#danger

Well, as a songwriter, it's really dangerous to use the word love in a song. It's a word that has been used in songs so many millions of times before, and it's the most popular topic to ever write about. ↗

— Jack White

#been #before #dangerous #ever #love

Possessed with a full confidence of the certain success which British valor must gain over such enemies, I have led you up these steep and dangerous rocks, only solicitous to show you the foe within your reach. ↗

— James Wolfe

#certain #confidence #dangerous #foe #full

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. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#aspires #believes #dangerous #example #greater

Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#every #good #good thing #stands #thing

If your souls were not immortal, and you in danger of losing them, I would not thus speak unto you; but the love of your souls constrains me to speak: methinks this would constrain me to speak unto you forever. ↗

— George Whitefield

#danger #forever #i #immortal #losing

Courage is the antidote to danger. ↗

— Erle Stanley Gardner

#danger #courage

No, I'm serious," Frankie insisted, fed up with being silenced. "Why didn't you just make me a normie?" Viktor sighed. "Because that's not who we are. We're special. And I'm very proud that. You should be, too." "Proud?" Frankie spat out the word as if it had been soaked in nail polish remover. "How can I be proud when everyone is telling me to hide?" "I'm telling you to hide so you'll be safe. But you can still feel proud of who you are," he explained, like it really was that simple. "Pride has to come from within you and stay with you, no matter what people say." Huh? Frankie crossed her arms and looked away. ↗

— Lisi Harrison

#danger #family-fights #hidden #mixed-messages #paradoxes

If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

#being #danger #exterminated #factor #history

Her life was like a burst of wild, flowing Chinese calligraphy, written under the influence of alcohol. ↗

— Weihui Zhou

#beauty #danger #life #love #sex

The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition. ↗

— Israel Zangwill

#continuation #cradle #danger #glamour #imitation