Quotes About Danger

Pour lui, c'est le destin qui entre en gare. Il est seul au monde, fasciné par le train qui fonce sur lui, qui va quitter les rails, dévorer le quai, l'écraser contre le mur.

A victory without danger is a triumph without glory.

If we choose to walk into a forest where a tiger lives, we are taking a chance. If we swim in a river where crocodiles live, we are taking a chance. If we visit the desert or climb a mountain or enter a swamp where snakes have managed to survive, we are taking a chance.

Watching a documentary with people hacking their way through some polar wasteland is merely a visual. Actually trying to deal with cold that can literally kill you is quite a different thing.

The truth is, what Americans enjoy about football is much of what makes the sport dangerous. However, I believe there must be a way to find the art of success and vitality in football, without the driving the level of impact that causes serious risk of head trauma, paralysis and other life-changing injuries.

No person can be more deeply sensible than myself of the danger of entangling alliances with any foreign nation. That we should avoid such alliances has become a maxim of our policy consecrated by the most venerated names which adorn our history and sanctioned by the unanimous voice of the American people.

While the debate over banned books usually seems to happen just outside the gates of government, it takes on a new danger and urgency when legislators get involved. Their actions cause voices to be silenced both inside and outside the books. That's un-American.

There's a danger of the Internet just becoming loud, ugly and boring with a thousand voices screaming for attention.

I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.

Most people, when they meet me, one of the first things they say is, 'Why would you voluntarily subject yourself to war? Why would you go into these places where you know there's a risk of getting killed?'

That generation of Germans, along with volunteers from Denmark, Holland, even England and the Free India division and so on, we Europeans were alert and awake to the danger of Bolshevism.

Crime is sexy.

Shoot, every time you get on an animal, you take your life in your hands.

Every shot that kills ricochets.

When you're a Viking, you never know when you're going to get the axe.

I always went for the girls that liked the bad guys.

A shootout is a shootout. You go in and get the bad guys.

There are a lot of bad people out there.

Bad things usually don't happen by themselves in Iraq.

I'm afraid of bees.

I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. I felt in myself a superabundance of energy which found no outlet in our quiet life.

With enough determination, any bloody idiot can get up this hill," Hall observed. "The trick is to get back down alive.

This forms the nub of a dilemna that every Everest climber eventually comes up against: in order to succeed you must be exceedingly driven, but if you're too driven you're likely to die.

The more improbable the situation and the greater the demands made on [the climber], the more sweetly the blood flows later in release from all that tension. The possibility of danger serves merely to sharpen his awareness and control. And perhaps this is the rationale of all risky sports: You deliberately raise the ante of effort and concentration in order, as it were, to clear your mind of trivialities.