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Quotes About Danger

Threats for tomorrow don't cut very deep when today is so damn threatening.
~ Joe Abercrombie
War's ninety-nine parts boredom and, now and then, one part arse-opening terror. Craw had a powerful sense one of those was about to drop on him from a height.
~ Joe Abercrombie
I have a plan," said Nothing. "Does it involve a sword?" asked Jaud. A pause. "All my plans do." "Do you have a sword?" Another. "No." "How will your plan work without one?" muttered Sumael. A third. "Death waits for us all.
~ Joe Abercrombie
When the best you can get from your wife's father is that he won't help to kill you, it doesn't take a clever man to see you're in shit to your chin.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Respect costs you nothing, and nothing gets a man killed quicker than confidence.
~ Joe Abercrombie
There are a hundred reasons to carry a blade in a slaughterhouse. But there can only ever be one reason to try and hide one.
~ Joe Abercrombie
No plague spreads quicker than panic, Stolicus wrote, nor is more deadly. The
~ Joe Abercrombie
Dow to know – you might as well cut your own neck as make that evil bastard angry. 'Any trouble while we was split up?' he asked, looking to change the subject. Grim
~ Joe Abercrombie
Nincs természeti er?, ami nagyobb veszélyt jelentene az emberéletre és a kereskedelemre, mint egy megbízatás nélküli zsoldossereg. Kivéve talán egy megbízatással rendelkez? zsoldossereget.
~ Joe Abercrombie
to draw from the world below is fraught with peril. The Magus
~ Joe Abercrombie
If you have a plan," hissed Sumael from the corner of her mouth, "now would be the time." "I have a plan," said Nothing. "Does it involve a sword?" asked Jaud. A pause. "All my plans do." "Do you have a sword?" Another. "No." "How will your plan work without one?" muttered Sumael. A third. "Death waits for us all.
~ Joe Abercrombie
If he did nothing him and Malacus would end up robbed, and more than likely killed. You have to be realistic about these things.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Is it gold?' asked the lad. 'Copper,' she lied, since gold is apt to turn unpleasant meetings into deadly ones.
~ Joe Abercrombie
The love of the people is a ruler's surest shield against danger.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Sometimes, when someone lives in danger for too long, the only time they feel alive is when death's breathing on their shoulder.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Vigyázz az eskükkel, Tüske! Mindegyik egy-egy lánc, ami lehúz.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.
~ Joe Frazier
He had always known he would go out this way: on fire. He had always known that rage was flammable, dangerous to store under pressure, where he had kept it his whole life.
~ Joe Hill
She was trying to pull it up to stick it through his throat, but he had her wrist, kept the blade down and his face turned away from its questing edge
~ Joe Hill
They're looking for you," she told him. "I heard it on the radio." "They better be careful," he said, without looking back at her. "They might find me.
~ Joe Hill
Terror was a fire that held you trapped in the top floor of a burning building; the only way to escape it was to jump.
~ Joe Hill
But other creatures of the desert do seem to apprehend what is happening. Through the crosshairs of its huge pupils, a tarantula watches Angie's skin drink in the danger: the pollen from the Joshua mixes with the red blood on her finger. On a fuchsia ledge of limestone, a dozen lizards witness the Leap. They shut their gluey eyes as one, sealing their lucent bodies from contagion, inter-kingdom corruption.
~ Joe Hill
Everyone who works around a racetrack knows the starting gate is the most dangerous place to work," said Tim Snyder. "You've got a thousand-pound horse, a hundred pound jockey and you're putting them both in a steel cage. Out on the track you can get thrown, but the ground is forgiving and in the event you get trampled, you'll probably be okay. In the gate you can get absolutely crushed".
~ Joe Layden
It is the strain of walking around the world-down the street, riding city buses and elevators, moving from place to place to place-and not knowing who might want to destroy you, who might like to fill your heart with poison, who might rob you and stab you, who might stand above you in the dark with a tarantula.
~ Joe Meno