Quotes About Danger

I wish it had been me. It would have been such a romantic experience to have been nearly drowned. It would be such a thrilling tale to tell.

Susan Baker,' she says to me, 'I hope you never light a fire with coal-oil. Or leave oily rags lying around, Susan. They have been known to cause spontaneous combustion in less than an hour. How would you like to stand and watch this house burn down, Susan, knowing it was your fault?' Well, Miss Dew dear, I had my laugh on her over that. It was that very night she set her curtains on fire and the yells of her are ringing in my ears yet.

You do you have to be curious about a lot; you have to read your newspapers. If you know too much... that's dangerous.

Death and worse happened on the plains.

He had his knife and gun belt on over his underwear, in case of sudden attack.

It only went to show what he already knew, which was that there were more dangers in life than even the sharpest training could anticipate.

Deputy Hargman snorted. "Sure there is. One good enough to get this town and everybody in it killed by a meteor.

She probably called to see if you're still alive," Hoffa deadpanned. In a voice meant for everyone to hear, Kennedy said, "I'm still alive, dear. If you hear a big explosion, I probably won't be.

How long can a household's slumber be expected to hold with a stranger in its midst? Won't someone soon sense a breath that does not belong? The tread of a foot too heavy, too light, on a creaking board? Won't a dream veer off its course and into danger?

I almost always wear a helmet." "Brian!" She slapped the table. "Do you have any idea what the fatality rate is for motorcycle riders? And that's with proper headgear. I should bring you to the ME's office sometime. If you saw what I saw—" "I'm sure it's bad." She

wolves would eat little girls.

What's the point of obsessing over cholesterol or bike helmets or even cigarettes when the biggest threats to our children are being released back into society every day? Yes, maybe 'some' of them have reformed, but what about the ones who haven't? Doesn't anyone realize that one 'touch', one 'time' will destroy a child's life ten times faster than a pack-a-day habit?

So I leave proof of my existence behind me like a snail trail with the small hope that years of talking at me will someday soften her enough to talk with me, that she'll finally pull the knife from my chest and say yes, we are better off without him. That what happened wasn't my fault and from now on she will thrust herself between me and danger, and shout NO.

You have to hit it," she told herself. "This could be life or death." She positioned her rifle and made herself comfortable on the rock. Chief had disappeared. A hawk screed high overhead. She

The rule is that if they have a weapon and want to take you someplace else, it is so they can kill you slower--Peter

He'd kill you all right. No sweat. But for the wrong reasons. Amateur's reasons. Of course, you'll be just as dead.

Vampires were always either trying to kill me, or own me. God I hated being popular.

It would be nice if you'd stop almost killing me because you don't want to screw other peo­ple.

You don't smoke do you? No, why? They're afraid of fire. Great, we're going to be eaten alive because neither of us smokes. I almost laughed. He sounded so thoroughly disgusted…

You awful hard to kill, Anita.' 'There's a first time, Luther, and that's all it takes.

Anyone who doesn't believe that the forest is a deadly place has never been lost in one.

You did not bring down two of the royal guard in an unceremonious heap because the woman in the middle tripped.

If I went in the cage, I was going to end up eaten alive. That was actually one of my top five ways not to die...

There are only two kinds of vampire hunters: good ones and dead ones.