Quotes About Danger

Then there was a fight between our oxen-drivers, one of them attempting to stab the other with a knife, and Robert rushing in between till Peni and I were nearly frantic with fright. No harm happened, however, except that Robert had his trousers torn. And we escaped afterwards certain banditti, who stopped a carriage only the day before on the very road we travelled, and robbed it of sixty-two scudi.

Electricity is a remarkably simple—though dangerous—animal.

They had barely spoken for fifteen years, and only the mortal peril engendered by the Angel Dust's interest in their daughter had brought them back into alliance again.

It should be harder to kill someone. The ease of unblades made their purpose somehow more terrible.

The moon continued to darken, even as the eastern sky grew pale. A third of the disc had vanished into shadow and Will caught his breath at the beauty of it, and the danger.

I could mess up the gravity and get squished. I could get sealed in and spend the rest of my objectively quite short but subjectively probably very long and unhappy existence like a jellyfish in the tubes, drifting along, unable to get out. And both of these seemed preferable in my head to the idea that I was going to have to climb out of this accessway and go get into a physical confrontation with somebody who was armed and didn't mind conflict in the slightest.

It's an addiction. An obsession. It is not safe.

She pressed to the wall between that window and the door and held her breath, praying like the spider that no eye would fall on her, as Lady Ariane Conn and her knights brought the naked prisoner from Engline.

I have to get out of here. The bastards have Will.

This time, there had been no evident danger, but nevertheless she was carried helplessly into the air and away.

He felt her moving, tasted her sweetness like venomed blood.

Don't wander far. I'd hate to see kidnapped by pirates. They have an eye for a pretty man.

Wolves don't live long, who walk heedlessly into a moonlit field. Even one that amounts to their backyard.

He'd stepped from the Darkling Glass, his sword in hand and witchcraft on his lips-and straight into a sorcerer's trap.

I may have the run away, you understand. That is the sensible thing to do when a large predator is pursuing you. No hard feelings at all.

Most saw those walls as protection from danger, but I had recognized, somewhere deep in my soul, that not all threats came from without.

Attraction is composed of desire and danger.

Non lavori al negozio tutti i giorni" "Conosci i miei orari?" "Non è difficile scoprirlo" " Ti rendi conto che è quello che fanno gli stalker... individuare gli orari delle loro vittime

Would that we could soar forever beyond the reach of earth, away from the dangers that await us the moment we alight.

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. —E. O. WILSON

As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it. And it is not only reaching back that endangers us; sometimes history itself reaches inexorably forward for us with its shadowy claws.

turning as it looked for prey. Though the bird's shadow whipped over her face

Now, Mama, Papa, and sir," said Ramses, "please withdraw to the farthest corner and crouch down with your backs turned. It is as I feared; we will never break through by this method. The walls are eight feet thick. Fortunately I brought along a little nitroglycerin--" "Oh, good Gad," shrieked Inspector Cuff.

Olaf was a genius. This, she realized, watching the snowman struggle, was love. Olaf had been willing to put himself in danger because he didn't want to see her get hurt. Love wasn't the canned romantic declarations. That was nothing but fluff. That was what Hans had thrown at her and what she had mistaken for love. Pure, true love was what Olaf was showing her right now - sacrifice.