The world is a dangerous place. Not because of the people who are evil; but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.

You will never be entirely comfortable. This is the truth behind the champion – he is always fighting something. To do otherwise is to settle.

We feel the ground slipping from beneath our feet, and we want to hold on and stay in control. And so we organize and define (that is, put limits around) what first moved freely within...

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat. After a while it becomes more innovative in thinking up how to lose than...

In this snug, over-safe corner of the world… we may realize that our comfortable routine is no eternal necessity of things, but merely a little space of calm in the midst of the tempestuous, untamed...

No,” Foyle roared. “Let them hear this. Let them hear everything.””You’re insane, man. You’ve handed a loaded gun to children.””Stop treating them like children and they’ll stop behaving like children. Who the hell are you...

You are — your life, and nothing else.

I’ve felt sometimes like I’d be less trouble if I’d just sit back and be quiet. But dreams are too important. We can’t just let our dreams dry up and die, because then our hearts...

We just wanna be the happy bums that we are. That’s all.

To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted

We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent or self-satisfied; they are, if sound, the spearhead of progress. If they are fundamentally wrong,...

I never saw it coming; I never thought you’d leave, but baby what you gave me was the courage to find me.

We’ve always done it this way” is invalid when that way hasn’t led to more life, greater growth, or maximum efficiency. Take that how you will…business, personally, church, or family. Complacency is too easy to...

Complacency delivered us into the hands of evil greedy men like Cheney.

Complacency is a sword of two edges. One edge kills hard earned successes while the other end stops future glories. Complacency is a murderer and a barrier!

Don’t allow us, Father, as the end draws near to be paralyzed in waiting for a complicated scheme or fancy equipment. WE ARE THE EQUIPTMENT.

That initial anger she had felt turned to sadness, and now it had become something else, almost a dullness of sorts. Even though she was constantly in motion, it seemed as if nothing special ever...

I think we are in a correction that was way overdue. There has been tremendous complacency by strategists about the Asia problem and even up until last week everyone was raising their targets. The Asia...

What if it turns out there really are witches and vampires and werewolves living right here alongside us? After all, what better disguise could there be than to get your image enshrined in the culture...

Don’t see what you have achieved yesterday with the same pleasure eyes you used to see it when it was done by you”. Look forward and do better than you did earlier!

You all know,” said the Guide, “that security is mortals’ greatest enemy.

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

The negative of last Friday’s decline was not the decline itself, but the complacency of the decline. There’s too much complacency.

To exchange all the goodness and grace of every life in Omelas for that single, small improvement: to throw away the happiness of thousands for the chance of the happiness of one: that would be...

I think that one of the biggest flaws ofmankind is that we become complacent with our lives.

Half the ingratitude and complacency in the world down to how slowly and imperceptibly most good and bad things unfold.

LATENT TALENTAnagram of complacencyKamil Ali

I wouldn’t want [the people of Baleyworld] to live that long as a general thing. The pace of historical and intellectual advance would then become too slow. Those at the top would stay in power...

You or I might think that at least one would show courage and put up a fight. But neither you nor I have suffered as they, and even we have born witness in silence to...

There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn.

Fan would have expected that one or two of the Girls would have long rebelled at spending a life in a room, would have begged, say, the dentist, to help them steal away, but the...

To be unique calls for being unique in such a way that your uniqueness doesn’t make others appear inferior, and a uniqueness that doesn’t crave for anything apart from your own thing.

When you’re used to having nothing, nothing becomes your everything, and you never really want for anything. But it’s a double-edged sword, because there’s the danger of becoming complacent, becoming too happy with that nothing,...

There is a dangerous degree of complacency, and out of that comes a surprise that does the most damage to the global economy.

I’m worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel – let the wheel spin them around as it wants without taking a look at...

Complacency traps people and besiege them until longer period. The biggest challenge is to become aware of its existence and stepping out of it quickly.

A person is not like a thing that you put down in one place and leave, a person moves, thinks, asks, questions, doubts, investigates, probes, and while it is true that, out of a long...

Treblinka – 100% human stereate.” Am I dreaming, I say to myself? What kind of house is this?Yet I’m not dreaming. I look into your eyes, into Norma’s, into the children’s, and I see only...

Whereas it appeareth that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to protect individuals in the free exercise of their natural rights, and are at the same time themselves better guarded against...

So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear...

Listen to Mr. Complacency long enough and he’ll convince you that what you really, really need is a nap.

Success has no idle hands; affords no legs at rest.

The sense of security more frequently springs from habit than from conviction, and for this reason it oftensubsists after such a change in the conditions as might have been expected to suggest alarm. The lapse...

The sun’s champagne streamed from one body into another. And there was a couple on the green silk of the grass, covered by a raspberry umbrella. Only their feet and a little bit of lace...

Now, these eager and apprehensive men of small property constitute the class which is constantly increased by the equality of conditions. Hence, in democratic communities, the majority of the people do not clearly see what...

when you do great things, think as if you missed the mark by an inch; walk as if you are yet to face the greatest task; talk as if you are yet to have the...

We’re a complacent society, hard to get riled up in the first place, and then when we do, it’s misdirected.

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions...

Never be complacent about the current steps; don’t agree and follow the status quo. Be determined that you are making an indelible impact with great change. Now, dress up and go to make it happen!

Human beings, as I know better than most, can get used to anything. Over time, even the unthinkable gradually wears a little niche for itself in your mind and becomes just something that happened.