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Quotes About Perilous

Deep and liquid markets in a country's domestic economy are the essential shock absorbers through which the perilous waters of international financial integration can be navigated.
~ Bibek Debroy
Exham Priory itself I saw without emotion, a jumble of tottering mediaeval ruins covered with lichens and honeycombed with rooks' nests, perched perilously upon a precipice, and denuded of floors or other interior features save the stone walls of the separate towers.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Life is but a day; A fragile dewdrop on its perilous way From a tree's summit.
~ John Keats
Danger has been a part of my life ever since I picked up a pen and wrote. Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies.
~ Nawal El Saadawi
But I can only pray ardently that Fortune walks with you, that you discover hitherto unimagined strength in yourself and encounter unexpected friends along this perilous path that you must now tread.
~ Sherry Thomas
The rediscovery of taste was as perilous as he'd feared it would be, rousing other dormant, dangerous longings for everything he did not have, everything he'd hoped to hold dear and could not. Her, of course; her always.
~ Sherry Thomas
Ma non dovete adombrarvi: gli sciocchi fanno parte della vita come gli alberi e la terra, ma ricordate, siate attenta e prudente, perché gli sciocchi sono dannatamente pericolosi. Sapete la differenza tra uno sciocco e un malvagio, piccola principessa?" Questa volta Chiara si lasciò scappare un cenno di diniego. "I malvagi ci danneggiano per ricavarne un guadagno. Gli sciocchi ci danneggiano senza alcun profitto. E' possibile trattare con i malvagi, non con gli idioti.
~ Silvana de Mari
The mind of the most rational among us may be compared to a stormy ocean of passionate convictions based on desire, upon which float perilously a few tiny boats carrying a cargo of scientifically tested beliefs.
~ Bertrand Russell
he'd set a perilous chain of events in motion:
~ Sue Monk Kidd
You bloody fool," he swore. "Do you have any idea how dangerous it is in the world for a woman alone?" "Er, yes," she managed. "Actually, I do.
~ Julia Quinn
By expediting the use of the 1619 Project, our schools are coming perilously close to cementing existing inequality, rather than giving kids the chance to escape it.
~ Tommy Tuberville
Não havia qualquer dúvida que, se ele me tivesse batido diretamente na roda, eu teria sido projetado para debaixo do carro e atropelado. Poderia muito bem ter morrido. Tínhamos passado pelas mais terríveis condições rodoviárias do mundo e acabáramos por ter o nosso primeiro acidente numa estrada canadiana…
~ Ewan McGregor
Once you believe that you are infallible, that success will automatically lead to more success, and that you have "got it made," reality will be sure to give you a rude wake-up call. Believing your own bullshit is always a perilous activity, but never more fatal than for the owner of a start-up venture.
~ Felix Dennis
The road to Hades is easy to travel.
~ BION
Thus the social order overthrown by a revolution is almost always better than the one immediately preceding it, and experience teaches us that, generally speaking, the most perilous moment for a bad government is one when it seeks to mend its ways.
~ Bob Blaisdell
The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny, and that's why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright.
~ Alain Badiou
Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies.
~ Nawal El Saadawi
It is perilously easy to have amazing sympathy with God's truth and remain in sin.
~ Oswald Chambers
THE CHOICE, BY BOTH PALESTINIANS AND ISRAELI JEWS, TO TRUST ONE another is perilous. Day after day, the mechanisms of life under occupation succeed in their aim: to disavow the possibility of commonality and coexistence. There
~ Michael Chabon
There is a problem with that island. It is an accident waiting to happen.
~ Michael Crichton
teetering on toothpicks. From the depths of the barrel emerged sounds so clotted and guttural that, when you first heard them, you did not recognize them as
~ Michael Lewis
Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go looking for it, and I think it can often be poisonous.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
Pompeo said it was turning in a direction that was perilous for the republic. "We've got to stand shoulder to shoulder," Pompeo said. "We're the last of the Mohicans.
~ Bob Woodward
In the world of the Machiguenga, sadness could be equated with anger, and anger was a perilous emotion, by which a foreigner could lose his life.
~ Tahir Shah