Quotes About Peril
I'm probably more dangerous in a car than I am on a motorbike; on a bike I'm very mindful of the fact that if you make a mistake you're dead.
~ James McAvoy
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If a building is falling on you, you don't concern yourself with the horn of an approaching car. You deal with the most immediate peril first. That's survival.
~ Roger Zelazny
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Driving a car, you are in danger of killing; walking or standing, of being killed.
~ Mary McCarthy
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The more we lose, the more he'll fly in. And the more he flies in, the better the chance there'll be a plane crash.
~ Unknown
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They started with Big Ben. It's always got to be relayed direct from Westminster, the real thing, never from disc. That's got to be firmly fixed in the listeners' minds. Then, if Big Ben is silent, the public will know that the war has taken a distinctly unpleasant turn.
~ Penelope Fitzgerald
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Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water...
~ Peter Benchley
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Suppose you fell over with this fish. Is there anything you could do? Sure. Pray. It'd be like falling out of an airplane without a parachute and hoping you'll land in a haystack. The only thing that'd save you would be God, and since He pushed you overboard in the first place, I wouldn't give a nickel for your chances.
~ Peter Benchley
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It was exciting at first... Then it became routine. I guess everything does, even if it's dangerous.
~ Peter Mayle
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Mükemmel savunma yoktur. Koruma diye bir ÅŸey yoktur. Hayatta olmak, tehlikelere aç?k olmakt?r; hayat?n doÄŸas?nda var tehlike, yaÅŸamak böyle bir ÅŸey.
~ Philip K. Dick
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That there is no perfect defense. There is no protection. Being alive means being exposed; it's the nature of life to be hazardous—it's the stuff of living.
~ Philip K. Dick
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It was the most dangerous thing she had ever said. She could see quite clearly that only his astonishment prevented him from killing her at once.
~ Philip Pullman
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We're like . . . like dinosaurs bedazzled by all the pretty lights in the sky, too fucking stupid to realise it's a comet getting closer and closer.
~ Philip Ridley
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It's about life, where the tiniest misstep can have tragic consequences." "Oh
~ Philip Roth
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other people's weakness can destroy you just as much as their strength can. Weak people are not harmless. Their weakness can be their strength. A
~ Philip Roth
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Love is both wondrous and yet full of peril. Love is a gateway through which hatred - disguised and unrecognized - can pass.
~ David Gemmell
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The train comes. If you stay on the tracks, you die. If you jump off the bridge, you die, There's always a train coming eventually.
~ David Levithan
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You know who I am. --- I know your reputation. --- Then you know I am a dangerous man. --- I know you were said to be such once.
~ David Maine
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Details can change or go missing entirely, particularly in moments of physical peril. A kind of amnesia goes hand in hand with sickness, and a good thing, too.
~ David Rakoff
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It was the look you get when facing a sudden and insurmountable danger: the errant truck, the shaky ladder, the crazy person who pins you to the linoleum and insists, with increasing urgency, that everything you know and love can be undone by a grape.
~ David Sedaris
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Next, the bystanders saw something large and dark fall from one of the windows. "Someone's in there, all right," said a voice in the crowd. "He's trying to save his best cloth." When the next bundle began falling, the onlookers realized that it was a human being.
~ David Von Drehle
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A fool who knew a little was far more dangerous than someone who at least had the wit to admit he knew nothing.
~ David Weber
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Get out of here while you can. She's crazier than a syphilitic suicide bomber with mad-cow disease.
~ Dean Koontz
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Ambition and stupidity are a dangerous combination.
~ Dean Koontz
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a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he's not careful.
~ Yann Martel
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