128 Quotes About Facing Danger

In the journey of life, facing danger is an inevitable experience that tests our courage, resilience, and spirit. Whether confronting external challenges or internal fears, the ability to push through adversity defines our character and shapes our destiny. This collection of the top 128 quotes about facing danger serves as both inspiration and guidance. Each quote offers a unique perspective, drawn from the wisdom of great thinkers, adventurers, and leaders who have faced peril head-on. As you explore these insights, may you find strength to embrace challenges with determination and emerge braver and more resilient than ever before.

1. “The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.” - John F. Kennedy

2. “When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.” - Herman Wouk

3. “One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.” - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

4. “Each child’s story is worthy of telling. There shouldn’t be a sliding scale of death. The weight of it is crushing.” - Anderson Cooper

5. “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 Gaiman

6. “Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers,but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, butfor the heart to conquer it.” - Rabindranath Tagore

7. “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 Butcher

8. “The man of thought who will not act is ineffective; the man of action who will not think is dangerous.” - Richard M. Nixon

9. “Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.” - Robert A. Heinlein

10. “How dare you open a spaceman's helmet on an uncharted planet? My eyeballs could've been sucked from their sockets!” - Cathy East Dubowski

11. “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 Levi

12. “Station is the paradox of the world of my people, the limitation of our power within the hunger for power. It is gained through treachery and invites treachery against those who gain it. Those most powerful in Menzoberranzan spend their days watching over their shoulders, defending against the daggers that would find their backs. Their deaths usually come from the front." -Drizzt Do'Urden” - R.A. Salvatore

13. “Personally, I say, "Out of the frying pan and into the deadly pit filled with sharks who are wielding chainsaws with killer kittens stapled to them." However, that one's having a rough time catching on.” - Brandon Sanderson

14. “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 Tolstoy

15. “The desert and the ocean are realms of desolation on the surface.The desert is a place of bones, where the innards are turned out, to desiccate into dust.The ocean is a place of skin, rich outer membranes hiding thick juicy insides, laden with the soup of being.Inside out and outside in. These are worlds of things that implode or explode, and the only catalyst that determines the direction of eco-movement is the balance of water.Both worlds are deceptive, dangerous. Both, seething with hidden life.The only veil that stands between perception of what is underneath the desolate surface is your courage.Dare to breach the surface and sink.” - Vera Nazarian

16. “I must be in love with this woman, Sumire realized with a start. Nomistake about it. Ice is cold; roses are red; I'm in love. And thislove is about to carry me off somewhere. This current's toooverpowering; I don't have any choice. It may very well be a specialplace, some place I've never seen before. Danger may be lurkingthere, something that may end up wounding me deeply, fatally. I mightend up losing everything. But there's no turning back. I can only gowith the flow. Even if it means I'll be burned up, gone forever.” - Haruki Murakami

17. “You're not going to tell me they built fifty-foot-high killer golems, are you?""Only a man would think of that.It's our job," said Moist. "If you don't think of fifty-foot-high killer golems first, someone else will.” - Terry Pratchett

18. “Most people would look at an animal in a cage and instinctively feel that it should be set free. . . . It's a dangerous world out there, filled with predators. . . . What would you prefer? A comfortable, safe, warm, cosy life in a cage, or an uncertain life of freedom.” - Scarlett Thomas

19. “...Goldfinger could not have known that high tension was Bond's natural way of life and that pressure and danger relaxed him.” - Ian Fleming

20. “James gave the huffle of a snail in danger. And nobody heard him at all.” - A.A. Milne

21. “I feel the need to endanger myself every so often.” - Tim Daly

22. “You can't prepare for everything life's going to throw at you. And you can't avoid danger. It's there. The world is a dangerous place, and if you sit around wringing your hands about it, you'll out on all the adventure.” - Jeannette Walls

23. “A certain wise man once said that God didn't play dice with the universe, but that man was wrong. Sometimes I think He must even try Russian roulette. ” - Daina Chaviano

