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Quotes About Danger

Look at that. She think I got siphlus and TB and a hard-on and I gonna cut her up with a razor and lif her purse. Ooo-wee.
~ John Kennedy Toole
But I was used to finding something deadly in things that attracted me; there was always something deadly lurking in anything I wanted, anything I loved. And if it wasn't there, as for example with Phineas, then I put it there myself.
~ John Knowles
When they torpedo the troopship," he shouted, " you can't stand around admiring the view. Jump!
~ John Knowles
Mientras nuestros rivales tratan de alcanzar la fortaleza viril desde la misma cuna mediante la más dura de las disciplinas, en Atenas vivimos exactamente como deseamos vivir, y estamos igualmente dispuestos a enfrentar cualquier peligro legítimo.»
~ John Lewis Gaddis
What's the most dangerous animal that has ever lived? Half the human beings who have ever died, perhaps as many as 45 billion people, have been killed by female mosquitoes (the males only bite plants).
~ John Lloyd
80% of plane crashes occur in the first three or last eight minutes of a flight.
~ John Lloyd
In the whole the face of things, as I say, was much altered; sorrow and sadness sat upon every face; and though some parts were not yet overwhelmed, yet all looked deeply concerned; and as we saw it apparently coming on, so every one looked on himself and his family as in the utmost danger.
~ John M. Barry
There was nothing even faintly exciting about this work; it was pure tedium, and pure boredom. And yet every step involved contact with something that could kill, and every step involved passion.
~ John M. Barry
Humans react to danger when it is immediate, immoral, visible... Global warming does not press any of those buttons.
~ Daniel Gilbert
A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.
~ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
It was a thunderingly beautiful experience-voluptuous, sexual, dangerous, and expensive as hell.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
The most dangerous error is failure to recognize our own tendency to error.
~ B. H. Liddell Hart
The danger to America is not in the direction of the failure to maintain its economic position, but in the direction of the failure to maintain its ideals.
~ Calvin Coolidge
Me, I say too much optimism will get you killed.
~ Brom, Krampus: The Yule Lord
There is a very real danger of our putting our faith in our sermon rather than in the Spirit. Our faith should not be in the sermon, it should be in the Holy Spirit Himself.
~ Martyn Lloyd-Jones
The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.
~ Simone Weil
I would rather him to bear patiently with it than to put himself in danger of a greater evil.
~ Vincent de Paul
Zeal was like gas, most dangerous when you could not see it. The wrong spark could light it at any time.
~ Frances Hardinge
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell!
~ Joan Crawford
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
~ Helen Keller
Great gods smell fear like sharks smell blood, and they will devour you for it just the same.
~ Madeline Miller
At least, I told myself, it was not their brothers who would have bragged and fought and hunted down my wolves, but of course, that was never a real danger. Sons were never punished.
~ Madeline Miller
The nymphs wafted around me. Their smothered laughter drifted down the halls. At least, I told myself, it was not their brothers, who would have bragged and fought and hunted down my wolves. But of course that was never a real danger. Sons were not punished.
~ Madeline Miller
At least, I told myself, it was not their brothers, who would have bragged and fought and hunted down my wolves. But of course that was never a real danger. Songs were not punished.
~ Madeline Miller