Quotes About Danger

[On learning that the sides of a ship were four fingers thick:] The passengers are just that distance from death.

Gracious goodness! Your guardian seems to me to be a thorough scoundrel." "Then you know—" "What?" "Oh! don't ask me to tell you that! — but I would rather die than find myself alone with him again.

Anyone who says they're not afraid at the time of a hurricane is either a fool or a liar, or a little bit of both.

Let us not lose sight of the fact that the idea of Surrealism aims quite simply at the total recovery of our psychic force by a means which is nothing other than the dizzying descent into ourselves, the systematic illumination of hidden places and the progressive darkening of other places, the perpetual excursion into the midst of forbidden territory, and that there is no real danger of its activities coming to an end so long as man still manages to distinguish an animal from a flame or a stone

There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.

The crisis is a period in which a diseased social, economic, and political body or system cannot live on as before and is obliged, on pain of death, to undergo transformations that will give it a new lease on life. Therefore, this period of crisis is a historical moment of danger and suspense during which the crucial decisions and transformations are made, which will determine the future development of the system if any and its new social, economic, and political basis.

If there is no snake at your feet, do not lift rocks at the side of the road.

I'd like you to meet my new girlfriend," said Erik. "I think someone's trying to kill her.

And until you're sure there's a cage around a tiger, it's pretty dumb to dangle meat in front of it. Right?

plucks a feather from a wing and proclaims: 'Whenever thou are involved in difficulty or danger, put this feather (or "feathers"22) on the fire, and I will instantly appear to thee to ensure thy safety. Never cease to remember me.

She had what I'd call a lemming ass - that is, an ass that you would follow right over the edge of the cliff.

He had the misfortune to fall in love with a thug, who has threatened to kill Malone simply because Malone no longer loves him and was foolish enough to say so. Latins, my dear, are the only ones who take love seriously. Malone is now being chased around Manhattan by knives and bullets. He never has sex.

When I was a boy, I read a terrible article in a big weekly American magazine called the 'Saturday Evening Post.' In the middle of this family magazine on my parent's coffee table was an article about this family that was camping, and they were all mauled by a grizzly bear in their sleeping bags.

With each assignment, I weigh the looming possibility of being killed, and I chastise myself for allowing fear to hinder me. War photographers aren't supposed to get scared.

Boxing is not like any other sport, you have to weigh up the risk and reward. Things like playing football, tennis, you might be three sets to love down, but boxing you're going to the hospital on a stretcher and you know potentially you are going to get an injury you can't walk away from.

If you don't hit hard and you weigh 260 pounds, that is something to worry about.

It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.

Stolen scrap like manhole covers, railroad weights, stop signs, guard rails, and public lighting put our residents in grave danger. Not only that, but the theft is tearing apart communities with stolen church and cemetery ornaments.

I lived for going down the rabbit hole of meeting weird people. Of course, come Monday I would be tallying up all the different situations, and each one was progressively more dangerous. I got lucky in that I didn't go to jail.

The danger for any artist whose work is both recognizable and critically acclaimed is complacent repetition - the temptation to churn out easily identifiable, eagerly welcomed, and readily salable designs.

When I grew up in the Bronx, we always had everyone telling us, 'Watch out for the system, watch out for child welfare, watch out, they'll get you,' and I grew up with this feeling of, 'Society is over there and they're dangerous and not safe.'

Every time a fighter steps into the ring, he's borrowing against his future well-being.

I'm excited to fight in Abu Dhabi and to compete against Roy Nelson because he's a dangerous opponent and demands a lot of respect and hard training to beat. He's a knockout artist and really well-rounded, so you need to be well trained to fight someone like him.

Vampires, werewolves, fallen angels and fairies lurk in the shadows, their intentions far from honorable.