24. “Things change when you're not in danger anymore.” - Mitch Albom

25. “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 Kagawa

26. “I have seen sights and travelled in countries you cannot imagine. I have been afraid and I have been in danger, and I have never for one moment thought that I would throw myself at at a man for his help.” - Philippa Gregory

27. “Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why so great a portion of mankind, after nature has long since discharged them from external direction (naturaliter maiorennes), nevertheless remains under lifelong tutelage, and why it is so easy for others to set themselves up as their guardians. It is so easy not to be of age. If I have a book which understands for me, a pastor who has a conscience for me, a physician who decides my diet, and so forth, I need not trouble myself. I need not think, if I can only pay - others will easily undertake the irksome work for me.That the step to competence is held to be very dangerous by the far greater portion of mankind...” - Immanuel Kant

28. “I took the sleeper out of Glasgow, and as the smelly old train bumped out of Central Station and across the Jamaica Street Bridge, I stared out at the orange halogen streetlamps reflected in the black water of the river Clyde. I gazed at the crumbling Victorian buildings that would soon be sandblasted and renovated into yuppie hutches. I watched the revelers and rascals traverse the shiny wet streets. I thought of the thrill and danger of my youth and the fear and frustration of my adult life thus far. I thought of the failure of my marriage and my failures as a man. I saw all this through my reflection in the nighttime window. Down the tracks I went, hardly aware that I was going further south with every passing second.” - Craig Ferguson

29. “There is always danger for those who are afraid.” - George Bernard Shaw

30. “Love is a dangerous angel.” - Francesca Lia Block

31. “In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself credulous. The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery.” - William Kingdon Clifford

32. “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 Kostova

33. “And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes.” - C.S. Lewis

34. “It was not the brutality of what occurred next that changed my mind and brought home to me the full meaning of fear. It was the brilliance of it.” - Elizabeth Kostova

35. “News of Daniel's disappearance does not alarm me as it might have done a week ago. Given recent events, very little alarms me as it might have done a week ago. I feel as if my supply of alarm has been exhausted, at least temporarily.” - Patricia C. Wrede

36. “It is dangerous to exist in the world. To exist is to be threatened. We must live with threats.” - Adam Levin

37. “It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.” - Thomas Jefferson

38. “To venture ... close (to a lion) on foot ... would mean the sudden shattering of any kindly belief that the similarity of the lion and the pussy cat goes much beyond their whiskers. But then, since men still live by the sword, it's a little optimistic to expect the lion to withdraw his claws, handicapped as he is by his inability to read our better effusions about the immorality of bloodshed.” - Beryl Markham

39. “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

40. “Nuclear is clear so near to fear and tear.” - Toba Beta

41. “That is why embittered people find heroes and madmen a perennial source of fascination, for they have no fear of life or death. Both heroes and madmen are indifferent to danger and will forge ahead regardless of what other people say.” - Paulo Coelho

42. “I'll keep my head down," Mally assured him. "I'll be careful.""If anything happens---""If anything happens I'll tell you immediately."Ivan seemed pleased at that and relaxed against a tree trunk."Good. I don't want your mother chasing me around Lenzar with a carving knife.” - M.L LeGette

43. “I am trying like Klee, to create something that will have a life of its own, that can put me in real danger, a danger which I willingly take on myself.” - William S. Burroughs

44. “No, I'm serious," Frankie insisted, fed up with being silenced. "Why didn't you just make me a normie?"Viktor sighed. "Because that's not who we are. We're special. And I'm very proud that. You should be, too.""Proud?" Frankie spat out the word as if it had been soaked in nail polish remover. "How can I be proud when everyone is telling me to hide?""I'm telling you to hide so you'll be safe. But you can still feel proud of who you are," he explained, like it really was that simple. "Pride has to come from within you and stay with you, no matter what people say."Huh?Frankie crossed her arms and looked away.” - Lisi Harrison

45. “["The Devil in the Dark"] impressed me because it presented the idea, unusual in science fiction then and now, that something weird, and even dangerous, need not be malevolent. That is a lesson that many of today's politicians have yet to learn.” - Arthur C. Clarke

