There is real danger of a disconnect between what's on your business card and who you are deep inside, and it's not a disconnect that the world is ready to be patient with.
Enthusiasm is a virtue rarely to be met with in seasons of calm and unruffled prosperity. Enthusiasm flourishes in adversity, kindles in the hour of danger, and awakens to deeds of renown. The terrors of persecution only serve to quicken the energy of its purposes. It swells in proud integrity, and, great in the purity of its cause, it can scatter defiance amidst hosts of enemies.
For every apparent gain, in short, we now observe a balancing danger. This is the world we have created.
Your property is in danger when your neighbour's house is on fire.
People who grow bored in their own company seem to me in danger.
It seemed his demon couldn't tell the physical difference between when he was in danger and when he was "in" Danger.
In the performance of our duty one feeling should direct us; the case we should consider as our own, and we should ask ourselves, whether, placed under similar circumstances, we should choose to submit to the pain and danger we are about to inflict.
The road to love is full of danger signs.
Is not the real experience of each individual very limited? And, if a writer dwells upon that solely or principally, is he not in danger of repeating himself, and also of becoming an egotist? Then, too, imagination is a strong, restless faculty, which claims to be heard and exercised: are we to be quite deaf to her cry, and insensate to her struggles? When she shows us bright pictures, are we never to look at them, and try to reproduce them? And when she is eloquent, and speaks rapidly and urgently in our ear, are we not to write to her dictation?
Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray.
The problem comes when you say that danger is part of the equation. Then you don't do any more work on safety. That shouldn't happen.
One of love's greatest drawbacks is that, for a while at least, it is in danger of making us happy.
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
The blind willingness to sacrifice people to truth, however, has always been the danger of an ethics abstracted from life.
We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights.
He leaned heavily on the desk now, as if danger had strengthened him before and its lack now made him weak.
I know no real worth but that tranquil firmness which seeks dangers by duty, and braves them without rashness.
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable.
There is nothing more dangerous than security.
A soldier's time is passed in distress and danger, or in idleness and corruption.
