Marianne Moore Quotes

It is dangerous to attach probability zero to anything other than a logical impossibility.

Expect poison from the standing water.

When you start to live outside yourself, it's all dangerous.

Beautiful is dangerous.

When you're challenged, you're totally alive and totally dealing with reality, particularly if it could be dangerous. And that excites me!

People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective.

Strict seriousness was far more dangerous than any joke.

It doesn't feel like a date. It doesn't feel like friendship. It feels like something that fell off the tightrope but hasn't yet hit the net.

We were alone in a strange mansion with a baboon, a crocodile, and a weird cat. And apparently, the entire world was in danger. I looked at Sadie. “What do we do now?

It is dangerous to engage in even the most innocuous-seeming discourse with the FBI/ Homeland Security/ a local detective.

It's a little dangerous to be a badass.

Life is dangerous and you're not gonna live a life without risk.

Make it dangerous or it's not worth doing.

Intelligent men are dangerous.

Living safely is dangerous.

There's nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation.

You were her way here, and it's a dangerous thing to be a door.

My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous, which is not exactly the same as bad.

An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.

And you? Now that I have discovered you? Beautiful, dangerous, unleashed. Still I try to hold you, knowing that your body is faced with knives.

There's nothing as safe as ignorance or as dangerous.

Not having anything around to read is dangerous: you have to content yourself with life itself, and that can lead you to take risks.

Liberty is dangerous, as hard to get along with as it is exciting.

If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.

Life is dangerous. That's what makes it interesting.