46. “Any order is a balancing act of extreme precariousness.” - Walter Benjamin

47. “To the question: Wilderness, who needs it? Doc would say: Because we like the taste of freedom, comrades. Because we like the smell of danger. But, thought Hayduke, what about the smell of fear, Dad?” - Edward Abbey

48. “Your shadow is bought and paid for, and your death will not remit that payment. You can go shadowless into the shadowless world, and your death will only be one last dark thing on my long dark road. It will hurt me but I do not care. It is all but over.” - Erin Bow

49. “And suddenly, in the place of the woman-shape made of shadow, there was something else. Something huge, something ugly. Linay flung up both hands. The thing screamed like a hawk and opened to wings: one white as a death cap, one clotted in shadow. The wings came together and the whole pond shuddered.Something hit Kate's ear and shoulder and smashed to the deck by her feet. It was a swallow, dead. She could hear them falling all over the pond.” - Erin Bow

50. “They hurried when they could, and dozed when they had to, hiding in tangles of bloodtwig and heartsease at the edge of the road.” - Erin Bow

51. “There are two types of visions. Those that will happen no matter what, and those that can be stopped. Now more than ever, I wish I could tell them apart.” - Emlyn Chand

52. “Love is no game. People cut their ears off over this stuff. People jump off the Eiffel Tower and sell all their possessions and move to Alaska to live with the grizzly bears, and then they get eaten and nobody hears them when they scream for help. That’s right. Falling in love is pretty much the same thing as being eaten alive by a grizzly bear.” - Jess Rothenberg

53. “She could hear the rattle of hooves on stone evolve into a thunder of pursuit.” - Cinda Williams Chima

54. “The walls of the arch are covered with blood-red jellies that wink and glisten at me by the light of the moon. My father told me they were completely harmless. I don't believe him. Nothing is completely harmless.” - Maggie Stiefvater

55. “Only when you are dangerous are you truly equal to the world.” - Daniel Hecht

56. “We can end this before anyone gets hurt." William held his hands out to sides as if to show her he was unarmed. "You don't want to hurt people, do you? You will if you don't come away with me. You know that.""I'm not bad," Daisha whispered."I believe you." He held out a hand to her. He curled his fingers toward him in a beckoning gesture. "You can do the right thing here. Just come with me. We'll go meet some people who can help us.""Her. The new Graveminder.""No, not her. You and I can fix this all on our own.” - Melissa Marr

57. “This isn't my last brush with catastrophe while making Destination Truth. Rather, it's merely the opening act in a cabaret of close calls, all in the name of exploration. I'm not saying that making D.T. is dangerous; it's not, per se. It's just that when you go out of your way to find adventure, sometimes adventure bites you on the ass. The key is figuring out how to walk away in one piece.” - Josh Gates

58. “And there is nothing more dangerous in this world, in any world, than someone calm, clear and angry.” - Audrey Hart

59. “But though, to landsmen in general, the native inhabitants of the seas have ever regarded with emotions unspeakably unsocial and repelling; though we know the sea to be an everlasting terra incognita, so that Columbus sailed over numberless unknown worlds to discover his one superficial western one; though, by vast odds, the most terrific of all mortal disasters have immemorially and indiscriminately befallen tens and hundreds of thousands of those who have gone upon the waters; though but a moment’s consideration will teach that, however baby man may brag of his science and skill, and however much, in a flattering future, that science and skill may augment; yet for ever and for ever, to the crack of doom, the sea will insult and murder him, and pulverize the stateliest, stiffest frigate he can make; nevertheless, by the continual repetition of these very impressions, man has lost that sense of the full awfulness of the sea which aboriginally belongs to it.” - Herman Melville

60. “Over the years I've really believed when you think you're in danger, you are probably not and when you have no idea, you probably are.” - Rodney Cocks

61. “Still, he figured, sometimes you've got to do what you've got to do, and then sometimes you've just got to run like hell after it's done.” - Derek Landy

62. “Yes, the stories are dangerous, she was right. A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?” - Jeanette Winterson

