Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes

I fear, my Lords, it is too much the temper of this country to be insensible of the approach of danger, until it comes with accumulated terror upon us.

The presence of danger has a way of making you feel fully awake.

Fear is the foundation of safety.

Living is dangerous. The important thing is to know the limits.

It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.

If I had any deadly secrets, I wouldn't still be alive.

I like to be with my back against the wall in dangerous situations.

Fear will keep you alive in a war. Fear will keep you alive in business. There's nothing wrong with fear.

I don’t wanna die, man. They’re not playing. Have you seen how many of them are out there? One just took a shot at me, so unlike you morons, I’m hiding. Hiding is nice. (Vik)

Get used to the bear behind you.

We have to live like people in a web of knives, we mustn't reach out our hands or we get them gashed.

They want us dead,' said Bond calmly. 'So we have to stay alive.

I thought, better to get out while I'm still alive.

The pleasure of being alive is brought into sharper focus when you need to pay attention to staying alive.

You need to be hyper-aware because it's your survival at stake.

I can recall, as a young adult, running through the rain forest at the Forest Reserve, at times feeling a sense of fear when I felt I was in danger. In danger of confronting an ugly snake or a coral snake, which represented the greatest fear of someone in a rural area when you traverse the forest.

We are gifted with freedom, but with that freedom comes the reality of the unknown and the responsibility to be aware of our surroundings and on guard against those who would do us harm.

98% of the people in the world are harmless and wish you well, but it only takes one person who doesn't. That's what you're constantly on guard against.

I'm just a simple guy swimming in a sea of sharks.

It's tough to play the right chord on the instrument when there's someone out there who wants to kill you.

Death is a sniper. It strikes people you love, people you like, people you know - it's everywhere. You could be next. But then you turn out not to be. But then again, you could be.

Only the paranoid survive.

In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.

He that fears danger in time seldom feels it.

When the wart-hog looks up at the sky, it gets its throat slit.