hidden threats Quotes

Deadly poisons are concealed under sweet honey.

The terrorists of today are not wild-eyed, illiterate fanatics who merely obey the orders of their evil leaders. They are educated, well-off, normal people with wives and families to love and look after. We cannot know they are terrorists until they have committed their horrible crimes.

I remember that I'm invisible and walk softly so as not awake the sleeping ones. Sometimes it is best not to awaken them; there are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.

I know there are other Elton Simpsons out there. But I also know there are Elton Simpsons out there I cannot see.

Nothing could be taken for granted. Women who loved you tried to cut your throat, while women who didn't even know your name scrubbed your back. Witches could sound like Katharine Hepburn and your best friend could try to strangle you. Smack in the middle of an orchid there might be a blob of jello and inside a Mickey Mouse doll, a fixed and radiant star.

We cannot wholly rely, as though it were Medieval times, [on the notion that] the only reality is what we see in front of us. There are germs. There are changes that are happening in our planet's ecology that are happening over such a long period of time that we cannot see the changes.

Take heede of still waters, the quick passe away.

An imprudent enemy is less dangerous than an imprudent friend.

I have seen streets where someone said it's all fine, and then it was full of land mines.

sexual predators were like cockroaches. For every one you saw, there were twenty more hiding behind the walls.

When I worry about risks, I worry about the biggest ones, particularly those that are difficult to predict - the ones I call small but deep holes. While odds are you will avoid them, if you do fall in one, it's a long way down and nearly impossible to claw your way out.

You musn’t be afraid of the dark.’ ‘I’m not,’ said Shadow. ‘I’m afraid of the people in the dark.

There's more danger in the violence you don't face.

There are a lot of sociopaths running around who are probably our friends, if not us, and we don't know it.

Has the dark shadow really disappeared? Or is it inside me, concealed, waiting for its chance to reappear? Like a clever thief hidden inside a house, breathing quietly, waiting until everyone’s asleep. I have looked deep inside myself, trying to detect something that might be there. But just as our consciousness is a maze, so too is our body. Everywhere you turn there’s darkness, and a blind spot. Everywhere you find silent hints, everywhere a surprise is waiting for you.

Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm

Politics is the womb in which war develops - where its outlines already exist in their hidden rudimentary form, like the characteristics of living creatures in their embryos.

They have demons on Antarctica?” “Yeah,” Ash breathed. “It wasn’t always covered by ice, that was just a precaution when they buried them.

But as they say about sharks, it's not the ones you see that you have to worry about, it's the ones you don't see.

Don't turn over the rocks if you don't want to see the pale creatures who live under them.

Base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark.

The traveller knows not who may be concealed by the innumerable trunks and the thick boughs overhead; so that with lonely footsteps he may yet be passing through an unseen multitude.

Sometimes, our expectations of being all-knowing is somewhat unrealistic. At the end of the day, there are people out there who mean harm to us, are thinking about doing harm to us and motivated to do it, and we don't know what that is.

I keep my enemies close/ I give 'em enough rope/ They put themselves in the air/ I just kick away the chair.

I will say that when it comes to the horror genre, for me, the scariest thing is when something is actually in the frame.