63. “I’m not into danger, either.” “Aw, Chess. You so into it you ain’t climb out with a rope. Why else you do your job, live down here, buy from Bump?” “It’s just—I mean—I just do, is all.” Her cheeks burned. She shouldn’t have let him come in here. She should have just sent him home and let him wash his stupid shirt himself. “No shame in it. Some of us needs an edge on things make us feel right, else we ain’t like feeling at all, aye?” - Stacia Kane

64. “Things never go wrong at the moment you expect them to. When you're completely relaxed, oblivious to any potential dangers, that's when bad things happen.” - C.K. Kelly Martin

65. “He leaned heavily on the desk now, as if danger had strengthened him before and its lack now made him weak.” - Kristin Cashore

66. “(I) only write it now because I have grown to believe that there is no dangerous idea, which does not become less dangerous when written out in sincere and careful English. ("The Adoration of The Magi")” - W.B. Yeats

67. “Crystal then read the red sticker out loud, "Dangerous, do not open." We both stared at each other for a moment. I was trying to figure out why a dumb book about power was dangerous” - Dominic Tomasi

68. “Their faith in him is at once touching and alarming -- their trust that they are safe simply because he's with them, as if an adult presence warded of all possible threat, emanated an unbreachable forcefield.” - Paul Murray

69. “Logic in all its infinite potential, is the most dangerous of vices. For one can always find some form of logic to justify his action, and rest comfortably in the assurance, that what he did abides by reason. That is why, for us brittle beings, Intention is the only true weapon of peace.” - Ilyas Kassam

70. “Elric knew that everything that existed had its opposite. In danger he might find peace. And yet, of course, in peace there was danger. Being an imperfect creature in an imperfect world he would always know paradox. And that was why in paradox there was always a kind of truth. That was why philosophers and soothsayers flourished. In a perfect world there would be no place for them. In an imperfect world the mysteries were always without solution and that was why there was always a great choice of solutions.” - Michael Moorcock

71. “I like a little danger. Tame danger, controlled by me. It gives me a sense of power, I guess, to take my life in my hands and know damn well I’m not going to lose it.” - Ross Macdonald

72. “In every community there is a class of people profoundly dangerous to the rest. I don't mean the criminals. For them we have punitive sanctions. I mean the leaders. Invariably the most dangerous people seek the power. While in the parlors of indignation the right-thinking citizen brings his heart to a boil. (p. 51)” - Saul Bellow

73. “Causing any damage or harm to one party in order to help another party is not justice, and likewise, attacking all feminine conduct [in order to warn men away from individual women who are deceitful] is contrary to the truth, just as I will show you with a hypothetical case. Let us suppose they did this intending to draw fools away from foolishness. It would be as if I attacked fire -- a very good and necessary element nevertheless -- because some people burnt themselves, or water because someone drowned. The same can be said of all good things which can be used well or used badly. But one must not attack them if fools abuse them.” - Christine de Pizan

74. “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

75. “You mean something like ‘truth or dare’? I haven’t played that in a long time.” She didn’t think he would ever get himself entangled in a game like that, but it was addictive, a compromising icebreaker featuring all the strategy of Poker, minus the cards, mixed with a dash of danger from Russian Roulette, without the revolver.” - E.A. Bucchianeri

76. “The more people you have to ask for permission, the more dangerous a project gets.” - Alain De Botton

77. “Previous journeys had taught me the danger of taking too much stuff.” - Tahir Shah

78. “I was no longer troubled when he pulled out a machete in a crowded bar, tried to pick up schoolgirls, or threatened to scalp us, then rip off our heads and scoop out our brains.” - Tahir Shah

79. “The inertia of a jungle village is a dangerous thing. Before you know it your whole life has slipped by and you are still waiting there.” - Tahir Shah

80. “The forest did not tolerate frailty of body or mind. Show your weakness, and it would consume you without hesitation.” - Tahir Shah

81. “Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition.” - Barbara W. Tuchman

82. “In any case, a little danger is a small price to pay for ridding a place of tourists.” - Tahir Shah

