Quotes About Danger

Most distracting of all, though, was not the threat of danger but the allure of beauty.

Vivre sans lecture c'est dangereux, il faut se contenter de la vie, ça peut amener à prendre des risques.

Life without anything to read is dangerous: you have to content yourself with life and that can lead you to take risks.

Wydr??y?em dziurk? w piasku, wsun??em tam oba dzie?a; teraz problem polega? na tym, ?e musia?em poszuka? sobie czego? do czytania. Zycie bez czytania jest niebezpieczne, trzeba zadowoli? si? samym ?yciem, a to niesie ze sob? pewne ryzyko.

Not having anything around to read is dangerous: you have to content yourself with life itself, and that can lead you to take risks.

Las sprzyja zasadzkom, ?atwo o gro?ne spotkanie w tym ?wiecie pe?nym grozy i pos?pnych przeczu?, gdzie bardzo p?ynna granica dzieli rzeczywiste niebezpiecze?stwa od nadprzyrodzonych.

So let me see-you've got a boyfriend, a not boyfriend, and a secret admirer. " He shook his head at me. "Girl, no wonder someone tried to run you down.

Watching television requires less of an effort than reading newspapers and magazines, which is its greatest danger. (Chapter 12)

Have you forgotten," she said in a furious whisper, "that he nearly killed us? That he threw my quiver in the stream, and threatened to snap my bow?" It was unclear which she considered worse: threatening them or her bow.

Run, Torak! The bear...is...possessed...

Torak, kijk achter je! - Renn

What do you call a tokoroth when it grows up?' She swallowed. 'That's never happened.' 'But what if it did?

Kangchenjunga is something more than unfriendly, it is imbued with a blind unreasoning hatred towards the mountaineer.

pinned down by a ferocious storm which

rather not give a serial killer a second chance in life, for he might be giving someone else a first chance of losing his life.

Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

It is usual to explain the motivation of those who enjoy dangerous activities as some sort of pathological need: they are trying to exorcise a deep-seated fear, they are compensating, they are compulsively reenacting an Oedipal fixation, they are "sensation seekers." While such motives may be occasionally involved, what is most striking, when one actually speaks to specialists in risk, is how their enjoyment derives not from the danger itself, but from their ability to minimize it.

As Democritus said so simply many centuries ago: "Water can be both good and bad, useful and dangerous. To the danger, however, a remedy has been found: learning to swim." To swim in this case involves learning to distinguish the useful and the harmful forms of flow, and then making the most of the former while placing limits on the latter. The task is to learn how to enjoy everyday life without diminishing other people's chances to enjoy theirs.

She shook a slim finger before my face, and her eyes laughed as she said, "And remember to beware of women whose loins burn worse than fire!

Never Moon a Werewolf.

The quick reflexes, the calmness in the face of a storm, the ability to think in the midst of danger that most people don't have.

The basic rate of pay was 150 U.S. dollars a month for a volunteer (the rank given to the private soldier or enlisted man) plus another 5 dollars a day danger pay, payable when a man was in an officially declared danger zone, making 300 dollars a month altogether. At that time 300 dollars would have been roughly twice as much as a qualified artisan could earn in his trade as a civilian in South Africa.

Well, yeah, you listen to a talking snake and there's gonna be trouble.