Danger Quotes

The belief that security can be obtained by throwing a small state to the wolves is a fatal delusion.

The car suddenly veered off the road and we came to a sliding halt in the gravel. I was hurled against the dashboard. My attorney was slumped over the wheel. “What’s wrong?” I yelled. “We can’t stop here. This is bat country!

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.

Use makes a better soldier than the most urgent considerations of duty,--familiarity with danger enabling him to estimate the danger. He sees how much is the risk, and is not afflicted with imagination; knows practically Marshal Saxe's rule, that every soldier killed costs the enemy his weight in lead.

The most fatal seductive lie that has yet existed

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

Our lives, our liberty, and our property are never in greater danger than when Congress is in session.

Sticking your head in the sand might make you feel safer, but it’s not going to protect you from the coming storm.

The danger of our culture.- We belong to a period of which the culture is in danger of being destroyed by the appliances of culture.

He who does not seek advice is a fool. His folly blinds him to Truth and makes him evil, stubborn, and a danger to his fellow man.

We hope all danger may be overcome; but to conclude that no danger may ever arise would itself be extremely dangerous.

The automobile is the most dangerous weapon in our society - cars kill more than wars do.

We seldom break our leg so long as life continues a toilsome upward climb. The danger comes when we begin to take things easily and choose the convenient paths.

In comradeship is danger countered best.

Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.

I felt a strange tightness coming over me, and I reacted instinctively – for the first time in a long, long while – by slipping my notebook into my belt and reaching down to take off my watch. The first thing to go in a street fight is your watch, and once you’ve lost a few, you develop a certain instinct that lets you know when it’s time to get the thing off your wrist and into a safe pocket.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

Liberty is dangerous.

Danger, if met head on, can be nearly halved

'Safety', the wife of Pablo said. 'There is no such thing as safety. There are so many seeking safety here now that they make a great danger. In seeking safety now you lose all.'

I persuaded him to throw the dirk away; and it was as easy as persuading a child to give up some bright fresh new way of killing itself.

There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.

What course am I to take?" "Towards danger; but not too rashly, nor too straight.

There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.

Suddenly the nickel-clad horse takes the bit in its mouth and goes slanting for the curbstone defying all prayers and all your powers to change its mind - your heart stands still, your breath hangs fire, your legs forget to work.

The fool who has not sense to discriminate between what is good and what is bad is well nigh as dangerous as the man who does discriminate and yet chooses the bad.

[Should Britain fail, then the entire world would] sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister ... by the lights of perverted science.

Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.

Nothing is more dangerous than a poor doctor: not even a poor employer or a poor landlord.

One never finds anything perfectly pure and ... exempt from danger.

Here was a place where real things were going on. Here was a scene of vital action. Here was a place where anything might happen. Here was a place where something would certainly happen. Here I might leave my bones.

When I see a new face, something sets off an alarm bell inside me. 'slow down! Danger!' Even when the attraction is strongest, I am on my guard.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the cliffs, where love was more intense because it seemed like a shipwreck.

The dangers of life are infinite, and among them is safety.

There is no more subtle dissolvent of morals than sentimentality.

As a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, I know that the men and women of our intelligence community put their lives on the line every day, and they do very dangerous work to keep our country safe.

Those who think themselves secure are more exposed to danger than any others. The armor-bearer of sin is self-confidence .

The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.

We might adapt for the artist the joke about there being nothing more dangerous than instruments of war in the hands of generals. In the same way, there is nothing more dangerous than justice in the hands of judges, and a paint brush in the hands of a painter! Just think of the danger to society! But today we haven't the heart to expel the painters and poets because we no longer admit to ourselves that there is any danger in keeping them in our midst.

A government is like fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master.

You must not thinkThat we are made of stuff so fat and dullThat we can let our beard be shook with dangerAnd think it pastime.

The greatest danger occurs at the moment of victory

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

To expect ... the same service from raw and undisciplined recruits, as from veteran soldiers, is to expect what never did and perhaps never will happen. Men, who are familiarized to danger, meet it without shrinking; whereas troops unused to service often apprehend danger where no danger is.

I could not help reflecting that the bullet which had struck the chestnut [horse] had certainly passed within a foot of my head. So at any rate I had been 'under fire.' That was something.

One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.

Of all the branches of men in the forces there is none which shows more devotion and faces grimmer perils than the submariners.

Someone could walk into this room and say your life is on fire.

To create today is to create dangerously. Any publication is an act, and that act exposes one to the passions of an age that forgives nothing.

Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.

There is nothing but that frail breastwork of earth between the people and destruction.

I have grown to believe that there is no dangerous idea, which does not become less dangerous when written out in sincere and careful English.

We are so full of apprehensions, fears, that we don't know exactly to what it points... a great change of our psychoglocal attitude is imminent, that is certain...because we need more understanding of human nature because ...the only real danger that exists is man himself... and we know nothing of man - his psyche should be studied because we are the origin of all coming evil.

The Army (considering the irritable state it is in, its suffering and composition) is a dangerous instrument to play with.

When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

...she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.

It is no use dealing with illusions and make-believes. We must look at the facts. The world ... is too dangerous for anyone to be able to afford to nurse illusions. We must look at realities.

Look out! Behind you!