Quotes About Danger

What is courage—that quality respected in all ages and among all nations? Why is this good quality—contrary to all others—sometimes met with in vicious men? Can it be that to endure danger calmly is merely a physical capacity and that people respect it in the same way that they do a man's tall stature or robust frame? Can a horse be called brave, which

One need only admit that public tranquillity is in danger and any action finds a justification.

One need only to admit that public tranquillity is in danger and any action finds a justification. All the horrors of the reign of terror were based only on solicitude for public tranquillity.

i wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. i wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. i felt in myself a superabundance of energy which found no outlet in our quiet life. i suffered most from the feeling that custom was daily petrifying our lives into one fixed shape, that our minds were losing their freedom and becoming enslaved to the steady passionless course of time.

Înainte m? sim?eam stingher,chiar panicat,când vedeam o femeie dichisit?,în rochie de bal,dar acum mi-e de-a dreptul groaz?,v?d în ea ceva periculos pentru b?rba?i,ceva ce contravine legilor ?i îmi vine s? chem poli?ia,s? cer protec?ie împotriva pericolului,s? cer ca obiectul periculos s? fie luat de acolo,îndep?rtat.

Men are always murderers, and their calmness and generosity is the calmness of a well-fed animal, that knows itself out of danger.

Glaubst du, es gibt mehr Wölfe?" Mehrwölfe? Die Schafe guckten erschrocken. Ein Werwolf war schlimm genug. Keines von ihnen wollte je einem Mehrwolf begegnen.

They put on a front that appears accommodating, loyal, and yes, even sacrificial. Then, without warning, they raise their knife, and by the time you see the glint of the blade, it's almost always too late.

But to ignore a truth can prove just as dangerous as twisting a truth. If we ignore the Bridegroom attribute of our Lord, we will miss out on the fullness of what it means to have real intimacy with Him.

Follow the siren's call, and you'll probably end up in the hospital.

It's incredibly dangerous to leave an abuser, because the final step in the domestic violence pattern is: kill her.

With the caveat that it is much more difficult and much more dangerous and much more interesting to be a magician than it is to be a carpenter.

and in its way too much happiness was as dangerous as too much sadness.

Volevo il movimento, non un'esistenza quieta. Volevo l'emozione, il pericolo, la possibilità di sacrificare qualcosa al mio amore. Avvertivo dentro di me una sovrabbondanza di energia che non trovava sfogo in una vita tranquilla

Not all men, of course, care to think seriously of death, but all men, in normal circumstances, run spontaneously from danger, unless to risk it is their duty or their pleasure.

If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.

If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.

Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every scientific addition to knowledge, has proved potentially dangerous, because it has not been accompanied by equal gains in self-understanding and self-discipline.

We, all of us, could do a much better job of evoking what someone has called the universal principle of human altruism: the urge in us all to help others who are in danger.

'Betrayed' starts off with Shane Gallagher rescuing Elena Reyes and a group of hostages from a madman with a gun. And as the story progresses and Shane's feelings for Elena blossom, his urge to protect her grows.

Hip hop has the urgency and rebelliousness that early rock n' roll and punk had: a level of rule-breaking and flirtation with danger. It allows you to break the rules.

Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

An interesting life could always use a little seduction, confidence, ambition, and danger.