Quotes About Peril

Once you are a victim of a bombing, you enter a risk group to which they will not sell insurance.

The landmine is eternally prepared to take victims. In common parlance, it is the perfect soldier, the 'eternal sentry.' The war ends, the landmine goes on killing.

As time goes on, at both DC and Marvel, characters notch up so many victories that we often start to think of them as infallible, which is kind of death for adventure fiction.

Everybody has fallen asleep on the fact that F1 is dangerous. They all think it's a video game, and it's not. It is very, very dangerous, and it's tough.

The most dangerous substance on earth is wood pulp flattened into thin sheets. I'd rather face a steel blade than certain pieces of paper

Have you ever heard the expression 'catching a wolf by the ears'?" "No." "It means you're in trouble whether you hold on or let go." Garrett nuzzled her cheek against his hand. "If you're the wolf, then I'll hold on.

A man who wants trouble can find it anywhere.

Wishes are dangerous things, aren't they

They don't realize evil lives on their streets

Hope was a dangerous emotion that more often than not led men into foolishness and peril, made them risk their lives and lose their wives and part with fortunes that they never recovered.

It is dangerous, at any time, to multiply sources of weakness.

don't know what you want with the Rittenbergs, Kit, but be careful. You might think Jon Rittenberg is bad, and he is, but he's just your generic entitled male asshole. His wife, though—Daisy Rittenberg—she's dangerous.

The familiarity of home always outweighed the danger. Deadly mistake, that.

Did you really save the world ?... - Mostly I was saving my own ass. Just happend that the world was in the same spot.

If I stay, they'll kill me... If I go, at least everything that wants me dead won't be taking it personally.

It would require a singularly stupid man to go hang around in narrow tunnels and cramped spaces alongside a threat like that. And I, Harry Dresden, am that man, I stated.

A bunch of people are gonna be mad at me, I've got some kind of medical issue that's going to kill me in a while if I don't deal with it, oh, and the island's blowing up tomorrow and taking a whole lot of the country with it if I don't fix it." Thomas gave me a steady look. "So," he said. "Same old, same old.

Magic. It can get a guy killed.

We headed toward the creepy old slaughterhouse full of dangerous beings. Which... pretty much tells you what kind of day I was having, right there.

stupid is way more dangerous than actual evil, if only because there's so much more of it around.

Death by nursery tale. Hell's bells.

it would only take one dummy to kill us all, and we had four hundred and ninety-nine to spare.

Crap," I gasped. "I am not going to be known as the wizard who used his death curse thanks to a bunch of bitty nail guns.

Cell phones were like those security guys in red shirts on old Star Trek: as soon as something started happening, they were always the first to go.