Quotes About Perilous

In war all repetitions are perilous. You can do many things with impunity if you do not keep on doing them over and over again.

It is always perilous to suppose that the past is over and done with or that it can ever safely be disconnected from the pressing concerns of the present.

Horses are uncomfortable in the middle and dangerous at both ends.

Haven't you heard about me?" he said, with a tight smile. "I'm really a very dangerous person." And he did look dangerous until he said, "Look, could you watch Dog for me while I'm gone? I can't take him where I'm going.

and one letter was protruding precariously

St. Brigid's Island perched like a jagged accident above the water, all grass and rock, no beach to ease the passage of a boat, no harbor to shelter it once there. Twelve miles west of Ireland, at times nearly impossible to get to and just as deadly to try to leave. It was the whim of the wind and the swelling sea that determined who landed there and who was let go.

My brother-in-law is an African-American cop who patrols a New Orleans suburban community. He speaks to me often of his perilous duty.

Beauty is a perilous gift.

By far my most perilous assignment was covering a tank car explosion.

How can you not be involved? These are your times, your world, even if those events are on the other side of it. And as for the narrative--you are a part of that, for better or for worse, whether the grey inexorable economic inevitabilities--recessions and recoveries and having less money or more--or the grand perilous global story.

parlous state

The word I think of is precarious. I am struck by how precarious it all is. How the things that hold us are only as strong as the faith we have in them.

I instantly feel like the world has turned to glass. Every moment is delicate. Every movement is a risk.

I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.

Morgana:"Qualcuno c'è... Quel marinaio addormentato... che forse sta sognando..." Merlino:"Si... ma sta sognando a occhi aperti, e chi sogna ad occhi aperti è pericoloso perchè non sa quando finisce il sogno

Learning without thought is labor lost; and thought without learning is perilous.

If you ignore the warning signs, a tragedy awaits you ahead." - Cory Herndon

If you ignore the warning signs, a tragedy awaits you ahead.

One of my uncles was actually a sapper who cleared land mines for Anzacs, Australian soldiers, and we had to flee Vietnam. There were 40 of us on a 9-meter fishing boat. We were at sea for five days, a very perilous journey. We were attacked by pirates twice.

What is the absolute worst place in this Valley one could go? The most insanely suicidal place to be found? The place where only a great fool would venture—and only an insane fool would follow?

It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.

Confidence, of course is an admirable asset to a golfer, but it should be an unspoken confidence. It is perilous to put it into speech. The gods of golf lie in wait to chasten the presumptious.

No one can genuinely love the world, which is too large to love entire. To love all the world at once is pretense or dangerous self-delusion. Loving the world is like loving the idea of love, which is perilous because, feeling virtuous about this grand affection, you are freed from the struggles and the duties that come

Loving the world is like loving the idea of love, which is perilous because, feeling virtuous about this grand affection, you are freed from the struggles and the duties that come with loving people as individuals, with loving one place—home—above all others.