Risk and Danger

"A problem shared is a problem spread." - Malcolm Mackay

"Whenever I see something in media or social media that makes me afraid I ask: who's making money off this?" - John Copenhaver

“The fact that the situation is desperate doesn’t make it any more interesting.” John Barth

"I didn't take chances.  Chances took me." - Michael Z. Lewin

"Minor problems happen to other people." - Janice Law

 "He'd been in deep trouble so long he was thinking of making it his domicile for tax purposes." - Tom Holt

"I do all my own stunts but not on purpose." - Tom Hodge

"Locks are the high priests of false security," - John Weinstein

 "The evolution of legs surely led immediately to the invention of tripping." -Kevin Underhill

 "There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in." - Desmond Tutu

"No one throws people under the bus if the bus isn't real." - Eve Fisher

"Sometimes we dodge the bullet. On rare occasions the bullet dodges us." - Dan Savage

"We can't put stuff back in Pandora's box but we can slip a warning label on the side." - Aimee Ogden

"Vaccines contribute to old age." -Kyle Hewitt

"The most dangerous place for black people to live is in white people's imagination." - DL Hughley

"He made the mistake any reasonable man might. He thought the other guy was reasonable." - David Edgerley Gates

"I'm not getting smaller. I'm backing away from you." - Jennifer Doubleday

“All we hear of ISIS is puritanical & punitive; is there nothing celebratory & joyous? Or is query naive? -Joyce Carol Oates

"Hell is not evenly distributed." - Graham England.

"I think the tiger has a right to know the name of his hunter.” - Stephen Ross

"Half of all childhood accidents are caused by adults rushing to the rescue." -Garrison Keillor

"If you see the teeth of the lion, do not think that the lion is smiling at you." -Al-Mutanabbi

"More often than not, battles pick you." -Neil Steinberg

 “We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass.” - Samuel Johnson

"Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?" -Frank Scully

"An adventure is a sign of incompetence." -Vilhjalmur Stefansson

"'Listen, three-eyes,' he said, 'don't you try to outweird me, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal." -Douglas Adams 

"Let Lawyers, Parsons, and Physicians loose, to rob, impose on, and to kill the World." -Henry Fielding

"If you will only consent to being saved by an angel, you may have a long time to wait." -Marc Edmunson

"Lightning never strikes twice at the same time." -Elaine Stallworth

“I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.” -Antoine De Saint-Exupery

“You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred.” -  Superchicken

“One of the less commonly reported dangers of chronic marijuana use is buying decrepit old houses and thinking you can fix them up.” - Dara Carr

"The graveyards are full of people who rushed in bravely but unwisely. But sooner or later the graveyards are full of everybody."  -Terry Pratchett,  slightly paraphrased.

"Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest of  materials." -Gerald White Johnson

"Monsters work seven days a week and don't take vacations." -Geoffrey Canada

"When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout." -Robert A. Heinlein

"Desperate times call for desperate analogies." -John Diamond

"Can a man kindle fire in his bosom without burning his clothes?" -Proverbs 6.27