Quotes About Danger

When we have gold we are in fear, when we have none we are in danger.

The fact that no limits exist to the destructiveness of this weapon [the 'Super', i.e. the hydrogen bomb] makes its very existence and the knowledge of its construction a danger to humanity as a whole. It is necessarily an evil thing considered in any light. For these reasons, we believe it important for the President of the United States to tell the American public and the world what we think is wrong on fundamental ethical principles to initiate the development of such a weapon.

The fact that no limits exist to the destructiveness of this weapon makes its very existence and the knowledge of its construction a danger to humanity as a whole. It is necessarily an evil thing considered in any light.

I felt like a guy in a cell being stared at longingly by a naked one-hundred-and-ten-kilo lifer. You know, sooner or later, that something unpleasant is going to happen to you. -The Ballad of the Low Lifes, by Enrico Remmert (2003), P. 20

22 bullet—very unlikely to kill

Creemos que hoy más que nunca es peligroso vivir en un lugar pequeño como lo es Teziutlán, pues nuevas

Corría el peligro de encontrarse a sí misma, cuando lo que más deseaba era perderse de vista.

El conductor tenía cara de asesino, pero llevaba el tablero del coche abarrotado de imágenes religiosas. ¿A quién podía rezarle un troglodita como él, que arriesgaba la vida de sus pasajeros con tal de ganar un metro de terreno y gritaba horribles interjecciones a otros automovilistas igualmente inciviles?

La angustia que transmite todo atisbo de demencia le va dejando perdido en una deriva extraña por el peligroso barrio infantil que hay en los límites de su mente, allí donde sabe que en cualquier momento puede perderse para siempre.

un hombre con fe era más peligroso que una bestia con hambre y que la fe había de ser puesta en lo más desdeñable y subjetivo.

I have had death threats from people with fixations.

Butler could kill you a hundred different ways without use of his armoury. Though I'm sure one would be quite sufficient.

my cousin hid out at a friend's place. They already knew that it was dangerous for them, because the SA had been marching around grabbing up people from their homes and hauling them off. So my cousin went into hiding, and then the Nazis took his mother into custody, the so-called Sippenhaft [a kind of special arrest for family members].

If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself.

The events of the past year had drawn him out into lonelier and more dangerous theological territory, but there was a newfound freedom and a faith that bloomed in this situation. He knew that God was with him in a way he couldn't have known before, so his fear of Rome, if ever any had existed, had vanished.

Describing Bonhoeffer's demeanor on returning to danger in Germany rather than safety in America, with "with a strong and joyful firmness such as only arises out of realized freedom.

When in unknown territory, before you did anything else, make darn sure you look around to see if someone was about to blow your head off.

We are saying that women -- as a sex -- are not more sinful than men. Women are not more deceivable than men. Women are not less intelligent than men. Women are not more prone to error than men. Women are not more dangerous than men. Women are not more arrogant or domineering than men. Women are not to be viewed with more suspicion than men. All women are born into sin, unrighteous by both nature and choice -- as are all men.

The worst your enemy can do is kill you. The worst your enemy can do is betray you. Fear only the indifferent because at their silent consent treachery and death flourish.

A cretin can kill you just as efficiently as a genius, and usually a whole lot quicker because a cretin has no conscience.

it was not in gaining the power where the danger lay. It was in allowing the power to destroy you.

1975. There was a new enthusiasm for jumping and we were all trying to outdo each other by jumping higher and higher. The problem was that ... the riders flew off in mid-air because

new to him, although Mike Horgan and I were jumping in 1974 and 1975. There was a new enthusiasm for jumping and we were all trying to outdo each other by jumping higher and higher. The problem was that ... the riders flew off in mid-air because there was no

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.