Quotes About Danger

In Chinese, the character for danger is the same one for opportunity." -- Kim Ling Levine in Madhattan Mystery

You humanoids worry about your kids being pushed around by bullies, and rightfully so. But think about this: We had bona fide bulls at my school. Yea, monstrous creatures with huge torsos, gargantuan horns - and when they were pissed - gross stuff oozed out of their gigantic noses.

They had thought him such a 'good' man. They should have learned it was dangerous to trust appearances or take strangers at their word in this shit-hole world.

All forms of literature are dangerous; but in none is the danger more acute than in historical fiction...

Sabes lo que experimenté después? Un miedo de lo más seductor. Esa sensación que le viene a uno cuando se da cuenta de que ha corrido un gran peligro. Esa clase de miedo que adquiere forma y se transfigura en las pesadillas.

La tormenta derriba un árbol que cae encima de un cable de alta tensión, que a su vez cae en un charco y carga el agua de una electricidad letal que mata al hombre que pasea a su perro sin sospechar nada cuando escampa y aparecen las estrellas en el cielo.

El miedo y el mar son una combinación letal.

There were few noises on the earth that spelled out the promise of trouble quite as much as siren sounds.

Las manos no son lo verdaderamente peligroso. Lo verdaderamente peligroso es, es lo que tenemos en la cabeza".

No, no, go not to Lethe, neither twistWolf's-bane, tight-rooted, for its poisonous wine.

But I was used to finding something deadly in things that attracted me; there was always something deadly lurking in anything I wanted, anything I loved.

Be careful out there. There are things that go bump in the night. Actually, there are things that go 'Give me your wallet or I'll kill you' in the night.

Nothing spells trouble like two drunk cowboys with a rocket launcher.

The Beck seemed to feel that if she let her guard down for an instant, she would die. Kidnappers lurked in every public bathroom, you got cancer if you caught a whiff of secondhand tobacco smoke, bombs and handguns proliferated in high schools everywhere, you caught AIDS if you even kissed you boyfriend. God forbid you got a sunburn of forgot to fasten your seat belt.

I expressed skepticism, in the first chapter, about the utility of time machines in historical research. I especially advised against graduate students relying on them, because of the limited perspective you tend to get from being plunked down in some particular part of the past, and the danger of not getting back in time for your orals.

But since the great foundation of fear in children is pain, the way to harden and fortify children against fear and danger is to accustom them to suffer pain.

This is to think that men are so foolish that they take care to avoid what mischiefs can be done them by polecats and foxes, but are content, nay, think it safety, to be devoured by lions.

Semiautomatic weapons are also used to protect people and save lives. Single-shot rifles that require reloading by hand may not do people a lot of good when they are facing multiple criminals. The first shot may also miss or fail to stop an attacker. People wanting to protect themselves and their families might not have the luxury of time to reload their guns.

One wouldn't want to consult with foreign snakes.

Look out!" Julia cried. "he has a snake! And he'll use it!

A dog that has rabies probably will do things it wouldn't do if it didn't have rabies. But that doesn't change the fact that it has rabies.

Everybody is a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way.

With all my might, I heave the axe into the ice, just inches from Kristoff's head. Oops.

A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.