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Quotes About Danger

Jeese, I thought, fear choking me. I was being targeted by a 'tangoed' psychopath!
~ Unknown
Fear is like an illusion of a dangerous wall between you and your goal.
~ Unknown
Dangers were no more than odd imaginings, like ghost stories that children made up to frighten one another: things that couldn't possibly happen.
~ Lois Lowry, Number the Stars
The human body is robust. It can gather strength when it's in mortal danger.
~ Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
When you or your closed ones face danger, you'd tend to get closer to God and be good.
~ Unknown
True courage is in facing damger when you are afraid.
~ L. Frank Baum
If we really feared the crash, most of us would be unable to look at a car, let lone drive one.
~ J.G. Ballard
The brave man is not he who feels no fear For that were stupid and irrational But he whose noble soul its fear subdues And barely dares the danger nature shrinks from.
~ Joanna Baillie
They put arsenic in his meat And stared aghast to watch him eat; They poured strychnine in his cup And shook to see him drink it up.
~ A. E. Housman
Slicing a warm slab of bacon is a lot like giving a ferret a shave. No matter how careful you are, somebody's going to get hurt.
~ Alton Brown
Hatred is like fire-it makes even light rubbish deadly.
~ George Eliot
I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A people who mean to be free must be prepared to meet danger in person, and not rely upon the fallacious protection of armies
~ Edmund Randolph
Nobody with open eyes can any longer doubt that the danger to personal freedom comes chiefly from the left.
~ Friedrich August von Hayek
I need not add that freedom is a dangerous thing. But it is hardly possible that we are all cowards.
~ Jack Parsons
Freedom is dangerous. Possibly crawling on all fours might be safer than standing upright, but we like the view better up there.
~ Isabel Paterson
Why this cult of wilderness?... because we like the taste of freedom; because we like the smell of danger.
~ Edward Abbey
I think there is a danger that an environmental crisis can be used in precisely the same way as the terrorist threat can be used in terms of giving up freedom.
~ Naomi Klein
You just activated a nuclear warhead, my friend.
~ John Travolta
It is not easy to distinguish between true and false affection, unless there occur one of those crises in which, as gold is tried by fire, so a faithful friendship may be tested by danger.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Wit is a dangerous talent in friendship.
~ Ninon de L'Enclos
Your worst and most dangerous enemy is the person that injures you under the pretensions of friendship.
~ Norm MacDonald
A White Tiger keeps no friends. It's too dangerous.
~ Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger
The friendship of the bad is like the shade of some precipitous bank with crumbling sides, which, falling, buries him who is beneath.
~ J. K. Bharavi