Quotes About Danger

Hawker is going to kill me, Blue thought deliriously. When I get to the checkpoint, he's going to make that very stern frowny face and tut-tut and check his list and grumble about paperwork and then stab me with his spear thingy.

Please don't come back with a pet camel," she said. "And don't make friends with any scorpions! Also snakes; snakes are bad, try to remember that.

DO NOT ENTER, BY ORDER OF QUEEN WASP. PROPERTY OF THE QUEEN. TRESPASSING PUNISHABLE BY MAIMING, DISMEMBERMENT, IMPALING, AND DEATH, IN THAT ORDER.

If you are flying directly into a hurricane, it is probably useful to be a dragon who can see the future. Then again, if you are a dragon who can see the future, you are most likely far too smart to fly directly into a hurricane.

Yeah!" Blue said. "We should feed her to a pyrosalamander!

There was a loud crack, then a splintering sound, and suddenly the sharpest, most wicked-looking stalactite broke off from the ceiling and plummeted down toward Icicle.

Good news: Four of your students have gone off to find a dragon who just tried to kill you, in order to find another dragon who has tried to kill you about ninety dozen times. Oh excellent, thanks, Turtle. Now we don't have to worry at all.

Stay here, because if you get killed by an IceWing, I'm going to be extremely mad at you.

If you don't, you'll be just another guard I have to kill on my way out. — Fierceteeth

No, but it won't let you touch it," Zoe said. "They're fast. And just so you know, right now it is trying very, very hard to hypnotize you.

THEY'RE HERE TO KILL OUR DRAGONETS!" shrieked the NightWing guard.

about superstrength," Winter growled. "And whatever that other one can do." "Make bananas," Qibli filled in. "Absolutely terrifying. Run for your life.

And whatever that other one can do." "Make bananas," Qibli filled in. "Absolutely terrifying. Run for your life.

Guys, this is Riptide and Serious.

Don't think about Queen Scarlet.

Quite clearly. Also a few where you die tomorrow. Actually the next couple of months are quite perilous for you altogether.

By scaring the daylights out of anyone who tries to mug you?

Good news: Four of your students have gone off to find a dragon who just tried to kill you, in order to find another dragon who has tried to kill you about ninety dozen times. Oh excellent, thanks, Turtle. Now we don't have to worry at all. I mean, we were hoping somebody would take care of the vengeful and deadly Queen Scarlet for us. Preferably a bunch of five-year-olds. Very reassuring indeed.

For someone who worried about almost everything, Zoe was unexpectedly not concerned about a dragon setting her on fire.

With punching and biting?" Swordtail suggested hopefully. "And maybe some venomous caterpillars?" "I like the way you think," Sundew said. "But they're centipedes, dingbat." "Or," Blue interjected, "is there a way to sneak in where nobody gets hurt?

In consulting, entering the danger comes into play in those moments when you're in a meeting and someone says something that is either strange or politically sensitive, and you know that the level of anxiety and discomfort in the room is high. What you're tempted to do is just be quiet and let the moment pass, but what great consultants do, at least according to Lighthouse, is walk right into the middle of the situation and call it out.

I do not like to sound discontented neither,' said Pullings, 'nor to crab any ship I belong to; but between you and me, Doctor, between you and me, she is more what we call a floating coffin than a ship.

Oh yes, they assured him, with grave, anxious faces; they were in horrid danger of foundering, broaching-to, running violently into Australia; but there was a hope, just a very slight hope, of their meeting with a mountain of ice and clambering on to it – as many as half a dozen men might be saved.

Sailors were as conservative as cats, as he knew very well: they would put up with incredible labour and hardship, to say nothing of danger, but it had to be what they were used to or they would grow brutish.