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Quotes About Danger

To move the rocks might yield magical treasures, or, more likely, some unimaginable woe.
~ Jack Vance
Turjan closed the book, forcing the spell back into oblivion. He robed himself with a short blue cape, tucked a blade into his belt, fitted the amulet holding Laccodel's Rune to his wrist. Then he sat down and from a journal chose the spells he would take with him. What dangers he might meet he could not know, so he selected three spells of general application: the Excellent Prismatic Spray, Phandaal's Mantle of Stealth, and the Spell of the Slow Hour.
~ Jack Vance
If you are careless enough to be killed," said Kelle, "you put us to enormous inconvenience.
~ Jack Vance
At .50 per cent, you have imbibed a lethal amount of good fellowship.
~ Jack Webb
As ever, his grief made my heart ache. Ambition is a dangerous thing, I murmured. One can harbor it unknowing, only to find it sparked into life when the opportunity presents itself.
~ Jacqueline Carey
Questions are dangerous because they have answers
~ Jacqueline Carey
We must share our knowledge, share our strengths and weakness, share the burden of danger and the rewards of victory.
~ Jacqueline Carey
By the way, if you're ever conversing with an actual vampire, do not refer to the House of Shadows as Twilight Manor. There's a reason vampires aren't known for their senses of humour. If you accidentally do so, I'd say run, but it's probably already too late.
~ Jacqueline Carey
where power intersects with pleasure, there is danger. Adepts
~ Jacqueline Carey
He nodded at Josceline and me. Keep these two with you, will you? They seem to be damnably hard to kill.
~ Jacqueline Carey
There were two loud-mouthed idiots, James and Phil, who chatted her up the first day. Jodie had flirted back automatically. Then they waylaid her after school, wanting her to go off into the woods with them.
~ Jacqueline Wilson
The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it. —ALBERT EINSTEIN
~ Jacqueline Winspear
beware, white man, of the friendly forest, of the painted desert, beware of the singing water lest you find your mother and she pounce and devour you
~ Jaime De Angulo
Her nakedness was a challenge, her beauty a danger, her way of life an abomination and her existence an evil.
~ James A Michener
But that night I went to bed more convinced than ever that this dangerous College, this time bomb lodged near the heart of the nation, must be abolished.
~ James A. Michener
In 1823 Thomas Jefferson, who as we shall see had long and painful experience with this incredible system, described it as, "The most dangerous blot on our Constitution, and one which some unlucky chance will some day hit." Today the danger is more grave than when Jefferson put his finger on it.
~ James A. Michener
They headed northwest for a destination unknown, one man, one woman traversing barren lands that held no water, moving into canyons where desperadoes might be lurking, and crossing lands often ravaged by wandering bands of Hottentot and Bushmen outlaws.
~ James A. Michener
In Malaya, in China, over Europe or in the jungle airports of the Amazon this word betokens final catastrophe: "Mayday, Mayday.
~ James A. Michener
Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
~ James Altucher
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
~ James Baldwin
No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
~ James Baldwin
Loving anybody and being loved by anybody is a tremendous danger, a tremendous responsibility. Loving of children, raising of children. The terrors homosexuals go through in this society would not be so great if the society itself did not go through so many terrors which it doesn't want to admit. The discovery of one's sexual preference doesn't have to be a trauma. It's a trauma because it's such a traumatized society.
~ James Baldwin
To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger. In this case, the danger, in the minds of most white Americans, is the loss of their identity.
~ James Baldwin
People find it very difficult to act on what they know. To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.
~ James Baldwin