Quotes About Peril

To know the good is a dangerous thing; to know it for sure is usually fatal for somebody.

Talent Katerina is a dangerous thing

It seems you don't approve of the family business Katerina. Or of me. But these chances you take... These things you do... This is a dangerous life to live... alone.

But Maddie walked to the side of the bridge, and then he saw a huge knife buried in the post, waiting. "Stefan took your knife," he blurted like an idiot. Maddie looked like she'd never been more insulted in her life. "I never leave the house with just one knife. Seriously. Do I look like a one-knife kind of girl?" She pulled it from the post and Logan could see the fire glistening off a long blade that could have easily sliced through those old ropes.

She definitely wasn't going to think about how hot Logan looked because: (A) It was Logan! and (B) She'd heard stories about girls who met cute boys and then lost their heads, and being that they were currently being held by a knife-wielding, ticked-off Russian, Maddie really didn't want to find out how literal that saying might be.

I see the gun. I can feel it in my hand.

Death is only one of many ways to lose your life.

Te mentirá, te manipulará y, lo creas o no, el juego que él juega es un juego muy peligroso.

In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don't kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker.

If we cannot provide excellent educational opportunities to all children, safe communities, quality health coverage, or robust and fair avenues towards wealth creation, then our nation will increasingly be in peril.

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

I've diced with death the most cycling around London. Black cabs are far more dangerous than polar bears.

It's dangerous to be anybody popular.

There's always a possibility that you can have a catastrophic failure, of course. This could happen on any flight.

When you are dealing with a highly contagious airborne disease, if your neighbor is sick, you're potentially imperiled. We're as close in our humanity as a cough.

Between 2 and 3 in the morning of the 19th inst. I was aroused by the cry that the enemy was upon us.

If you've ever talked to a special agent that you know well, and you ask he or she about a dangerous encounter they were involved in, they'll almost always give you the same answer: 'Yeah, I did it, but I was scared to heck the whole time.'

The downside to jackrabbit reflexes is that while they get you out of the way of obvious and imminent danger, when you're going forty miles an hour on your front wheel, those reflexes will simply launch you into the air like a squirrel on a land mine.

Goddamn nature. All it wants to do is hitch a ride, kill you, or sting you. Sometimes all at once.

Are we in danger?" he says. "It depends on what you mean by 'we.'" "Am I in danger?" "That's the first smart thing anyone's said to me today. And, yes, you really are. So do what I tell you.

The other bad part about being tossed out of a second story by one dead prick is that other dead pricks tend to notice.

The 405 is one breakdown away from turning into the Donner Party.

Any time you put all your eggs in one basket, you're just one stumble away from catastrophe. [Terri]

Nikos looked at me with concern. "We're in deep trouble, Bartolomeo.