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Quotes About Danger

Today he became a killer, or else a corpse.
~ Eoin Colfer, Airman
Run, Torak! The bear...is...possessed...
~ Unknown
Do not be afraid to fall, be afraid to to land... For no one has ever died from falling they have died from landing instantaneously.
~ Unknown
Though this may be play to you Tis death to us.
~ Aesop
I put my head out of my window and see how much the wind's knife wants to slice it off. On this unseen guillotine, I've placed the eyeless head of all my desires.
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
Poor people are as much in danger from an inordinate desire towards the wealth of the world as rich from an inordinate delight in it.
~ Matthew Henry
Whoever has not felt the danger of our times palpitating under his hand, has not really penetrated to the vitals of destiny, he has merely pricked the surface.
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
~ Pauline Phillips
Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it—religious fanaticism.
~ Clarence Darrow
When you get chickenpox as an adult, it's not a laughing matter.
~ Robert Whittaker
Lightning is something which, again, we would rather avoid.
~ Richard Branson
Letters have been found with my name on assassination lists.
~ Naguib Sawiris
Sometimes I was like Beavis and Butt-head growing up. I know people who lit their friend's house on fire accidentally.
~ Glenn Danzig
Love is dangerous; it's not something to be trifled with. As good as it feels on the way in, it feels that much worse on the way out.
~ Patrick deWitt
If you don't get killed, it's a lucky day for anybody.
~ Abraham Polonsky
You could arm-wrestle with a T. rex and win, but you shouldn't because it only makes them mad.
~ Robert T. Bakker
if the spell was off, I'd have my heart eaten before I could turn around." "Don't you want your heart eaten?" asked the fire. [...] "Naturally I don't," Sophie answered.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
Controller Borasus sighed with relief. Libraries were not places of danger. It had to be a hoax.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
Nobody's safe in a wizard's house.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
You know this could kill me, don't you?' 'Look on the bright side,' said Howl. 'It could be me it kills.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
Nobody's safe in a wizard's house," Calcifer said feelingly.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
Fear is danger to your body, but disgust is danger to your soul.
~ Diane Ackerman
Inevitably, fear raided everyone's mood. But as zookeepers, the Zabínskis understood both vigilance and predators; in a swamp of vipers, one planned every footstep. Shaped by the gravity of wartime, it wasn't always clear who or what could be considered outside or inside, loyal or turncoat, predator or prey.
~ Diane Ackerman
Nobody played poker with Mike Walsh--at least, not twice--but people fought to get aboard Constellation. Her command record since Mike took her was almost the equal of Enterprise's for danger, daring, and success not only snatched from the jaws of failure, but afterward used to beat failure over the head.
~ Diane Duane