Quotes About Danger

Rattlesnakes would be a lot more dangerous if they didn't have the rattle.

A lot of people don't believe in curses. A lot of people don't believe in yellow-spotted lizards either, but if one bites you, it doesn't make a difference whether you believe in it or not.

If I ever bore you, it'll be with a knife.

He is proud that his job includes an element of protecting the British public from explosive devices, even though the British public probably thinks he's the one most likely to be planting them.

All the mistakes I've made have been because I've assumed something and then acted as though it was fact. Very dangerous, Agent Lemieux. Believe me. I wonder if you haven't already leaped to a false conclusion?

He remembered how it felt to find himself in the library, away from possible attack but surrounded by things far more dangerous than what roamed the school corridors. For here thoughts were housed.

Memories can kill, Yvette. The past can reach right up and grab you and drag you to a place you shouldn't be. Like a burning building.

No. The real danger in a garden came from the bindweed. That moved underground, then surfaced and took hold. Strangling plant after healthy plant. Killing them all, slowly. And for no apparent reason, except that it was its nature. And then it disappeared underground again.

All that had been trivial, that had been comforting and familiar and safe, now seemed to be strapped with explosives.

Some things hurtled. Some slithered. But nothing good ever came out of a blind spot.

He knew, as a man used to fear, the great danger of letting it take control. It distorted reality. Consumed reality. Fear created its own reality.

They're angry. Unstable. And no doubt armed.

the police were not the evil ones. The snake was already here.

How close they all were, without knowing it, to disaster. All the time.

Every year the hunters shot cows and horses and family pets and each other. And, unbelievably, they sometimes shot themselves, perhaps in a psychotic episode where they mistook themselves for dinner.

They'd evaded the monster. Instead, it had devoured a frightened child.

There was, or could be, outright danger. Believing a person capable of redemption when they'd proven they were not.

Fear saved lives. But fear could also kill.

It's always struck me as funny that guys with scars get a reputation for being hard. It's the ones that cut them you should be looking out for, right?

I warn you that when the princes of this world start loving you it means they are going to grind you up into battle sausage.

Uncertainty and danger are always closely allied, thus making any kind of an unknown world a world of peril and evil possibilities.

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

One of my mother's favorite expressions is "Life is fraught with peril.

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.