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Again with that slow, lordly smile. Perfectly shaped for Luc’s fist.

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

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.

Danger is ever-present in life, more for some than others.

This is not a list of the nation’s worst rivers, it is a list of rivers that are in danger.

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.

Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.

Walking around in that suit and tie, he was in some danger. He was just another nigger, to put it bluntly, although I don’t think he realized that.

Usually the opposite of what we fear is our greatest fear.

I never feel unsafe except for when the majority is on my side.

Opportunity is not your opponent—it is your ally, but it’s hard to see that because opportunity is often camouflaged and hidden among danger and chaos.

Too much much is a dangerous thing. But not as dangerous as danger itself.

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

Poor Poe! At first so forgotten that his grave went without a tomb-stone twenty-six years. . . today in danger of becoming the life study of a few professors.

In any case there was no danger whatsoever for the presidents,

Some of this stuff sounds dangerous.

Such a dark green, his eyes. They reminded her of the forest, of all the dangers lying dormant behind that verdant cloak of leaves.

I have been in danger of being drowned twice.

If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

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...

The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell

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,...

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...

…Goldfinger could not have known that high tension was Bond’s natural way of life and that pressure and danger relaxed him.

She could hear the rattle of hooves on stone evolve into a thunder of pursuit.

It is not the sanctuary that is in danger; it is civilization. It is not infallibility that may go down; it is personal rights. It is not the Eucharist that may pass away; it is...

Sits bits unhitch!

Life is always dangerous and always mysterious.

Familiarity makes the lion more dangerous.

How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmaresif there seemed any danger of their coming true!

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

Oh, he did look like a deity – the perfect balance of danger and charm, he was at the same time fascinating and inaccessible, distant because of his demonstrated flawlessness, and possessing such strength of...

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...

Previous journeys had taught me the danger of taking too much stuff.

In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.

I won’t let anything happen to you. No matter what I have to do, I will keep you safe.

I imagine God creating humans was much like cavemen creating fire… First it sparkles brightly, full of life and beauty. But then it grows, stronger and fiercer until it becomes dangerous and uncontrollable… Then its...

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...

Mtu aliyepoteza kila kitu katika maisha yake ana uwezo wa kufanya chochote.

Manhattan was a no-man’s land, empty, an unofficial demilitarized zone between Partials and the human survivors. No one was supposed to be here, not because it was forbidden but because it was dangerous. If something...

If you’re outmatched, out-numbered, out-skilled, you’ll run and live to fight another day.” Lucky stopped jogging and pulled her close to him. He gently forced her eyes to lock with his. “You need to understand...

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...

This officer’s life was in imminent danger, and they did what they had to do.

I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.

Her beauty was a weapon. A loaded gun, with the barrel pointed at her own head.

Raven scowled at her. ‘Fine. But if I accidentally shoot you because my aim is shaky, because I’m too tense, because I wasn’t given the chance to relax before going into a potentially very dangerous...

All it takes is rumor…The danger itself is irrelevant. It’s the perception of danger we’re selling.

Only an idiot would trust a Kelpie this close to the water. Getting on its back with the scent of the sea in the air would be a fast, painful means of suicide, and I’m...

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but deliverance from fear