Sue Monk Kidd Quotes

Banking is a very treacherous business because you don't realize it is risky until it is too late. It is like calm waters that deliver huge storms.

Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around.

Many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!

In times of revolution, it is dangerous to carry through fundamental changes suddenly, however reasonable and desirable they may be in themselves. This is to risk losing everything.

In world history man’s actions result in something quite different from what he purposes or intends.

Inarritu's films focus on the repercussions of a single act that draws people together and simultaneously throws their lives into chaos.

I'm candy-coated poison, and you should not believe anything else.

It's almost always dangerous to be right too soon.

Ornament is but the guiled shore to a most dangerous sea.

It is the enemy whom we do not suspect who is the most dangerous.

A person walks into a room and says hello, and your life takes a course for which you are not prepared. It's a tiny moment (almost-but not quite-unremarkable), the beginning of a hundred thousand tiny moments and some larger ones.

Be careful what you wish for. There's always a catch.

An imprudent enemy is less dangerous than an imprudent friend.

It's a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.

The most dangerous enemy in the world is the one you do not recognize.

The Library didn't only contain magical books, the ones which are chained to their shelves and are very dangerous. It also contained perfectly ordinary books, printed on commonplace paper in mundane ink. It would be a mistake to think that they weren't also dangerous, just because reading them didn't make fireworks go off in the sky. Reading them sometimes did the more dangeous trick of making fireworks go off in the privacy of the reader's brain.

The loss of anonymity is something that nobody can prepare you for. When it happened, I recognized that I'd lost one of the most valuable things in life. To this day, I'm not all that happy about it

The difference between the truth and a lie is that both of them can hurt, but only one will take the time to heal you afterward.

That's the problem with truth. The truth is relentless. It won't leave you alone. It keeps creeping up on you from every side, showing you what's really so. That can he annoying.

Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.

What makes you different, makes you dangerous.

My skin is soft, but my heart is cruel, and my bite is deadly.

Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.

In the life of a nation, few ideas are more dangerous than good solutions to the wrong problems.

Education can, and should be, dangerous.