Quotes About Danger

The neurotic is aware of the danger of a situation in which his unrealistic self-affirmation is broken down and no realistic self-affirmation takes its place.

it is remarkable that among the emperors it was not the willful tyrants of the Nero type or the fanatical reactionaries of the Julian type that were a serious danger to Christianity but the righteous Stoics of the type of Marcus Aurelius. The reason for this is that the Stoic has a social and personal courage which is a real alternative to Christian courage.

Coisas ruins acontecem quando a maturidade é definida mais por conhecer do que por ser. O perigo está à solta quando você começa a amar mais as ideias do que ao Deus que elas representam e às pessoas que elas desejam libertar.

There's an old ghost story about that, I remember, how the devil steals souls by asking for them openly. He isn't a thief, but a master manipulator. The real danger, or so the story goes, isn't in the devil himself, but in not knowing you have a choice to turn him away.

We met when he took Ben and me on safari. Blix always seduces the wives if he's given enough time. He likes them trembling with fear, I suppose…at the precipice of mortal danger." She raised a feathery eyebrow. "I don't think he counted on keeping me, but that was almost two years ago.

It was Lavender who drove us to the Norfolk Hotel in Jock's yellow Bugatti. He sped through the streets of Nairobi, throwing me across the leather backseat towards Jock, so that I nearly bruised myself against his clenched thighs.

He would eat me here or drag me off to a glade or valley only he knew of, a place from which I'd never return. The last thought I remember having was This is how it feels, then. This is what it means to be eaten by a lion.

There's an old ghost story about that, I remember, about how the devil steals souls by asking for them openly. He isn't a thief, but a master manipulator. The real danger, or so the story goes, isn't in the devil himself, but in not knowing you have a choice to turn him away.

A town like this feels so safe and apart from the outside world. You start to wonder if it's dangerous.

about the biting white ants that moved in menacing ribbons over the plains, or the vipers or the sun, which sometimes pulsed so brightly it seemed to want to flatten you or eat you alive.

In case of attack, this completely inadequate load of bird shot will make a loud noise, if nothing else.

Lack of knowledge is dangerous

The one who dares a Lion should be prepared to die by its claws!

What makes the tyger poisonous and dangerous is the poison in its bones!

Euthanasia is a long, smooth-sounding word, and it conceals its danger as long, smooth words do, but the danger is there, nevertheless.

Hitting is never the best way to teach a child. Even in the case of real danger - as when a child runs out into the road - you can grab him, sit him down, look him in the eyes, and tell him why he must never do that again. The panic in your voice will communicate your message much more effectively than any spanking. You can be dramatic without being abusive.

She could have some crazy ass husband or boyfriend. You know, a stupid redneck with a gun. -That's redundant.

Still water does not only run deep. It runs dangerously.

He who has been bitten by a snake fears a piece of string.

The threat-to-minute ratio on this ship is staggering.

I know that the World is a terrible place, filled with wild animals and evil men and wicked woman.

The danger of having the military take over intelligence is that the military has a very different perspective on the world.

I wrote to my son. 'Be a pessimist,' I advised Joseph on his first birthday on 21 November. 'It is the safest, most pragmatic way to be. Being an optimist may enrich the lives of others (with good cheer and smiling), but it leads you unaware to danger.

Many children appear to be hard-wired to adapt to this endangering abandonment with perfectionism. A prevailing climate of danger forces the child's superego to over-cultivate the various programs of perfectionism and endangerment listed below. Once again, the superego is the part of the psyche that learns parental rules in order to gain their acceptance.