Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
Suddenly all those careful preparations disintegrated as predators far more dangerous than the walking dead proved what all wise killers already knew: that nothing was more dangerous than living men.
No navigator has yet traced lines of latitude and longitude on the conjugal sea.
Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.
Women, are a map, Avik. You've got to understand their longitude, and how much latitude you can take.
Handsome widows, after a twelve-month, enjoy a latitude and longitude without limit.
There's nothing more dangerous than a place that doesn't exist.
Nothing is more dangerous to one's own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate.
There is nothing more dangerous than a philosopher who wants to change the world
Yet there is nothing more dangerous than to be premature in exploiting a change in perception.
When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales. I scratch my head with the lightning and purr myself to sleep with the thunder.
I have all the world around me. My walls are 180 East Longitude and 90 North and 90 South Latitude.... Adventure is my guidon.
The world is a dangerous place. And it's a more dangerous place than it was seven years ago [before Obama].
Being a moral realist I see normative ethics as a search of the truth about our obligations and a search of explanation; the idea is that moral principles can help us to a moral explanation of our particular obligations.
There's nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
Give children beauty, not the record of bloody slaughters and barbarous brawls, as they call history, or of the latitude and longitude of places nobody cares to visit, as they call geography.