Danger proverbs

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◆ There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous.

- Neil Gaiman99

◆ How dare you open a spaceman's helmet on an uncharted planet? My eyeballs could've been sucked from their sockets!

- Cathy East Dubowski99

◆ An errand is getting a tank of gas or picking up a carton of milk or something. It is not getting chased by flying purple pyromaniac gorillas hurling incendiary poo!

- Jim Butcher99

◆ Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

- Robert A. Heinlein99

◆ Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.

- Primo Levi99

◆ I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.

- Leo Tolstoy99

◆ Human?' The girl cocked her head the other way. I caught a glimpse of pink gills under her chin. 'My sisters told me stories of humans. They said they sometimes sing to them to lure them underwater.' She grinned, showing off her sharp needle-teeth. 'I've been practicing. Want to hear?

- Julie Kagawa99

◆ Love is a dangerous angel.

- Francesca Lia Block99

◆ As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it. And it is not only reaching back that endangers us; sometimes history itself reaches inexorably forward for us with its shadowy claws.

- Elizabeth Kostova99

◆ One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.

- Fran?ois La Rochefoucauld99

◆ I'm the kind of guy who puts other people first. Particularly if there's danger up ahead. Now I'm not saying I'm any more cowardly than the next man, unless that next man is any other man besides my clone.

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ Each child's story is worthy of telling. There shouldn't be a sliding scale of death. The weight of it is crushing.

- Anderson Cooper99

◆ I tell myself, as sternly as possible, that is how things work here. We do dangerous things and people die. People die, and we move on to the next dangerous thing. The sooner that lesson sinks in, the better chance I have at surviving initiation.

- Veronica Roth99

◆ I didn't fire my gun. I gave it a promotion.

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ There is always danger for those who are afraid.

- George Bernard Shaw99