#dangerous

Agonized by her longing to go on thinking of her lover, and her fear of damnation if she does, she has hit on the idea of praying God to make her forget him and as she keeps on making this prayer every minute of the day, she's found a way of never letting him out of her mind. ↗

— De Laclos

#les-liaisons-dangereuses #love #love

I wouldn't want my daughters to date a guy like me. I was dangerous around women in my twenties. I'm terrified that they might end up with someone like me. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#dangerous #date #daughters #end #guy

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#crushed #dangerous #evade #hope #law

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#abuse #dangerous #greater #more

The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem. ↗

— T-Bone Burnett

#art #bands #business #compromise #dangerous

If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself. ↗

— Eric Cantona

#becomes #dangerous #death #doing #dying

Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don't have the ability to be lovable. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#dangerous #just #lovable #love #love is

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#close #dangerously #everything #find #nothing

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman. ↗

— George Santayana

#crime #dangerous #delight #merit #positive

Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous. ↗