Quotes About Danger

Life is a killer on the other side of the stake. Especially if your a vampire or a slayer.

Her first thought, in the forest, was that she could not trust Lord Darkon enough to enlist his aid. But with the sprite's life in imminent danger, she would be a fool not to appeal to him. If he declined to help, she would simply look elsewhere and refuse to speak to her husband for the rest of his life.

The sugarteeth aren't down here, let's face it," said Bramble. "They would have attacked one of us by now.They've probably run away.I'd bet a harold they've thrown themselves off the garden bridge to join their beastly comrades.

novel levels of novelty, such as we are experiencing now, are a special danger. This means that what's needed today—and urgently—is a call to consciousness on a scale that we have not seen before.

A young girl's body is the most dangerous place in the world, as it is the spot where violence is most likely to be enacted.

The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid. —The Wizard of Oz

It is curious, too, that though the modern man in the street is a robot, and incapable of love he is capable of an endless, grinding, nihilistic hate: that is the only strong feeling he is capable of; and therein lies the danger of robot-democracy and all the men in the street, they move in a great grind of hate, slowly but inevitably.

en la naturaleza de las cosas uno nunca puede intentar escapar a un peligro sin toparse con otro; pero la prudencia consiste en saber cómo reconocer la naturaleza de los distintos peligros y en aceptar el mal menor como la mejor consecuencia».[18]

In the nature of things you can never try to escape one danger without encountering another; but prudence consists in knowing how to recognize the nature of the different dangers and in accepting the least bad as good.

El contraste, por lo tanto, no se establecía solo con la fuerza bruta, sino también con la imprudencia de todos aquellos que no eran capaces de captar las señales de peligro y que eran incapaces de pensar en las posibles consecuencias de sus actos.

We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life. —J. Robert Oppenheimer

Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light?

The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well.

The easy danger of stories, their adhesive allure.

Our dangers, as it seems to me, are not from the outrageous but from the conforming; not from those who rarely and under the lurid glare of obloquy upset our moral complaisance, or shock us with unaccustomed conduct, but from those, the mass of us, who take their virtues and their tastes, like their shirts and their furniture, from the limited patterns which the market offers.

Living is a hazardous profession.

Real fear is like intense pain. It's there to warn you something's truly wrong.

There is never any real danger in allowing a pedestal for a hero. He never has time to sit on it. One sees him always over and over again kicking his pedestal out from under him, and using it to batter a world with.

The only thing less secure than airplane Wi-Fi is running naked through Compton holding all of your money, jewelry, and credit cards in a baggie.

Exactly. If you keep up this pace much longer, you'll burn out, one way or another. Your body will quit on you, or you'll make a big mistake or take a foolish risk that either kills you, kills your career, kills somebody else, or all of the above. You've come pretty damn close to that twice already.

Mostly South America and Mexico the last few years. The drug cartels like to dismember their enemies, throw them in a pit, and set them on fire. The authorities hire me to help identify the dead," Daniel said. Now Eve knew what he meant when he said that he'd slept in worse places than a cot at the Lost Hills station. "I also worked that plane crash in Texas and the apartment building fire in Oakland.

Besides, you're taking the lead on this investigation, whatever it turns out to be." "I am? Why?" "Because I'm retiring in a few weeks. My job until then is to sit on my ass, push paper, and offer you pearls of wisdom," he said. "And I don't want to get myself killed like all the soon-to-retire cops in the movies just to add some tragic depth to your character. I've done enough for you already.

if you so much as move a eyelash, Barkley, I'm going to blow your guts all over this country-side!

Embalming fluid is highly carcinogenic