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Quotes About Danger

You write about experiences partly to understand what they mean, partly not to lose them to time. To oblivion. But there's always the danger of the opposite happening. Losing the memory of the experience itself to the memory of writing about it.
~ Sigrid Nunez
It is very difficult to get legislation passed. But then the danger always is that you have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
~ Major Owens
The great danger of law in modern student affairs practice is apathy, acceptance, and blind disobedience.
~ Peter Lake
Let's scope the place out," he suggested, heading around the side of the building, "and be careful in the bushes." "Why?" Amy asked. "This is South Africa, dude," Dan replied. "Where cobras come from. And not the hot ones, like Ian.
~ Peter Lerangis
like an out of control fireman; there was a hissing
~ Peter Meredith
Wolf! Right here and now!
~ Peter Straub
Wolves and those who see them are shot on sight.
~ Peter Straub
If you have to go up unarmed against an angry T rex with a four-digit IQ, it can't hurt to have a trained combat specialist at your side. At the very least, she might be able to fashion a pointy stick from the branch of some convenient tree.
~ Peter Watts
But when the flash flood crosses your path, when the lion leaps at you from the grasses, advanced self-awareness is an unaffordable indulgence. The brain stem does its best.
~ Peter Watts
The Colonel grunted. "In my experience, those things don't have to try to scare the shit out of anyone. If she wanted you dead or broken, you would be. Vampires have—idiomatic speech patterns. You may have simply misunderstood her." "She called me a cold cut.
~ Peter Watts
I'll kill you if I can." "I'll save you," it said. "If you let me.
~ Peter Watts
Word of advice," the Colonel said from the other side. "Don't tease the zombies.
~ Peter Watts
Success tempts many to their ruin.
~ Phaedrus
There is danger in both belief and unbelief.
~ Phaedrus
In one sense, all threats to your life are equivalent, since ultimately, such dangers lead to death, which is an absolute. One can be dead but not "deader." Threats
~ Philip G. Zimbardo
in a recent article in The Times entitled 'The Ferment of Revolution' 'it was suggested that there was a danger of the vast mass of the people becoming revolutionary in their ideas'. This he found an insult to the working classes.
~ Philip Hoare
If there's one thing history has taught me to believe it is that it's dangerous to believe in anything very much.
~ Philip Kerr
The greatest danger to both society and the individual, we learn from Socrates, is the suspension of critical thought.
~ Philip Stokes
I have seen sights and travelled in countries you cannot imagine. I have been afraid and I have been in danger, and I have never for one moment thought that I would throw myself at at a man for his help.
~ Philippa Gregory
En me disant ces mots, j'ai compris soudain combien cela sonnait comme un danger, et que, être innocent au milieu des coupables, c'était en somme la même chose que d'être coupable au milieu des innocents.
~ Philippe Claudel
L'idiotie est une maladie qui va bien avec la peur. L'une et l,autre s'engraissent mutuellement, créant une gangrène qui ne demande qu'à se propager.
~ Philippe Claudel
There is no substance which is not a poison; all are poisonous. Only the dose determines.
~ Philippus Theophrastus
body in the companionway. A quick
~ Phillip Margolin
La mia indipendenza, che è la mia forza, implica la solitudine, che è la mia debolezza. La mia è quindi una indipendenza, diciamo, umana. Un vizio. Non potrei farne a meno. Ne sono schiavo. Non potrei nemmeno gloriarmene, farmene un piccolo vanto. Amo invece la solitudine. Ma essa è pericolosa.
~ Pier Paolo Pasolini