #stupid #unless #you

A man like Dmitry was never irate. His coldness was only reflected in the manner in which he destroyed. ↗

— Latrivia S. Nelson

#family