Quotes About Peril

I mean, it's a good job we've got a last desperate million-to-one chance to rely on, or we'd really be in trouble!

It would take a lot to faze a copper from the Met. It would take, for example, a huge, battered car that was nothing more nor less than a fireball, a blazing, roaring, twisted metal lemon from Hell, driven by a grinning lunatic in sunglasses, sitting amid the flames, trailing thick black smoke, coming straight at them through the lashing rain and the wind at eighty miles per hour. That would do it every time.

Ye gods, it was so much better when there were just four of us up against that bloody great dragon, Vimes thought as they walked on. Of course, we nearly got burned alive a few times, but at least it wasn't complicated. It was a damned great dragon. You could see it coming. It didn't get political on you.

Beware the ignorant, Lorenzo. They're the most dangerous enemy of all, because they are everywhere.

Like a real dumb idiot, I believed that to avoid a grenade that drops in the water, you could just jump in the water, and you'd be fine.

Fear can be a killer.

I've had people turn up to book signings with knives, with guns.

Grunts on the line, where the enemy wants them dead, still goof off - even knowing that by letting their guard down they might die.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.

If a little knowledge was a dangerous thing, a lot was lethal.

My body cheerfully informed me that he felt really good pressed against me like that, all hard muscles and smooth contours and ominous bulges. My body liked the air of barely leashed strength and caged mayhem he was giving off. My body thought he smelled really good, like heat and coffee and electricity. My body was going to get me killed.

He had all the self-preservation instincts of a bug near a shiny windshield.

Do you always get in this much trouble?" Pritkin asked from behind me. "Mostly," I breathed. "You know, I've noticed that about you," he told me. And then he kissed me.

No sense fretting over a fox among the lambs, when there's a wolf on the prowl. And this wolf is a savage one.

Caveat: what you fear most will destroy you.

If she makes a single misstep, you're dead." I feel the blood drain from my face. I always misstep. Misstep is my middle name, right after Mega. I can't not misstep. I have feet.

I almost die a lot. Superheroes do.

You attract serial killers like a dog does fleas.

War is the province of danger.

She felt as if she had strayed into a fairy tale, as full of peril as of wonder, a place where anything could happen.

it's nice of Mrs. Goe to think that marching against the juvenile juror law is going to keep kids safe. But the fact is, we're NOT safe. Nobody is. That's the whole point. There's no such thing as being safe--here or anywhere. People get hurt every day. Some people get killed by weirdos like Bob White and some people just get teased to death at the lunch table for drinking orange soda or eating a tuna fish sandwich.

From Pale Horse, Pale Rider ] The road to death is a long march beset with all evils. . .

But there's fear and there's panic, y'know. Calm is what matters to the bees. Calm without fear is a peril, and fear without calm doubly so. But the man who can hold both at once within his breast will not be harmed.

Their lives are literally on the line in ways men just don't experience.