Quotes About Danger

With gas cookers and chip pans in every kitchen, the chip-pan fire was by far the most popular method these Proddies had for burning their houses down. The second technique was the ever popular chimney fire and number three had to be the drunken cigarette drop on the carpet. Mind you, why they'd be cooking chips at this hour was anyone's guess.

A cocked .38 doesn't feel the same as an unprimed revolver. The frame tightens differently, the trigger is on a hair and this tension is communicated to you and the people around you.

I may be a pessimist, but the philosophy of anti-thrift just now coming into being seems to me the greatest danger to the peace of the world.

Maybe the bike is more dangerous, but the passion for the car for me is second to the bike.

It's an odd feeling, knowing someone is trying to kill you. On the front line, you learn quickly that if you're in the path of a bullet, you will get hit.

I do think there is this danger that our society has made its peace with decline. I'd like to jolt them out of their complacency a little bit.

There's always a little fear anytime you're doing something crazy because at any moment you can break a leg, land on your neck, or peel off the bar. Over the years, we've fallen so many times that we've kind of learned how to fall safely. Still, there is always a risk.

Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.

Those extreme-sports kids today are good, but they have it easy. Try falling off of a motorcycle going 70 or 80 miles per hour on asphalt. Believe me, nothing equals it.

Downhillers are going over 110 miles per hour. But no matter what, you can't hit the fence at 100 miles per hour.

My hair's a pain in live performance. I'm always inhaling it: I almost choked to death a couple of times.

As a comic, I've heard gunshots while I'm trying to get to sleep. I've performed where people wanted to do you harm after the show because of something you said.

Performing with anthrax in the building is not nearly as difficult as performing in a home where you might get stabbed at night.

I enjoy performing for heavily armed people. It's easier than going to Georgia.

The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.

We demonize our enemies at our own peril.

It was extremely dangerous to be a black man in the KKK. If I'd been exposed, it could have all gone horribly wrong. The Klansmen were armed, and there was always a peril.

Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions.

Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

I am not against the provision of the necessary medical assistance to Coloured and natives, because, unless they receive that medical aid, they become a source of danger to the European community.

Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power.....

Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to the acknowledgement of a divine power.

There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who when danger is pressing in will not acknowledge the divine power.