Quotes About Danger

He felt the subtle battle brotherhood more potent even than the cause for which they were fighting. It was a mysterious fraternity borne of the smoke and danger of death.

LVI A man feared that he might find an assassin; Another that he might find a victim. One was more wise than the other.

Curiosity has wrongly, by those with a vested interest in ignorance and their own revealed truths, been traduced and eternally characterised as a dangerous felicide, but you, dearest of dear, dear readers, know that Curiosity lights the way to glory.

We'll spare your life, I promise," hissed Odysseus. "Only speak quickly. And quietly. I have shaky hands and this blade against your throat might just slip and find its way into your windpipe if you aren't quick, clear, and concise.

Always feed a wolf his fill, the old woman quotes out loud, lest you wake with your throat in his jaws.

We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.

Finally, he said, "Anything. He was capable of anything. The truth is, even though they had his name on a plaque on the wall at Langley, Frenchy sold me to the Russians in 1974, when I was in Kurdistan. There were unpleasant consequences. He had no conscience. He was a great man who was capable of great evil, not that uncommon a combination. Whatever you think he did, he probably did. And worse.

We must categorize and simplify in order to comprehend. But the reduction of complexity entails a great danger, since the line between enlightening epitome and vulgarized distortion is so fine.

First comes smiles, then lies. Last is gunfire.-Roland Deschain, of Gilead

The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted.

The devil's voice is sweet to hear.

There's a dark well in everyone, I think, and it never goes dry. But you drink from it at your peril. That water is poison.

Semi-automatics have only two purposes. One is so owners can take them to the shooting range once in awhile, yell yeehaw, and get all horny at the rapid fire and the burning vapor spurting from the end of the barrel. Their other use – their only other use – is to kill people

Like the scorpion said to the maiden as she lay dying, 'You knowed I was poison when you picked me up.' 

He was a coward at heart, you see, although I never said the word out loud to him —not then and not ever. Doing that's about the most dangerous thing a person can do, I think, because a coward is more afraid of being discovered than he is of anything else, even dying.

The world was full of monsters, and they were all allowed to bite the innocent and the unwary

This is what romance gets you--a noose around your neck and a crazy woman with two guns somewhere behind you.

first the smiles, then the lies. Last comes gunfire.

The world has teeth and it can bite you with them any time it wants.

A kid of your age—any kid—could get hold of matches if she wanted to, burn up the house or whatever. But not many do. Why would they want to?

The two of them had discovered it was all right to open the closets...as long as you didn't poke too far back in them. Because things might still be lurking there, ready to bite.

Anyone who doesn't think the imagination can kill is a fool.

But listen to me, all three of you, n hear this if you don't hear nothing else: everything I did, I did for love . . . the love a natural mother feels for her children. That's the strongest love there is in the world, and it's the deadliest. There's no bitch on earth like a mother frightened for her kids.

That was one way in which the sexes had never been equal; they were not equally dangerous.