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Quotes About Danger

It is dangerous to exist in the world. To exist is to be threatened. We must live with threats.
~ Adam Levin, The Instructions
I made one great mistake in my life-when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made but there was some justification-the danger that the Germans would make them.
~ Albert Einstein
The real danger in life is not death, but living an evil life.
~ Socrates
Believing that the rustle in the grass is a dangerous predator when it is only the wind does not cost much, but believing that a dangerous predator is the wind may cost an animal its life.
~ Michael Shermer
When the afterburner lights, I haven't got 5,000 horsepower. I've got 10,000 horsepower, and possibly the biggest accident you've ever seen in your life.
~ Richard Hammond
Sure, fear can protect us from danger—but most of the time it just keeps us from life's great adventures.
~ Michael Chandler
Not having anything around to read is dangerous: you have to content yourself with life itself, and that can lead you to take risks.
~ Michel Houellebecq
I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to humanity created by science.
~ Joseph Rotblat
I don't intend to be menacing, but I do think of life as being essentially dangerous. We never know what's going to happen from one day to the next.
~ Alex Colville
The local TV news is the greatest danger in your life. It's all crap.
~ Ray Bradbury
animals like bears or cougars. It was a marvel they hadn't yet seen anything more vicious
~ Jill Elizabeth Nelson
Behind the razor wire and barred windows were some of the most violent men in the state of Florida. Murderers, robbers, pedophiles, rapists.
~ Jilliane Hoffman
This means that I don't have to run faster than the psychotic-maniac-vampire-cannibal, I just have to run faster than whoever is with me when the psychotic-maniac-vampire-cannibal starts chasing us.
~ Jim Benton
No government agency saw Lee Harvey Oswald as a danger.
~ Jim Bishop
Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face.
~ Jim Butcher
Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face.
~ Jim Butcher
Look at the shiny magic thing trying to kill us, isn't it awesome?
~ Jim C. Hines
Smudge continued running laps, flames flickering like tiny orange banners on his back. He was never wrong about danger, but he couldn't tell you if that danger was a meteorite streaking toward the roof or an amorous moose running amok in the parking lot.
~ Jim C. Hines
Watch your step," said Slash. Jig stopped, fully expecting to be shot, poisoned, crushed, or maybe all three at the same time. "What is it now?" Slash pointed to a pile of brown, slimy goo in the center of the tunnel. "Hairball.
~ Jim C. Hines
150 people die every year from being hit by falling coconuts. Not to worry, drug makers are developing a vaccine.
~ Jim Carrey
The money can be a hindrance to someone like me because the danger is that you start thinking, 'Is that a $20 million take?' That kind of thing, and being self-critical.
~ Jim Carrey
The modern world was a burning bus speeding toward a cliff with a maniac at the wheel. And he was not apart, but complicit, a hyperactive child making yuk-yuks in his seat, keeping everyone laughing, distracting them from certain doom. Faster, faster, no more room to brake.
~ Jim Carrey
You know the trouble with real life? There's no danger music.
~ Jim Carrey Cable Guy
It was as though the man-eater - for no other leopard would have killed the goat and laid it on the track- had said, 'Here, if you want your goat so badly, take it; and as it is now dark and you have a long way to go, we will see which of you lives to reach the village.
~ Jim Corbett