#danger

When I was kidnapped as a child my parents sent a letter to the hijackers me Pay 5,000 dollars or your back ↗

— Rodney Dangerfield

#funny #humor #humour #kiddnapped #rodney-dangerfield

You're not going to tell me they built fifty-foot-high killer golems, are you?" "Only a man would think of that. It's our job," said Moist. "If you don't think of fifty-foot-high killer golems first, someone else will. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#funny #humor #irony #men #weapons

I missed out on a big part of your life, Gabi. You look absolutely beautiful in this picture. I have to tell you something before I lose my nerve.” He turned. “I’ve loved-” The .22 glistened underneath the florescent lighting. ↗

— Wendy Ely

#mafia-hearts #wendy-ely #beauty

And suddenly, in the place of the woman-shape made of shadow, there was something else. Something huge, something ugly. Linay flung up both hands. The thing screamed like a hawk and opened to wings: one white as a death cap, one clotted in shadow. The wings came together and the whole pond shuddered. Something hit Kate's ear and shoulder and smashed to the deck by her feet. It was a swallow, dead. She could hear them falling all over the pond. ↗

— Erin Bow

#death #ghost #monster #water-spirit #death

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love. ↗

— Delmore Schwartz

#courage #dangerous #desperate #difficult #form

In life, nobody gets out alive. ↗

— William Blystone

#death #initiation #life #death

Women are obliged to be far more skillful than men” Glenn Close’s character, Dangerous Liaisons “You’ll find that shame is like the pain, you only feel it once” Glenn Close’s character, Dangerous Liaisons ↗

— Christopher Hamptom

#men

Causing any damage or harm to one party in order to help another party is not justice, and likewise, attacking all feminine conduct [in order to warn men away from individual women who are deceitful] is contrary to the truth, just as I will show you with a hypothetical case. Let us suppose they did this intending to draw fools away from foolishness. It would be as if I attacked fire -- a very good and necessary element nevertheless -- because some people burnt themselves, or water because someone drowned. The same can be said of all good things which can be used well or used badly. But one must not attack them if fools abuse them. ↗

— Christine de Pizan

#argument #clichés #conduct #damage #danger

Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of opinion regarding rights. ↗

— Elihu Root

#dangerous #differences #incitement #more #most

War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the most dangerous being nationalism. ↗

— Robert Runcie

#being #dangerous #god #love #loyalty