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Danger Quotes


"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!"


"There is less danger in fearing too much than too little."


"About every two minutes a new wave of planes would be over. The motors seemed to grind rather than roar, and to have an angry pulsation like a bee buzzing in blind fury."


"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."


"ISIS was not particular about how their soldiers made it to Jannah, so long as they inflicted maximum damage.."


"The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it."


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


"Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger."


"The commission members themselves were never briefed on Able Danger."



"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."


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


"The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent."


"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."


"WikiLeaks presents a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States."



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


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


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


"Yo soy carne muerta. Translation: I am dead meat."


"Three men sat around a table. All were muscled and similarly greasy and easily identifiable as scum. As he breached the entrance all three were moving, drawing their own guns in surprise.Only one got off a shot."


"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."


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


"I see walking bombs on the streetHearts not beating, but ticking."


"The closest fires were near enough for us to hear the crackling flames and the yells of firemen. Little fires grew into big ones even as we watched. Big ones died down under the firemen's valor only to break out again later."


"A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting."


"Many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!"


"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."


"Tapping a finger against the flesh of her elbow, she deadpanned, "Jacin Clay, there is an assassin under my bed."


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


"Night was spreading slowly around the spinning Earth. It should have been full of pinpricks of light. It was not. There were five billion people down there. What was going to happen soon would make barbarism look like a picnic - hot, nasty, and eventually given over to the ants."


"Ridley was like a beautiful snake - you couldn't let her get close without the risk of being bitten."


"She'd die before she let that demon touch her again. But maybe that was his plan all along."



"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 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."


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


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



"Oh, why had the Labyrinth brought me here?As soon as I thought this, I chided myself: Of course it would bring me where I least wanted to be. Austin had been wrong about the maze. It was still evil, designed to kill. It was just a little subtler about its homicides now."


"McGovern is so far left that he is in danger of falling off the earth."


"The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger."
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