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Quotes About Danger

Money never seems to be interested in strengthening regulatory agencies, for example, but always in subverting them, in making them miss the danger signs in coal mines and in derivatives trading and in deep-sea oil wells.
~ Thomas Frank
The nearer any disease approaches to a crisis, the nearer it is to a cure. Danger and deliverance make their advances together; and it is only in the last push that one or the other takes the lead.
~ Thomas Paine
Sooner or later, jihadist-style terror and WMD are going to come together and the consequences could be horrendous.
~ Noam Chomsky
My books depend on someone in danger, putting pieces together and figuring things out. They do a lot of thinking, and that gets lost in the movie.
~ Stephen King
Mountains are not fair or unfair, they are just dangerous.
~ Reinhold Messner
If you've ever tried ba travel, I wouldn't recommend it-- unless of course you fancy turning into a phantom chicken and rafting uncontrollably through the currents of the Duat.
~ Rick Riordan
Democracy is an extraordinary adventure. It's difficult, full of daring and risk and danger. But it's the greatest gift we have.
~ Jon Voight
I paint my face and travel at night. You don't know it's over until you're in a body bag.
~ Ralph E. Reed, Jr.
There is nothing safer than flying - it's crashing that is dangerous.
~ Theo Cowan
L.A.'s large convenience stores are so big they can accommodate up to twenty armed robbers at one time.
~ Jay Leno
A riveting and realistic portrayal of space travel gone wrong, and of a crew who must fight for their survival. Bones Burnt Black is exciting, and expertly told. A must-listen.
~ J. C. Hutchins
Oversteer is best cause you dont see the tree that kills you.
~ Richard Hammond
There is more danger of numerical sequences continued indefinitely than of trees growing up to heaven. Each will some time reach its greatest height.
~ Gottlob Frege
Cut down the forest, not just a tree. Out of the forest of desire springs danger. By cutting down both the forest of desire and the brushwood of longing, be rid of the forest, bhikkhus.
~ Gautama Buddha
Dangerous, therefore, is it to take shelter under a tree, during a thunder-gust. It has been fatal to many, both men and beasts.
~ Benjamin Franklin
A fool puts her hand into a hollow tree without finding out what's inside first.
~ Robert Jordan
The flocks fear the wolf, the crops the storm, and the trees the wind.
~ Virgil
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
~ John Adams
One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
~ Thomas Sowell
I always thought that's the exact metaphor, the perfect metaphor for acting. To go blind, to ignore the danger, and to totally trust.
~ Isabelle Huppert
Never trust a demon. He has a hundred motives for anything he does... ninety-nine of them, at least, are malevolent.
~ Neil Gaiman
Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
~ Lucretius
Do not trust the person of spite; though you have loved and tamed them, the snake will bite.
~ Morgan Brittany
We are told, that the black bear is innocent; but I should not like to trust myself with him.
~ Samuel Johnson