Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antoine Lavoisier

It is only fair that prisoners work to pay for at least a part of their food. A regular and reasonable occupation is necessary for their health as well as for maintaining peace and order and for banishing idleness, more dangerous in these sanctuaries

Late arrivals are always settling in the most dangerous land.

Chris Hadfield

I watched the first people walk on the moon, and to me, it was just an obvious thing - I want to somehow turn myself into that. But the real question is, how do you deal with the danger of it and the fear that comes from it? How do you deal with fear versus danger?

Phyllis Schlafly

Other states have gotten the message about the danger of giving driver's licenses to illegal aliens.

Roger Hughes was defamed and had his privacy infringed upon. It's one thing for this union to go out and picket and leaflet his sites. That's fair, that's lawful, ... But it's quite another thing to put out there that he's a pedophile and a danger to children. That's wrong.

Billie Armstrong

Rock 'n' roll can be dangerous and fun at the same time, so thanks a lot.

Repeat offenders are the most dangerous drunks on the road.

Removing the source of the danger - these unannounced major releases - has been given lip service.

represents a continuing, present and grave danger to the national security of the United States.

Relying solely on real estate-based savings may be dangerous because this type of saving can be illiquid and selling a home can be an inconvenient and expensive transaction,

J. R. R. Tolkien

Remember what Bilbo used to say: It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.

Robert W. Service

Pitched on his head, and pumped full of lead, was Dangerous Dan McGrew, While the man from the creeks lay clutched to the breast of the lady that's known as Lou.

Parkview's a good team. They're going to be a dangerous team for a lot of people in their conference.

Marcia Angell

Patients may postpone getting needed effective treatment, because they are instead relying on alternative remedies that haven't been tested, ... The second danger is that they may actually be harmful.

Ordinarily, the feds piggyback on the S.E.C. in complicated financial cases, but history proves that breath-holding on that score is a dangerous endeavor.

Catherine Martin

I am sufficiently wary of dangerous situations, but I'm not scared of having a go.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Carelessness about our security is dangerous; carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous

But we kind of knew, given the set-up there, that there must be danger for all journalists working there.

But this is still a very dangerous situation. We still may have more problems - more wind, more rain, tornadoes and some (additional) flooding. Even though the storm has passed, it's not over yet.

John Beilein

But everybody in West Virginia feels the tragedies. We all know how important mining is, how important it is to the welfare of the families, the employment, and we all know the dangers involved and the history of the early unions there, the horrors that have occurred over the years in the mines.

He's going to wind up with a lot of reluctant, unhappy jurors, ... And if they don't want to be there, they may not listen to the evidence. It's dangerous to force people into jury service.

Travis Payne

He's been excellent. He's dangerous because he can also throw, but if you come right at him, he can run it too.

I think the market is in a dangerous position,

Pat Gillick

I think you're dealing in dangerous waters getting into four and five years with players. It's risky. I think it's very risky.

Gerald Cohen

I think the Fed is on hold tomorrow and for the foreseeable future. We've actually been proponents of the view for quite a while that the economy was going to moderate, and it was important for the Fed to be patient. And one of the dangers was if the Fed kept raising rates, that they would slow the economy a lot more than they would want. So we think that there are enough signs of moderation that the Fed will remain on hold, and we think that signs of moderation will continue. So we think the Fed will be on hold through the end of this year and into early next year.

Kobe Bryant

Lamar is a dangerous player. There are not too many like him in the league. As a matter of fact, he's probably the only one in the league that size who can handle the ball, post you up and shoot the 3.

Angelina Jolie

There are so many wonderful pledges that could come in in the next few years, but this winter is in the next few weeks and so many people are in danger of possibly freezing to death,

The only thing that is more dangerous than a gang member with a weapon is a parent or an educator in denial. There's no excuse for parental ignorance. Turning their head and looking the other way can lead the kids into gangs in the first place.

Dani Shapiro

There's a danger in romanticizing what it means to be a writer. Because what it really means is hard, hard work. It means tearing your hair out. Feeling like your head is about to explode.

Anne Lamott

I don't have any romantic views of parenting. Every step of the way it's really hard. It's a dangerous world, physically and psychologically.

Albert Hofmann

It's very, very dangerous to lose contact with living nature.

The existing road is the most dangerous elevated structure in California. Its replacement is a very high priority as a matter of safety.

Hans Rosling

Fame is a dangerous thing. It's what the post-industrial society wants. They want fame and many followers on Twitter. But to really make the world understandable, that challenge is remaining.