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Quotes About Danger

Nothing good happens on the road after midnight. There are too many bad drivers out there.
~ Unknown
The brain can shut pain off because the actual function of acute pain is not to torment us but to alert us to danger.
~ Norman Doidge
Apologies are totally inadequate,' shouted Uncle Wattleberry. 'Nothing short of felling you to the earth with an umbrella could possibly atone for the outrage. You are a danger to the whisker-growing public. You have knocked my hat off, pulled my whiskers, and tried to remove my nose.
~ Norman Lindsay
Any workout which does not involve a certain minimum of danger or responsibility does not improve the body - it just wears it out.
~ Norman Mailer
The greatest danger of a terrorist's bomb is in the explosion of stupidity that it provokes.
~ Octave Mirbeau
Le plus grand danger de la bombe d'un terroriste est dans l'explosion de bêtise qu'elle provoque
~ Octave Mirbeau
Repressive societies always seemed to understand the danger of 'wrong' ideas
~ Octavia E. Butler
These things frighten people. It's best not to talk about them." "But, Dad, that's like … like ignoring a fire in the living room because we're all in the kitchen, and, besides, house fires are too scary to talk about.
~ Octavia E. Butler
how could they let insane people gain control of devices that could do so much harm? If you knew a man was out of his mind, you restrained him. You didn't give him power.
~ Octavia E. Butler
how could they let insane people gain control of devices that could do so much harm? If you knew a man was out of his mind, you restrained him. You didn't give him power.
~ Octavia E. Butler
When it comes to strangers with guns," I told her, "I think suspicion is more likely to keep you alive than trust." She
~ Octavia E. Butler
These things frighten people. It's best not to talk about them." "But, Dad, that's like … like ignoring a fire in the living room because we're all in the kitchen, and, besides, house fires are too scary to talk about." "Don't warn Joanne or any of your other friends
~ Octavia E. Butler
It shouldn't be so easy to nudge people toward what might be their own destruction.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Why do you always expect the worst of everyone?' When it comes to strangers with guns,' I told her, 'I think suspicion is more likely to keep you alive than trust.
~ Octavia E. Butler
one way to make people afraid of you is to have a crazy side—a side of yourself or your organization that's dangerous and unpredictable—willing to do any damned thing.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Quando si tratta di estranei armati, penso che il sospetto ti aiuti a restare vivo più della fiducia.
~ Octavia E. Butler
That way they don't have to risk going outside where things are so dangerous and crazy. It's bad enough that some people—my father for one—have to go out to work at least once a week. None of us goes out to school any more. Adults get nervous about kids going outside.
~ Octavia E. Butler
When it comes to strangers with guns," I told her, "I think suspicion is more likely to keep you alive than trust.
~ Octavia E. Butler
was both afraid of them and glad of their human presence. Dangerous as they could be to me, somehow, they did not seem as threatening as the dark shadowy woods with its strange sounds, its unknowns.
~ Octavia E. Butler
When it comes to strangers with guns," I told her, "I think suspicion is more likely to keep you alive than trust.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Joseph sighed. "I don't understand why the sight of you should scare me so," Joseph said. He did not sound frightened. "You don't look that threatening. Just … very different." "Different is threatening to most species," Nikanj answered. "Different is dangerous. It might kill you. That was true to your animal ancestors and your nearest animal relatives. And it's true for you.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Repressive societies always seemed to understand the danger of "wrong" ideas.
~ Octavia E. Butler
I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books themselves but in the passions of their readers.
~ Octavio Paz
people like her, those who wield a pen, can be dangerous. At once a suspicion of fakery springs to mind—that such a Person is not him- or herself, but
~ Olga Tokarczuk