Quotes About Danger

One's relationship to windows now changed in the city. A window was the border through which death was possibly most likely to come. Windows could not stop even the most flagging round of ammunition: any spot indoors with a view of the outside was a spot potentially in the crossfire. Moreover the pane of a window could itself become shrapnel so easily, shattered by a nearby blast, and everyone had heard of someone or other who had bled out after being lacerated by shards of flying glass.

He knew how little it took to make a man into meat: the wrong blow, the wrong gunshot, the wrong flick of a blade, turn of a car, presence of a microorganism in a handshake, a cough. He was aware that alone a person is almost nothing.

They knew there was a possibility the agent had sold them out to the militants, and so they knew there was a possibility this was the final afternoon of their lives.

In Pakistan, my friends and family are frightened, as they should be when the

In education, emotions are involved but they're a part of a whole package including intellect. In charismatic leadership, sometimes only the emotions are involved, and I think there is a danger of people, either good or bad people, getting converts on the basis of not really understanding what it is they're going into.

This was the kind of job that made legends out of hunters. Of course, to be a legend, you generally had to be dead.

they rode out, careful to stay off the trail in case the bluecoats took their revenge against any Indians they could find. As

Is telepathy merely a coincidence after all -- a complex series of associations, as traditional schools of psychology would have it? If so, how can we explain those irrational yet memorable instances when we have sensed that a distant loved one is in danger or on the brink of death?

Emmy, the events we lived through taught me to be sure of nothing about other people. They taught me to expect danger around every corner. They taught me to understand that there are people in this world that mean you harm, And sometimes, they're the people who say they love you.

global warming poses a clear and present danger to civilization."21

This blitzkrieg strategy is actually quite high-risk. The danger of starting fights on so many fronts is that if it doesn't succeed in demoralizing your opponents, it could very well unite them.

I do not think you are in any danger of starving, Maximus said. The surgeon said only two weeks ago that you are too fat. The devil! Berkley said indignantly, sitting up; and Maximus snorted in amusement at having provoked him.

No; they nearly drowned you, and not even on purpose but only through carelessness. I am not letting them have you back," Temeraire said.

Maximus] put his head down and said in a conspiratorial whisper, "Tell Temeraire that Lily and I have not forgotten our promise; we will not let them hang you at all. Laurence stared up at the immense Regal Copper. All his crew looked deeply distressed, as well they might, the outlaw remark being perfectly audible several clearings over.

The Wood knew I was here: even now its creatures were moving towards me, stealthy padding feet through the forest, walkers and wolves and worse things still. I suddenly was sure that there were things that never left the Wood at all, things so dreadful no one had ever seen them. And they were coming.

Oddly enough constantly being on the verge of malnourishment, exhaustion and mortal terror isn't really conductive to romance.

Little Irina must be a woman grown by now. A beauty, I have heard, surely?' It was more mockery: he had heard nothing of the sort, of course. I had traveled with my father; the court and his advisers knew I was nothing out of the ordinary, and hardly a girl to turn a young tsar's head - if he had been in any danger of turning his head at all, except perhaps all the way round like an owl.

The French seized his arms and put a blade to his throat, calling to Eroica, "Geben Sie oben

Kennelijk willen veel van ons vandaag de eerste run doen,' zei Alfie op die opgewekte toon waarop een ander wellicht zou zeggen: 'Zo te zien gaat het regenen vandaag!' terwijl het al met bakken uit de hemel komt en je onder een luifel staat te schuilen met vijf anderen met een mes in hun hand, en jij voorzichtig je hand in je zak steek om je pistool te pakken.

if he had been in any danger of turning his head at all, except perhaps all the way round like an owl.

Lots of us up for first run today," Alfie said, in the bright sort of way that someone might say, Well, looks like rain, doesn't it! when it's sheeting down and you've taken shelter under an awning with five people who've all got knives drawn, and you're quietly reaching into your pocket for a handgun.

Any of them could have a disaster before the school year is over. You could have a disaster an hour from now. Bending over. Something could hit you. People carry guns in glove compartments and lunch boxes. Cars spin out of control in minor drizzle. The more you know, really, the more you have to worry and fret about. It's a miracle anyone can sleep at all.

One of my favorite quotations is this, from the late poet Audre Lorde: "My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you." It is truer now more than ever. This is a dangerous moment indeed.

It is the hand of God and the lack of fire escapes