Definition of Danger

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Danger

Authority; jurisdiction; control.

Power to harm; subjection or liability to penalty.

Exposure to injury, loss, pain, or other evil; peril; risk; insecurity.

Difficulty; sparingness.

Coyness; disdainful behavior.

To endanger.

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Danger Quotations

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.
Mother Teresa

We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.
Ronald Reagan

One ought never to turn one's 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!
Winston Churchill

A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.
Vince Lombardi

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
Benjamin Franklin

Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger.
Bill Cosby

When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
John F. Kennedy

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.
John F. Kennedy

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
Friedrich Nietzsche

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
Confucius

Danger Translations

danger in Danish is fare
danger in Dutch is hachelijkheid, gevaar
danger in Finnish is vaara
danger in German is Gefahr
danger in Italian is pericolo
danger in Latin is periculum
danger in Norwegian is fare
danger in Portuguese is perigo
danger in Spanish is peligro

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