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Quotes About Perilous

Humans are inscrutable. Infinitely unpredictable. This is what makes them dangerous.
~ Daniel H. Wilson
These are dangerous times and dangerous people. We need all the help we can get.
~ Louise Penny
Even reloading a camera became difficult—and dangerous," says Johnson. "Acetate film becomes brittle in cold weather, and the edges are razor-sharp. Try loading frozen film into a camera during a howling blizzard with ice and snow particles trying to blast their way into the camera!
~ J.W. Rinzler
Talkativeness and charm are both, as is well-known, characteristics somewhat feminine; and they often add up to guile. Certainly there was a strong streak of the female in Roosevelt, though this is not to disparage his essential masculinity. Confidence in his own charm led him into occasional perilous adventures—almost as a woman may be persuaded with a long series of glittering successes behind her, to think she is irresistible forever and can win anybody's scalp.
~ John Gunther
The same that oft-times hath charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam of perilous seas, in fairy lands forlorn.
~ John Keats
Sexy and deadly, just the way I like them.
~ Mandy M. Roth
This was a far more perilous proposition than it had been on his first visit,
~ Unknown
Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.
~ Confucius
Why is a little artistic enthusiasm a perilous mistake? Because artists are more dangerous than murderers. The most prolific serial killer might have dozens of victims, but poets can lay low entire generations.
~ Marcus Sakey
Esos miedos que inventamos son los más peligrosos. De esos tenés que libarte, y con urgencia, porque los miedos que inventamos son los únicos que nos pueden enloquecer.
~ Mario Benedetti
Galadriel gives each of the companions a gift before they leave Lothlorien, but it may be that her greatest and most perilous gift was given upon their first meeting. Temptation, succesfully overcome, strengthens the will, but succumbing to temptation, even in thought, leads to evil
~ Unknown
Changelings inhabit a world filled perilous adventure, nightmarish monsters, and legendary treasures.
~ Unknown
Thy kingdom come, that Thou rule us, and not: we ourselves," for there is nothing more perilous in us than our reason and will.
~ Martin Luther
You think we're going to turn you over to the law?" he said. "Oh, no, we're much more dangerous than that.
~ Matt Forbeck
Total fame was when you reached the point where looking like a hero, or genius, or god, required minimal effort. But the flipside was that it was precarious. It could be equally easy to fall and look like a devil or a villain, or just an arse.
~ Matt Haig
Finding one's way through the Hedge even in a familar area, is perilous. The Hedge does not remain constant, and paths become overgrown, impassable, or simply misleading if left untended and untrod for too long.
~ Unknown
And it is because we all of us know of this sombre power and its perilous manifestations, that we stand in so deep a dread of silence. We can bear, when need must be, the silence of ourselves, that of isolation: but the silence of many - silence multiplied - and above all the silence of a crowd - these are supernatural burdens, whose inexplicable weight brings dread to the mightiest soul.
~ Maurice Maeterlinck
any society or government that relies too heavily on technology will find itself perched perilously on a crumbling precipice over the valley of death and destruction.
~ Unknown
I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.
~ Michelle Shocked
Um porto é um lugar perigoso para os jovens porque quase sempre são vítimas de um vírus fatal, o do amor".
~ Unknown
Hope is a perilous thing, Quinn.
~ Monica Wood
My men and women are loyal and will fight to the bloody end," he said, his broad shoulders holding the weight of a staggering number of lives, "but I'm afraid I am about to lead them into certain death.
~ Nalini Singh
Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies
~ Unknown
Even though we are peripheral to the slavery, our action is necessary to overcome a horrific evil.
~ Nicholas D. Kristof