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Quotes About Danger

It's hard to care deeply for something that might turn on you and eat you.
~ Peter Benchley
By definition, risk exposes businesses to danger.
~ Adena Friedman
Sleep deprivation is something very serious. I didn't think it could kill you, but I think it can.
~ Maryse Mizanin
I have, I must admit, despised the English countryside for much of my life - despised it and avoided it for its want of danger and adventure.
~ Jim Crace
I almost died, secretly, behind closed doors.
~ Stephen Baldwin
If you look at Jane Fonda's first tape, it's like, 'How to injure yourself to music.'
~ David Kirsch
Just because you can buy an exploding target, does not mean that it is legal to mix and explode.
~ Dan Bilzerian
The problem is that people have an idea of what a footballer should look like, how they should behave, what they should talk about. If you act a little differently you become a target. There is pressure to conform. This is very dangerous.
~ Hector Bellerin
ISIS targeting the U.S. military is like a sheep targeting a lion.
~ Dakota Meyer
I'm not going to try and go after Meldrick Taylor. He's too dangerous and much faster with his hands.
~ Julio Cesar Chavez Sr.
A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.
~ Jessamyn West
The heels reminded me of the silver stakes Eddie and Rose used to kill Strigoi.
~ Richelle Mead
In Alchemist eyes, using magic was bad. In my eyes, leaving innocents in danger was worse.
~ Richelle Mead
My battered friends and I had just had a brush with death, dancing with this evil.
~ Richelle Mead
Am I going to endanger my reputation if I wear it to the dance?" "You'll endanger the school.
~ Richelle Mead
Do you think Jill's being held there?" Eddie asked, eyes aglow. I could already tell he was envisioning himself rescuing her from some tall tower, possibly battling a dragon or a robot dinosaur in the process.
~ Richelle Mead
It made me wonder just how many girls she'd abducted in the middle of the night.
~ Richelle Mead
To make it perfectly clear to you: suppose you lose a hand or an ear is shot off, or perhaps a piece of your nose, and you think you should go back to get first aid. If I see you, it will be the last goddamn walk you'll ever take.
~ Rick Atkinson
a phrase he attributed to Voltaire: "That calm courage in the midst of tumult, that serenity of a soul in danger, which is the greatest gift of nature for command." Gavin called it "the courage of two o'clock in the morning
~ Rick Atkinson
At 11:10 A.M. an annoying growl from those same heavens grew louder. Ernest Hemingway heard it in his Dorchester Hotel suite, where he was making pancakes with buckwheat flour and bourbon; from the window he looked for the telltale "white-hot bunghole" of a jet engine. Pedestrians in Parliament Square heard it and fell flat, covering their heads.
~ Rick Atkinson
How I want the war to end," wrote one soldier. "The danger now begins to frighten me. To die at this stage—with the door at the end of the passage, the door into the rose garden, already in sight, ajar—would be awful.
~ Rick Atkinson
On every pack leaned an M16, except Lori's. Her son was playing soldier with it in the bleachers. There was no clip in it, which was a good thing.
~ Rick Bragg
Predators are color-blind. They only see victims and non-victims.
~ Rick Ector
On my job I end up jumping out of planes. Last week I got in an 18-wheeler and drove down a runway onto a skid track. The week before that they put me in a car and sunk me to the bottom of a lake to see if I could escape without an oxygen tank.
~ Rick Mercer