Quotes About Danger

Tigers and crocodiles with two legs are more dangerous than the rest.

Onko maailma sitten täynnä tiikereitä ja krokotiileja? - On. Mutta kaksijalkaiset tiikerit ja krokotiilit ovat vaarallisempia kuin nelijalkaiset.

When one thinks," said Caderousse, letting his hand drop on the paper, "there is here wherewithal to kill a man more sure than if we waited at the corner of a wood to assassinate him! I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper, than of a sword or pistol.

The feet of Raoul were over the edge of the cliff, bathed in that void which is peopled by vertigo, and provokes to self-annihilation.

Yes; and remember that two-legged tigers and crocodiles are more dangerous than the others.

sun, he thought he saw the barrel of a musket glitter from behind a hedge. D'Artagnan had a quick eye and a prompt understanding. He comprehended that the musket had not come there of itself, and that he who bore it had not concealed himself behind a hedge with any friendly intentions. He

He was a fine, tall, slim young fellow of eighteen or twenty, with black eyes, and hair as dark as a raven's wing; and his whole appearance bespoke that calmness and resolution peculiar to men accustomed from their cradle to contend with danger. Ah, is it you, Dantès?

But there is no need to know danger in order to fear it; indeed, it may be observed, that it is usually unknown perils that inspire the greatest terror.

Remember that two-legged tigers and crocodiles are more dangerous than those that walk on four.

Quand on pense, dit Caderousse en laissant tomber sa main sur le papier, qu'il y a là de quoi tuer un homme plus sûrement que si on l 'attendait au coin d'un bois pour l'assassiner  ! J'ai toujours eu plus peur d'une plume, d'une bouteille d'encre et d'une feuille de papier que d'une épée ou d'un pistolet.

Inured as men may be to danger, forewarned as they may be of peril, they understand, by the fluttering of the heart and the shuddering of the frame, the enormous difference between a dream and a reality, between the project and the execution

Ah! ¡Joven! ¡Joven! ¿Algún amorcillo? Os repito que os andéis con tiento; la mujer es, ha sido y será siempre causa de la perdición de los hombres.

No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country

What frightens me most is the danger that, amid all the constant trivial preoccupations of private life, ambition may lose both its force and its greatness, that human passions may grow gentler and at the same time baser, with the result that the progress of the body social may become daily quieter and less aspiring.

It has been noticed that, in the face of imminent danger, a man rarely remains at his normal level; he either rises well above himself or dips well below. The same happens to nations. Extreme dangers, instead of lifting a nation, sometimes end by bringing it low; they arouse its passions without giving them direction and confuse its perceptions without clarification.

Some people grow weak when they are victimized, others grow stronger, and still others combine those two attributes to become dangerous

But try as you might to protect people from danger, you cannot keep them from their true nature.

Once you possess something others do not, you are a target for the wicked.

He could burn her up alive; he could do it in a minute flat, and that's not easy to forget.

The craft was dangerous and unpredictable, and witches were difficult to control, for they had minds of their own and didn't hold to keeping to the law.

The children knew that which you cannot see can be more dangerous than that which is before you.

the eldest who had the misfortune of being too beautiful and had a far off look in her eyes. Madame Cohen had seen what could happen to girls like that, they were picked off like fruit on a tree, devoured by blackbirds.

When you are a wolf, no place is safe, no one can be trusted. Unless they are what you are. Hunted.

They learned that sometimes the most dangerous thing of all in matters of live was to be granted your heart's desire.