Wise men say nothing in dangerous times
If you are ignorant enough, you can walk like a cat on the slippery roof-ridge of danger.
In extreme danger fear feels no pity. [Lat., In summo periculo timor miericordiam non recipit.]
Women-in-jeopardy movies are, in essence, the updated versions of men dying to save the princess from the dragon to earn her love. They are modern-day training films for teaching women to select the best protectors while weeding out the rest.
There's always a threat surrounding the things you love
To me, there's nothing funnier than funny people in peril, because it's just a great springboard for people to be at a heightened emotionality and things get funnier.
No right way is easy in this rough world. We must risk our lives to save them.
Danger and anger are everywhere. Love is the rarity, the gem buried in the core of the mine, the outpost of God.
In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
From a distance the rushing of the torrent delights and uplifts us, but it rocks us in a flimsy boat, we are overwhelmed by despair. The same applies to danger.
Women are safer in perilous situations and emergencies than men, and might be still more so if they trusted themselves more confidingly to the chivalry of manhood.
In crises the most daring course is often safest.
She has great problems of her own to solve, very grim and perilous problems, and a right solution, if we can attain to it, would largely benefit mankind.
The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.
Spader and I were nearly killed. Three times. We were also robbed and witnessed a gruesome murder. Happy birthday to me!
With traps and obstacles and hazards confronting us on every hand, only blindness or indifference will fail to turn in all humility, for guidance or for warning, to the study of examples.
My books depend on someone in danger, putting pieces together and figuring things out. They do a lot of thinking, and that gets lost in the movie.
To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.
The witnessing of titanic events is always dangerous, usually painful, and often fatal.
