Lucy McBath Quotes

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.

When your house is on fire—that is not the time to talk

I got into therapy in the fifth grade because I said in a sarcastic way that I was going to kill myself, and they didn't get it then. Nothing's changed.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life.

I have friends who've tried suicide many times and haven't succeeded. I myself made an attempt, so I had a connection with that sort of group of people who have tried suicide at one time in their lives.

A move to a different town or school gives us new places to explore, new people to meet; a lost pet means we have to organize a careful search; baby-sitting requires looking out for dangers a young child can't foresee; a car crash or fire demands that we get help immediately.

The fact is that trauma and risk taking hadn't become scarier over the years; it had become more normal.

I don't persuade to suicide.

Measurement and categorization are, of course, fundamental to any scientific endeavor, but the implications of being able to identify psychopaths are as much practical as academic. To put it simply, if we can't spot them, we are doomed to be their victims, both as individuals and as a society.

I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.

A rattlesnake loose in the living room tends to end all discussion of animal rights.

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.

There is a risk between toxicity and hazard. Just because it is a risk doesn't mean you are in danger.

The approach of danger always lends precision to the diplomatic art.

The warnings of the last 4 years have been ignored. As a result, every single alternative before us is accompanied by grave risks.

Every crisis has within it, opportunity. Every crisis has within it, danger.

If you don’t act, the danger becomes stronger

The expert is out to point out all the difficulties and dangers.

Panic is a natural human response to danger, but it's one that severely compounds the risk.

Security and safety are very important for us.

Depression is a horrible, potentially life-threatening illness - but the lives it threatens are almost always those of the people who suffer from it.

I feel like I've had bad nights or destructive nights or nights where I don't remember anything or nights where I was seriously injured or seriously in danger. And I remained nihilistic and unconcerned because it felt like there was no alternative.

Nowhere in the world is safe," Count Olaf said. Not with you around," Violet agreed. I'm no worse than anyone else," Count Olaf said.

Aw, no one's gonna shoot at me.

We live in a world with so many dangers that we have to be careful whom we trust.