Richard Preston Quotes

I guess nothing puts a damper on a one-night stand as much as your friend pointing out all the opportunities where you might have been killed.

Some of the most vulnerable people to getting the SARS virus are health care providers. The general public, walking in the street, there is really not that much risk at all. It's a very, very low risk - a very, very low risk.

If we can contain and monitor animal viruses at an earlier stage - when they're first entering human populations, preferably before they've had a chance to become human-adapted, certainly before they've had a chance to spread - we can head off pandemics altogether.

Women in general have to think about certain things that men don't - like being safe in the street at night or something.

I'd love to explore South America, but the security issues worry me.

I'm really sorry, but I'm not prepared to jeopardize my life for the entertainment industry.

The average woman would not be pondering how fast her date could kill her, but I’ll never be an average woman.

I wouldn't call and tell anybody on him, but I'd probably move. But I'm not gonna call and be like, 'The serial killer's in 4E.'

Anyone who is aware of his environment knows that the peril of physical assault does exist, and that it exists everywhere and at all times.

I was leaving the Belfast court, where I had been called to answer a very flimsy charge, later dismissed. You're relatively safe in such areas in the Irish community, but to go to downtown Belfast for me is dangerous. My appearance in court had been well advertised by the police. I think it was too much of a coincidence that the people who shot me were just passing by.

Obviously this person's a hazard. Stupid people are dangerous.

Actually, [Wax] said, we came here because we needed someplace safe to think for a few hours." Ranette: "Your mansion isn't safe?" Wax: "My butler failed to poison me, then tried to shoot me, then set off an explosive in my study" Ranette: "Huh.... You need to screen these people better, Wax.

Many young people are not having safe sex because they think medicines will make everything okay. The thing about these medicines is that you often have to take them your whole life. They can be very aggressive chemicals for your body. Just because you don't hear of as many people around you dying from HIV/AIDS - just like how it was in the '80s and '90s - you can still die. I'd say to someone who's very young to protect themselves and protect their lives. There's nothing safer than not catching this virus. It's having something that never goes out of your system.

People who feel safer with a gun than with guaranteed medical insurance don't yet have a fully adult concept of scary.

sleepin with strangers will have you waking with enemies!

I wonder if it's like this for mountain climbers, he thought. You climb bigger and bigger mountains and you know that one day one of them is going to be just that bit too steep. But you go on doing it, because it’s so-o good when you breathe the air up there. And you know you'll die falling.

Hitchhiking, intrinsically, is sexual and dangerous. At the same time I never really felt scared. I was scared that nobody would pick me up and that I'd be waiting by the side of the road for a week.

Security is the slogan for people who feel unable to function by their own means.

Everything is removed. You're actually doing something dangerous when you get in your car, when you're getting on an airplane, or having sex.

I think a high school girl hitchhiking is stupid. It was dangerous then and it's dangerous now.

People change their habits. I know Americans who don't go to Paris because they think it is too dangerous.

There's one thing you don't put in a trap, if you're smart, if you value your continued existance, if you have any plans about seeing tomorrow, there is one thing you never ever put in a trap. And what would that be sir? Me

There were worse things than dying, and those worse things happened to the people you left behind.

I'm pretty conservative on a lot of things. I don't want to get hurt.