Quotes About Danger

The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.

I think there are real dangers to escalating military conflict with ISIS, and we need to be aware of them. But at the same time, you have to understand, you know, that this whole thing started with Bashar al-Assad and how he is the one who continued to escalate against the people of Syria who were trying to get democratic reform.

a kid snatched from the jaws of a savage wolf," which sounds suspiciously like the first-century equivalent of roadkill.

I'll come after you as soon as I take care of them." "Where does that thing go?" "I'm not sure. It was too dark to see last night, but whatever it is, it's better than being caught in here." She looked back toward the cave entrance. "There are two of them and only one of you." He gave her a cocky grin. "One of me is better than two of them.

A couple of rabbits were being chased by a pack of coyotes. They stopped in a haystack, and one rabbit said to the other, "We gonna make a run for it, or stay here and outnumber them?"

The sense of danger made her lift up her head higher. There were battles coming. But life was meant to be a battle, wasn't it? There was nothing to fear.

I've a mate in the Middlesbrough mob," said Wield. "I'll give him a ring later when they've had time to get things sorted. As for the pistol, don't underestimate them. Close range, one of them gas guns can put a pellet through your eye right into your brain.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to democracy, precisely because it introduces absolutes into the realm of relative values.

If we listen to Satan, who may sound like a very progressive and likeable educator, we may feel initially that we are "liberated," but this impression does not last because Satan deprives us of everything that protects us from rivalistic imitation. Rather than warning us of the trap that awaits us, Satan makes us fall into it. He applauds the idea that prohibitions are of no use and that transgressing them contains no danger.

It is a mistake to suppose that he rejected poetry for aesthetic reasons. What is overlooked in all of this is that Plato came between an older tradition of philosophy and Christianity. He saw the danger of violence much more clearly because of his proximity to the pre-Socratics. The understanding of the danger is essential, vital in Plato.

2. "Mimetic doubles" refers to the situation in which rivals become so obsessed with each other that they mirror each other's emotions and actions. The doubles are alike but they mistakenly see a great difference between them. Mimetic doubles are quite dangerous to one another and to others and can be quite self-destructive. —Trans.

Of course, a hole in the ice offers peril only to those who go skating.

No, she did not denounce the impostor, but indubitably she made him aware that she knew he was not Eric Hagh. She may have done so merely by the way she looked at him, or she may have asked him some naive and revealing question. In any case, he knew he was in deadly peril from her, and he acted quickly and audaciously—and with dexterity, taking her keys from her bag. No, he is not a bungler, but—

hung up and went back out to the car and told Fred: "A new era has begun. The earth has turned around and started the other way. Mr. Wolfe has left home in a taxicab to work on a case." "Huh? Nuts." "Nope. As Fritz says, honest for God. He really has. So if you'll—" "But Jesus, Archie. He'll get killed or something.

If you're worried about your very life, the last thing you want is small talk.

Obviously I was going a little too fast, but as I came around a sharp bend, I encountered a car going even faster. I was only conscious of a long, sleek shape hurtling directly at me.

There was Henry Blakely who fell into the threshing machine that time and that was pretty grizzly.

him. They'd talk of him as a hero when in reality he was a bloody fool, a sitting duck. This was a bombing mission that should never have been flown.

Fine! Whatever! Just be careful, my hands are still slippery with your blood.

That seemed dangerous. If your internal map of reality doesn't match external conditions, bad things happen.

Touching the causes why false prophets, with so great danger of their souls, do depart from the Church: if we respect them as they are indeed, I can say nothing, but as it is contained in the old distinction: "they were in the Church, but not of the Church."

Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.

I like not charity unreasonably large for the exempting of ourselves from the labour of duty: I would not choose such a charitable physician that would make his patients believe that they are in no danger, to save himself the labour of attending them for the cure.