Quotes About Danger

So he was a sort of anti-Scheherazade, Dunia told him, the exact opposite of the storyteller of The Thousand Nights and One Night: her stories saved her life, while his put his life in danger.

El verdadero atractivo del mal es la seductora facilidad con la que uno puede aventurarse por ese camino

Cuidado con el hombre de acción que por fin desea progresar por medio del pensamiento. Un poco de pensamiento es algo peligroso.

Lies are the social equivalent of toxic waste: Everyone is potentially harmed by their spread.

In those circumstances where we deem it obviously necessary to lie, we have generally determined that the person to be deceived is both dangerous and unreachable by any recourse to the truth. In other words, we have judged the prospects of establishing a genuine relationship with him to be nonexistent.

Go jogging? And get hit by a meteor?

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.

Every desire is a viper in the bosom, who while he was chill was harmless; but when warmth gave him strength, exerted it in poison.

The virtuous woman flees from danger; she trusts more to her prudence in shunning it than in her strength to overcome it.

He leaned heavily on the desk now, as if danger had strengthened him before and its lack now made him weak.

Stress is not a state of mind... it's measurable and dangerous, and humans can't seem to find their off-switch.

Close encounters are bad. Bad for the animal, as it causes stress, and bad for me for exactly the same reason.

I don't know if it's a male thing, but I've always been interested in how people respond to the stresses and dangers of war, how they react under fire. In the extremity of war, character is revealed.

Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.

One more such victory and we are undone.

The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.

There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.

If there are two or more ways to do something and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it.

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear.

Failure is hard, but success is far more dangerous. If you're successful at the wrong thing, the mix of praise and money and opportunity can lock you in forever.

That's the danger of having too much success. You lose that magic, that feeling of not being in control, which I feel now, it's too controlled.

Is the world filled with tigers and crocodiles?" "Yes; and remember that two-legged tigers and crocodiles are more dangerous than the others.

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