Quotes About Danger

A brain that is good at simulating models in imagination is also, almost inevitably, in danger of self-delusion.

Reporters go through four stages in a war zone. In the first stage, you're Superman, invincible. In the second, you're aware that things are dangerous and you need to be careful. In the third, you conclude that math and probability are working against you. In the fourth, you know you're going to die because you've played the game too long. I was drifting into stage three.

When I take risks now, I do so only when I have to and with every precaution. I used to prospect for news, dropping into places to see what was up. Well, I could go to parts of Libya today and find lots of good stories, but I probably wouldn't be around to tell them.

Each day had the same bloody rhythm: mortars at dawn, car bombs by 11: 00 a.m., drive-by shootings before tea, and mortars again at dusk. At night the death squads went to work.

threatening apes. What was this room? How could he get out? The green blindfold was now wrapping around his throat, choking him. His heart was pounding. He

She understood perfectly that when the object of anticipation becomes paramount, trouble begins to lurk like a panther.

Fast getaways from sinister forces are sometimes essential, though what follows can mean puzzlement.

I felt a cold circle of metal touch the base of my skull. That's exactly what you think it is, a calm voice said. Yo do the wrong thing, and the cops are going to be picking bits of your cortical stack out of that wall for weeks.

The peak of a mountain, he says, is always a perilous place to stand, no matter how sweeping the view.

I once knew this cellist, Miss Browning, A swan with whom I enjoyed clowning. But at night when she bloomed I felt blissfully doomed. Far from shore, in danger of drowning.

P.S. By the by, Frank and I almost got hanged today and were robbed by a charming gang of thieves so there is no need for you to worry that I will feel homesick for old London. P.P.S. I hope you agree my first letter is not devoid of interest and worth a guinea.

juries should ask not Is he guilty? but rather Is he dangerous?

And in these times, people were always in danger of becoming less than fully themselves. If you terrorised them enough, they became something else, something diminished and reduced: mere techniques for survival. And so, it was not just an anxiety, but often a brute fear that he experienced: the fear that love's last days had come.

the liver of the bear is poisonous – the only part of any quadruped known to be so.

Which ones I was not sure, only that passion and danger, ecstasy and despair (but then more ecstasy) would be in attendance. However Ã¢â'¬Â¦ who said that thing about "the littleness of life that art exaggerates"? There was a moment in my late twenties when I admitted that my adventurousness had long since petered out. I would never do those things adolescence had dreamt about. Instead, I mowed my lawn, I took holidays, I had my life.

Physical beauty is a subject that many skirt around and almost everyone attempts to down-play thereby demonstrating some sound moral stance, but it remains one of the glories of human existence. Of course, there are many people who are attractive without being beautiful just as there are beauties who bore, and the danger of beauty in the very young is that it can make the business of life seem deceptively easy.

How he felt (hard as a wall, safe as a house, dangerous as a wild animal), how he smelled (sweat, sawdust, smoke, musk, sex), how he tasted (like sin, if sin was a liqueur)- taken together they should have all comprised an adventure. And then a lesson. And then be rapidly consigned to history.

Do you remember when Regan was in trouble? Alec asked. Of course I remember, Aiden said. She was being stalked, and you investigated. Once the nightmare was over, we were stuck with you.

Allow someone to become too dear to you and you give your enemy a weapon more deadly than the sharpest sword, more lethal than the strongest poison.

I reached under the seat for my radar detector, which is thoroughly and completely illegal in the state of Connecticut, and floored it.

Un b?rbat de dou?zeci de ani este aÅ£îÅ£at de un simplu gînd. Un b?rbat de patruzeci de ani, de suprafaÅ£a pielii. Dar pentru un b?rbat de treizeci, cea mai primejdioas? este femeia care e doar o siluet?.

He had high hopes that the key to unlock the riddle of four people's deaths was hidden on this tape. He'd pushed play fully intending to be satisfied with just a clue, any clue. There can't be any danger, he was thinking. What harm could come from just watching a videotape?

animals again will wander back a long way, and go through danger and sufferings, to recover their lost identity, in the surroundings that they know.

Sunpraise. None of it made any sense. He thought again of Brother Rhiad raving last night in the coach about what a dangerous