Peter Hollingworth Quotes

I can cite a few cases of where people have tampered around with magic and witchcraft that they've been very severely frightened and traumatised by some of the outcomes. I mean we are playing with fire, and I had to say that.

In America, magic has never been an important part of peoples' lives.

Rituals are magical.

Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river.

Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.

The personal threat is something that's always been a part of our lives.

A hole is nothing at all, but you can break your neck in it.

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.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

I am not a witch doctor, and in fact, you cannot have a witch doctor. You are either a witch or a doctor.

Fear is the foundation of safety.

In truth, men speak too much of danger.

Take the word of experience, I speak the truth: inaction is safest in danger.

Do not fear what has blown up. If you must, fear the unexploded.

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

In the past, people generally believed they could acquire magic in two ways: through learning the craft, either from another practitioner or from books; or through obtaining magic from a powerful being-think Faust or the classic, demonized witch, both of whom get their mojo from Satan.

He that fears danger in time seldom feels it.

A witch is one who worketh by the Devil or by some curious art either healing or revealing things secret, or foretelling things to come which the Devil hath devised to ensnare men's souls …

Security is for cadavers.

For my part, I have ever believed, and do so now, that there are witches.

I honestly do not believe in witchcraft.

Yeah, I believe in all the wild, witchcraft stuff. I don't like to dabble in that, but I believe they all know something.

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

It's too bad that the idea of witchcraft and sorcery is a taboo subject matter.

But we're aware of the danger all the time. We all know what can happen. I jump in the car and forget it. If you start thinking one of us will get hurt it's more likely to happen.