Quotes About Danger

You shouldn't do that, said Laura. You could set yourself on fire.

And still, what a risk he'd taken. The woman was like an amateur car bomb: you never knew when she would explode or who she would take down with her when she did.

There is a silence. But sometimes it's as dangerous not to speak.

Their youth is touching, but I know I can't be deceived by it. The young ones are often the most dangerous, the most fanatical, the jumpiest with their guns. They haven't yet learned about existence through time. You have to go slowly with them.

His mother said that all children were arsonists at heart, and if not for the lighter he'd have used matches.

Extreme emotions could be lethal. If I can't have you nobody will , and so forth. Death could set in.

For a time I almost believed what I understood I was supposed to believe. I numbered myself among the faithful for the same reason that many in Gilead did: because it was less dangerous.

There were the garden shears, the knitting needles; the world is full of weapons if you're looking for them. I should have paid attention

But such messages can be dangerous. Think twice before you wish, and especially before you wish to make yourself into the hand of fate. (Think twice,said Reenie. Laura said,Why only twice? )

Mom, who knew the dirt, and hid the dirt, and did the dirty work, and never saw herself or us as clean enough – and who believed that there was other dirt you shouldn't tell to children, and didn't tell it, which was dangerous only later.

He slides off into half-sleep and dreams of Oryx, floating on her back in a swimming pool, wearing an outfit that appears to be made of delicate white tissue-paper petals. They spread out around her, expanding and contracting like the valves of a jellyfish. The pool is painted a vibrant pink. She smiles up at him and moves her arms gently to keep afloat, and he knows they are both in great danger.

What men are most afraid of is not lions, not snakes, not the dark, not women. Not any more. What men are most afraid of is the body of another man. Men's bodies are the most dangerous things on earth.

That Guy, she warned him, is a real weirdo. And you're taking a chance leaving him with your parents. You might be surprised to wake up some morning to learn they have been killed.

There was the loud thump as the truck clipped the rear of the Jeep and sent it fishtailing over the dusty ground

Learning was so dangerous: for how could one tell in advance, while still ignorant, whether a thing could ever be unlearned or forgotten, or if, once known and named, it would invalidate by its significance the whole of one's former life, all of those years wiped out, convicted at one blow, retrospectively darkened by one sudden light?

Nos inspira miedo, pero también nos fascina. Su crueldad y su despilfarro pueden horrorizarnos, pero también somos capaces de admirar la valentía del soldado y sentir su peligrosa atracción. Algunos

They knew that love snatched in the face of danger and death was doubly sweet for the strange excitement that went with it.

She was less frightened also because life had taken on the quality of a dream, a dream too terrible to be real. It wasn't possible that she, Scarlett O'Hara, should be in such a predicament, with the danger of death about her every hour, every minute. It wasn't possible that the quiet tenor of life could have changed so completely in so short a time.

By far the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.

I do not trust technology. I mean, I don't think we're in any danger of kids, you know, doing without video games in the future, but I am saying that their lives are largely out of balance.

Who would want to be the prey in a world full of hunters?

The time has come, everybody lie down so you won't get hurt when the sun bursts.

"Appeasement" is the policy of feeding your friends to a crocodile, one at a time, in hopes that the crocodile will eat you last.

The only time an aircraft has too much fuel on board is when it is on fire.