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Quotes About Danger

He took out the sidearm. Thumbed the magazine release. A full load, hollow-points. Body armor would stop them, but if they hit flesh, they'd shred on impact, tiny razors spinning inside fragile tissue. Two spare magazines, though why he would need that many rounds he couldn't imagine.
~ Marcus Sakey
We are," Quinn said. "We're doing all of the stuff you've seen on tri-d. But if you want to see your friend again, we need to know what you know.
~ Marcus Sakey
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
~ Marcus Sakey
In an age that persecutes deviants, you can yet lose your life for being the possessor of a dangerous or unacceptable story. Words are powerful, which means that words can also be fatal.
~ Margaret Atwood
A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
~ Margaret Thatcher
But they are not risks of our own making, and we cannot make the danger vanish by pretending that it does not exist. We must be prepared to meet that danger with sober self-restraint and calm and judicious action if we are to be successful in our leadership for peace.
~ Margaret Truman
I know some women go in for excitement and danger. It must make them feel more alive. It's my professional judgment that you're a dangerous man.
~ Margaret Way
You cannot hide from danger. Death floats on the air, creeps through the window, comes with the handshake of a stranger. If we stop living because we fear death, then we have already died. -Raistlin Majere
~ Margaret Weis
Danger is a chain...passed from one wounded child to the next. We must stop the danger by breaking the chain. We must learn how to stay safe and be kind.
~ Unknown
This is not even the stuff dictators are made of, but this is the kind of madness which is often not found out until it is too late.' Campion
~ Margery Allingham
Depakote also has a really bad side effect, which is death.
~ Margot Kidder
Individuals in this predicament may find it next to impossible to relax their wakeful hypervigilance in relation to their surroundings even when no longer confronted by any immediate challenge or danger; a prolonged or repeated exposure to trauma can put individuals on the defensive for the simple reason that it causes them to anticipate, and brace themselves against, more trauma.
~ Unknown
From an evolutionary perspective, he says, it is safest to err on the side of gullibility. "If you miss the tiger hiding in the grass, you're dead. If you're always seeing tigers, you're running away a lot, but you're not dead.
~ Unknown
I bet you have a nice smile," he says. "Do you know how many people have died trying that?" I ask him.
~ Unknown
I think about curses and pirates. Skeletons guarding booby-trapped hideaways.
~ Unknown
Why is she here at Herot Hall, where at any second something bad could come down the mountain, or tunnel up from below? Monsters. There's a whole world filled with monsters. They everywhere
~ Unknown
Whatever makes a man a beast also renders him pitiable. But it behoves us to be wary of these bestial men despite our compassion, for they frequently turn on their friends.
~ Maria McCann
Kero and Rollo stood over it, slick with blood, both holding knives. 'Kero, you came? Why?' asked Naif. 'Maybe I just needed someone to show me how to be brave enough,' he replied with a hint of a dangerous grin.
~ Unknown
You slow. Is Dangerous." His tentacles curled down, gripping the ends of the wood. As they watched he slid off the crate and nudged it away. Underneath was a grate, filthy with slude. He plunged his tentacles into the gaps and pulled it aside. "There is drop.
~ Unknown
There are proverbs about frying pans and fires that I might have quoted to myself, but I preferred to adapt a different one to my purposes: better the devil that would attack everyone impartially than the devil specifically looking to kill us.
~ Marie Brennan
Our home will eat you.
~ Marie Brennan
rien n'est plus triste qu'un retour de l'école à quatre heures de l'après-midi quand c'est déjà la nuit dans la ville et qu'on ne sait pas où l'on va dans la neige, mais on entend les gratte-neige tout près et on se dit qu'ils pourraient nous broyer tout rond
~ Unknown
People with PTSD cannot find refuge even in sleep, their rest ravaged by nightmares and flashbacks. Their bodies become so overrun by danger signals that they can no longer trust their physical responses for cues as to how they should react. As Cindy described, they go immediately from stimulus to response without being able to think through or often even be aware of what triggered them.
~ Unknown
There is no danger greater for the State than that of self-styled intellectuals. You would have been better off remaining illiterate. - King Hassan II of Morocco, quoted in the Preface
~ Marilyn Hacker