Many ancient (and contemporary) societies considered the sexually awakened femaleas both auspicious and dangerous.

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...

Some things should never be said. Not out loud in clear, simple words. You talk around them. You leave gaps and blanks. You use other words and talk in curves and arcs for the worst...

It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they’re used. The fact that they exist at all, their presence in our lives, will wreak more havoc than we...

For there are two reasons why human beings face danger calmly: they may have no experience of it, or they may have means to deal with it: thus when in danger at sea people may...

I don’t think parents really realize the potential danger of power windows.

Caution.” This is my advice for love—and for driving while blindfolded, which is safer than love.

beauty such as theirs was something with which one lived joyously — racing with the wind, with storm and snow, dancing in the frost or among the golden wattles, galloping, galloping in the spring sun....

Perhaps you should speak more softly to me, then. Monsters are dangerous beasts, and just now kings seem to be dying like flies.

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...

Calling the cat stupid never made the mice wise.

I wish we could be 100% shielded from danger, but nothing is in life.

The biggest danger in sailing is not the open ocean. It’s hitting things. So if I have a thousand miles between me and land, a storm doesn’t really upset me. If the boat’s set up...

The pillow whistled across the room and smacked him in the face. Nicolas smiled, satisfied. If he was going to die, this was the man he wanted to die beside.

Danger is real, fear is a choice

A world is in danger, this planet is in great danger!

[Tom Foley, of Concerned Citizens for Responsible Growth, said people in Plumas Lake are in danger from flooding due to shaky levees – just like in New Orleans.] It’s like a big wake-up call, I...

It is not the homeless, mentally ill or extremely cunning people that we have to be afraid of. When someone loses everything that meant something to them is when people should get very afraid. A...

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

Lust is a dangerous thing. It can make you believe things that are not real. It can seduce your mind and lead it blindfolded to the cliff that will be its demise.

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

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; wherever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable.

It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: someone has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them.

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

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...

If you see a big danger ahead, don’t start running immediately; because it may be the challenge that at the end you shall become stronger than ever before! Do not avoid every danger!

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...

Love is not all about loving everything perfect, it is when someones corrosive nature is the only thing that glues you to them which you wished it were never there.

Bad men skulking in the darkness have always been there, and always will.

I think the danger is you start to think the answer to playing together is finding a new partner. At this point, I don?t think that is the issue.

He is most free from danger, who, even when safe, is on his guard

Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. There is no opportunity in such cases for self-delusion, no idling time away, no being off...

Cases fired by emotion rather than money were dangerous.

Trees surrounded them from all sides, casting long inky shadows that would, at another time, have been scary. But there was no point in being scared of what might be lurking in the shadows when...

The president said he understood he was never in any danger. He kept up what he was in the middle of.

It’s Libby now, pretty soon it could be Rove, and eventually there will be a danger for the White House that people are going to start asking if it is conceivable that they were acting...

norms” of our current civilization. I have devoted my life to amassing over a quarter million pieces of sf and fantasy as a present to posterity and I hope to be remembered as an altruist...

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...

My deceit is shaped like a STOP sign. It’s also bright red. If you don’t observe it, it can be quite dangerous.

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...

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!

Tradition was safety; change was danger.

We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.

Be careful what you wish for. Especially out loud.

It is a dangerous position to be in when you can’t see, can’t hear and won’t listen…

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

So I take a deep breath.Step forward.Let go.10 seconds and I’m trying to breathe9And I’m trying to be brave8But the truth is I’m scared out of my mind7And I have no idea what’s waiting for...

A chap’s impending death has a way of focusing the mind.

Be careful when getting what you exactly need in life.

The more people you have to ask for permission, the more dangerous a project gets.