Quotes About Danger

I've had a surprising number of near-death experiences: I was nearly blown up by a landmine in Sudan; I was stranded on the Zambezi river at night; I was bucked off a rodeo horse in Arizona and had to be airlifted to hospital; and, worst of all, I once ate a Pot Noodle.

As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.

The worst situation you can have in a thriller is a lead who looks like he can handle himself.

The worst thing that happened when filming 'River Monsters' was the time when our sound recordist was hit by lightning.

The chances that your tombstone will read 'Killed by Asteroid' are about the same as they'd be for 'Killed in Airplane Crash.'

I'm hurtling down bumpy, choppy water very close to being out of control, doing everything I can to stay on my board. One misstep and you're going to get squashed by tons of water. To not get hurt, I need to take everything into consideration: strength, nutrition and mind-set.

I think there's a danger in politics of being too risk-averse.

A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.

There is a danger of changing too much in the search for perfection.

I could do a whole talk on the question of is AI dangerous.' My response is that AI is not going to exterminate us. It's a tool that's going to empower us.

A gun can be dangerous. But a gun can protect you, you can hunt for food with it - you know, the tool itself is a tool. The intention of the party using the tool is a part of the process, right? You know: the knife cuts the steak, stabs the person, saves somebody from danger, cuts somebody out of a car.

The REAL ID Act is one tool to help safeguard against potential danger.

I don't think us going out in the crowd would be a good idea. I think that we'd be torn apart limb from limb.

One of my fears would be getting torn apart by a great white shark. I love the ocean, but I always have this deep fear of getting torn apart by a great whitey.

Being in the bands of a hurricane, it's not like a tornado that's going to pass very quickly. It's the most serious thing that you will ever experience next to, I'm sure, an earthquake.

Had I been in Toronto, I would certainly have been killed in this attack. In the room where I normally sleep, the flames and the smoke and the soot is such that the gases would have killed me.

Motor racing can never be totally safe and it never should be in my opinion.

We were diving in caves. It wasn't totally safe.

Don't meddle in the affairs of dragons: to them you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.

You have got to remember how dangerous the world is and that here is a mighty patch of danger and you have got to live through it.

Angst ist ein schlecht dressierter Kampfhund, den man nicht an der Leine halten kann, wenn er Blut wittert.

Of the primary emotions, fear is the one that bears most directly on survival. Children show fear. Adults try not to, maybe because it's shameful, or, in some circumstances, dangerous. The fear response is automatic, though, and your body runs through its reflexes whether you want it to or not.

War is a lot of things and it's useless to pretend that exciting isn't one of them.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.