83. “In moments of great uncertainty on my travels, I have always felt that something is protecting me, that I will come to no harm.” - Tahir Shah

84. “He rarely smoked, but once in a while, like now, when his world had been shaken, his woman nearly killed in front of his eyes, and he’d watched a house consume a man and spit him out, he figured a drag or two were appropriate.” - Christine Feehan

85. “Stop putting yourself in danger. Stop trying to handle everything yourself instead of trusting me to help you.” His gaze wandered, too, lingering on her mouth, her hair, even her breasts, leaving tingling sensations everywhere it touched. Shadows moved along his jaw as muscles tensed. “Stop making me crazy, Janet.” - Starr Ambrose

86. “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 Roth

87. “Cheap little rhymesA cheap little tuneAre sometimes as dangerousAs a sliver of the moon.” - Langston Hughes

88. “There are always risks in battle. It's a dangerous business. The trick is to take the right ones.' [said Halt].'How do you know which are the right ones?' Shigeru asked.Halt glanced at his two younger companions. They grinned and answered in chorus, 'You wait and see if you win.” - John Flanagan

89. “Danger is the snack food of a true sleuth.” - Mac Barnett

90. “He is a man, I think," he said, "who cares for nothing but a joke. He is a dangerous man."Lambert laughed in the act of lifting some macaroni to his mouth."Dangerous!" he said. "You don't know little Quin, sir!""Every man is dangerous," said the old man, without moving, "Who cares only for one thing. I was once dangerous myself.” - G.K. Chesterton

91. “Familiarity makes the lion more dangerous.” - Jocelyn Murray

92. “Library. It's where we lock up all those books before they start giving kids ideas," I said solemnly. "Very dangerous place to be.” - Scott Tracey

93. “Can I tell you something?" He tilted his head, moving in closer still, so close that she could feel his breath against her cheek. "Do you want to know what my grandma used to say about kisses on the forehead?"He pressed his lips to her brow, holding the silk soft kiss for a long moment while Isobel stood in place, unable to bring herself to shove him away."She told me it’s the kind of kiss we save for the dead.” - Kelly Creagh

94. “If want a person wants is his life, he tends to be quiet about wanting anything else.” - Ann Patchett

95. “One cannot spend one's entire life running into bathrooms when danger calls!” - Reif Larsen

96. “Her life was like a burst of wild, flowing Chinese calligraphy, written under the influence of alcohol.” - Wei Hui

97. “It's been my experience that those people who seem the most 'normal' are in fact the most dangerous.” - Jacqueline West

98. “You’re not leaving. I told you that.” She worked to keep the calm in her tone to counter his fury. “I’m going to shoot.” “It’s time to put your gun down, Noah.” “His blood will be on you.” Rook made eye contact with her and mouthed, Shoot. Him. She had no shot and said so with the smallest head shake.” - Richard Castle

99. “The more hidden the venom, the more dangerous it is.” - Marguerite de Valois

100. “- “How about flipping a coin;” she made a pretty remark and the two women turned around andlooked at her irritated.- “That's right, go ahead, jock about it. You are not the one trying to change her heart, I am, and youknow damn well how painful that can be!”Sand of Passion” - Georgia Kakalopoulou

101. “Besides, I am staying in a luxurious hotel, not in some slum!”.Sand of Passion” - Georgia Kakalopoulou

102. “There will be danger; some of you may not live to complete your lessons. It's a risk you take. This world is bigger than you and it will go on, regardless.” - Nnedi Okorafor

103. “These thrill seeker people doing extreme sports...they have a hideous accident, go through agonizing recovery, and then go back to that activity that nearly killed them...that's not facing your fear, that's embracing your stupidity.” - Kelli Jae Baeli

104. “Laughing in the face of danger doesn't negate the fear, it simply enables you to smile at it.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

105. “In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.” - Robert G. Ingersoll

106. “To exist, the triangle demands three complementary elements: love, power and danger. Mixed incautiously, these elements, like those in physics, are volatile and potentially explosive.” - Ruth Harris

