Mortal Peril Quotes

I have to send people out to get killed.

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

Killing is easy," said Mo, "Dying is harder.

A man falling off a cliff to certain death will stretch out a hand even to his worst enemy.

In the Roman world, and in the worlds around it that Romans sought to subdue and control, the gods were merciless, frivolous, prone to set traps for humans, and largely indifferent to the unprivileged bulk of humankind, who in any case did not expect their fate in the afterworld to be any better than it had been on earth.

Taunting Death ... means pitting oneself against a wily enemy who cannot lose.

They want us dead,' said Bond calmly. 'So we have to stay alive.

If you enjoyed laughing in the face of death, you might like to have a crack at High Saffron. One hundred merits, and all you have to do is take a look.' 'I understand there's a one hundred percent fatality rate?' 'True. But up until the moment of death there was a one hundred percent survival rate. Really, I shouldn't let anything as meaningless as statistics put you off.

Stick a needle in your arm, you bite the dust, you buy the farm.

This wasn't the first time that I'd come close to death, but it was the first time I'd been involved in this part of it, this strange, terrible saying goodbye to someone you've loved.

The labyrinth of Ephebe is ancient and full of one hundred and one amazing things you can do with hidden springs, razor-sharp knives, and falling rocks.

God, if You don't help me, I'm going to die.

Flaws would not only bring death but, far worse, humiliation.

I was going to fight vampires, and my name wasn't Buffy--I was so screwed.

The interesting thing about staring down a gun barrel is how small the hole is where the bullet comes out, yet what a big difference it would make in your social schedule.

The problem, of course, was that turning into a monster was the brighter of my two choices. Choice Number 1: I turn into a vampyre, which equals a monster in just about any human’s mind. Choice Number 2: My body rejects the Change and I die. Forever. So the good news is that I wouldn’t have to take the geometry test tomorrow.

If patients are rationing insulin, they are putting themselves in mortal peril to save money. They shouldn't have to make that choice.

The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night?