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Quotes About Danger

Flames from the lips may be produced by holding in the mouth a sponge saturated with the purest gasoline.
~ Harry Houdini
I don't think the sport is any more dangerous than it's ever been.
~ Shaun White
I want to shine a spotlight on showing how dangerous Trump and his Twitter button can be.
~ Valerie Plame
Of all the creatures in the world that really frighten me - the hyena in Africa, the great white shark - leopard seals are near the top of the list. They're killers. If my team spots one, they'll pull me out of the water.
~ Lewis Gordon Pugh
Our new world rests on order. The danger is disorder. And in today's world, it can now spread like contagion.
~ Tony Blair
There's always the danger when you have influenzas that infect chickens, that when you have the close quarters of chickens spreading from one to another and occasionally a human coming into close contact, that there will be the jumping of species from a chicken to a human. This is not something new.
~ Anthony Fauci
Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
~ Francis Quarles
Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Since real spies are so good, you never really know what actual spying is. But I do think spying is a lot more dangerous than we are led to believe.
~ Richard C. Armitage
I could feel my moral compass as a soldier, in danger of - I could feel the squeeze, the pressure of frustration and anger and fear combining on me... I felt the danger; I felt the squeeze of it.
~ Tim O'Brien
During the 20th century, the greatest danger to European stability was Germany's sense of its special destiny. During the 21st century, the greatest danger to European stability is Germany's reluctance to accept its special destiny.
~ John Lanchester
The one certainly for anyone in the path of an avalanche is this: standing still is not an option.
~ Norman Davies
It's men you should be afraid of, not monsters.
~ Niccolo Ammaniti
Guilt is to danger, what fire is to gunpowder; a man need not fear to walk among many barrels of powder, if he have no fire about him.
~ John Flavel
An Eskimo shaman said, Life's greatest danger lies in the fact that man's food consists entirely of souls.
~ Annie Dillard
A bad man can do a million times more harm than a beast.
~ Aristotle
The world is now aware that the most unavoidable and most dangerous weapon that exists is the blind decisiveness of a man ready to sacrifice his life for an obscure cause.
~ Omar Bongo
A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?
~ Ray Bradbury
Something had gone amiss with men, and the weak ones were dangerous.
~ Thomas McGuane
The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.
~ W. C. Fields
I am wise enough to know that there are some perils from which a man must flee.
~ Faramir
We live in our language like blind men walking on the edge of an abyss. This language is laden with future catastrophes. The day will come when it will turn against those who speak it.
~ Gershom Scholem
The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him.
~ Aaron Hill
The more able a man is, if he make ill use of his abilities, the more dangerous will he be to the commonwealth.
~ Demosthenes