Quotes About Danger

As a physician for over 30 years, I am well aware of the dangers infectious diseases pose.

The risk that people pose to wolfdogs is far greater, statistically, than the risk that wolfdogs pose to people. Many are bred in miserable, inhumane conditions, and kept in equally miserable, inhumane conditions.

What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power.

It is of the greatest importance that people and governments in many more countries than ours should realize that it is more dangerous to have access to nuclear arms than not to possess them.

There's always a possibility that you can have a catastrophic failure, of course. This could happen on any flight.

We are potentially the most dangerous agency in the country.

I'm 300 pounds. If I fall on anybody, it's going to hurt.

I think being in a car is far more dangerous. I feel much more in control with a 16 foot croc, 3,000 pounds jaw pressure trying to have a go at me.

Extreme poverty is extremely dangerous.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to its dictates.

Counterterrorism, cyberterrorism, it's real.

I know I will die in a car crash.

Well, I'm used to rubbing shoulders with crooks and criminals.

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

Anytime you hit a curve, or you hit on the side of the wall, you hit against the side of the sled. We're taking four to five, sometimes six or seven Gs on our body every time we go down the track. And then the crashing.

I think it's dangerous being cynical because you close doors rather than open them.

It wasn't that the X-1 would kill you, it was the systems in the X-1 that would kill you.

We got tables they're going through constantly, chair shots, all this, very dangerous maneuvers where you can possibly break your neck or something like that.

All the reading in the world cannot immunize you from the devastating effects of psychopaths. Everyone, including the experts, can be taken in, conned, and left bewildered by them. A good psychopath can play a concerto on anyone's heart strings.

The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.

I've taken quite a few risks on the ski slopes. Like if I'm a green-level skier, I'm going on the blacks just because it's hard and a challenge. That's probably not the best idea.

In all of my books, I'm taking them on an emotionally challenging and sometimes physically dangerous process with a bit of fun and anarchy along the way. With the power comes responsibility.

Fairy tales, before they were sanitized, were very dark, and kids love that. 'Coraline' by Neil Gaiman feels like Beckett for kids. I think there's plenty of room for that. And I think there's a danger of being too patronizing to children, having things too sanitized.