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Quotes About Danger

wrong thing just because it's dangerous. We're more concerned with not looking scared than with judging right.
~ Philip Pullman
Ovo je Fritz: beskoristan je, kao što vidiš. Posve neodgovoran. No, s druge strane, Fritz se samo igrao pripovjeda?a. Da je pravi majstor poput urara, znao bi kako svaki ?in ima svoju posljedicu. Iza svakog tik slijedi tak. Iza re?enice - Bio jednom... - mora slijediti pri?a, ina?e ?e slijediti nešto drugo, a to može biti puno opasnije od pri?e.
~ Philip Pullman
Vielleicht tun wir manchmal nicht das Richtige, weil das Falsche uns gefährlicher erscheint. Wir wollen aber nicht, dass jemand denken könnte, wir hätten Angst. Deshalb tun wir das Falsche, nur weil es gefährlich ist. Uns ist es wichtiger, furchtlos zu erscheinen, als richtig zu urteilen.
~ Philip Pullman
Detrás de ellos había dolor, muerte, miedo; delante estaba el peligro, insondables misterios. Pero no estaban solos.
~ Philip Pullman
El aletiómetro advierte de aterradoras consecuencias si lord Asriel continúa investigando.
~ Philip Pullman
Lyra's heart was thumping hard, because something in the bear's presence made her feel close to coldness, danger, brutal power, but a power controlled by intelligence; and not a human intelligence, nothing like a human, because of course bears had no dæmons
~ Philip Pullman
A veces no hacemos lo debido porque lo indebido parece más peligroso, y no queremos demostrar que estamos asustados, de modo que hacemos algo que está mal simplemente porque es peligroso.
~ Philip Pullman
It was the most dangerous thing she had ever said. She could see quite clearly that only his astonishment prevented him from killing her at once.
~ Philip Pullman
But the danger with hatred is, once you start in on it, you get a hundred times more than you bargained for. Once you start, you can't stop. I don't know anything harder to control than hating. Easier to kick drinking than to master hate. And that is saying something.
~ Philip Roth
It's about life, where the tiniest misstep can have tragic consequences." "Oh
~ Philip Roth
Ma il pericolo dell'odio è che, una volta cominciato a coltivarlo, hai cento volte più di quanto ti aspettassi. Una volta cominciato, non ti fermi più. Non conosco nulla di più difficile da controllare dell'odio. E' più facile smettere di bere che smettere di odiare. Ed è tutto dire.
~ Philip Roth
They" are violent. "They" are dangerous. And "we" are innocent.
~ Unknown
Danger lies in the extreme. A man who is always cruel is evil, a man who is always compassionate will be taken advantage of. It is more a question of balance, or harmony, if you will.
~ David Gemmell
Fear is good, for it makes us cautious and aids survival. Not so with terror. It is like slow poison, paralyzing the limbs and blurring the mind. . . Never, when in danger, ask yourself, What will they do to me? Instead think, What can I do to prevent them?
~ David Gemmell
Jamie says we're the most dangerous species on the planet. Especially to each other. That's what happened on Earth and if we're not careful, it'll happen here. Jamie didn't figure that out for himself. He was telling me what he overheard Captain Skyler say about Councillor Layton, Marley's dad. Mom doesn't like the Councilor for a different reason. She thinks he's a bad parent.
~ David Gerrold
In fact, however, Kathy Boudin and her comrades were deliberately building an anti-personnel bomb filled with nails, intending to detonate it at a social dance at Fort Dix. The dance would be attended by 18-year-old draftees and their dates.
~ David Horowitz
As Robespierre once said of Marat, 'The man was dangerous: he believed in what he said.
~ David Irving
He was my first boyfriend, and I made him my everything - he was my new life, my new love, my new compass point. I guess that's the danger with firsts - you lose all sense of proportion.
~ David Levithan
I'm always standing on the edge of something bad.
~ David Levithan
I guess that's the danger with firsts—you lose all sense of proportion. So I made a fool of myself, even though I didn't realize it at the time. I was so devoted to him.
~ David Levithan
I need to be doing something, because doing nothing is just as harmful as facing danger head-on.
~ David Levithan
Given the prevalence of snake fears among humans and our closest genetic relatives, chimpanzees, it is reasonable to believe that those who were indifferent to dangerous snakes were more likely to die and less likely to become our ancestors.
~ David M. Buss
Murders by acquaintances, friends, and family are much more common than murders by strangers.
~ David M. Buss
You know who I am. --- I know your reputation. --- Then you know I am a dangerous man. --- I know you were said to be such once. --- So you know that I am shunned by man and God alike. --- Be thankful then that I am neither.
~ David Maine