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Quotes About Danger

La esperanza es una cosa peligrosa, pensó Raisa. Una vez encendida es difícil de apagar. Vuelve a las personas sabias en necios.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
No hay nadie más peligroso que aquel a quien las esperanzas se le han convertido en desesperación.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
Come on! We've had too many dead heroes. Being a coward increases your odds of survival-that's my motto. I'm counting on bieng faster than them.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
Is there anything courageous or brave about making the only possible choice that will save your life? When you're drowning, you grab any hand that's offered. To me, bravery is a spontaneous decision to save somebody else's life when your own is in danger.
~ Unknown
I'm restless and harsh and despairing. Although I do have love inside me. I just don't know how to use love. Sometimes it tears at my flesh, like barbs. If I can hold so much love within me, and nevertheless continue to be uneasy, it's because I need God to come. Come, before it's too late. I'm in danger, as is everyone who's alive.
~ Clarice Lispector
Danger is what makes life precious. Death is the constant danger of life.
~ Clarice Lispector
Should I say that she was crazy about soldiers? Well she was. Whenever she saw one, she thought with a shiver of pleasure: is he going to kill me?
~ Clarice Lispector
Flores envenenadas na jarra. Roxas azuis, encarnadas, atapetam o ar. Que riqueza de hospital. Nunca vi mais belas e mais perigosas. É assim então o teu segredo. Teu segredo é tão parecido contigo que nada me revela além do que já sei. E sei tão pouco como se o teu enigma fosse eu. Assim como tu és o meu.
~ Clarice Lispector
The danger of meditating is accidentally beginning to think , and thinking is no longer meditating, thinking leads to an objective. The least dangerous thing, in meditating, is "seeing," which dispenses with thinking words.
~ Clarice Lispector
Tenho medo de escrever. É tão perigoso. Quem tentou, sabe. Perigo de mexer no que está oculto – e o mundo não está à tona, está oculto em suas raízes submersas em profundidades do mar. Para escrever tenho que me colocar no vazio. Neste vazio é que existo intuitivamente. Mas é um vazio terrivelmente perigoso: dele arranco sangue.
~ Clarice Lispector
I wasn't really eight anymore. The day you know danger and fear, and know that you are alone, is the day you grow, if not up, then old.
~ Unknown
if Richard Nixon is not sincere, he is the most dangerous man in America.
~ Unknown
Except for the three grave sins of murder, incest and idolatry, it was axiomatic in Halakhah that every commandment of the Torah might be violated to save a human life. But the rabbi also knew the mitzvah that commanded a Jew to be unafraid of any danger in the proclamation of his true faith. "'Let
~ Clifford Irving
The safest road to hell is the gradual one-the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
~ Unknown
there is great danger that modern culture, progressing in its anti-supernaturalistic course, will be stirred against the steadfastness of believers and attempt to accomplish by oppression what it cannot obtain by reasoning and argument.
~ Herman Bavinck
When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.
~ Herman Wouk
Appeasers believe that if you keep on throwing steaks to a tiger, the tiger will turn vegetarian.
~ Unknown
lucky, he knows now, not to have got in with lowlifes who would lead him to be branded or whipped, or to be one of the small corpses fished out of the river.
~ Hilary Mantel
Do you know why they say, 'There's no smoke without fire?' It's not just to give encouragement to people who like fires. It's a statement about the danger of chimneys, but also about the courts of kings—or any space where trapped air circulates, choking on itself.
~ Hilary Mantel
But there's no guarantee that the world will change the way you want it to. I think that's the danger of changing the past that the minister was talking about.
~ Hiro Mashima
Too much light would mean danger, but if it were too dark, I would not be able to make sure that the person I was meeting was really Major Taniguchi.
~ Hiroo Onoda
Clever girl. You play with fire because you want to be burnt.
~ Holly Black
He rises from the throne. "Come, have a seat." His voice is replete with danger, lush with menace. The flowering branches have sprouted thorns so thickly that petals are barely visible. "This is what you wanted, isn't it?" he asks. "What you sacrificed everything for. Go on. It's all yours.
~ Holly Black
Cardan grins at me as though we've been great friends all our lives. I forgot how charming he can be--and how dangerous that is.
~ Holly Black