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Danger Quotes


"The channel is known only to the natives; so that if any stranger should enter into the bay without one of their pilots he would run great danger of shipwreck."


"A sea setting us upon the ice has brought us close to danger."


"In real danger sometimes even a democracy can really keep a secret."


"I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for."


"If something came out of the deal, it couldn't make things any worse for us than they already were, I thought. But I couldn't have been more wrong. Hell has no true bottom."


"If you don't get killed, it's a lucky day for anybody."


"It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger."


"In liberating Iraq, we have rid the nation and the rest of the world from the danger of Saddam Hussein."


"The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome."


"No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger."


"When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger."


"The European model is in danger if we obliterate the principle of personal responsibility."



"To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another."


"Below us the Thames grew lighter, and all around below were the shadows - the dark shadows of buildings and bridges that formed the base of this dreadful masterpiece."


"By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door."


"Religious freedom is too sacred a right to be restricted or prohibited in any degree without convincing proof that a legitimate interest of the state is in grave danger."


"Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria."


"If I'm in danger then it's usually my fault and it's up to me to get myself out of it. I am not in it just to get an adrenalin rush. No way!"


"Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger."


"As a nation we have the right to decide our own affairs, to mould our own future. This does not pose any danger to anybody. Our nation is fully aware of the responsibility for its own fate in the complicated situation of the contemporary world."



"And so the danger for the housing industry is if we see interest rates rise."


"The state is in danger of falling into disrepute due to the evidence of its inadequate resources."


"He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger."


"When in doubt or danger, run in circles, scream and shout."


"I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out."


"Percy looked at Coach Hedge and Frank. "A trap?"Probably, Frank said. "She's not mortal, Hedge said, sniffing the air. "Probably some kind of goat-eating, demigod-destroying fiend from Tartarus."No doubt, Percy agreed. "Awesome. Hedge grinned. "Let's go."


"There is a danger of changing too much in the search for perfection."


"There is not much danger of the smaller nations if the big nations will behave."


"Nico wasn't sure whether to kick himself or Will Solace. If he hadn't been so distracted bickering with the son of Apollo, he would never have allowed the enemy to get so close."


"I believe the world is increasingly in danger of becoming split into groups which cannot communicate with each other, which no longer think of each other as members of the same species."


"The wolf pounces on the sheep when the shepherd strays."


"Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger."


"The only thing more dangerous then a vampire crazed with blood lust was a vampire crazed with anything else. All the meticulous single-mindedness that went into finding young women who slept with their bedroom window open got channeled into some other interest, with merciless and painstaking efficiency..."


"I wrote the original Mike Hammer as a comic, Mike Danger."
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