Quotes About Danger

If this man is so cold-blooded that he can kill a lifelong friend for his son's mistake, he's not going to think twice about getting rid of Max and me.

The most dangerous moment comes with victory.

In war, theory is all right so far as general principles are concerned; but in reducing general principles to practice there will always be danger. Theory and practice are the axis about which the sphere of accomplishment revolves.

The greatest danger occurs at the moment of victory.

the greatest danger to America's future came from self-serving opportunism masquerading as patriotism. At

We've been calling your phone every second the last two days." "I'm OK, Dad." "We were worried. But then I thought to myself, you know what the Lion King says." "'I laugh in the face of danger.'" "That's my son!

Time travel is dangerous, cosmic disaster dangerous. Using it for anything less than the aversion of a cosmic disaster equates to using a fusion drive to travel from one side of your house to the other. You'll certainly arrive, but there probably won't be anything left of your house when you do.

every new "danger" pointed out to them by the elites, which, of course, each needed "regulation." The politicians who made and imposed the rules considered themselves

From the start, they had known that the odds of their survival were long. They might get inside the plant and complete their mission, but getting out and away would be another

Notice how quickly your feelings change when you know there is a more immediate and real danger than the possibility of falling. How did you do that?

There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous.

Rome is particularly lethal this summer.

Technological immodesty is always an acute danger in Technopoly, which encourages it. Technopoly also encourages in-sensitivity to what skills may be lost in the acquisition of new ones. It is important to remember what can be done without computers, and it is also important to remind ourselves of what may be lost when we do use them.

everyone practices stupidity, including those of us who write about it; none of us is ever free of it, we are most seriously endangered when we think we are safe. That there is an almost infinite supply of stupidity, including our own, should provide educationists with a sense of humility and, incidentally, assurance that they will never become obsolete.

There is nobody more dangerous than one who has been humiliated.

Honestly, Jonathan, I begin to think you are suffering from some terrible form of insanity the idée fixe. People may drown in your ornamental waters or perish in your snow-drifts, and all you can think of is your hell-inspired party.

building a tower of description that was in constant danger of toppling over as more and more clauses were thrown on to it, adjectives and adverbs, bounteous, haltingly, found in pockets and pitched on, similes not spared, prepositions dangling and otherwise, metaphors

If there's a wasp in the room, you'd rather know where it is.

Stop all this talk about monsters, Michele. Monsters don't exist. It's men you should be afraid of, not monsters.

He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building.

corruption of the mind" was much more dangerous during an epidemic than "any such miasma and vitiation of the air which we breathe around us.

I understood that I was a fairly highly strung person, that my default state was one of readiness. I had rarely felt completely comfortable in my skin or at ease with my surroundings. I was always in a state of alert, on the lookout for any kind of menace or danger, and events and people had often proved me right because, I suppose, my judgement simply wasn't that good. I suspect much of this came from my upbringing, which had rarely felt relaxed, or even happy.

But if you're gonna dine with them cannibals Sooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten . . .

By the time I'm nine I know the world is a dangerous place.  I've heard whispers about razorblades in apples, about Charlie Manson and his family.  But no one is offering any clear information.