Annie Smith Peck Quotes

I do not climb really dangerous stuff.

Hitchhiking, intrinsically, is sexual and dangerous. At the same time I never really felt scared. I was scared that nobody would pick me up and that I'd be waiting by the side of the road for a week.

The pervasive attitude is that it's crazy to invite more danger into your life.

One ought to be afraid of nothing other then things possessed of power to do us harm, but things innoucuous need not be feared.

Really, it was difficult to determine which I had most reason to fear—dogs, alligators or men!

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

There is less danger in fearing too much than too little.

I never looked at Gallagher like he was a threat to me.

But I've never really done anything that implies any kind of danger. I wouldn't skydive, I wouldn't deep sea dive, I wouldn't parachute. I think you're really just rolling the dice. Who packed your chute the night before?

Most people who make threats don't follow through. The most dangerous people are often those who never make threats. But 'most' and 'often' aren't what you are looking for when you're dealing with a scary person. You want to 'know.' And there is no knowing.

In truth, men speak too much of danger.

I don't like going into the basement. I'm always afraid that something's going to blow up.

On my first day in New York a guy asked me if I knew where Central Park was. When I told him I didn't he said, 'Do you mind if I mug you here?'.

I was scared many times on Everest, but this is all part of the challenge. When I fell down a crevasse, it was pretty scary.

Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.

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.

He that fears danger in time seldom feels it.

People hate the vacuum of an unknown situation. They want security. They even prefer war to the insecure expectation of a war with its threat of enemy surprise. This vague fearful expectation acts on their fantasies. They anticipate all kinds of mysterious dangers; they begin to provoke them.

The world is enormously dangerous and scary. I worry very much for my daughter. I'm not sure we're in control any more, and I think the Internet is partly responsible for that.

In seeking comfort, we generally find a quiet corner in life where there is a minimum of conflict, and then we are afraid to step out of that seclusion.

It's a human desire to be scared. On some level, that's how we survived - that sense of fear and danger. Our lives are much safer, so we gravitate to those stories that makes us feel those things and learn lessons, even if it's just, 'What are you doing? Don't go in the basement!'

I'm not really much of a risk taker.

There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.

You in trouble?” Sam asks. The way he says it, I wonder if he’s thinking about how to get out of here if I am.

The most dangerous place is in your safety zone.