Quotes About Hazard

AMONGOL, KNOCKED INTO a cook fire during the initial surge of horsemen, had lived long enough to run—shirt and hair on fire—into the rows of tents. Rutger assumed he had died from the burns, but before he had expired, the flames had leaped from him to several tents. The fire was spreading, and a haze of ash and embers was starting to fill the air. A storm of glittering snow.

Nothin' sweeter than danger, boys, am I right?

A dull ax is more dangerous than a sharp one.

Most anyplace one lives is essentially dangerous. There are floods in the Midwest, and tornadoes. There are hurricanes along the Gulf. In New York, you get mugged.

All right Bebe, we're in trouble. You get that don' you?

Nothing is more dangerous than an enemy with nothing to loose.

You play crotch roulette, you're gonna hit double zero once in a while.

The verdict was obvious: CFCs were staying in the atmosphere, and because of their inertia nearly their entire post-1930 output was accumulating aloft. But did the presence of these compounds, as Lovelock's group concluded, pose "no conceivable hazard" because they did "not disturb the environment"—or could their accumulation have undesirable consequences?

Alas, poor James is dead. / We see his face no more. / For what he thought was H2O / Was H2SO4

Such...theatrics in the wrong place could be dangerous.

Things can kill you. All kinds of things, like toys, or older brothers.

Well yet, this life such as it is, yet we love it, and loath we are to end it; and if it be in hazard by the law, what running, riding, posting, suing, bribing, and if all will not serve, what breaking prison is there for it!

Why are you always trying to get yourself killed?" "It's my job." "It's a hazard of your job. At least for most Shadowhunters. For you it seems to be the purpose.

You're a public menace. You shouldn't be allowed out on your own.

Magnus, remember what happened the last time you tried to tango. Your shoe flew off and nearly killed someone." "It was a metaphor. He's a Shadowhunter, he's a Lightwood, and he's into blonds. He's a dating hazard.

The occupational hazard of being a Playboy Bunny is the aching facial muscles brought on by obligatory smiles.

Generally speaking, moving water is the most dangerous thing you can encounter underground.

There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.

A man sits as many risks as he runs.

the greatest mutational health hazard in the population is fertile old men. Thankfully, uniparental inheritance means that men don't pass on their mitochondria at all.

New carpet will exude poisonous formaldehyde for up to two years after it'd been laid. I know the feeling.

It's a trap!

SYROTUCK ANALYZED 229 search and rescue cases (11 percent of them fatal) and concluded that almost three quarters of those who died perished within the first forty-eight hours of becoming lost.

He had returned when he did, on the pressing and written entreaty of a French citizen, who represented that his life was endangered by his absence. He had come back, to save a citizen's life, and to bear his testimony, at whatever personal hazard, to the truth.