Quotes About Danger

It ain't a lie that's gonna put me in the pit with Al Capone, but it's one step on a slippery slope I been down before.

expect you'll have a fatal accident before you ever get into a courtroom

That was when you discovered she'd recently begun using PCP—what's sometimes called 'angel dust' on the street.

no one would believe the goblins were eventually going to attempt to kill her.

Although it earned him a living, a suspense writer's imagination made him more aware of the constant proximity of death than were most people. Every dog was a potential rabies carrier. Every strange van passing through the neighborhood was driven by a sexual psychopath who would kidnap and murder any child left unattended for more than three seconds. Every can of soup in the pantry was botulism waiting to happen.

NOT DEAD A chill swept down her back.

if he had been foolish enough to trust the media to help him blow the whistle, he would be dead by now.

the wake of the shriek, gunfire erupts. One, two, three shots.

damned might call jealously to the living. Three more shots follow the first three.

If some hopped-up loser, desperate for drug money or violent sex, broke into your house, you could be killed five times over in thirty-two minutes. Consequently, most of these people were prepared to defend themselves—and with enthusiasm.

Some are street thugs who will kill you for the contents of your wallet or merely for the thrill of it.

the sound of an AR-15 can't be mistaken for anything else.

bloodstream

Not long ago, ninety percent of homicides were committed by people who knew their victims. Now as many as thirty percent involved people who didn't know each other. Once a crime of intimacy, homicide was becoming as random as death by lightning.

Hark, dumbass, the error is not to fall but to fall from no height. Don't fall off a curb, fall off a cliff.

Through our maps, we willingly become a part of their boundaries. If our home is included, we feel pride, perhaps familiarity, but always a sense that this is ours . If it is not, we accept our roles as outsiders, though we may be of the same mind and culture. In this way, maps can be dangerous and powerful tools.

Scotty leaned across the table and whispered in a voice Travis wasn't supposed to have heard but did. "We've got to do something quick before Uncle Travis poisons us

From almost every standpoint ethyl alcohol must be regarded as the most important poison with which medical men and jurists have to deal," Gettler wrote in a paper, listing a seemingly endless record of fatalities. "No other poison causes so many deaths or leads to or intensifies so many diseases, both physical and mental, as does [this] alcohol in the many forms in which it is taken.

Life is dangerous, but we're all brave, aren't we?

the knowledge of true danger may cure us of false fears

To speak to you frankly, Reader, I find that you are the more wicked of the two of us. How satisfied would I be if it were as easy for me to protect myself from your calumny as it is for you to protect yourself from the boredom or the danger of my work!

She was a woman, a traitor, and a killer. Males and females wanted her. But I was the only one who ever could have loved her.

And Christianity without passion, danger, and mystery may not really be Christianity after all.

Let them run ahead. Then I'll have good reason for shooting them down. Sharpeville? Attempting to escape. Attempting to escape from the prison of their lives. That's the most dangerous crime. It brings about revolution. So, off we go, lads!