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Quotes About Danger

There are wolves hiding in the gray flock that is - characters who still know what freedom is. Moreover, these wolves are not only strong in themselves; there is also the danger that one fine morning they will transmit their characteristics to the masses, so that the flock turns into a pack. This is a ruler's nightmare.
~ Ernst Junger
When society involves the anarch in a conflict which in which he does not participate inwardly, it challenges him to launch an opposition. He will try to turn the lever with which society moves him. Society is then at his disposal, say, as a stage for grand spectacles that are devised for him. Everything changes; the fetter becomes fascinating, danger an adventure, a suspenseful task.
~ Ernst Junger
Even if ten out of twelve men had fallen, the two survivors would surely meet over a glass on their first evening off, and drink a silent toast to their comrades, and jestingly talk over their shared experiences. There was in these men a quality of both emphasized the savagery of war and transfigured it at the same time: an objective relish for danger, the chevaleresque urge to prevail in battle.
~ Ernst Junger
Allora ti piace l'amore?" " E' pericoloso. Ci scappano ferite e poi per la giustizia altre ferite. Non è serenata al balcone, somiglia a una mareggiata di libeccio, strapazza il mare sopra, e sotto lo rimescola. Non lo so se mi piace.
~ Erri De Luca
But the character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done. The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre, and causing a panic. . . . The question in every case is whether the words are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent." With relatively little elaboration,
~ Erwin Chemerinsky
Because the truth holds the greatest magic, the greatest beauty, and sometimes the greatest danger
~ Esther M. Friesner
the truth holds the greatest magic, the greatest beauty, and sometimes the greatest danger.
~ Esther M. Friesner
Love in all its forms is the most important matter that we will ever face, but also the most dangerous, the most unpredictable, the most maddening. But it is also the only salvation I know of
~ Etel Adnan
Povestea unui puÈ™ti cu o mâzg?litur? pe fa?? care aducea a musta??, care aproape a omorât un om cu o umbrel? care aducea a puÈ™c?, într-o operaÈ›iune secret? care aducea a r?zboi.
~ Etgar Keret
The day before the disaster, Iris Carr had her first premonition of danger. She was used to the protection of a crowd, whom—with unconscious flattery—she called 'her friends'. An attractive orphan of independent means, she had been surrounded always with clumps of people.
~ Ethel Lina White
Courage meant overcoming fear and doing one's duty in the presence of danger, not being unafraid.
~ Eugene B. Sledge
Lying in a foxhole sweating out an enemy artillery or mortar barrage or waiting to dash across open ground under machine-gun or artillery fire defied any concept of time.
~ Eugene B. Sledge
The church is never in so much danger as when it is popular and millions of people are saying "I'm born again, born again, born again.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
Better to meet a grizzly robbed of her cubs than a fool hellbent on folly.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
To this largesse had been added waist-length golden, curling hair which, had she chosen to sit on a rock brushing it, must have sent every sailor within miles plunging to his doom.
~ Eva Ibbotson
There's something that's sexy about a guy who has the strength to kill somebody, but is also vulnerable enough to be in love. It's just those two sides - like, I don't know why, but women for some reason aren't attracted to normal guys, like, guys who are in between.
~ Evan Peters
The West was not dull, it was stupendously dull, and when not dull it was murderous. A man could get killed without realizing it. There were unbelievable flash floods, weird snakes, and God Himself did not know what else, along with Indians descending as swiftly as the funnel of a tornado. On
~ Evan S. Connell
Breaking up with a woman tends to be a lot harder if she can turn into a panther and rip out your throat.
~ Evangeline Anderson
There's not a great danger in releasing the first single from an album without a video because the momentum from the last album will cause large numbers of fans to buy it.
~ Robert Hilburn
Religious freedom is too sacred a right to be restricted or prohibited in any degree without convincing proof that a legitimate interest of the state is in grave danger.
~ Frank Murphy
As a batsman, when you know a guy can hit you in the head, you're pretty reluctant to think about any other ball.
~ Jos Buttler
Finding the right form of debate regarding Israeli policies will remain a challenge in Germany. Even with every conceivable and warranted criticism, the danger always arises that it will be exploited by those who consciously or unconsciously present anti-Semitism in a new guise.
~ Sigmar Gabriel
Remember the first rule of gunfighting... 'have a gun.'
~ Jeff Cooper
We were reminded first-hand of the work that still needs to be done in Iraq on the security front when insurgents fired five rounds into the base while we were still meeting with the nurses.
~ Jon Porter