Quotes About Danger

Besides all those whaling details, Moby Dick is about someone who's looking for something so huge, something they've wanted all their life, yet they know when they find it, it will kill them.

I won the wintergirl trip over the border into dangerland.

The rooftop beyond that was a lake of fire.

This is life with your head inside the jaws of the beast.

She was too honest, too natural for this frightened man; too remote from his tidy laws. She was, after all, a country girl; disordered, hysterical, loving. She was muddled and mischievous as a chimney-jackdaw, she made her nest of rags and jewels, was happy in the sunlight, squawked loudly at danger, pried and was insatiably curious, forgot when to eat or ate all day, and sang when sunsets were red.

Jerusalem is a golden bowl full of scorpions.

Are we never to educate ourselves to foresee such dangers and to prevent them before they happen? All the evidence of history shows that laws unknown and unsuspected are being discovered day by day: as this knowledge accumulates for the use of man, is it not certain that the ability to see and destroy beforehand the threat of danger will be one of the privileges the whole world will utilise?

We get more dangerous as we accumulate knowledge, and that's both a sadness and something to control, try to learn to live with, make terms with.

Knives are sharp, but are equally confusing.

Science has brought forth this danger, but the real problem is in the minds and hearts of men.

This is a grave danger: the stoppage of information between the parts of the planet. Contemporary science knows that such stoppage is the way of entropy, of universal destruction.

One may say that predictions are dangerous particularly for the future. If the danger involved in a prediction is not incurred, no consequence follows and the uncertainty principle is not violated.

A theory which cannot be mortally endangered cannot be alive.

Spader and I were nearly killed. Three times. We were also robbed and witnessed a gruesome murder. Happy birthday to me!

To put it crudely but graphically, the monkey who did not have a realistic perception of the tree branch he jumped for was soon a dead monkey-and therefore did not become one of our ancestors.

F***ing triffids.

Please take note that any and all dragon petting will be at your own peril. We are not liable for any injuries sustained while petting.

His appearance projected danger and reinforced the common knowledge that one did not want to piss off a demon, especially this one.

It is the bullet you don't hear that gets you.

As far as I know, there's nothing more dangerous than a man who doesn't care if he lives or dies.

Well one tiny poisonous spider can kill a very large man if it bites him in the right place.

It wasn't long after the discovery of modern anesthesia that people began to die of it.

A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up.

Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.