#danger

Only when you are dangerous are you truly equal to the world. ↗

— Daniel Hecht

#dangerous #menace #power #equality

We... our war began September the 3rd 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany, and thereafter the great state of danger in England at that time, with the bombings, necessitated the evacuation of children. ↗

— Peter Shaffer

#bombings #children #danger #england #evacuation

It's been my experience that those people who seem the most 'normal' are in fact the most dangerous. ↗

— Jacqueline West

#normal #experience

You're like a half-tamed creature, still shy of the bridle. 'Except you enthrall me, never shall be free.' But freedom is an illusion, anyway. ↗

— Nenia Campbell

#creepy #dangerous #dating #evil-men #scary

The only disadvantage in surviving a dangerous experience lies in the fact that your story of it tends to be anticlimactic. You can never carry on right through the point where whatever it is that threatens your life actually takes it -- and get anybody to believe you. The world is full of sceptics. ↗

— Beryl Markham

#storytelling #experience

All about us were people. Perhaps a hundred. Men. Experience had taught me that humans were cruelest when segregated by sex, and the cold feeling in the pit of my stomach became led. What had I let myself in for? ↗

— C.S. Friedman

#dark #fear #short-sentences #experience

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#dangerous #sincere #stupid #unless #you

A man like Dmitry was never irate. His coldness was only reflected in the manner in which he destroyed. ↗

— Latrivia S. Nelson

#family

Strangers, the Blue Man said, 'are just family you have yet to come to know. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#family

... It's perfect! Locke would appreciate it." "Bug," Calo said, "Locke is our brother and our love for him knows no bounds. But the four most fatal words in the Therin language are 'Locke would appreciate it.'" "Rivalled only by 'Locke taught me a new trick,'" added Galo. "The only person who gets away with Locke Lamora games ..." "... is Locke ..." "... because we think the gods are saving him up for a really big death. Something with knives and hot irons ..." "... and fifty thousand cheering spectators. ↗

— Scott Lynch

#death #gods #humour #death