Quotes About Danger

I was with the mujaheddin, the rebels, and they were fighting against the Russians, and they would bring me along. Some of the adventures, when I look back at them now, it's a wonder I'm still around.

As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I'd still be alive by now.

What is it about the component of fire? People have written about it. People have wondered about it.

I didn't like books where people played on a sports team and won a bunch of games, or went to summer camp and had a wonderful time. I really liked a book where a witch might cut a child's head off or a pack of angry dogs might burst through a door and terrorize a family.

A bad historian is even more dangerous than dead documentary wood.

I love the fact that we are surrounded by this spectacular natural beauty that routinely strikes us dead. Hikers walk off into the woods and are never seen again. And still we tug on our fleece and skip off into the wilderness, not a care in the world.

It's sometimes better to pretend I don't hear the sound of somebody in the nearby woods with a shotgun.

I'd rather fight 100 structure fires than a wildfire. With a structure fire you know where your flames are, but in the woods it can move anywhere; it can come right up behind you.

I like feeling warm inside a small home, knowing there's a set of glowing eyes out in the woods somewhere. It's just a vibe I enjoy writing about, and it deals simultaneously with safety and danger.

When you get a job on 'The Walking Dead' you imagine you're going to be running through the woods with a lot of weaponry shouting, 'Look out!'

Over the course of history, the people who are not scared go into the woods and are mauled by a bear, are not going to survive.

The woods were a boon; all too often, the forest offered danger and mystery. Yet it could be liberating. If you entered that wild place on its own terms, you might be accorded wisdom.

Valor' is a word we don't commonly hear. People can show courage and bravery confronting many different challenges in life. But 'valor' connotes willingly putting oneself in mortal danger to protect others.

Thousands of people perish in the Straits of Florida every year. We understand it within the context of the Cuban reality.

The real threat comes from terrorism.

We need not renounce the use of conventional force. We will be ready to repel any clear and present danger that poses a genuine threat to our national security and survival.

There was a time when I was in the South, singing, and someone came to me before the show and said, 'There's been a threat on your life. Someone had phoned in and said they were going to shoot you if you go on stage.' I was singing 'Chances Are,' and I kept moving so they wouldn't have a shot at me.

The threat from radical Islam is real.

The personal threat is something that's always been a part of our lives.

We must make every effort to neutralize this threat peacefully, but be ever mindful of the growing danger Iran poses not just to a safe and free America, but to our allies abroad.

There is a serious, immediate and extraordinarily grave threat to the continued existence of this country.

Al Qaeda still remains a threat.

There is no doubt ISIS poses a clear, direct threat to the United States, and decisive action is badly needed.

I think that ISIS is a threat to our embassy, to our consulate, as well as potentially to the American people.