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Quotes About Danger

Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.
~ John Eldredge
Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man. The masculine heart needs a place where nothing is prefabricated, modular, nonfat, zip lock, franchised, on-line, microwavable.
~ John Eldredge
Yes, a man is a dangerous thing. So is a scalpel. It can wound or it can save your life. You don't make it safe by making it dull; you put it in the hands of someone who knows what he's doing.
~ John Eldredge
It then occurred to me that after God made all this, he pronounced it good, for heaven's sake. It's his way of letting us know he rather prefers adventure, danger, risk, the element of surprise. This whole creation is unapologetically wild. God loves it that way.
~ John Eldredge
Notice that the older brother can't receive the father's generosity; he's closed off, curtained off, by his attention to Self. This is the hidden danger I spoke of: the stubborn life of the Self. The Exalted Me, unsubmitted and unsurrendered to the rule of Christ in me.
~ John Eldredge
Those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside
~ John F. Kennedy
When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
~ John F. Kennedy
La cuestión de si sobrevivimos a estos peligros no es un tópico de debate científico, sino un tema de voluntad política.
~ John Gribbin
You're thinking somebody came over here, in the middle of a Category 4 hurricane, caught Nelson in the den, whacked him in the head, dragged his body outside, tried to clean up the blood, and then ran off? Seriously?
~ John Grisham
not for the crocs.
~ John Grisham
He received his first death threat at the age of twenty-five, and started carrying a gun.
~ John Grisham
The element of danger was always in the background, though rarely discussed. With Keith in law school, Beverly and Laura at Southern Miss, and Tim headed
~ John Grisham
Come back to his house, and you'll leave in a hearse.
~ John Grisham
Hatred of McDover. And money. I convinced our mole that this could lead to riches. I just hope I don't get anyone killed.
~ John Grisham
What if they find the car?" "They'll find it, and they'll throw a blanket over Panama City Beach. You've got to be careful. After dark, try to sneak into a drugstore and buy some hair dye. Cut your hair extremely short and dye it blond." "Blond!" "Or red. I don't give a damn.
~ John Grisham
Ten minutes ago, a bomb went off in the Old Courthouse, same courtroom Link got convicted in." I've been in that courtroom a hundred times, so, yes, I am shocked to hear it's been bombed. On the other hand, I'm not at all surprised to discover
~ John Grisham
She ended with a grim warning: "Burn this letter, for it is too dangerous
~ John Guy
Assassination One
~ John Guy
If Jucundus will listen to me," said Aristo, "I could satisfy him that the Christians are actually falling off. They once were numerous in this very place; now there are hardly any. They have been declining for these fifty years; the danger from them is past. Do you want to know how to revive them? Put out an imperial edict, forbid them, denounce them.
~ John Henry Newman
In no instance were these reports true or were any of these cities actually in flames. But the result was immediate action on the part of white officials. They got in contact with important community and industrial leaders. Riot control measures were ordered into effect. Civilians armed themselves for the coming attack and stationed themselves at strategic points. In most cases many whites became aware of the "danger" and no local black person had any idea what was going on
~ John Howard Griffin
The great danger in the South comes precisely from the fact that the public is not informed. Newspapers shirk notoriously their editorial responsibilities and print what they think their readers want. They lean with the prevailing winds and employ every fallacy of logic in order to editorialize harmoniously with popular prejudices.
~ John Howard Griffin
Ruth knew very well what the killer thought he had heard: he'd heard the sound of someone trying not to make a sound - that's what he'd heard.
~ John Irving
Logging is most dangerous if you're impatient; saws and axes, peavys and cant dogs—these tools belong in patient hands.
~ John Irving
Later, some kind of animal—Gloyd described it to him as a six-legged mammal, half mouth—vaulted from a burrow and tore into one of the injured. It took five exhausted sentries to slay the beast. One of Devore's mining specialists cast a chunk of the creature's body into the campfire and sampled a piece. She vomited blood and died within heartbeats.
~ John Jackson Miller