Immediate Danger Quotes

If your Soviet neighbor is trying to set fire to your house, you can't be worrying about the Arab down the block. If suddenly it's the Arab in your backyard , you can't be worrying about the People's Republic of China and if one day the ChiComs show up at your front door with an eviction notice in one hand and a Molotov cocktail in the other, then the last thing you're going do is look over his shoulder for a walking corpse.

At the time, I was living pretty close to Ground Zero. I had to grab some necessary equipment, put it in my backpack, and flee the immediate proximity on my bike.

There is a serious, immediate and extraordinarily grave threat to the continued existence of this country.

A man who discovers his pants are on fire tends to have very little time to worry about somebody else's box of matches

A woman is seldom roused to great and courageous exertion but when something most dear to her is in immediate danger.

The nature of human beings is that they'd far rather face the disaster that is happening tonight than the one that is happening tomorrow.

I do think that procrastination evolved in humans for good reasons. If you're trying to stay alive as a human being on the savanna 20,000 years ago, worrying about what's right behind that bush is a lot more important than worrying about what might happen three weeks from now.