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Quotes About Danger

Tú temes el mañana, sin embargo el ayer es igual de peligroso.
~ Idries Shah
Quienquiera que perfume a un escorpión no por ello escapará a su aguijonazo. Bahaudin Naqshband
~ Idries Shah
Por alguna misteriosa razón los humanos nos refugiamos en aquello que más peligro nos significa, como los niños que temen la oscuridad pero juegan a hacer equilibrios en el barandal del balcón. ¿No es horrible darse cuenta de que aquello que más se teme es en el fondo lo que más se desea?
~ Unknown
The combination of his traveling position, his drug intake, and his already weakened heart probably killed him.
~ Unknown
To think is wondrous, but to constantly repeat such, is dangerous.
~ Unknown
steer clear of the love of dark sorceresses.
~ Comte de Lautreamont
Vosotros, que pasáis por este puente, no prosigáis. El crimen y el vicio habitan aquí; un día, sus amigos aguardaron en vano a un joven que había cruzado la puerta fatal.
~ Comte de Lautreamont
An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.
~ Confucius
You do not placate a tiger by feeding it your own flesh.
~ Conn Iggulden
As he prepared to ride on, he chuckled at the thought of the wolf entering the sheepfold. He would not ride with fire and destruction. The shepherd did not frighten his own pretty lambs.
~ Conn Iggulden
You can't just wound the bear and run. He'll come after you.
~ Conn Iggulden
You won't calm the tiger if you feed him with your own flesh
~ Conn Iggulden
We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. —GEORGE ORWELL
~ Conn Iggulden
and skidded to a halt before him. "The prisoners are gone, Lionheart!
~ Unknown
Done Amid fear and suspicion, with startled minds and frightened eyes, we pine and scheme over what steps to take to avoid the certain danger that threatens us so horribly. Yet we are wrong. This was not the danger in store; the portents were false (or we never heard them, or failed to construe them properly). It's some other disaster, precipitous, violent, one we hadn't imagined, that suddenly takes us unawares, and – there's no time now – overcomes us.
~ Constantinos P. Cavafis
The Internet is a dangerous place where any half witted fool can ruin someone else's name and reputation within a matter of days, hours and even minutes and have the world believe it is true. How sad is that?
~ Unknown
It wasn't an attack. We'd been together too many times before, made love together too many times before, for it to be that. It was just that fear had suddenly entered, and made us dangerous strangers. ("New York Blues")
~ Cornell Woolrich
The shears found his throat this time. He fell down on top of them and was silent. Something dark like mucilage glistened where he lay. She had jumped back - not in remorse, but to keep the bottom of her skirt clear of his blood. ("I'm Dangerous Tonight")
~ Cornell Woolrich
It was male, of course; menace is always male. ("Nightmare")
~ Cornell Woolrich
I didn't look over my shoulder; there wasn't a sound behind me on the pavement, but I knew he was coming slowly after me. The crawl of the skin up and down my back told me. Little needles of warning that gathered at the back of my skull told me. I'd never known until then that the jungles aren't so very far behind us, after all, and tails, and four feet instead of two. Where else did those symptoms come from? ("Don't Wait Up For Me, Tonight")
~ Cornell Woolrich
One sometimes kills for the love of it.
~ Cornell Woolrich
he will then deliver a totally redundant speech about all the things you're not allowed to take inside: scissors, swords, knives, guns, bombs, ballistic missiles, tactical nuclear weapons, etc. Then you
~ Unknown
slogans about smoking: "Cigarettes are killers that travel in packs.
~ Craig Johnson
Cigarettes are killers that travel in packs.
~ Craig Johnson