"When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger, the other opportunity."
— John F. Kennedy

""That does it," said Jace. "I'm going to get you a dictionary for Christmas this year."
"Why?" Isabelle said.
"So you can look up 'fun.' I'm not sure you know what it means.""
— Cassandra Clare (City of Ashes)

"How dare you open a spaceman's helmet on an uncharted planet? My eyeballs could've been sucked from their sockets!
— Buzz Lightyear"
— Cathy East Dubowski (Disney's Toy Story)

"An errand is getting a tank of gas or picking up a carton of milk or something. It is not getting chased by flying purple pyromaniac gorillas hurling incendiary poo!"
— Jim Butcher (Blood Rites)

"Bella don't you jump off that cliff.
I jumped.
Dammit Bella, I told you not to jump off that cliff."
— Stephenie Meyer (New Moon)

"Zaolos: 'The world is full of massive things in motion. Little creatures get hurt.'"
— Robert Fanney (The War of Mists)

"Personally, I say, "Out of the frying pan and into the deadly pit filled with sharks who are wielding chainsaws with killer kittens stapled to them." However, that one's having a rough time catching on."
— Brandon Sanderson (Alcatraz Versus the Scrivener's Bones)

"One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger."
— François de La Rochefoucauld (Maxims)

"Each child’s story is worthy of telling. There shouldn’t be a sliding scale of death. The weight of it is crushing."
— Anderson Cooper (Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival)

"The man of thought who will not act is ineffective; the man of action who will not think is dangerous."
— Richard Nixon

"An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. "
— Oscar Wilde

"Station is the paradox of the world of my people, the limitation of our power within the hunger for power. It is gained through treachery and invites treachery against those who gain it. Those most powerful in Menzoberranzan spend their days watching over their shoulders, defending against the daggers that would find their backs. Their deaths usually come from the front." -Drizzt Do'Urden"
— R.A. Salvatore (Homeland)

"As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it. And it is not only reaching back that endangers us; sometimes history itself reaches inexorably forward for us with its shadowy claws."
— Elizabeth Kostova (The Historian)

"It was not the brutality of what occurred next that changed my mind and brought home to me the full meaning of fear. It was the brilliance of it."
— Elizabeth Kostova (The Historian)

"danger is a biologic necessity, like dreams. if you face death, for that time, for the period of
direct confrontation, you are immortal."
— William S. Burroughs (The Western Lands)

"a) he's late.
b) he's acting like an asshole and blowing me off.
c)he's gotten into a horrible car crash that's left dead.

The most likely answer is A. (We went to prom together, and the limo had to wait in his driveway for half an hour. At the end of the night, we got charged for an extra hour. He- read: his parents- paid for it, but still.)"
— Lauren Barnholdt (Two-way Street)

""... It's perfect! Locke would appreciate it."

"Bug," Calo said, "Locke is our brother and our love for him knows no bounds. But the four most fatal words in the Therin language are 'Locke would appreciate it.'"

"Rivalled only by 'Locke taught me a new trick,'" added Galo.

"The only person who gets away with Locke Lamora games ..."

"... is Locke ..."

"... because we think the gods are saving him up for a really big death. Something with knives and hot irons ..."

"... and fifty thousand cheering spectators.""
— Scott Lynch (The Lies of Locke Lamora)

"And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes."
— C.S. Lewis (Out of the Silent Planet)

"...Goldfinger could not have known that high tension was Bond's natural way of life and that pressure and danger relaxed him."
— Ian Fleming (Goldfinger)

"That is why embittered people find heroes and madmen a perennial source of fascination, for they have no fear of life or death. Both heroes and madmen are indifferent to danger and will forge ahead regardless of what other people say."
— Paulo Coelho (Veronika Decides to Die: A Novel of Redemption)

"Most people would look at an animal in a cage and instinctively feel that it should be set free. . . . It's a dangerous world out there, filled with predators. . . . What would you prefer? A comfortable, safe, warm, cosy life in a cage, or an uncertain life of freedom."
— Scarlett Thomas (Going Out)

"Beware of being obsessed with consistency to your own convictions instead of being devoted to God. The important consistency in a saint is not to a principle but to the divine life. It is easier to be an excessive fanatic than it is to be consistently faithful, because God causes an amazing humbling of our religious conceit when we are faithful to Him."
— Oswald Chambers

"News of Daniel's disappearance does not alarm me as it might have done a week ago. Given recent events, very little alarms me as it might have done a week ago. I feel as if my supply of alarm has been exhausted, at least temporarily."
— Patricia C. Wrede (The Mislaid Magician or Ten Years After: Being the Private Correspondence Between Two Prominent Families Regarding a Scandal Touching the Highest Levels of Government and the Security of the Realm)

"It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
"
— Thomas Jefferson

"Reptiles and Samurai
Inhabit my head
Invading my dreams
Sleeping in my bed
They battle but they never die
They hear what I hear
Watching thru my eyes
They don't like what they see
Reptiles and Samurai
Are under my skin
They hide in my mind
They speak with my tongue
They run amuck in my terrain
They are not friends
But they are forced reluctantly
To share my brain

Reptiles have silly grins
Dark eyes--shiny teeth--some have fins
Samurai they smile never
Serious--pretty swords--very clever

Sometimes I watch you from this place way in the sky
Your face is young and shiny transformed right before my eyes
Without warning, without reason
To Samurai and lizards
reptiles and Samurai
Samurai and lizards
Reptiles and Samurai
Reptiles and Samurai
Inhabit my head
Invading my dreams
Sleeping in my bed
They battle but they never die

Reptiles have pretty scales
They run real fast--they like to bite--some have tails
Samurai like their water hot--very brave
They eat raw fish--they fight alot
"
— oingo boingo