Quotes About Danger

We do not always recognize the thing that comes to destroy us.

Los gobiernos centrales siempre han constituido uno de los mayores peligros para la humanidad.

Central governments have always been the greatest danger to mankind. Now there are none—small communities are the new rule of life. Some things are better left alone by everyone.

But sharing the uncertainty and danger made it more manageable than it would have been otherwise

Typical bungling officials, elected by the disinterested people to juggle the ball until it can be passed on to some other fool. I could tell five minutes after I opened my mouth that they thought I was crazy. They don't see the danger until the sword is at their own throats—then they scream for assistance from those of us who knew it all along.

Place a loaded pistol in a playpen and the babies will play with it just like any other toy, giggle, and perhaps even place the gun in their mouth. In contrast, put a plastic snake into the playpen; the babies will cower in fear. Show a person of any age a snake —or even a picture of one —and you will elicit a dramatic response, including sweaty skin and an increased heart rate. It doesn't matter whether the person is in America, Europe, Japan, Australia, or Argentina

There is no place so dangerous as a world without magic.

Fools who won't see the truth are deadly.

Richard, Kahlan said, what about Siddin? Weselan and Savidlin will be worried sick over him. Her green eyes gazed deep into his. She leaned closer, and whispered, And we have unfinished business in the spirit house. I believe there is still an apple there we have yet to finish. Her arm tightened around his waist, and a little twist of a smile came to her lips. The shape of the smile caught his breath in his throat.

Something in this world always wants to kill you. Don't forget that.

They think they are smart and powerful because they have contrived to use my gift to put up the boundary to lure us to this place. What they have actually done is to attract lightning, and that lightning is about to strike them down.

It wasn't possible to reason with people who were irrational. That was what made irrational people so profoundly dangerous.

But the past is past, and we must now go on with what must be done. The prophecies say that the greatest danger now lies before us.

This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.

The men in the room suddenly realized that they did not want to know her better. She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close. And she held her sword, and she smiled like a knife.

Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

An Assassin, a real Assassin, had to look like one - black clothes, hood, boots, and all. If they could wear any clothes, any disguise, then what could anyone do but spend all day in a small room with a loaded crossbow pointed at the door?

A weapon you held and didn't know how to use belonged to your enemy.

There was no light at the end of the tunnel--or if there was, it was an oncoming train.

Murder was in fact a fairly uncommon event in Ankh-Morpork, but there were a lot of suicides. Walking in the night-time alleyways of The Shades was suicide. Asking for a short in a dwarf bar was suicide. Saying 'Got rocks in your head?' to a troll was suicide. You could commit suicide very easily, if you weren't careful.

the little man's total obliviousness to all forms of danger somehow made danger so discouraged that it gave up and went away.

The landscape was snow and green ice on broken mountains. These weren't old mountains, worn down by time and weather and full of gentle ski slopes, but young, sulky, adolescent mountains. They held secret ravines and merciless crevices. One yodel out of place would attract, not the jolly echo of a lonely goatherd, but fifty tons of express-delivery snow.

Everyone knew there were wolves in the mountains, but they seldom came near the village - the modern wolves were the offspring of ancestors that had survived because they had learned that human meat had sharp edges.

IT'S A SWORD, said the Hogfather. THEY'RE NOT /MEANT/ TO BE SAFE.