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Quotes About Danger

We make mistakes, we have our faults, and God knows some of us have more than our share, but when danger threatens and duty calls, we go smiling to our own funeral.
~ James Larkin
... have a smile for everyone you meet and a plan to kill them.
~ Brad Thor, The Apostle
This guy in high school tried to run me over with his dad's SUV. Bad shoved the vehicle through a store window." The memory brought a smile to my face.
~ Darynda Jones
Are you afraid of me? Uh... yes.' The smile stayed fixed in place. 'You should be. You locked me in a refrigerator truck with three dead people. Sooner or later I'm going to get you for it.
~ Janet Evanovich
The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
~ Pope John Paul II
cuando uno patina sobre hielo fino, la salvación es la velocidad. Cuando
~ Zygmunt Bauman
But I tell you that you cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into the prose of honest vegetation by any gingerbread reward, or by the offer of a secure position, or by the gift of money, or by a woman's love: because there is here a permanent beauty of risk, a fascinating abyss of danger, the delightful sinking of the heart, the impetuous pulsation of life, the ecstasy!
~ A. I. Kuprin
Hey," Han said, "Jabba's a friend of mine. You kill me, he won't take it kindly." The Priest laughed wheezily. "Hutts do not have friends," he said. "Farewell, Solo." Pointing the blaster at Han, the Priest's small, stubby finger began to tighten on the trigger.
~ A.C. Crispin
Luke, I don't want to discourage your curiosity, but I have to remind you, if something goes wrong, this is an exceptionally embarrassing way to die.
~ Aaron Allston
She thinks hockey and football are very dangerous.
~ Abby Klein
I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.
~ Abigail Adams
From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia...could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.
~ Abraham Lincoln
I fear you do not fully comprehend the danger of abridging the liberties of the people. Nothing but the very sternest necessity can ever justify it. A government had better go to the very extreme of toleration, than to do aught that could be construed into an interference with, or to jeopardize in any degree, the common rights of its citizens.
~ Abraham Lincoln
At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time or die by suicide.
~ Abraham Lincoln
OHMYGODHE'SGOTAGUN!!!
~ Adam Fawer
More than 700 million artillery and mortar rounds were fired on the Western Front between 1914 and 1918, of which an estimated 15 percent failed to explode. Every year these leftover shells kill people—36 in 1991 alone, for instance, when France excavated the track bed for a new high-speed rail line.
~ Adam Hochschild
The sky looked really great when nearly the entire country was blacked out. Of course, now it looked dangerous, too. I wondered if it would ever be just the night sky again, and not a black sea, full of sharks. Anyway
~ Adam Rex
You must flee from them as you flee from roses that cannot be touched without exposure to the thorns. You must fear an agreeable contagion, the more dangerous because it is hidden. The serpent glides among the flowers.
~ Adam Zamoyski
No one confiscated the penknife. Which was lucky for Heather. Because two days later it would save her life.
~ Adrian McKinty
Whoa, girlfriend! I was wondering if I was ever going to hear from you again. Pretty sure the hitchhiker killers or the spiders were going to get you.
~ Adrian McKinty
Are we going to do this?" "We have to." "We don't have to. We could go to the police." "They'll kill her if we go to the police. The woman who has her is a monster. I heard it in her voice. We're the worst parents in America. You know those people who overdose in the front seats of their cars? We're dumber than that.
~ Adrian McKinty
Even an imbecile knows that you never come between a grizzly - bear mama and her cub.
~ Adrian McKinty
I am Trouble with a capital T. I'm Death with a capital D. If you give me any problems at all, I won't hesitate to kill you. Do you understand?
~ Adrian McKinty
Fire became an enemy only if you couldn't move.
~ Adrian McKinty