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Quotes About Danger

And then, every time I didn't see her, there was a fall involved. I thought about dancing on the fifth-floor ledge outside out apartment. Every train she wasn't on felt something like hitting the pavement from five floors up. So maybe my father was right about that. Maybe happiness and excitement really are dangerous things.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
You have a lot to learn about the world, baby girl. Nothing is more dangerous than words." "That's stupid. What about a gun? A gun can kill you dead." "Only your body," Billy said. "It can't kill your soul. Words can kill your soul.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
Sometimes people are scared of a thing that won't hurt them. But they're not scared for no reason.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
When an eleven-year-old boy can be beaten within an inch of his life for walking down the street with the wrong friend . . . ," he said, ". . . well, I just don't see what chance we have, Lucy. We'll get somebody killed.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
So maybe you're sitting here thinking, I have a right to fire my gun if I think I'm in danger. But does your neighbor have a right to fire his gun at you if he thinks you're a danger to him?
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
How long your hair has grown. You could strangle a man in it.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
One can never be sure," the Green Wind sighed. "There is always the danger of kisses where sleeping maids are concerned. But you are safe now, and for awhile yet, and why worry about a thing that may never come to pass? Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
A tongue is very like a gun, which is why they nearly rhyme. Both can be fired to devastating effect, for good or evil, and both can explode in your hands, wounding your comrades instead of your enemies.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
But even the wisest of men may die, and that is especially true when the wisest of men has a fondness for industrial chemicals.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
But the trick most folk are so awfully fond of learning, the absolute second they've got hold of a heart, is to pretend they don't have one at all. It is the very first danger of the hearted.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Music has more rules than math or magic and it's twice as dangers as both or either.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
SOMEONE IS APPROACHING THE SHIP. SOMEONE BIG. HATE. HATE. HATE. HATE. I WILL BITE THEM. I WILL. LET ME BITE THEM. YOU WILL NOT BE SORRY. EVERYTHING WILL BE BETTER IF I BITE THEM. TRUST GRUMPO. GOOD BOY GRUMPO.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
You can turn around in the dark, with the man who wants your heart looming so big, so big over you, and you can give it to him, so bright and red and pure that it destroys him. Getting what you want has that effect, more often than you think. But it's a dangerous thing, the intimate exchange of hearts in the shadows, and sometimes the man in the dark walks off with everything anyway.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Perhaps he was like a horse rescued from a barn on fire, who runs back into his burning stall simply because the place is familiar.
~ Geraldine Brooks
The problem of the survival of humanity is not a matter of ensuring the birth of future generations but of limiting it. The immediate danger to humanity is that of total annihilation within a generation or two, not the failure of mankind to breed. A woman seeking alternative modes of life is no longer morally bound to pay her debt to nature.
~ Germaine Greer
If you panic...you die.
~ Gerry Conway
And yet, the real and deepest danger to woman did not lie along this line of refusal, but in the opposite direction. The veil is not only the symbol of the bride of man, but also of the Bride of Christ.
~ Gertrud von Le Fort
Nothing is really so very frightening when everything is so very dangerous
~ Gertrude Stein
La folla non ragiona mai. È sempre cieca. E può diventare un mostro che nessuno è in grado di fermare.»
~ Giampaolo Pansa
Watch for when he goes," she whispered. "Then come over to my bedroom. I'll be waiting, darling. Run!
~ Gil Brewer
Colonel Sir Guy Wethered's thoughts were still peculiar as he watched his guest open the door for his young wife. Danger had always stimulated him. And this might be danger of a new kind. "I made her marry me", he brooded. "And I'll damn well make her stay married to me. Whether she wants to or whether she doesn't." Not that there could be any real danger from Rusty. All the same…
~ Gilbert Frankau
Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Religious and philosophical beliefs are, indeed, as dangerous as fire, and nothing can take from them that beauty of danger. But there is only one way of really guarding ourselves against the excessive danger of them, and that is to be steeped in philosophy and soaked in religion.
~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Coke hyped you up, gave you the courage, if you lacked it, to pull a trigger. Heroin slowed you down. Down to a death crawl.
~ Gini Sikes