Quotes About Danger

Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

A computer can be more harmful than a gun and more useful than a pen.

The reckless open their arms & topple into love, as do dreamers who fly in their dreams without fear or danger. Those who know that all love must end in loss do not fall but rather cross slowly from the not knowing into the knowing.

He) was in love with the idea of revolution. Men like that, even when they turn their backs on their party and their comrades, can never let go of the idea: it's the secret god that rules their hearts. It is what makes them come alive; they revel in the danger, the exquisite pain. It is to them what childbirth is to a woman, or war to a mercenary.

Fair, what a useless word. A concept that is relevant only in the rare moments when there is no greater danger than unfairness.

The hawk plays with the pigeon and the pigeon is happy, but not knowing that it is playing with death.

the Old West, mysterious, serious, with great beauty at every vista and terrible things happening whenever any people appeared.)

I suddenly knew, in a way I'd never had before, what want meant, and why it was dangerous and greedy and huge.

Taylor liked a little more bite from a kiss. Brandon had that. Like the bite of alcohol in a mojito—some citrus, some mint, and some wow. Absolutely lethal.

the SUV didn't just meet a tree. The subject drove it into a tree, running from a grizzly bear, because the subject was going to take out a half-grown cub with an AK-47 semiauto.

Ace really only had one goal in life, and it was to keep his skinny blond dirty bomb of a boyfriend from detonating and killing them all.

that August in Sacramento tried to kill people with fire and suffocation.

Yelling, 'Fire in the hole!' and blowing your brains through a straw?

Good. Because I trust you. Besides. You know my family. They'll fucking kill you.

do something stupid in traffic, and suddenly they're seeing me in a pile of twisted metal, wearing my toes as a necklace.

And like everybody else in the world, his heart lodged in his throat and tried to choke him when he saw Mackey Sanders scampering along the top of the giant amplifier. But when he saw Mackey fall off, it threatened to stop.

It looked like the kind of place where people were shot over the rent money.

Young shoots contain enough cyanide to kill a horse. Death is mercifully swift, usually caused by cardiac arrest or respiratory failure and preceded by only a few hours of anxiety, convulsions, and staggering about.

A poisonous seed will only kill you if you chew it and swallow.

Epigraph "I got a revolver to protect us." said Miss Constance, "and I soon had use for it." --New York Times, June 3 1915

Everything officers go through in any chase anywhere in the country, but amped up 100 times! I'm right in the thick of things in a car going like 80 miles an hour, and doing 360s in the middle of the road. It was a wild ride.

The sound of a car door opening in front of you is similar to the sound of a gun being cocked.

Any story set in the reign of King Herod is a story of political intrigue and of threats to life.