Quotes About Danger

Yes, it was the love of woman that was the danger, the obstacle on which her dearest wish might founder. How it grieves mothers to tell themselves that, at the very moment it has occurred to them, there already exists a woman who is making her way towards their son from the depths of eternity.

In my experience it is always the most innocent-looking creatures that can cause you the worst damage.

It looked immensely sure of itself as it lay there, flamboyant, on the sand, and immensely dangerous, too.

This is good eating,' whispered Taki to my surprise, for the fish, if anything, looked highly poisonous.

Perchè? Perchè? Perchè se dormi, quando ti svegli sei cambiato. Sì, i cipressi neri sono pericolosi. Mentre dormi, le loro radici ti crescono nel cervello e te lo rubano, e quando ti svegli sei matto, con la testa vuota come uno zufolo».

I think the greater danger is that those who think they understand the process [of overcoming our attachments] are likely to try to make it happen on their own by engaging in false austerities and love-denying self-deprivations. They will not wait for God's timing; they will rush ahead of grace. I have seen it happen when ascetic practices have become overinstitutionalized, and I have engaged in it myself when I thought I could engineer my own salvation. It does not work.

Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune.

The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic... The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent.

It is not good to wake a sleeping lion.

I can't concentrate on golf or bowling. Those bowling pins aren't going to hurt me. I can concentrate in the ring because someone is trying to kill me.

O pilot! 'tis a fearful night, There's danger on the deep.

A hole is nothing at all, but you can break your neck in it.

In spite of all of the training you get and the precautions you take to keep yourself alive, it's largely a matter of luck that decides whether or not you get killed.

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.

One never finds anything perfectly pure and ... exempt from danger.

He that is not in the war is not out of danger.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape a fire is guilty of suicide?

Danger can never by overcome without taking risks.

The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong.

I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery.

Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature. ... Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.

Security is not the absence of danger, but the presence of God, no matter what the danger.