Showing posts with label Danger. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Danger. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 12, 2020

Risk and Danger

"He comes from trouble and he's always going home." - John Gorka

 “We have yet to understand: that if I'm starving, you are in danger.”― James Baldwin

"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