Quotes About Perilous

The smallness of the school, the fewness of rivals, permitted her to experiment with her perilous versatility.

Stupidity is relatively harmless, but intelligent stupidity is highly dangerous

An investigative report by the BBC in July 2007 found that thousands of young Egyptian men try to enter Europe illegally every year. Sometimes they set sail from the Egyptian coast aboard fishing boats run by people smugglers. Mostly, though, they undertake the perilous crossing to Italy from neighboring Libya, a country they do not need a visa to visit.

If the role of an honest woman were nothing more than perilous ... I would admit that it would serve. But it is tiresome; and I have never met a virtuous woman who did not think about deceiving somebody.

As for man, there is little reason to think that he can in the long run escape the fate of other creatures, and if there is a biological law of flux and reflux, his situation is now a highly perilous one. During ten thousand years his numbers have been on the upgrade in spite of wars, pestilences, and famines. This increase in population has become more and more rapid. Biologically, man has for too long a time been rolling an uninterrupted run of sevens.

Well aware that to bring the voice of sober reason to bear upon the exaggerations of agitated females was both fruitless and perilous, Freddy wisely let this pass...

There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.

Alone among the great movie stars, Wayne dared to show us the most perilous as well as the most moving of the seven ages of man. As Randy Roberts and James Olson pointed out, "He was so American, so like his country—big, bold, confident, powerful, loud, violent and occasionally overbearing, but simultaneously forgiving, gentle, innocent, and naive. . . . John Wayne was his country's alter ego.

How perilous is it to choose not to love the life we're shown?

Margaret Thatcher was a great leader for her nation at a pivotal and a perilous time. So, I find the comparison flattering, but that's up to others to say whether that comparison is justified.

He sensed she was drifting on a tide that neither he nor she could do much about. He couldn't tell whether her restlessness, her compulsive and increasingly unsafe wandering through the city, marked the onset of an unsoundness of mind or an acute, perilous kind of sanity. Or were they both the same thing?

Granted, many of them were indistinguishable blobs in my alcoholic smear of a social life, but I knew how the mind lulled you into a state of perilous complacency when all you had was a personality and a disassociated voice. Meeting

I was once told by someone wise that writing is perilous as you cannot always guarantee your words will be read in the spirit in which they were written.

was once told by someone wise that writing is perilous as you cannot always guarantee your words will be read in the spirit in which they were written.

I was once told by someone wise that writing is perilous, as you can't always guarantee your words will be read in the spirit in which they were written.

Of course, if we've learned anything, it's how dangerous that fragile masculinity can be.)

The path was so narrow, and the drop so steep, that I was sure I would fall if I released my grip.

was a dream project for Tesla, and Westinghouse was awarded the contract. Construction began immediately, and Tesla would oversee it. Progress was slow. The project was perilous and fraught with

the townhouses looked bedraggled, unkempt, like an old homeless woman with an interesting history but a perilous future.

We grew into that perilous place: we grew fond.

Presumptions of a lifetime are perilous things to overturn. Presumptions of many lifetimes, in this case." Of all lifetimes ever lived, in this case. Every person in history must have placed himself at the head of a Creator's table. To see that table overturned, cutlery and china dashed to the floor, one's very place lost, was to witness the sky falling. Thatcher hadn't fully considered Darwin in such threatening light.

That smile was dangerous, she thought - a quicksand smile if ever there was one. Easy to wander in; perhaps more difficult to wander back out.

What could possibly be worse?" Cruz asked. "A mission where you have to blow up a Death Star while being attacked by two Borg Cubes inside an asteroid field?

It was clear, for example, in 1988 that the political process had already become perilously remote from the electorate it was meant to represent.