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Quotes About Danger

her by night, somebody gets killed, see?
~ Louis L'Amour
But how had the outlaw gang planned to kill him?
~ Louis L'Amour
Nallino s'était demandé en 1933 si le danger musulman ne serait pas diminué par l'infiltration dans les âmes musulmanes de certains éléments dissolvants de la culture européenne : qu'il s'agisse du modernisme philosophique ou du nationalisme racial. [Causes et modes de la propagation de l'islam parmi les populations païennes de l'Afrique.]
~ Louis Massignon
If you get bitten by a yellow-spotted lizard, you might as well go into the shade of the oak trees and lie in the hammock. There is nothing anyone can do to you anymore.
~ Louis Sachar
A lot of people don't believe in curses. A lot of people don't believe in yellow-spotted lizards either. But if one bites you, it doesn't make a difference whether you believe in it or not.
~ Louis Sachar
die a slow and painful death. Always. If you get bitten by a yellow-spotted lizard, you might as well go into the shade of the oak trees and lie in the hammock. There is nothing anyone can do to you anymore.
~ Louis Sachar
But in fact every act of power involves a kind of negotiation. By giving a little, you are inviting more trespasses, putting yourself in more danger.
~ Louis Theroux
In the midst of her tears came the thought, When people are in danger, they ask God to save them; and, slipping down upon her knees, she said her prayer as she had never said it before, for when human help seems gone we turn to Him as naturally as lost children cry to their father, and feel sure that he will hear and answer them.
~ Louisa May Alcott
All the worse for the undeniable talent which hides the evil so subtly and makes the danger so delightful.
~ Louisa May Alcott
They haf no right to put poison in the sugarplum, and let the small ones eat it.
~ Louisa May Alcott
A good fit of illness proves the value of health; real danger tries one's mettle; and self-service Sweetner character.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Hamilton said, he would follow the classic path of a populist demagogue: "I would mount the hobbyhorse of popularity, I would cry out usurpation, danger
~ Ron Chernow
She knows her life is on the line but, believe it or not, she's never been so excited! Her husband's a serial killer, and her bodice is wet with tears, but there's a chance her brothers will show up like winning lottery numbers. Which does she want more - her hair wound in the maniac's hands and her white white throat bared, or the sound of boots on marble stairs?
~ Ron Koertge
To add a dash of picturesqueness to her career, her husband, it was said, was doing his utmost to get rid of her; and although she had been in an aeroplane disaster, a fatal gala performance, two railway accidents, and a shipwreck, she always came back - smiling.
~ Ronald Firbank
The danger of Italy...is, it tends to make one florid.
~ Ronald Firbank
Tal vez nuestro sistema democrático esté también a punto de suicidarse. A veces los pueblos deciden arrojarse al abismo.
~ Rosa Montero
El dolor a veces te debilita y otras te protege, como un escudo. Pero el dolor es peligroso cuando se asienta dentro de uno, cuando se acomoda y decide quedarse, porque entonces se extiende, como aire contaminado, y no hay viento suficiente que lo limpie.
~ Rosa Montero
he hated the constant danger of Indian attack; but being here was better than being in jail back in New Orleans for robbery and assault.
~ Rosanne Bittner
Agente: Pero cuando se descubrió que el aburrimiento o el sueño eran sólo transitorios y que debían tener otras consecuencias... entonces... entonces fue necesario inventar algo para conjugar el peligro. Peinadora: ¿Cuál peligro? Agente: Que las mujeres, sin darse cuenta, se pusieran a pensar. El mismo refrán lo dice: piensa mal y acertarás. El pensamiento es, en sí mismo, un mal. Hay que evitarlo.
~ Rosario Castellanos
Será que nuestra historia es tan peligrosa que puede llegar a ser revolucionaria?
~ Rosario Ferré
I like a little danger. Tame danger, controlled by me. It gives me a sense of power, I guess, to take my life in my hands and know damn well I'm not going to lose it.
~ Ross MacDonald
What in the blue star-blazes did you see in Jason? he asked, still forcefully but with his frustration and jealousy under better control. For one thing, Djetth, he wasn't trying to kill me! (Marsh, heroine of Insufficient Mating Material)
~ Rowena Cherry
Many terrible things begin with B: blindness, boilers, bats, bridges, and brain tumors. But no one brings any of those to a party to up the fun quotient. When I look at a balloon, all I see is an imminent explosion. Where's the fun in that?
~ Roz Chast
Our brains collect images from the moment we're born and file them away as either safe or dangerous. Whenever we see someone or something we dive into our memories to see who that person or scene reminds us of.
~ Ruby Wax