Quotes About Danger

The devil hath his gunpowder plots, and mines, which may blow you up before you are aware. Not

The sweetest poison doth often bring the surest death (645).

This should remind us that the primary threat to the safety of our loved ones is always our own sin.

The lethal dose of honey bee venom in humans is around 19 stings per 2.2 pounds (1 kg) of body weight or about 1,300 stings for a 150-pound (68-kg) person.

I may have been in stage four, but I wasn't completely crazy. At least eighty-six journalists had been killed in Iraq, more than in any other conflict since World War II, and another thirty-eight had been taken hostage. More would die in the years to come. I knew I had to limit my movements and take special care when I did go out.

Between 2 and 3 in the morning of the 19th inst. I was aroused by the cry that the enemy was upon us.

When the wolf is at your door, it's best to have a big gun.

I've been in a car three or four times when it filled with water and it's not a comfortable feeling.

And I see the danger in either case will arise principally from the conduct and views of two very unprincipled parties in the United States-two fires, between which the honest and substantial people have long found themselves situated.

the danger that American society as a whole will over-esteem intellect or assign it such a transcendent value as to displace other legitimate values is one that hardly troubles us.

No, no, there was danger there. It was thinking of the past that drove him to the bottle. He was just going to have to accept the present.

the whole world felt like a loaded gun on a hair trigger.

I was too young to know how much a dangerous man interests a good woman.

An amount of bot tox the size of the dot over this i would be enough to easily kill ten people. Bot tox is a nerve agent. It is one hundred thousand times more toxic than Sarin, the nerve gas that the Aum Shinrikyo sect released in the Tokyo subway.

A monkey directs its attacks toward the face and head. It will grab you by the head, using all four limbs, and then it will wrap its tail around your neck to get a good grip, and it will make slashing attacks all over your face with its teeth, aiming especially for the eyes. This is not a good situation if the monkey happens to be infected with Ebola virus.

The purpose of science, he believed, was to set men free. Totalitarianism, in Hannah Arendt's powerful image, drove toward "destroying all space between men and pressing men against each other."923 It was entirely in character that Bohr, at a time of increasing danger, publicly opposed that drive with the individualistic and enriching discretions of complementarity.

The gases in a coal mine could kill. Miners called them damps, from Middle Low German dampf, vapors.

He knew from his experience overseas that if you only got shot by people aiming at you specifically, war wouldn't have been nearly such a hazardous affair.

I was supposed to be the captain of this damn rocket ship and I was sure going to clobber the guy that tied me out on the nose of the thing. Here we were going through space a million miles an hour and we were pointed right at the moon and we were going to crash for sure and my head wasn't that hard. I had a pretty good idea what would happen when the moon and I met head on.

His gun cracked again and he missed me, though I felt the hot wind hiss past my cheek.

An ugly blue- steeled Mauser leaped into his hand as his finger curled hungrily around its trigger.

Don't thank me," she said. "I didn't do it out of any love for you. If I'd refused, you'd have killed me. This way, I've got a few hours' head start.

You look like an accident going somewhere to happen

Hey, don't worry so much. We never have tornadoes around here." "Well, we could have tornadoes around here." "Ash, when was the last time you heard of a tornado touching down in St. Yvette?" "What if our house blew away? That would be a really horrible thing!" "What if your boyfriend blew away" Roo asked mildly. "That would be a really good thing.