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Quotes About Danger

When blown, a MICLIC sympathetically detonated all the mines in the vicinity, scouring a swath eight yards wide out to the full range of a hundred yards.
~ Unknown
In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.
~ Daniel Boone
You're the type of guy who always snaps at some point and becomes a mass murderer!
~ Daniel Clowes
This idea – that belonging needs to be continually refreshed and reinforced – is worth dwelling on for a moment. If your brains processed safety logically, we would not need this steady reminding. But our brains did not emerge from millions of years of natural selection because they process logically. They emerged because they are obsessively on the lookout for danger.
~ Daniel Coyle
This idea—that belonging needs to be continually refreshed and reinforced—is worth dwelling on for a moment. If our brains processed safety logically, we would not need this steady reminding. But our brains did not emerge from millions of years of natural selection because they process safety logically. They emerged because they are obsessively on the lookout for danger.
~ Daniel Coyle
Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.
~ Daniel Defoe
Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself when apparent to the eyes ; and we find the burden of anxiety greater, by much, than the evil which we are anxious about : ...
~ Daniel Defoe
The world has yet to absorb the lessons of this history—the story of how the existence of humanity was placed in great, unjustifiable danger by men who had no intention of doing that, men who recoiled from ending human history, or from taking what they saw as a high or even significant risk of doing so.
~ Daniel Ellsberg
This story shows how critical it is to get treated for sleep problems. But most people suffering from lack of sleep neglect to seek help. They don't view it as a medical problem and choose to simply live with it. That could be a life-threatening mistake.
~ Unknown
Having these boys around town in feral packs is like leaving dynamite out in the sun-something mighty useful and powerful turned into an accident waiting to happen.
~ Daniel H. Wilson
Wherever a dangerous new technology exists, there is a guy with cool goggles and streaky blonde hair waiting to shatter his fibula.
~ Daniel H. Wilson
Stay alert. Pay attention to your robotic staff. Watch for the following signs in the days and weeks before your robots run amok. Sudden lack of interest in menial labor. Unexplained disappearances. Unwillingness to be shut down. Repetitive stabbing movements. Constant talk of human killing.
~ Daniel H. Wilson
It's the one thing we do better than any other animal. We communicate, cooperate, and make tools to extend our reach. Every new tool changes us...The old fears the new, and the two threaten destroy each other. Our technology is what makes us strong. And it's what makes us dangerous.
~ Daniel H. Wilson
Only when you are dangerous are you truly equal to the world.
~ Unknown
The lie that terrorists want you to believe is that you are in immediate and great peril.
~ Daniel J. Levitin
I think when your image becomes so big that it's hard for a viewer to see a character, then I think you're in danger as an actor of being unable to perform what you should be doing.
~ Hugo Weaving
The way I think liberties get eroded is not that all of a sudden you become an Orwellian state, but gradually it becomes harder for people with unpopular views to speak out without being in danger, be it from the state or just from the majority of the people who don't like them.
~ Rebecca MacKinnon
Unfortunately writers take a very small part of the profit on their books, and I think in the e-book world there is a real danger they will take even less, unless they are vigilant and robust about protecting their own interests.
~ Graham Swift
I couldn't be a police officer. It's a very difficult job to put your life in the face of danger for someone else, and that is extremely selfless. To now vilify cops is not really the way I think it should be looked at.
~ Reginald VelJohnson
Maybe there's less oppression growing up in a small village, and fewer rules, and less danger.
~ Luke Treadaway
I'd love to do a James Bond-y kind of villain!
~ Allison Janney
When I was growing up and watching 'The Sweeney,' the notion of police officers being an inch away from the villains that they're chasing was commonplace.
~ Lennie James
I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.
~ Jean Genet
President Barack Obama cried during his announcement of new executive actions designed to curb gun violence in the United States by restricting the access to firearms of those who present a clear danger to themselves or others and improving access to mental health services for those in need.
~ Anthea Butler