logo

Quotes About Danger

If you keep making jokes like that, somebody is going to shoot you, father.
~ Mary Todd Lincoln
Jesus asked the Father for his disciples' security, sanctity and unity. Jesus still intercedes for us so fervently because we live in a world that is deceived, dangerous, defiled and divided.
~ Warren W. Wiersbe
Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.
~ Victor Hugo
The gunner's mate came up and started breaking the locks on the ammunition. Everything was locked up for fear that someone might go in there with a cigarette or something.
~ Barney Ross
In extreme danger fear feels no pity. [Lat., In summo periculo timor miericordiam non recipit.]
~ Julius Caesar
I don't have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing.
~ Billy Bob Thornton
Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.
~ Daniel Defoe
Death is what takes place within us when we look upon others not as gift, blessing, or stimulus but as threat, danger, competition.
~ Dorothee Solle
The best way to compel weak-minded people to adopt our opinion, is to frighten them from all others, by magnifying their danger.
~ Lord Chesterfield
A king who feared wasps once decreed that they were abolished. As it happened, they did him no harm. But he was eventually stung to death by scorpions.
~ Idries Shah
Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
If your reality is the same as my reality, then you're in trouble.
~ Marilyn Manson
We often suffer more from our fears, than from the dangers of our situation.
~ Norm MacDonald
Fear is for the enemy. Fear and bullets.
~ James O'Barr
I don't have a fear of heights. I do, however, have a fear of falling from heights.
~ George Carlin
I am frightened at seeing all the footprints directed towards thy den, and none returning.
~ Horace
Fear is a part of life. It's a warning mechanism. That's all. It tells you when there's danger around. Its job is to help you survive. Not cripple you into being unable to do it.
~ Jim Butcher, Dead Beat
It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter
~ Winston Churchill
To be alive is to be afraid, and much to our advantage in many cases, since alarm often preserves us from danger.
~ Judith N. Shklar
I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war.
~ Jack Scalia
The less there is of fear, the less there is of danger.
~ Livy
I'm also fascinated by the difference between terror and fear. Fear says, "Do not actually put your hand in the alligator," while terror says, "Avoid Florida entirely because alligators exist.
~ Mira Grant
We can't stop here, this is bat country!
~ Hunter S. Thompson
The danger is different from the fear. ... [practice] what to do if things go wrong, as well as right.
~ Chris Hadfield