Mortal Danger Quotes

#1. It is almost a cliche to speak of the professed atheist who cries out for help to God when he is in mortal danger. The profession of atheism is done by the conscious mind, but the subconscious still believes in God.

Serge Kahili King

#2. It did not matter whether he thought she was in mortal danger or simply falling, certain to survive. She fell and he followed..

Kelley Armstrong

#3. At present, there can be little doubt that the whole of mankind is in mortal danger, not because we are short of scientific and technological know-how, but because we tend to use it destructively, without wisdom. More education can help us only if produces more wisdom.

E.F. Schumacher

#4. Whether your mother is a novelist like mine or a third-generation military wife, the idea of a son or daughter being in mortal danger is terrifying.

Elliot Ackerman

#5. What a strange world it is, where prisoners are left their weapons and the written word is a mortal danger.

Megan Whalen Turner

#6. Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas.

Erwin Rommel

#7. The self-defence class was a mixed bunch, chosen because each had once been in mortal danger.

Angie Sage

#8. Bill Clinton says the middle-class folks in Topeka who contribute to The 700 Club or Focus on the Family are radicals whose beliefs pose a mortal danger to this nation!

Don Feder

#9. Governments govern, but prime ministers and presidents do not personally turn up in people's homes to tell them how to run their lives, because of the mortal danger this would present. There are laws instead.

Terry Pratchett

#10. The human body is robust. It can gather strength when it's in mortal danger.

Toni Morrison

#11. I've got a plan!" "Not interested." Both whips wrapped around a demon's neck and the head popped off. "It puts me in mortal danger." Matthias's eyes slid my way. "I'm listening.

A&E Kirk

#12. Water was how the desert would bring everyone together. The antelope's daily prayer, weighing the mortal need of water with the mortal danger of obtaining it.

Mike Bond

#13. Chiron insisted that we talk about the Labyrinth in the morning which is like 'Hey, your life's in mortal danger. Sleep tight!

Rick Riordan

#14. You yourself don't have to be shaken by mortal danger in order to feel your mortality.

Seamus Heaney

#15. I could not do it. I would not do it. I sat back on my heels with the book in my hand with the light of the fire flickering and dying down and realized that not even in mortal danger could I bring myself to burn a book.

Philippa Gregory

#16. I have spied for you and lied for you, put myself in mortal danger for you. Everything was supposed to be to keep Lily Potter's son safe. Now you tell me you have been raising him like a pig for slaughter -

J.K. Rowling

#17. Hardly out of mortal danger and already he gets impertinent.

Angelika Rust

#18. The qualifications for being a Scout seemed to be a shocking level of physical endurance, a complete disregard for mortal danger, and some knowledge of how to exist in a space suit. All of them were Russian.

Neal Stephenson

#19. With the best equipment in the world the man with poor judgment is in mortal danger.

Royal Robbins

#20. I had an overwhelming urge to hit him-or kiss him. I wasn't sure which. With lips like those, a girl would have to be dead not to notice. Mortal danger or not

Jus Accardo

#21. We shall see how the counsels of prudence and restraint may become the prime agents of mortal danger; how the middle course adopted from desires for safety and a quiet life may be found to lead direct to the bull's-eye of disaster.

Winston S. Churchill

#22. We have to take our neighbours seriously, as people with an equal claim to protection, for whom we might be required, in moments of crisis, to face mortal danger. We do this because we believe ourselves to belong together in a shared home. The

Roger Scruton

#23. The 'Islamic State', that strange miscegenation of Medina with Westphalia, is always in mortal danger of linking the moral austerity of monotheism with the repressive and supervisor powers of the modern nation state.

Abdal Hakim Murad

#24. I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to humanity created by science.

Joseph Rotblat

#25. There is no thrill of mortal danger to surpass that of a lone man trying to create something that never existed before.

Irving Stone

#26. Modern society is hypnotized by socialism. It is prevented by socialism from seeing the mortal danger it is in. And one of the greatest dangers of all is that you have lost all sense of danger, you cannot even see where it's coming from as it moves swiftly towards you.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#27. in all the vastness of the world, the deepest adventure is not of war or mortal danger, but of heart, of soul, of the infinite discovery of a beloved other.

A.S. Peterson

#28. On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in her strength, not to escape herself but to find herself, not to abase herself but to assert herself
on that day love will become for her, as for man, a source of life and not of mortal danger.

Simone De Beauvoir

#29. How human, to ruminate even when in mortal danger

Gregory Benford

#30. I will not hang back here in Alicante while Magnus is in danger. Go without me, and you disrespect our parabatai oaths, you disrespect me as a shadowhunter, and you disrespect the fact that this is my battle too.

Cassandra Clare

#31. I needed some real danger and some mortal risk to run, to tranquilize me.

Thomas-Alexandre Dumas

#32. Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune, death, and danger dare, Even for an eggshell. Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honor's at the stake.

Peter Thiel

#33. We Shadowhunters, we put ourselves in danger, every hour, every day. I think sometimes we are reckless with our hearts the way we are with our lives. When we give them away, we give every piece.

Cassandra Clare

#34. It is a curious fact about British Islanders, who hate drill and have not been invaded for nearly a thousand years, that as danger comes nearer and grows they become progressively less nervous; when it is imminent the are fierce, when it is mortal they are fearless.

Winston Churchill

#35. The poor ignorant fellah [Arabic for peasant] does not worry about politics, but when he is told repeatedly by people in whom he has confidence that his livelihood is in danger of being taken away from him by us, he becomes our mortal enemy ... The Arab is primitive and believes what he is told.

Chaim Weizmann

#36. When you slice the truth too thin, you deceive.

Eileen Wilks

#37. All our mortal lives are set in danger and perplexity: one day to prosper, and the next
who knows? When all is well, then look for rocks ahead.

Sophocles