107. “You can't do that kind of thing normally, but normal dumped without a note nearly a month ago. These days, I'll happily set fire to a bridge the second after I've crossed it - I don't plan on being around for the consequences to catch up with me.” - D.D. Barant

108. “I know some women go in for excitement and danger. It must make them feel more alive. It's my professional judgment that you're a dangerous man.” - Margaret Way

109. “Davanti al pericolo si ragiona cattivo.” - Mauro Corona

110. “But deciding not to have children is a very, very hard decision for a woman to make: the atmosphere is worryingly inconducive to saying, "I choose not to," or "it all sounds a bit vile, tbh." We call these women "selfish" The inference of the word "childless" is negative: one of lack, and loss. We think of nonmothers as rangy lone wolves--rattling around, as dangerous as teenage boys or men. We make women feel that their narrative has ground to a halt in their thirities if they don't "finish things" properly and have children.” - Caitlin Moran

111. “Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force.” - Carl Jung

112. “I have chosen a life that depends on one’s awareness that every breath may be his last, every step may bring his downfall, and every word may stir betrayal. In truth, I must live in conscious ignorance of the mere thread that holds my life aloft, trusting that God alone has the power to sever it, and that He will do so only when my work on earth is complete.” - Nicole Sager

113. “I won't leave you. If you're in danger, then I should be with you. I won't let you risk your life alone. We're in this together, remember? That's what you told me when we ran away.” - Kristine Pierce

114. “Thought is more dangerous than you think.” - Wayne Gerard Trotman

115. “The fiery tickle of outrage burned up her throat. “How the hell would you know that when you never gave me a chance?”Something dark and scorching flickered behind his eyes. “Because no other girl has ever made me want to forget all my own rules for them.” - Airicka Phoenix

116. “A soft mist blew around them. Raindrops glistened in his hair, shimmering under the pale glow of the light post. His eyes were shadowed beneath wispy fringes, but the silver in them glinted like pools of liquid mercury. Her breath caught. It must have made a sound because his fingers tightened. His shaky exhale whispered across her face.“This,” he whispered so quietly she almost didn’t hear him. “Is why you are so bad for me.” - Airicka Phoenix

117. “His eyes were twin flakes of ember floating into the night from a roaring inferno. “I won’t let anything happen to you. No matter what I have to do, I will keep you safe.” - Airicka Phoenix

118. “They said it was only a ground shark; but I was not wholly reassured. It is as bad to be eaten by a ground shark as by any other.” - Winston Churchill

119. “Courage is the antidote to danger.” - Erle Stanley Gardner

120. “Within Hobbes’ depiction of the motives for conflict. . . there is a problematic in which the grave threat that human beings pose to other human beings is not constituted simply by the structures of human passions, interests, and desires, nor by the addition of a self-deceptive and egotistical desire for recognition and proof of one’s perhaps illusory power. In this moment, it is the very rationality of other humans, reason in the broad sense, understood as roughly equal to oneself in both capacity and structure, that poses such a threat” - Gregory B. Sadler

121. “- I believe in unlimited discovery and achievement.- I believe that dreams can become reality.- I believe in true love.- I believe in kindness and intelligence.- I trust life, regardless.” - Elysse Poetis

122. “Not all poison was bitter. Some of the deadliest poisons in the world tasted sweet; they were that much more dangerous because of it.” - Nenia Campbell

123. “Each evening, I ached for the shelter of my tent, for the smallest sense that something was shielding me from the entire rest of the world, keeping me safe not from danger, but from vastness itself. I loved the dim, clammy dark of my tent, the cozy familiarity of the way I arranged my few belongings all around me each night.” - Cheryl Strayed

124. “Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; wherever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable.” - Earl Nightingale

125. “If its danger you seek, come on over. I covet tranquility but beget the tempest storm.” - Donna Lynn Hope

126. “It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.” - Alfred North Whitehead

127. “A decision made during a moment of weakness can ruin your life.        To date, I had made three.” - Melika Dannese Lux

128. “What happens to those who live dangerously by being true to who they are?” - Bryant McGill