Quotes About Danger

He felt he would like one more look at the sea, which even now was licking at the rocks behind the house. He had no sentimental notions about the sea; he had no regard for its dangers or its beauties; to him it was a close acquaintance whose every virtue and failing, every smile and tantrum he had come to understand.

The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.

Trying to maintain good relations with a Communist is like wooing a crocodile. You do not know whether to tickle it under the chin or to beat it over the head. When it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up!

In war all repetitions are perilous. You can do many things with impunity if you do not keep on doing them over and over again.

No one can read the Burke of Liberty and the Burke of Authority without feeling that here was the same man pursuing the same ends, seeking the same ideals of society and Government, and defending them from assaults, now from one extreme, now from the other. The same danger approached the same man from different directions and in different forms, and the same man turned to face it with incomparable weapons, drawn from the same armoury, used in a different quarter, but for the same purpose.

Their lives had been different; but one day perhaps he would open this strange book of war, and by the vivid light of personal danger read the lessons it contained.

Mr. Jorrocks has described fox hunting as providing all the glory of war with only thirty-five percent of its danger.

The belief that security can be obtained by throwing a small State to the wolves is a fatal delusion.

Además, el proceso de agenciarse carbón era una dificultad y un peligro extraordinarios. La extensa organización del Almirantazgo tenía servicios de vigilancia en cada puerto, sobre cada tonelada y en todo carbonero probable. La compra del carbón y el movimiento de un carbonero podían muy bien proporcionar una pista a los perseguidores.

In any quarrel among men, if one side proclaims its complete impotence of will and hand, there are no bounds to the evils that may ensue.

Yo sostenía que nuestro margen en barcos de línea, a los que había que añadir los cuatro acorazados del nuevo programa, nos aseguraría una adecuada superioridad para 1912, el llamado, por aquel entonces, «año peligroso».

But the French seem much nearer to the danger than we are. There is no strip of salt water to guard their land and their liberties.

Solo el sombrío crepúsculo de la lucha adversa trae la hora de las soluciones desesperadas. Lo positivo posible se rechaza cuando todo podía ganarse, mientras lo negativo peligroso se adopta cuando no queda otra posibilidad que la huida, y la energía y resolución que podían haber asegurado la victoria se malgastan en meros procesos de fuga.

even in matters of self-preservation, no policy is pursued for even ten or fifteen years at a time. We shall see how the counsels of prudence and restraint may become the prime agents of mortal danger; how the middle course adopted from desires for safety and a quiet life may be found to lead direct to the bull's-eye of disaster

My children, it is permitted you in time of grave danger to walk with the devil until you have crossed the bridge.

Dojela sem tudi, da je ljubezen do ?loveštva zelo nevarno ?ustvo, ker najpogosteje vodi v nasilno osre?evanje ljudi.

Estar en casa es tremendamente peligroso. A cada paso que damos hay peligro de muerte o mutilación. Incluso me atrevería a decir que cuantas más comodidades civilizadoras guardamos en casa, mayores son las posibilidades de que nos suceda una catástrofe. Vivir en una caverna era más seguro que todo eso, claro, siempre y cuando no irrumpiera en ella un tigre dientes de sable en ausencia de la gente que se encargaba de cazar.

He who wishes to drown himself must have an ax at hand to cut the ice.

Never shoot up in the air when you're standing under it.

And do you think, you fool, added Socrates, that kisses of love are not venomous, because you perceive not the poison? Know that a beautiful person is a more dangerous animal than scorpions, because these cannot wound unless they touch us; but beauty strikes at a distance: from what place soever we can but behold her, she darts her venom upon us, and overthrows our judgment.

Remember too," I added, "that getting rid of scoundrels ends the danger of contamination for the rest of the army. Men are drawn closer to virtue when they see the dishonor that falls on misleaders.

Gentlemen," I said to my officers, "let's talk about discipline within our army, and let's consider our danger from no-account leaders. Unfortunately, such rogues sometimes find more followers than good leaders. Promising everyone a good time with plenty of instant rewards, these scoundrels can exert much more influence than virtuous men, who end up alone on steep, rocky paths.

Again, if there is prospect of danger on the march, a prudent general can hardly show his wisdom better than by sending out advanced patrols in front of the ordinary exploring parties to reconnoitre every inch of ground

We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.