Eliot Ness Quotes

I'm not into these mollycoddled sorts of things; I like a bit of danger. I haven't got a death wish, but it makes things exciting, doesn't it?

Danger is cool.

I like walking on the edge.

I always had this thirst for excitement.

I like the edge of danger.

I do have a little danger in me, a little thrill-seeking part.

It is true that I must run a great risk; no gallant action was ever accomplished without danger.

Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.

Adventures are to the adventurous.

Sure, give me an adventure and I'll ride it.

I'm not really comfortable unless there's some kind of risk - either physical or mental.

The danger sensation is exciting. The challenge is to find new dangers.

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

I ain't trying to run away from no danger. If it's supposed to be dangerous for me, then I'm going to go and take a peek. I want to go and look and see what's so dangerous about it.

I've never seen anything that I didn't want to jump off of.

A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain, but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being.

Have I not walked without an upward look Of caution under stars that very well Might not have missed me when they shot and fell? It was a risk I had to take-and took.

Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.

Who wanted to creep along in comfort when there was one chance in a thousand of flying?

A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death.

The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death.

Excess is part of my nature. Dullness is a disease. I really need danger and excitement. I'm never scared of putting myself out on a limb.

Life has to be dangerous.

I just love that spirit that makes people do things that they probably shouldn't.

I'm so optimistic, I'd go after Moby Dick in a rowboat and take the tartar sauce with me.