Quotes About Danger

He saw at once that the crowd "was filled with whooping enthusiasm and every kind of whiskey," and that a riot might ensue if either camp felt slighted.

What worried Roosevelt was the inability of ordinary people to see the danger of this proliferation of cogs and cylinders and coins in American life.23 The corrupt power of corporations was increasing at an alarming rate

straight into the ambush de Morès

he is the most dangerous foe to human liberty that has ever set foot on American soil."16

She knows Con's habits, piling on turf and logs, mad for the big blaze, reckless with firewood like there was no tomorrow.

Do you have any idea who you've been dealing with? This is big-time! Interstate! Federal! You're not in a precinct, are you? This goes way beyond you! This goes deep! We've been on to this guy for a long time, Shaka. The Virginia Mafia! Nobody fucks with them! We've got him in a room down the hall--this guy gave up his own sister! You're lucky you got out alive!

I always thought it was a myth about electric eels having enough of a charge to kill someone." "It's no myth. I've studied up on it for this assignment. The electrophorus electricus grows to a length of eight or ten feet, and weighs perhaps as much as ninety pounds.

There's a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that more and more information is enough, that you don't have to think, you just have to get more information - gets very dangerous.

There may be more danger in prejudices which are apparently founded in logic than in those which are acknowledged as emotions.

Baldwin, was awakened by the sound; but the most pressing danger could not prompt him to draw his sword in the defence of a city which he deserted, perhaps, with more pleasure than regret: he fled from the palace to the seashore, where he descried the welcome sails of the fleet returning from the vain and fruitless attempt on Daphnusia.

Fire is the most powerful agent of life and death: the rapid mischief may be kindled and propagated by the industry or negligence of mankind;

The same language, even in the camp of the Huns, was used by his ambassador Apollonius, whose bold refusal to deliver the presents, till he had been admitted to a personal interview, displayed a sense of dignity, and a contempt of danger, which Attila was not prepared to expect from the degenerate Romans.

The odd thing is that fear and anxiety are running away from something, but they don't know what to run to. They know danger, but they don't know where to find peace and rest.

If the temptation hooks our desires, we go public. We confess it to a friend, we confess it to the Lord, we get other people praying for us, we ask for counsel that helps us to see that the Serpent is dangerous. Above all, we remember that God's commands are good. They are intended to bless us.

Danger makes men classical, and all greatness, after all, is rooted in risk.

The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

The world is a dangerous place. Not because of the people who are evil; but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

It's very, very dangerous to lose contact with living nature.

The danger of LSD lies not in its toxicity, but rather in the unpredictability of its psychic effects.

If you want to be successful with Superstars, you have to compete in their league and play by their rules. If you do, however, there is a very real danger that you will become like them. With their bites, Superstars create more new vampires than do all the other vampire types combined. Don't enter their world unless you know how to get out. Many have been lost.

If you have, you certainly must know that a dog, afflicted with genuine rabies, will no more turn out of his way to bite anyone than a typhoid patient will jump out of bed to chase a doctor. I'm not saying that the bite of any sick animal (or of any sick human, for that matter) isn't more or less dangerous; unless it's carefully washed out and painted with iodine

Now, as the six rushed in, a silver-and-snow catapult landed among them from nowhere in particular, snarling, snapping, slashing. No longer had Thor any use for the finesse which had been taught to him as part of his education as a herder. His master was down. These grunting devils were pressing in, avidly, to rip him to pieces. It was a moment for stark action.

There are always more impostors than seers among public men, more false prophets than true ones, more prophets of Baal than of Jehovah; and Jerusalem is always in danger from the Assyrians.

Severability is an important concept in the context of the relations between this Court and Parliament; like 'reading down', it is an instrument of judicial restraint which reduces the danger of producing an overbroad judicial reaction to overbroad legislation.