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Quotes About Danger

It is not when it is dangerous to tell the truth that its advocates are hardest to find, but when it is boring.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
He maybe, possibly, said that if he got word of anyone getting in your way, they'd find out whether there was any truth to the rumor about him knowing how to kill a man with paper clips.
~ Julie James
The truth is this is a very dangerous world.
~ Mike Rogers
Knowing something may be a terrible burden to bear, but it holds no danger to them as aren't afraid of truth.
~ Orson Scott Card
The danger is that in reaction to abuses and distortions of an idea, we'll reject it completely. And in the process miss out on the good of it, the worth of it, the truth of it.
~ Rob Bell
She didn't even know how dangerous the truth could be, all the tiny, shattering seeds it carried.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
Fools who won't see the truth are deadly.
~ Terry Goodkind
Truth is always in danger of being sacrificed on the altars of good taste and social stability.
~ William Sloane Coffin
The world was full of monsters, and they were all allowed to bite the innocent and the unwary
~ Stephen King, Cujo
Secrets can kill the innocent and enchant the guilty.
~ Alexis Hurley
The truth is like sunlight: It causes cancer.
~ J. Richard Singleton
..the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.
~ Yann Martel, Life of Pi
If we go out there thinking we're invulnerable, we'll get stupid. Stupid people die, and all too often, they take friends with them.
~ Michael A. Stackpole
Time to remind them that trapping a Rogue doesn't make him dead, just deadlier. -Corran Horn
~ Michael A. Stackpole
That's the coolest thing I've ever seen, Puck said. How cool will it be when it kills us? Sabrina asked. Considerably less cool, Puck replied.
~ Michael Buckley
But know this, if you get killed out there I'm going to fire you.
~ Michael Buckley
Childhood is, or has been, or ought to be, the great original adventure, a tale of privation, courage, constant vigilance, danger, and sometimes calamity. For the most part the young adventurer sets forth equipped only with the fragmentary map -marked HERE THERE BE TYGERS and MEAN KID WITH AIR RIFLE-that he or she has been able to construct out of patchwork of personal misfortune, bedtime reading, and the accumulated local lore of the neighbourhood children.
~ Michael Chabon
The city was new again, and newly dangerous, and I would walk the streets quickly, eyes averted from those of passersby, like a spy in the employ of lust and happiness, carrying the secret deep within me but always on the tip of my tongue.
~ Michael Chabon
The civilized people in the world, the ones who hide behind culture and art and politics… and even the law, they're the ones to watch out for. They've got that perfect disguise goin' for them, you know? But they're the most vicious. They're the most dangerous people on earth.
~ Michael Connelly
Because it's a hot door and we have to be careful. You never open a door on a burning room.
~ Michael Connelly
Hollywood was always best viewed at night. It could only hold its mystique in darkness. In sunlight the curtain comes up and the intrigue is gone, replaced by a sense of hidden danger. It was a place of takers and users, of broken sidewalks and dreams. You build a city in the desert, water it with false hopes and false idols, and eventually this is what happens. The desert reclaims it, turns it arid, leaves it barren. Human tumbleweeds drift across its streets, predators hide in the rocks.
~ Michael Connelly
Okay, well a following sea is the one you have to watch out for. It's the one that comes up behind a vessel. You don't see it coming.
~ Michael Connelly
They'll both know somebody's out there, coming for them.
~ Michael Connelly
He knew that the dark engine of murder would never run low on fuel. Not in his lifetime. Not in anyone's.
~ Michael Connelly