Quotes About Danger

You can't talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes.

In Buddhism, we talk of meditation as an act of awakening, to be awake to the fact that the earth is in danger and living species are in danger.

People have told me about organized crime in the fashion industry, but I can't talk about that. I'm looking to stay alive.

Every coal miner I talked to had, in his history, at least one story of a cave-in. 'Yeah, he got covered up,' is a way coal miners refer to fathers and brothers and sons who got buried alive.

Life seemed suddenly a little empty, for never again could there happen to her something so dangerous, so sublime.

Being shot at is so unlike what one expects it to be that one can hardly connect the two ideas enough to have the appropriate emotions, the first few times.

Circle me, Lord, keep protection near and danger afar. Circle me, Lord, keep light near and darkness afar. Circle me, Lord, keep peace within; keep evil out. In

Vices shouldn't be safe. They're what remind us we're alive and mortal.

The downside to jackrabbit reflexes is that while they get you out of the way of obvious and imminent danger, when you're going forty miles an hour on your front wheel, those reflexes will simply launch you into the air like a squirrel on a land mine.

Lions or tigers. They must be off somewhere waiting for the right moment to pounce. I like cats and don't want to hurt one, but I will beat a lion to death with a shark if it tries to take a bite out of me.

Beautiful. Now I have to burrow like a groundhog into Mason's basement to the same room where he summoned those things to take me Downtown. Nothing can possibly go wrong with this plan.

You were going to say 'You don't know what Wormwood is like. Crossing them is worse than horseradish on ice cream.' I've been hearing that from you assholes for days. Worry about Wormwood later. Right now, I'm the only monster you should be concerned about.

What if you get eaten?" "You won't let that happen." "Honestly, I'm annoyed. I just might.

Goddamn nature. All it wants to do is hitch a ride, kill you, or sting you. Sometimes all at once.

I'd rather watch you do the backstroke in lava.

Juliette Stray is a bleach-blond Mamie Van Doren knockoff. She kisses cheeks left and right as she moves through the crowd. A big smile masks someone trying to look way too nice for it to be anything but protective coloring—like the pretty stripes on a coral snake. Better keep an eye on her. If things go bad, she'll be the one who puts the knife in.

I look at her bandaged hands. "You all right?" "Just a couple of blisters. Some asshole convinced me to run through a furnace." "He sounds shady. As your lawyer, I advise you to avoid him in the future." "It's my fondest dream.

Are we in danger?" he says. "It depends on what you mean by 'we.'" "Am I in danger?" "That's the first smart thing anyone's said to me today. And, yes, you really are. So do what I tell you.

For eleven years, I've been worked over and abused in ways you can't imagine by things you don't want to know about. I've killed every kind of vile, black-souled, dead-eyed nightmare that ever made you piss your pj's and cry for mommy in the middle of the night. I kill monsters and, if I wanted, I could say a word and burn you to powder from the inside out. I can tear any human you ever met to wet rags with my bare hands.

The other bad part about being tossed out of a second story by one dead prick is that other dead pricks tend to notice.

I DUMP KASABIAN back in our room over Max Overload around 5 A.M. I didn't even bother putting him back in his bowling bag on the way home. Anyone wandering the streets at that hour deserves to see a severed head singing "Good Vibrations.

I know a killer when I see one and he's one cold Charlie Starkweather motherfucker.

There's something about driving a pretty girl somewhere potentially dangerous in a stolen car that just makes you feel good.

he grabs his pistol when I thought this was a knife fight, and, well, it's a very upsetting moment. I