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Quotes About Perilous

The Master said, "Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous." The Master said, "The study of strange doctrines is injurious indeed!"               The Master said, "Yu, shall I teach you what knowledge is? When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it;-this is knowledge.
~ Confucius
Carmen Cardoso acreditava no conto de fadas mais perigoso de todos: o do príncipe que a salvaria.
~ Cornelia Funke
Love is a deadly affair.
~ Cornelia Funke
Human love, human trust, are always perilous, because they break down. The greater the love, the greater the trust, and the greater the peril, the greater the disaster. Because to place absolute trust on another human being is in itself a disaster, both ways, since each human being is a ship that must sail its own course, even if it go in company with another ship.... And yet, love is the greatest thing between human beings.
~ D H Lawrence
Fell luxury! more perilous to youth Than storms or quicksands, poverty of chains.
~ Hannah More
Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
~ Hannah More
He no longer lives in years; he is down to seasons. Finally it will become single nights, each one perilous as a lunar journey. He
~ James Salter
Keith 'One Time' Thurman is a dangerous man.
~ Keith Thurman
The fact that pigs were abroad in the night seemed to bring home to me the perilous nature of my enterprise.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
To make decisions while infuriated is as unwise and foolish as it is for a captain to put out to sea in a raging storm.
~ ElRay L. Christiansen
Order is simply a thin, perilous condition we try to impose on the basic reality of chaos.
~ William Gaddis
Life itself is a rickety building
~ William Golding
Schmal-der schmalste Weg den wir kennen, ist der auf der Schneide eines Messers...
~ Heinrich Boll
To love is for the Soul to choose a companion, and travel with it along the perilous defiles and winding ways of life; mutually sustaining, when it is rugged with obstructions, and mutually rejoicing, when rich broad plains and sunny slopes make journeying delight.
~ lewes george henry iii
It was then that the Room, like a great ship, put out to sea. Higher the waves, wider the horizons, rarer, more perilous, the cargo. In their strange world of childhood, of action in inaction, as in the waking dream of opium eaters, to stay becalmed could be as dangerous as to advance at breakneck speed.
~ Jean Cocteau
I do not run for the presidency merely to oppose any man, but to propose new policies. I run because I am convinced that this country is on a perilous course and because I have such strong feelings about what must be done, and I feel that I'm obliged to do all I can.
~ Robert Kennedy
Like unmixed wine, the dictatorship had a taste that was intoxicating and perilous.
~ Tom Holland
That sounds super dangerous! Touch me not — or you will DIE!
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Quite clearly. Also a few where you die tomorrow. Actually the next couple of months are quite perilous for you altogether.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
I do not like to sound discontented neither,' said Pullings, 'nor to crab any ship I belong to; but between you and me, Doctor, between you and me, she is more what we call a floating coffin than a ship.
~ Patrick O'Brian
It would be strange if the weather-gage had to be explained to so old a sea-dog; though I must confess that there was a time when I confused it with that thing which creaks on the roof, showing which way the wind is blowing. Yet could you not obtain this valuable gage by some less arduous means than running a hundred miles and hiding behind a more or less mythical island which no one has ever seen, and that in the dark, a perilous proceeding if ever there was one?
~ Patrick O'Brian
If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
O! That way madness lies.
~ William Shakespeare
Canst thou not... Raze out the written troubles of the brain And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous Stuff Which weights upon the heart?
~ William Shakespeare