Abraham Polonsky Quotes

There are only two kinds of men; the dead and the deadly.

I have been very fortunate as to escape through another day's very severe fighting and escaped unhurt.

In war, everything changes. You are very selective of what you do because everything you do can be the last thing you do in your life.

Not only do the brave get killed, but the brave have a better chance of it.

I should have died in ambushes a hundred times.

I didn't die young. So I am very lucky. There are other artists and people that didn't survive certain things... people can imagine that I did the most dangerous, and I did the worst... for many reasons, I shouldn't be here.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.

Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?

I've been doing extremely dangerous activities for a long time, but I've been lucky enough to have survived so far. However, sooner or later we all die... and, if that's the case, I want to die doing what I love to do the most. That's how I view death.

There is risk everywhere. Being alive carries the risk of death.

In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.

Pray that we can come out alive.

The men would kill me.

No one was safe in the Viking age. You could die from any cause at any time. It's a brutal time and a brutal environment.

Fighting, for me, is like skydiving without the parachute.

He can only get away from death by continually stepping within an inch of it.

I put my head out of my window and see how much the wind’s knife wants to slice it off. On this unseen guillotine, I’ve placed the eyeless head of all my desires.

You never know who's going to kill you until you meet them.

If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as he is dead-and-alive to begin with. A man sits as many risks as he runs.

You awful hard to kill, Anita.' 'There's a first time, Luther, and that's all it takes.

Don't go to sleep, so many people die there.

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

The only thing you want is to come back alive.

In my sport, the quick are too often listed among the dead

Russian Roulette is not the same without a gun