Quotes About Danger

Th-they're following my tracks . . . ," and she could feel her breath being stolen from her body. She was going to die!

with the limb, joined the others, Lia gasped. The three men stood talking in low voices for several minutes, and then they drew closer, heads down, slowly following her muddy footprint trail. Lia breathed into the sat phone, "Th-they're following

It is important to approach the Word with humility. There is danger when we go to the Word to gather information to establish our opinions or beliefs. We then read what we believe, instead of believe what we read.

why worry about the monster beneath the bed when a very real bogeyman sleeps on top of it?

Not the cute kind of cuckoo, or the lights-on-but-nobody's-home loony. She's really, genuinely, sold my-soul-to-the-devil crazy. She don't care about me or anyone else in the place. I mean, sure, she killed Frankie. And maybe she wanted to save the rest of us or whatever. But mostly, she just plain wanted to kill him. I mean, she stabbed him like a zillion times. Then licked his blood. I don't remember Wonder woman ever doing that at the end of an episode.

I'm convinced these are the moments that ultimately make us or break us. Like a wave lapping against the same boulder day after day, eroding the stone, shaping the line of the shore, the ordinary minutia of our lives holds the real power, and thus all the hidden danger. The daily things we do, or don't do, without ever understanding the long-term ramification of such minor acts.

Promise me, then: If you ever see my father, if he should ever show up at our front door, you'll kill him first, and ask questions later. He'll never touch Ree. Promise me that, Jason. My husband looked me in the eye. He said, Consider it done.

Then another possibility came to me, scarier and sadder than all the others. She could've been kidnapped to serve as recruitment bait. A quiet, pretty immigrant teen. Held against her will, then sent out to bus stops and train stations to meet other unsuspecting teens and lure them over to meet her "friends": sex traffickers, pimps, dope dealers.

The suppression of inner patterns in favor of patterns created by society is dangerous to us.

We have a society that's trying to make sure that nobody gets any adventures because adventures are dangerous and danger is bad.

The society girl meets more dangers than the girl on the stage. There is more danger at a tango tea than in the theatre. The actor is less dangerous than the dancing master.

It taught me, at an early age, that being wrong can be dangerous, but being right, when society regards the majority's falsehood as truth, could be fatal.

In human affairs, the best stimulus for running ahead is to have something we must run from.

Government by idea tends to take in everything, to make the whole of society obedient to the idea. Spaces not so governed are unconquered, beyond the border, unconverted, a future danger.

Ignorance is a dangerous and spiritual poison, which all men ought warily to shun.

The worst danger of the mystic is as always a quest of spiritual privilege leading to aloofness from the common lot.

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

Formula One was a very dangerous sport. It still is dangerous. But the danger factor is also the exciting part.

The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.

In my sport, the quick are too often listed among the dead

Eating wheat, like ice climbing, mountain boarding, and bungee jumping, is an extreme sport. It is the only common food that carries its own long-term mortality rate.

Shopping is a woman thing. It's a contact sport like football. Women enjoy the scrimmage, the noisy crowds, the danger of being trampled to death, and the ecstasy of the purchase.

If the lion didn't bite the tamer every once in a while, it wouldn't be exciting.

There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation.