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Quotes About Danger

That Mossberg, Boris said to me, accepting the bottle passed over the front seat. Evil dirty thing. Sawed off--? sprays pellets here to Hamburg. Aim it way the fuck away from everyone and still you will hit half the people in the room.
~ Donna Tartt
The biggest danger to American stability," Johnson argued, "is the politics of principle, which brings out the masses in irrational fights for unlimited goals, for once the masses begin to move, then the whole thing begins to explode. Thus it is for the sake of nothing less than stability that I consider myself a consensus man.
~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
She thought secretly that there is no more dangerous item in the world than a pretty young woman on the loose. Luckily, the older woman thought, when we are girls we don't know that we are like sticks of dynamite or like fireworks in a box too close to a fire.
~ Doris Lessing
Why haven't you been seeing me? A little bird told me that you were all mixed up with the local Reds, and that won't do you any good, Matty dear. Did you know the police go to their meetings? They'll put you in prison one of these days.
~ Doris Lessing
looks like trouble coming in on greased skids
~ Dorothy Allison
She caught up her purse and she ran, ran as if she raced with Death, and as if Death were the fleeter of foot.
~ Dorothy B. Hughes
Dorothy B. Hughes
~ Danger is sweet.
One knows, when all one's life one has walked in dangerous places, when the silence is that of ambush and when the silence is that of emptiness.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
His defences are good. But it is his friends that will bring him low, not his enemies, Lady Culter. Keep you out of his way. That's the best advice I can give you.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Of course. You have always tried to escape.' 'And I have always harmed the friends who have tried to stop me,' Lymond said. His voice was uninflected. He added, 'I have tried many times to warn you not to come too close to me.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
In Sevigny, there was something so deep and so dangerous that it could barely be felt. But there was no music. And there was no laughter.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
They flew, hissing, through the surgical cold of the air, the scythed snow spinning like glass from the runners.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
One of these days you'll go too far, and somebody will murder you.' 'I shouldn't be in the least surprised,' said Lord Peter, pleasantly.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
The young were always theoretical; only the middle-aged could realize the deadliness of principles. To subdue one's self to one's own ends might be dangerous, but to subdue one's self to other people's ends was dust and ashes.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
Can't stand all these poisonous creatures, all these snakes and insects and fish and things. Wretched things, biting everybody. And then people expect me to tell them what to do about it. I'll tell them what to do. Don't get bitten in the first place. (quoting Dr. Struan Sutherland)
~ Douglas Adams
So what do we do if we get bitten by something deadly?' I asked. He looked at me as if I were stupid. 'You die, of course. That's what deadly means.
~ Douglas Adams
Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses have been specially designed to help people develop a relaxed attitude to danger. At the first hint of trouble, they turn totally black and thus prevent you from seeing anything that might alarm you.
~ Douglas Adams
They were a double pair of Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses, which had been specifically designed to help people develop a relaxed attitude to danger. At the first hint of trouble they turn totally black and thus prevent you from seeing anything that might alarm you.
~ Douglas Adams
Hey this is terrific! Zaphod said. Someone down there is trying to kill us!
~ Douglas Adams
They were a double pair of Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses, which had been specially designed to help people develop a relaxed attitude to danger. At the first hint of trouble they turn totally black and thus prevent you from seeing anything that might alarm you.
~ Douglas Adams
It is of course well known that careless talk costs lives, but the full scale of the problem is not always appreciated.
~ Douglas Adams
So what do we do if we get bitten by something deadly, then?" I asked. He blinked at me as if I were stupid. "Well, what do you think you do?" he said. "You die of course. That's what deadly means.
~ Douglas Adams
It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else's point of view without the proper training.
~ Douglas Adams