Logo
One ought never to turn ones back on a threatened danger and try t

One ought never to turn ones back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never! – Ralph Waldo Emerson

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Danger
category

When the danger is past God is cheated. – Italian Proverb

Category:
Danger

Danger, the spur of all great minds. – George Chapman

Category:
Danger

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger. – Pierre Corneille

Category:
Danger

Every man is his own chief enemy. – Anacharsis

Category:
Danger

Random Quotes

Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work. – Camille Paglia

Category:
Home

To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge. – Adlai Stevenson

Category:
Computers

In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of every kind in the markets of other nations. – Arthur Henderson

Category:
War

But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history. – Martin Heidegger

Category:
History