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Quotes About Danger

Without danger we cannot get beyond danger.... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
~ Dr. Harold W. Dodds
Anger is only one letter short of danger.
~ Anonymous
If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.
~ Samuel Johnson
To get profit without risk, experience without danger and reward without work is as impossible as it is to live without being born.
~ A. P. Gouthey
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
~ Carl Jung
Past: Our cradle, not our prison, and there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation; for continuation, not repetition.
~ Israel Zangwill
Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
~ Samuel Johnson
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.
~ William Shakespeare
If a man has no vices, he's in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.
~ Thornton Wilder
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.
~ John F. Kennedy
If we survive danger, it steels our courage more than anything else.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr
Iz iskustva je znao kako štetni, i po društvo i pojedinca opasni mogu biti ljudi koji zbog svoje ograni?enosti neograni?eno veruju u svoju pamet i pronicjivost i u ta?nost svakog svog suda i zaklju?ka.
~ Ivo Andri?
Samo, u ovakvom potpunom ostvarenju jedne želje kriju se velike opasnosti, a najve?a je u onoj novoj želji koja se namesto ostvarenja javlja. Ko zna kakva je ta i kud nas može odvesti? I ko zna od ?ega nas je branilo postojanje one prve, dok je bila u nama i mu?ila nas, živa i neostvarena?
~ Ivo Andri?
It was a joint, which put it one slippery step up from a dive.
~ J. D. Robb
Humans were a lot of things- bad drivers, nosy, dangerous because so many of them were stupid and there were to many of them on the planet.
~ J. R. Ward
Then we'd better stop her. Coating the hammering fear with calming ice, Roarke worked precisely. I'm not losing my wife today. I need more shagging light here.
~ J.D. Robb
Do you always drive this way?" "What way?" "As if we're trying to outrun an earthquake.
~ J.D. Robb
She could and had faced an armed laser in the hands of a mad mutant mercenary with less fear than she faced such unswerving emotion...
~ J.D. Robb
When someone believes they're smarter, more talented, just plain more right than anyone else, and they harbor this kind of need, they're very, very dangerous.
~ J.D. Robb
Drop the fucking weapon, you fucking motherfucker or I'll fucking scramble your fucking brains. Hands up! Hands where I can fucking see them, you fucking cocksucker. You fucking breathe wrong, you fucking blink wrong, and I will fuck you up.
~ J.D. Robb
Poison was poison whether it killed you emotionally, mentally, or physically.
~ J.D. Robb
People were a hazard to the damn human race.
~ J.D. Robb
Or the ploy Dahmer used—that classic had proven to do the job in all the decades following. Lone woman struggling to lift something heavy into the back of a vehicle. Can
~ J.D. Robb
Christ Jesus. Torn between amusement and pain, Roarke dabbed at the blood on his lip. You make romance a dangerous business.
~ J.D. Robb