Chinua Achebe Quotes

If you don’t act, the danger becomes stronger

A man sits as many risks as he runs.

Danger is a side effect of what I do, not the reason behind it.

You cannot play with fire.

In some causes silence is dangerous.

Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.

There's action only if there is danger.

Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.

I did so many things that made me a threat.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

Everything we do, I'd imagine, influences everything we will do.

The idea that we can make all things safe for all behaviors is in itself a dangerous and slippery slope.

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.

Those who mill around at the crossroads of history do so at their own peril.

The warnings of the last 4 years have been ignored. As a result, every single alternative before us is accompanied by grave risks.

He that would speak the truth must have one foot in the stirrup.

When your blood runs down the gutters, don't say you were not forewarned of the danger.

Ideas lead to actions.

Is action merely the incidental product of thought, or is thought the consequential product of action?

It is true that I must run a great risk; no gallant action was ever accomplished without danger.

It was more dangerous not to go; I was running the risk of becoming trapped in my own fantasies. So I was doing the right thing by going. She would behave normally, I would behave normally, and everything would be normal again.

But thought is one thing, the deed is another, and the image of the deed still another: the wheel of causality does not roll between them.

...if you dance with dragons, you must expect to burn.

Tarly, when I was a lad half your age, my lady mother told me that if I stood about with my mouth open, a weasel was like to mistake it for his lair and run down my throat. If you have something to say, say it. Otherwise, beware of weasels.