Quotes About Hazard

Australia is not a safe place.

Being dead is a pretty good alibi for anyone who's in trouble with the law, but in Nazi Germany it was an existential hazard.

There is no substance which is not a poison; all are poisonous. Only the dose determines.

We're all in danger.

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you have only one idea.

My husband Tony sometimes says to me that I underestimate my own power, and I wonder whether that makes living more hazardous for me than for other people, the way it's dangerous for those who lack the ability to feel pain.

I was totally ignored for a while... that's a hazard of signing with a small company who say how small they are and how close to the artists they are. Suddenly they don't have any time for you.

There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.

As soon as there is life there is danger.

No había nada más peligroso, pensó, que un hombre paciente.

You have a knack for trying to get yourself killed!

So what do we do if we get bitten by something deadly?' I asked. He looked at me as if I were stupid. 'You die, of course. That's what deadly means.

A madman is a very dangerous thing.

I mean that success has come early. And that is dangerous. Always dangerous.

mediocre amount of intelligence is sometimes most dangerous. It does not take one far enough.

Lady Veronica was not an unknown hazard. She was a charming woman [..] and very delightful when she was, as they put it herself - but unfortunately at unpredictable intervals, she was not herself. Her husband, Major Carlton-Sandways coped fairly well.

Such people go through life in great danger.

Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it: it is not to the action that it is due, but to the manner of performing it.

This is how attrition happens, I thought to myself. You take one chance too many, imagining that all the previous instances of good fortune have somehow immunised you against hazard, when in fact you have simply been extraordinarily fortunate until now.

Every day a piano doesn't fall on my head is good luck.

Thus the behavioral ecologist wants to measure four major costs for any animal or species: the costs of design, foraging, reproduction, and hazard avoidance.

There is risk everywhere. Being alive carries the risk of death.

A Threat to Humanity

A great man knows the value of greatness; he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it.