Quotes About Danger

Resistance to understanding a threat grows with proximity," writes Kate Brown.)

Redelmeier was newly struck by the inability of human beings to judge risks, even when their misjudgment might kill them.

As far as I know, there's nothing more dangerous than a man who doesn't care if he lives or dies.

Well one tiny poisonous spider can kill a very large man if it bites him in the right place.

There is less danger, gentlemen, in living according to a set of high moral principles than most politicians believe.

Moonglum sighed. "Elric—this once, let us not court the danger.

A man frantically spurring an equally frightened horse—and behind him, the distance decreasing, a pack of what at first appeared to be dogs. But these were not dogs—they were half-dog and half-bird, with the lean, shaggy bodies and legs of dogs but possessing birdlike talons in place of paws and savagely curved beaks which snapped where muzzles should have been.

Be wary of this devil-blade, Moonglum. It kills the foe - but savours the blood of friends and kinfolk most.

It is ironic that I saved both myself and those I cared for by recalling, at the crucial moment, my identity as an ordinary mortal. There are subtle dangers to the role of hero. I am glad I no longer have to consider them.

We need to enter the castle, first," he said instead. As if the gates had heard him, the metal bars flared to a pale green and then their glow faded back to red and finally dulled into non-existence. The entrance was unbarred and their way apparently clear. "I like not that," growled Moonglum. "Too easy. A trap awaits us—are we to spring it at the pleasure of whoever dwells within the castle confines?

Silently descending were three massive apelike creatures, borne on great leathery wings. Shaarilla recognized them and gasped. "Clakars!

She must have perceived how one could darken and make invisible or at least distant what is unhappy or dangerous in a life; I think her eventual skill with limelight and fictional thunder allowed her to clarify for herself what was true and what was false, safe and unsafe.

He never used words or reason. He just moved dangerously among us.

The scale of the laying of mines in Italy and in North Africa cannot be imagined. At the Kismaayo-Afmadu road junction, 260 mines were found. There were 300 at the Omo River Bridge area. On June 30, 1941, South African sappers laid 2,700 Mark 11 mines in Mersa Matruh in one day. Four months later the British cleared Mersa Matruh of 7,806 mines and placed them elsewhere.

They broke the way a man dismantling a mine broke the second his geography exploded.

He had approached the villa on that night of the storm not out of curiosity about the music but because of a danger to the piano player. The retreating army often left pencil mines within musical instruments. Returning owners opened up pianos and lost their hands. People would revive the swing on a grandfather clock, and a glass bomb would blow out half a wall and whoever was nearby.

He had approached the villa on that night of the storm not out of curiosity about the music but because of a danger to the piano player. The retreating army often left pencil mines within musical instruments. Returning owners opened up pianos and lost their hands.

Each of the tastes has been selected by evolution for its survival value. Either it guides us toward nutrients we need to survive, or it steers us away from ingesting things that might endanger us.

Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever.

I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.

If you sit in a bath of pineapple chunks, it can kill you. That's well documented.

The charming sitcom is all very well, but good comedy is based on pain and danger and fear.

I feel like I'm ready for any dangerous situation that might come my way, provided I have a hammer on me.

In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.