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Quotes About Danger

I have a Thompson SubMachine gun and we shoot sharks with it. As soon as they put their heads out we give them a burst.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Well, I knew I would not be killed. Not in this war. It did not have anything to do with me. It seemed no more dangerous to me myself than war in the movies. I wished to God it was over though. Maybe it would finish this summer.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Agua mala', the man said, 'you whore
~ Ernest Hemingway
If the safest place to be is in the center of the will of God, then an appropriate measure of God's will is the test, 'is it safe?'... This view runs counter to what we find in the Scriptures. I want to reiterate the fact that the center of God's will is not a safe place, but the most dangerous place in the world.
~ Erwin Raphael McManus
Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas.
~ Erwin Rommel
Affairs have their own brand of passion. Secrecy, torment, guilt, transgression, danger, risk, and jealousy are highly combustible, a Molotov cocktail, an erotic explosion far too threatening in a home with children.
~ Esther Perel
We do not tend to be afraid of the things that are most likely to harm us. We drive around in cars, a lot. We drink alcohol, we ride bicycles, we sit too much. And we harbor anxiety about things that, statistically speaking, pose us little danger. We fear sharks, while mosquitoes are, in terms of sheer numbers of lives lost, probably the most dangerous creature on earth.
~ Eula Biss
For toxicologists, "the dose makes the poison." Any substance can be toxic in excess. Water, for instance, is lethal to humans in very high doses, and overhydration killed a runner in the 2002 Boston Marathon. But most people prefer to think of substances as either safe or dangerous, regardless of the dose. And we extend this thinking to exposure, in that we regard any exposure to chemicals, no matter how brief or limited, as harmful.
~ Eula Biss
killer were right behind us. Now we were outside,
~ Andrew Klavan
remember that the danger that is most to be feared is never the danger we are most afraid of.
~ Andrew Lang
In terms of fear, I still am most afraid of Freddie Kruger.
~ Andrew Mason
Tri-acetone tri-peroxide. TATP." "Like plastic explosive?" I ask.
~ Andrew Mayne
Those crocodiles were all members of ISIS. My commander told me so.
~ Andrew Mayne
My gut saved me several times in the last few minutes. Now it's telling me something else. This body wasn't the only one in the lake.
~ Andrew Mayne
How the fuck did you get away?" "Fear, man. Fear. It's your best friend." He pauses for a moment. "But you know that. Don't you?
~ Andrew Mayne
Watch yourself. Don't think just because you survived one monster you'll survive the next. I'm alive because I kept running from them. Not to them.
~ Andrew Mayne
being a scientist can be dangerous. Expert pathogen seekers have lost their lives trying to combat diseases. We've lost astronauts in reentry and ocean explorers to the depths of the sea.
~ Andrew Mayne
It was as though I had been admitted into an underground club that was nursing a secret. A dangerous secret.
~ Andrew Morton
Churchill summed up the neutrals' position in a radio broadcast of 20 January 1940: 'Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last.
~ Andrew Roberts
More dangerous ghost pirates. More krakens. Ghost pirate krakens.
~ Andrew Rowe
Spike traps are not my friends. Spike traps are the enemy. I will avoid them at all costs.
~ Andrew Rowe
He could have killed us both if he had wanted to.
~ Andrew Rowe
Stairs Up! Extremely Dangerous Traps! I Forgot What This One Does! Money! Moderately Dangerous Traps! Mystery! Bigger Monsters! Literally Nothing!
~ Andrew Rowe
Pervasive abuse and neglect of children is a greater danger to our species than cocaine and Communism combined.
~ Andrew Vachss