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Quotes About Danger

I'd heard a saying about meth, that it took you down one of three roads: jail, the psych ward, or death.
~ Lauren Myracle
He leans forward seriously. "Bliss. At work and at play, let safety lead the way." Of course," I say. "Silly me." Danger never takes a vacation." That's right. Expect the unexpected." And never, never -" Yes?" He wags his finger. "Check a gas tank with a lighted flare." A laugh snorts out. "Good to know.
~ Lauren Myracle
her. In a blink of those lashes, their tusks could reduce her limbs to bloody ribbons.
~ Lauren St. John
Max gripped Zena's hand and they ran for their lives. Their only hope was a nearby swamp. They could hide in the mud and slime, with the snakes and the snapping turtles and the razor-sharp grass. But
~ Lauren Tarshis
But Dewey didn't look at him. He was looking at something downstream. He had a strange look on his face. And then Chet saw it too: a gray triangle sticking up through the water, heading right for Dewey.
~ Lauren Tarshis
More scared, even, than the time the black panther chased him through the woods back home in Millerstown, New York.
~ Lauren Tarshis
Dex was being sucked into the tornado, and he knew there could be no escape.
~ Lauren Tarshis
especially the Spaniards, posed a danger as great as the sea itself.
~ Laurence Bergreen
would be "captured and killed" that very night.
~ Laurence Bergreen
frigid spray splattered his exposed bottom. (More than one sailor lost his life when he plunged from the jardines
~ Laurence Bergreen
The Magellan of February teetered on the brink of being murdered by the men he commanded.
~ Laurence Bergreen
Fearful of stumbling across warlike tribes that might be prowling in the forest
~ Laurence Bergreen
suspected that if he returned to Portugal he would be thrown into jail, tried for treason, and executed.
~ Laurence Bergreen
Serrano had no time to reef the sails. Fierce seas pounded the ship
~ Laurence Bergreen
the storm gathered force, and the winds pushed the helpless ship toward the rocky coast
~ Laurence Bergreen
nightmare as razor-sharp rocks sawed into her hull, and she began taking on water.
~ Laurence Bergreen
Events moved on, and in July 1579, Elizabeth was nearly assassinated as she traveled on a barge along the Thames.
~ Laurence Bergreen
anyone revealing discoveries or plans for missions of exploration could be executed.
~ Laurence Bergreen
Orthodox religion poses a great danger to humanity, and that is why the magickian never allows him or her self to become trapped in this stagnant water. The great religions, the rituals of these religions, are only hints that once there stood on these banks one who flowed like water with the cosmos.
~ Laurence Galian
Rigid people are dangerous people.
~ Laurence Gonzales
If you find yourself in enough trouble to be staring death in the face, you've gotten there by a well-worn path.
~ Laurence Gonzales
Impeachment should occur when a president's prior misdeeds are so awful in their own right, and so disturbing a signal of future conduct, that allowing the president to remain in office poses a clear danger of grave harm to the constitutional order.
~ Laurence H. Tribe
He wasn't happy unless he was going so fast that one misstep would send him riding shotgun in heaven.
~ Laurence Leamer
'Twould be as much as my life was worth.
~ Laurence Sterne