Extreme danger Quotes

I suddenly remember something I've been told about fear. That amid a hail of machine gun fire you notice the existence of your skin.

Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains.

The peril of the hour moved the British to tremendous exertions, just as always in a moment of extreme danger things can be done which had previously been thought impossible. Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas.

For the first ten years, Vladimir Putin was constructing his power structure, and now he's defending it. He's retrenching, mobilizing a shrinking constituency, constructing an enemy that's really scary. It's war. And when you look at the anti-gay campaign, it's a classic case of war rhetoric: demonstrating an immediate and extreme danger.

I thought: This is not racing, it's a suicide mission.

Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise ever focused, so that we remember what we otherwise spend most of our lives forgetting: that our nature and purpose is, more than anything else, to love and to make love, to take joy from the beauty of the world, to live with an awareness that the future is not as real a place for any of us as are the present and the past.

Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep'rate friends.

Always in a moment of extreme danger things can be done which had previously been thought impossible.

When someone points a gun at your head and loads it, by God, you ought to take them seriously.

Any time there's something so ridiculously dangerous that no rational human being would try it, they send for me.' --Garion

… extremely dangerous … completely uncontrollable.

It is at the approach of extreme danger when a hollow puppet can accomplish nothing, that power falls into the mighty hands of nature, of the spirit giant-born, who listens only to himself, and knows nothing of compacts.