Quotes About Danger

this time, Dad had taught Leni how dangerous the outside world was. The truth was that the biggest danger of all was in her own home.

Hope was such a dangerous thing, so ephemeral and amorphous; it didn't fit in the concrete world of words spoken aloud.

felt to her as if her family stood poised on the edge of a great precipice that could collapse at any second, crumble away like the houses that crashed down Seattle's unstable, waterlogged hillsides.

You must stay strong." "By believing in God." "Yes, of course, but not only by believing in God. Prayers and faith will not be enough, I'm afraid. The path of righteousness is often dangerous.

With no local police and no one to call for help. All this time, Dad had taught Leni how dangerous the outside world was. The truth was that the biggest danger of all was in her own home.

Vianne was thankful for the bell. She was a teacher, for God's sake. What did she know to say about dangers such as these? How could she assuage a child's fear when her own was straining at the leash?

Up here you can make one mistake. The second one will kill you.

Leni hadn't understood then. Now she did. She saw how love could be dangerous and beyond control. Ravenous. Leni had it in her to love the way her mother did. She knew that now.

The truth was that the biggest danger of all was in her own home.

Todo ese tiempo, papá le había estado enseñando a Leni los peligros del mundo exterior. Lo cierto era que el mayor peligro estaba dentro de su propia casa.

I belong to a generation that didn't expect to be protected from every danger.

I am trussed up like a chicken for roasting. I know these modern seat belts are a good thing, but they make me feel claustrophobic. I belong to a generation that didn't expect to be protected from every danger [Oregon Coast, 1995, Chapter 14].

She knew how dangerous escape could be. Survival took grit and courage and effort. It was too easy to give in.

For all he knew, he was the first person to climb this jutting, dangerous slab of rock. That was what he loved about this sport. When you were high above the world, anchored to a bit of stone by a piece of metal and your own courage, there was no outside world. No worries, no stresses, no memories of what you'd lost. There was only the extreme beauty, the solitude, and the risk. He loved that most of all: the risk. There was nothing like imminent danger to make a man know he was alive.

I've been in-country a day and here's what I think: I'm going to die over here.

France has surrendered, Isabelle. Certainly this fact has not escape you. Didn't you hear General de Gaulle? He said ... And who is this General de Gaulle? Why should we listen to him? Marechal Petain is a war hero and our leader. We have to trust our government. Are you joking, Vianne? The government in Vichy is collaborating with Hitler. How can you not understand this danger? Petain is wrong. Does one follow a leader blindly?

But she knew how dangerous escape could be. Survival took grit and courage and effort. It was too easy to give in.

Such...theatrics in the wrong place could be dangerous.

airman in the barn. What should be done? The question haunted her all day, reasserting itself constantly. Every choice was dangerous. Obviously she should just keep quiet about the airman in the barn. Silence was always safest. But what if Beck and the Gestapo and the SS and their dogs went into the barn on their own? If Beck found the airman in a barn on the property where he was billeted, the Kommandant would not be

even though she felt danger slip silently into the water and swim toward her.

somewhere close we can hide him." *   *   * "This is not a good idea," Gaëtan said. "Hurry," Isabelle said harshly. They were in the

A German walked up to her, his rifle

There's danger in being principled in the midst of a war, but I believe that it's more dangerous not to be." "What do you mean?" He seemed to be searching for the words. "I mean that I would rather die knowing I tried to do the right thing than live knowing I had turned my back. Do you understand?

But no good comes of giving away pieces of our heart in the midst of a war." Pere Clément waited until she looked up and met his eye. "It's dangerous, Eva." Eva knew then that he wasn't just talking about the children. She thought of Rémy, whom she'd been seeing less of lately as he became more involved in running errands for the underground. "It's more dangerous not to, I think.