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Quotes About Danger

The money can be a hindrance to someone like me because the danger is that you start thinking, 'Is that a $20 million take?' That kind of thing, and being self-critical.
~ Jim Carrey
With all the risk and danger television sprays at us each day like tear gas, it occurs to me they should simply open each evening's show by saying, Welcome to the Channel Two News; we're very surprised you made it through another day.
~ Thom Rutledge
How could I be expected to know? I was a child when I left this house four months ago. Why didn't you tell me there was danger? Why didn't you warn me? Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks; but I never had the chance of discovering in that way, and you did not help me!
~ Thomas Hardy
Why didn't you tell me there was danger in men-folk? Why didn't you warn me? Ladies know what to fend hands against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks; but I never had the chance o' learning in that way, and you did not help me!
~ Thomas Hardy
Por qué no me dijiste que se corría peligro entre los hombres? ¿Por qué no me previniste? Algunas señoras saben defenderse porque leen novelas que les hablan de estas cosas, pero yo nunca tuve ocasión de aprender de ese modo y tú no me lo enseñaste.
~ Thomas Hardy
I'm going to cut you loose. With all due respect, Doctor, if you fuck with me I'll shoot you dead, here and now. Do you understand that?- Clarice Perfectly.- Hannibal Lecter Do right and you'll live through this. -Clarice
~ Thomas Harris
If you believe you are beyond harm, will you go inside? Will you enter this palace so prominent in blood and glory, follow your face through the web-spanned dark, toward the exquisite chiming of the clavier? The alarms cannot see us. The wet policeman lurking in the doorway cannot see us. Come …
~ Thomas Harris
He saw the fireball coming, bouncing on the potholes, trailing smoke and sparks and the flames blown back like wings, disjointed reflections leaping along the shop windows. It veered, struck a parked car and overturned in front of the building, one wheel spinning and flames through the spokes, blazing arms rising in the fighting posture of the burned.
~ Thomas Harris
I can tell him what you've said." "He'll ignore it. And Buffalo Bill will go on and on. Wait until he scalps one and see how you like it. Ummmm Ã¢â'¬Â¦ I'll tell you one thing about Buffalo Bill without ever seeing the case, and years from now when they catch him, if they ever do, you'll see that I was right and I could have helped. I could have saved lives. Clarice?
~ Thomas Harris
Graham felt that it was she who drew the monster, as surely as a singing cricket attracts death from the redeyed fly.
~ Thomas Harris
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
~ Thomas Henry Huxley
Eloquence, with flattery, disposeth men to confide in them that have it; because the former is seeming wisdom, the latter seeming kindness. Add to them military reputation and it disposeth men to adhere and subject themselves to those men that have them. The two former, having given them caution against danger from him, the latter gives them caution against danger from others.
~ Thomas Hobbes
The executive power in our government is not the only, perhaps not even the principal, object of my solicitude. The tyranny of the legislature is really the danger most to be feared, and will continue to be so for many years to come. The tyranny of the executive power will come in its turn, but at a more distant period.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Recreation, which is to say: a refreshing exercise of the organism, because it was in immediate danger of overindulging itself in the uninterrupted monotony of daily life and growing indifferent.
~ Thomas Mann
Danger's over, Banana Breakfast is saved.
~ Thomas Pynchon
Never know when a gal might need a laser.
~ Thomas Pynchon
One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
~ Thomas Sowell
Guns are completely inappropriate for the kind of sheep-like people the anointed envision or the orderly, prepackaged world in which they are to live. When you are in mortal danger, you are supposed to dial 911, so that the police can arrive on the scene some time later, identify your body, and file reports in triplicate.
~ Thomas Sowell
Flood conditions can be detected sooner and evacuations begun and carried out more quickly where there are ample resources to produce all the cars, planes, and other vehicles needed to move huge numbers of people out of danger. All these things are made possible by the material wealth which is often treated so disdainfully by those promoting "safety." But to kill the goose that lays the golden egg is, in effect, to kill people.
~ Thomas Sowell
My love, my sweet love, I live in another world. A kinder and simpler world. A world of moons and stars and forests, a world filled with danger and magical beauty. It's the old world but to me it's new. You must not be fearful, dear, I quite like it there.
~ Katherine Mansfield
The shortness of life! The shortness of life!' I've only one night or one day, and there's this vast dangerous garden, waiting out there, undiscovered, unexplored.
~ Katherine Mansfield
Muses had a way of killing those whom they inspired.
~ Katherine Neville
Thank you. You've made me feel like Cinderella." Except she hadn't put thousands of lives in danger. "This is no fairy tale." Jane closed the bag and frowned. "It's more like you're Cassandra running to warn the Trojans about the big wooden horse full of soldiers who plan to burn the city." She pressed the bag into my hand. "Let us hope you have better luck than she did.
~ Kathleen Baldwin
One cannot underestimate the importance of a train being on time. Or leave to chance the space between the plane and the bomb.
~ Kathleen Tessaro