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Quotes About Peril

I know something of taking an enemy into your bosom. His blade goes in quicker when he is close." With
~ Robert Jordan
What he did know was that he was dangerous; he had nothing to offer any woman except pain.
~ Robert Jordan
A crafty enemy," Caldin said heatedly before Reene had gone five paces, "will set a weak ambush you are meant to break through. Confident because you have dealt with the threat, your guard relaxed, you walk into the second, stronger ambush.
~ Robert Jordan
Always remember that. There were enemies everywhere, and you never knew who.
~ Robert Jordan
ABANDON ALL HOPE, YE WHO ENTER HERE. Those skeletons were part of the psychological warfare waged against all intruders by this mindless, deathless, diabolical city.
~ Robert Silverberg
We might all get killed this afternoon, for all I know. That's the wild for you - it's got its dangers, which is part of the beauty.
~ Larry McMurtry
For all you know it invites people to rob us. (Woodrow Call's disparaging comment on the Latin sign Gus McCrae affixed to their wagon.)
~ Larry McMurtry
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.
~ Larry McMurtry
Deputy Hargman snorted. "Sure there is. One good enough to get this town and everybody in it killed by a meteor.
~ Larry Niven
Pity is an emotion that can get you killed. The only thing more dangerous is blind hate, and maybe love.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
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
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Mercy will get you killed, but sometimes it's all that makes us human.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
I'm not afraid of heights, but the idea of falling from them, well, that I'm afraid of.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Hesitation will get you killed.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
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...
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
If I was on the right track, I'd attract attention soon. Which meant someone might try to kill me. Wouldn't that be fun? I
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
There is no safer. There's not even safe, never has been.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
And was there anything on earth as dangerous as getting everything you ever wanted? As
~ Lawrence Block
So much for modern science and its wonderful discoveries that just about everything can kill you. Life is only a bedtime story before a long, long sleep.
~ Robert Bloch
Some cures are worse than the dangers they combat.
~ Seneca the Younger
MOUSE, n. An animal which strews its path with fainting women.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Flies are so mighty that they win battles, paralyse our minds, eat up our bodies.
~ Blaise Pascal
Spader and I were nearly killed. Three times. We were also robbed and witnessed a gruesome murder. Happy birthday to me!
~ D.J. MacHale, The Never War
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