Quotes About Danger

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

What do you do if you get nailed by this poison?" The bushmen smiled broadly. "We die," they said.

I avoided getting eaten on the Burdekin. I managed again to escape being flattened by a road train on the return trip to the zoo. My monthlong stay in Australia was nearing its end. The ache hadn't hit me yet, but I could feel it coming.

I am in the middle of nowhere. It's nighttime. I am surrounded by crocodiles. The boat motor won't start. Steve will be snatched and eaten by One-Eye right off the back of the boat. Then I'll be alone.

As Graham lunged toward Steve, Steve drove the pick handle into the crocodile's mouth and started hammering at his head. Wes saw what was happening and scrambled up the fence. "I'm out mate, I'm out," Wes yelled, blood pouring down his leg. Steve looked up to see Wes on the top of the fence. He realized that even though Wes was wounded, he was poised to jump back down into the water to try to rescue his best mate.

Crocodiles are easy,' Steve said, 'they try to kill and eat you. People are harder. Sometimes they pretend to be your friend first.

Central governments have always been the greatest danger to mankind.

Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.

Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.

When you start to say to yourself, just one look back, just one glance, the danger will have begun for you.

Goodness knows what hallucinations of danger and siege people are subject to, if they live anywhere too beautiful and too sequestered.

kill trhe beast before it kills you

The Running Man, movie

Never expose yourself unnecessarily to danger; a miracle may not save you...and if it does, it will be deducted from your share of luck or merit.

One of the prime dangers of civilization has always been its tendency to cause the loss of virile fighting virtues, of the fighting edge. When men get too comfortable and lead too luxurious lives, there is always a danger lest the softness eat like an acid into their manliness of fiber. The

Cuvintele sunt ca energia brut?: înc?rcate cu putere, capabile s? È™ocheze sau s? aline, s? r?neasc?, s? fac? r?u ori s? consoleze. Efectul lor e mai lung decât al unei lovituri. În mâini nemiloase, sunt o arm? periculoas?.

The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.

Sin is a viper that does always kill where it is not killed.

The best course to prevent falling into the pit is to keep at the greatest distance from it; he who will be so bold as to attempt to dance upon the brink of the pit, may find by woeful experience that it is a righteous thing with God that he should fall into the pit.

Alas! For shame," said Sir Launcelot, "that ever one knight should betray another! But it is an old saw, a good man is never in danger, but when he is in danger of a coward.

Fire is the best of servants; but what a master!

As good Archbishop Loménie was wont to say: 'There are so many accidents; and it needs but one to save us.'—How many to destroy us?

Any time you're near a kangaroo, it's a close call.

The war begins to make itself felt very near to us.