Quotes About Danger

We like the taste of freedom ... because we like the smell of danger.

Why this cult of wilderness?... because we like the taste of freedom; because we like the smell of danger.

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.

To the question: Wilderness, who needs it? Doc would say: Because we like the taste of freedom, comrades. Because we like the smell of danger. But, thought Hayduke, what about the smell of fear, Dad?

Sign written on the inside of the outhouse door at the campground in Arches: "Attention: Watch out for rattlesnakes, coral snakes, whip snakes, vinegaroons, centipedes, millipedes, ticks, mites, black widows, cone-nosed kissing bugs, solpugids, tarantulas, horned toads, Gila monsters, red ants, fire ants, Jerusalem crickets, chinch bugs and Giant Hairy Desert Scorpions before being seated.

Unless you are terribly, terribly careful, you run the danger--without even knowing it is happening to you--of slipping into the fatal error of reflecting the public taste instead of creating it. Your responsibility is to the public consciousness, not the public view of itself.

There may be more danger in prejudices which are apparently founded in logic than in those which are acknowledged as emotions. (p69)

Boys. It's late. If you're not gonna kill me, what do you want?

When you gamble with safety, you bet your life.

He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.

Flying is the second best thrill to cheerleaders; being caught is the first.

There is a moment of difficulty and danger at which flattery and falsehood can no longer deceive, and simplicity itself can no longer be misled.

Unsafe acts will keep you in stitches.

I don't use a pen. I write with a goose quill dipped in venom.

If anything in this life is certain, if history has taught us anything, it's that you can kill anyone.

Wishing won't keep you safe - safety will.

Stay alive, don't text and drive.

You might be a fireman if you've ever said, "she's hot tonight" and not been talking about a girl.

When fire is cried and danger is neigh, "God and the firemen" is the people's cry; But when 'tis out and all things righted, God is forgotten and the firemen slighted.

I'd hate to take a bite out of you; you're a cookie full of arsenic.

Anger is one letter short of danger.

Firefighters - your worst nightmare is just another day at the office.

Playing with fire is bad for those who burn themselves. For the rest of us, it is a very great pleasure.

If I had a hammer,I'd hammer in the morning,I'd hammer in the evening,All over this land.I'd hammer out danger,I'd hammer out a warning,I'd hammer out love between my brothers and my sisters,All over this land.