Quotes About Peril

In the moment when that glass passed from his hand to mine, something sent up a high wild warning cry in the back of my mind. Persephone's irrevocable pomegranate seeds, Never take food from strangers; old stories where one sip or bite seals the spellbound walls forever, dissolves the road home into mist and blows it away on the wind.

Unreadable stares everywhere, all of them pulsing with danger,

If we're not careful, the time may come when we can't help anyone—and I mean soon. My skin crawls when I think about how many people know about us, and they're not all going to come and say 'Please.' God has been with us so far, but we can't be naive. Even God says not to test Him by being foolish.

When a spectral voice says, get out, you should do it. But in real life, you don't know that you're in a scary movie.

Ay de nosotros! ¡Hemos llegado a conocer unos tiempos en que hasta la vista de nuestros propios soldados nos causa temor.

It is only if you happen to be a newscaster that the tongue-twister spells peril.

Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it.

The Sphinx-riddle. Solve it, or be torn to bits, is the decree.

The whole world is strewn with snares traps gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.

God and the Doctor we alike adore But only when in danger, not before; The danger o'er, both are alike requited, God is forgotten, and the Doctor slighted.

It is sometimes as dangerous to be run into by a microbe as by a trolley car.

I called to the other men that the sky was clearing, and then a moment later I realized that what I had seen was not a rift in the clouds but the white crest of an enormous wave.

With the best equipment in the world the man with poor judgment is in mortal danger.

Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.

Really, it was difficult to determine which I had most reason to fear—dogs, alligators or men!

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.

How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is a fateful fatalistic apathy.

Hiro feels even at this moment that something has been torn open in the world and that he is dangling above the gap, staring into a place where he does not want to be.

The situation could not possibly be as dire as it seemed or they would all be dead.

The constant dangers of sudden electrocution from above or drowning in liquid shit below keep him looking up and down as well as side-to-side.

Almost as miraculous as life itself was the number of ways it could end, or at least turn into a living hell.

Das Messer sitzt mir an der Kehle. The knife is at my throat; I am face-to-face with doom.

IF YOU ARE ABOUT TO BE IN A SWORDFIGHT— This comes up a lot and I am working on upgrading the relevant wiki pages, but people seem to end up here anyway LOL. My basic advice: DON'T DO IT! It is ridiculously, fantastically dangerous. Modern people are calibrated for a whole different level of danger acceptance.

Contrary to the collective delusion thatMother Nature is a nurturing, caring entity that cradles and protects all its forms of life, Earth is instead a giant killing machine. Holding aside all the climatic and geologic forces that would just as soon have you dead, such as droughts, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanoes, there's no end of creatures that want to suck your blood, inject you with venom, infect your physiology, or simply eat you.