Quotes About Danger

it is obvious that all vices have a grievous effect on those who indulge them and often on others too. But I believe that the one which can transport us with the most unbridled haste into danger is anger. This is nothing other than a sudden thoughtless impulse, provoked by some perceived offence, which banishes reason and clouds the eyes of the mind, rousing the soul to blazing fury.

What's sad is that there is an addictive quality to that, to believing your own hype to allowing yourself to become validated by others and no longer by yourself. That's the danger of celebrity.

Intelligence, of course, is not necessarily equated to morality; indeed can become perilous if applied to nefarious purposes.

Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune.

You give thanks for small things. I gave thanks that I was wearing jeans, not a skirt. People start trying to kill you, you stop wearing skirts.

Most remarkably, Americans now considered the danger of surveillance of greater concern than the danger of terrorism:

Statistically speaking, home is an even more dangerous place for women than the road.

the idea of equality was so contagious that the right wing would soon rate feminism as a danger right up there with secular humanism and godless Communism. The

As novelist Margaret Atwood wrote to explain women's absence from quest-for-identity novels, "there's probably a simple reason for this: send a woman out alone on a rambling nocturnal quest and she's likely to end up a lot deader a lot sooner than a man would.

The linen felt perilously thin between them, and she could feel the well-muscled contours of his chest and thighs and... and that obscene dagger with which he wished to impale her.

Adam's wife, his first. Beware of her. Her beauty's one boast is her dangerous hair. When Lilith winds it tight around young men She doesn't soon let go of them again.

Beauty is more a danger than intelligence or wit. One becomes a living mirror for the inadequacies of others.

The first rule of knife fighting," said Nick, "is—don't.

The desert is a scorpion's tale of stings and survival.

Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together.

Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves.

If you play with fire, you're gonna get burned.

When fire is cried and danger is nigh, "God and the firemen" is the people's cry; But when 'tis out and all things righted, God is forgotten and the firemen slighted.

Firefighters — your worst nightmare is just another day at the office for them.

Backdraft has the right-of-way.

Love, thieves, and fear, make ghosts.

Three may keep a Secret, if two of them are dead.

Danger, long travel, want or woe, Soon change the form that best we know— For deadly fear can time outgo, And blanch at once the hair.

It was the very essence of the unknown; it was the sum of the terrors of the unknown, the one culminating and unthinkable catastrophe that could happen to him, about which he knew nothing and about which he feared everything.