Quotes About Danger

You get your face dirty, I'll kill you,' Patricia said absentmindedly.

The sense of purity is a puzzling, and at times a fearful thing. It seems so noble, and it starts at one with morality. But it is a dangerous guide, and can lead us away not only from what is gracious, but also from what is good.

He plunged headlong into the tangle, hacking right and left with his curved blade. He saw the red-haired girl huddled in a narrow passageway between two houses. Her garments had been torn to shreds, and her flesh was raked and bruised. She was scrambling to her feet, still clutching the short dagger that had cut down a bandit. But before she could kick clear of her dead captor, another raider saw her and closed in.

Go on, strike, said the witch, smiling. Fire is beautiful. Nothing bad will happen.

I am an arsonist

If there is danger in the human trajectory, it is not so much in the survival of our own species as in the fulfillment of the ultimate irony of organic evolution: that in the instant of achieving self-understanding through the mind of man, life has doomed its most beautiful creations.

The sense of purity is a puzzling and at times a fearful thing. It seems so noble, and it starts as one with morality. But it is a dangerous guide, and can lead us away not only from what is gracious, but also from what is good.

Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear.

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; wherever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable.

The fantastic advances in the field of communication constitute a grave danger to the privacy of the individual.

The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.

Kiss Me Deadly by Mickey Spillane

Just because a blindfolded drunk can cross Westheimer Road unharmed in the middle of traffic once doesn't mean he can do it again, Hirs said.

The engineers wanted us to be able to blow the booby traps we found so others wouldn't get killed. Some guys really got off working with explosives. I mean, their eyes lit up, and they got all happy. It did weird things to people. It was interesting as hell to me, but I knew how dangerous that shit was.

I slid my hand back down his leg to his boot to get hold of the wire. Hood leaned down, and whispered, "Kug, that feels good, turns me on." What an asshole! I found his laces and sure enough, on his left leg, the one bent back, was a trip wire.

A bullet or two thudded into the soaked ground right next to me. My asshole froze, then jumped right up my throat as another round broke a branch by my left foot.

Walking point was adrenaline drippin' from your ears and a butt squeezed so tight you couldn't drive a tenpenny nail up it with a jackhammer. Let me at it!

when they put up the sea barriers the mayor's office started slapping protection orders on everything and turned Manhattan into a theme-park version of itself: no life, no change, no danger, just heritage.

Thus, white fear can be understood as something anticipatory, a fear just waiting to be expressed. It isn't based in any actual threat of harm. Instead, the idea of black violence or crime does all the work. The mere possibility of danger is enough to motivate us to act as if we are in immediate danger.

It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.

EDNA BUCHANAN

The most dangerous stories are the ones that never get told.

Sex gets people killed, put in jail, beaten up, bankrupted, and disgraced, to say nothing of ruined -- personally, politically, and professionally. Looking for sex can lead to misfortune, and if you get lucky and find it, it can leave you maimed, infected, or dead. Other than that, it's swell: the great American pastime.

Quién había concebido el plan de asesinarme?, ¿quién había tejido la red en la que debatía como animalillo silvestre?, ¿de quién sería la mano que habría de inmolarme? ¿De la propia Mercedes Negrer?, ¿del rijoso expendedor de Pepsi-Cola?, ¿de los negros superdotados?, ¿de los ordeñadores de la lactaria?