Quotes About Danger

What happens when the hitcher and the driver are equally murderous?

Normand. I can't stop thinking about Bradie and the danger he's in I say. Why? he asks matter of factly. He'll be back. The skeleton key starts spinning You said he'd be different! I say. He's been taken by agents. Of course that will alter him, he says. He'll be broken, I realize out loud. Broken things can often be fixed, Normand says. His words catch me off guard. I'm pretty sure he has no idea that hes said exactly the right thing. The skeleton key stops spinning and the gat pops open.

Never throw caution to the wind. It could whip back into your eyes and blind you.

Most people are terrible at risk assessment. They tend to overstate the risk of dramatic and unlikely events at the expense of more common and boring (if equally devastating) events.

And there are few incentives more powerful than the fear of random violence - which, in essence, is why terrorism is so effective.

Elephants, meanwhile, kill at least 200 people every year. So why aren't we petrified of them?

riesgo = peligro + escándalo.

Once danger becomes its own reward, risk moves from a threat to be avoided to a challenge to be risen toward.

The greatest athletes aren't interested in the greatest risks. I mean, sometimes they're taken, sometimes not, but those physical risks are a by-product of a much deeper desire to take creative risks. Don't be fooled by the danger. In action and adventure sports, creativity is always the point.

If the past is a foreign country, it is a shockingly violent one. It is easy to forget how dangerous life used to be, how deeply brutality was once woven into the fabric of daily existence. Cultural memory pacifies the past, leaving us with pale souvenirs whose bloody origins have been bleached away.

There is a joke about a commuter who's on his way to work when he gets a call on his mobile phone from his wife. "Be careful, honey," she says. "They just said on the radio that there's a maniac driving on the wrong side of the freeway." "One maniac?" he replies; "There are thousands of them!

Anyone who is equipped to hunt, harvest crops, chop firewood, or prepare salad has the means to damage a lot of human flesh.

The danger, sometimes called the Value Alignment Problem, is that we might give an AI a goal and then helplessly stand by as it relentlessly and literal-mindedly implemented its interpretation of that goal, the rest of our interests be damned.

People today think of the world as a uniquely dangerous place. It's hard to follow the news without a mounting dread of terrorist attacks, a clash of civilizations, and the use of weapons of mass destruction. But we are apt to forget the dangers that filled the news a few decades ago, and to be blasé about the good fortune that so many of them have fizzled out.

I had a nightmare about being on a cruise ship and the ship going down. It was an arduous process of the ship going down and we knew it was going down. There was everyone I know and love on the ship.

We are terrible for each other, and, yes, we are a disaster. But tell me your heart doesn't race for a hurricane or a burning building. I'd rather die terrified than live forever.

Love is a volcano, the crater of which no wise man will approach too nearly, lest ... he should be swallowed up.

Love is madness, and lust is poison.

Love is every bit as violent and dangerous as murder.

What sets these - and all - racers apart from less daredevilish mortals is their complete lack of fear and their joy of doing something on the edge. They love to speed because it is dangerous.

All dope can do for you is kill you... the long hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you.

He who keeps danger in mind, is he who will rest safe in his seat; he who keeps ruin in mind, is he who will preserve his interests secure.

Jewelry, I'm telling you. It's a thing. And love. And maybe danger.

Love's a loaded gun and it shoots to kill.