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Quotes About Peril

The roof might fall in; anything could happen.
~ Dashiell Hammett
Australia is not a safe place.
~ Mahathir Mohamad
To save all we must risk all.
~ Friedrich Schiller
We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
~ Aesop
Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
~ Tertullian
He couldn't be bothered to work out the acceleration of free-falling bodies that gained weight with each meter, but down the length of the spoke he was pretty sure they all ended in splat.
~ Peter Watts
The risks involved in the pursuit of magic are--put simply--either getting frightened by unpleasant perceptions or becoming deluded. Unfortunately it is possible to suffer from both symptoms at the same time.
~ Philip Carr-Gomm
In one sense, all threats to your life are equivalent, since ultimately, such dangers lead to death, which is an absolute. One can be dead but not "deader." Threats
~ Philip G. Zimbardo
We're all in danger.
~ Pier Paolo Pasolini
Danger breeds best on too much confidence.
~ Pierre Corneille
There are millions of ways for people to die, if you number each vital organ, each ways it can fail, all the poisons from the earth and the sea which can cause these failures.
~ Steven Brust
I'm at one with Ed Miliband in saying that it's important that people have the right to express their democratic voices and also their deep concerns about climate change because we have a planet in peril.
~ Douglas Alexander
Going public today is fraught with peril on many levels. One is earnings guidance. If you miss guidance, the stock price becomes very volatile. Short sellers can put a tremendous downward pressure on the stock.
~ Ben Horowitz
But then suddenly there was no place higher to go. I felt my cracked lips stretch into a painful grin. I was on top of the Devil's Thumb. Fittingly, the summit was a surreal, malevolent place, an improbably slender wedge of rock and rime no wider than a file cabinet. It did not encourage loitering. As I straddled the highest point, the south face fell away beneath my right boot for twenty-five hundred feet; beneath my left boot the north face dropped twice that distance.
~ Jon Krakauer
With so many incompetent people on the mountain," Rob said with a frown one evening in late April, "I think it's pretty unlikely that we'll get through this season without something bad happening up high.
~ Jon Krakauer
This forms the nub of a dilemma that every Everest climber eventually comes up against: in order to succeed you must be exceedingly driven, but if you're too driven you're likely to die.
~ Jon Krakauer
Boredom presents a very real, if insidious, peril.
~ Jon Krakauer
When the boy headed off into the Alaska bush, he entertained no illusions that he was trekking into a land of milk and honey; peril, adversity, and Tolstoyan renunciation were precisely what he was seeking. And that is what he found, in abundance.
~ Jon Krakauer
Volare non è mai pericoloso, Michael Davvero? Davvero. E' schiantarsi che è pericoloso
~ Jonathan Coe
Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
~ Jonathan Edwards
there were so many different ways to die, and I just need to know which was his.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Little was known, which made what little was known terrifying.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
A sixth sense warned her that she was striking a Faustian bargain. Odd, since she wasn't sure what a Faustian bargain was. But it was something not to be taken lightly. She knew that.
~ A. Lee Martinez
That's what Jagulars always do," said Pooh, much interested. "They call 'Help! Help!' and then when you look up, they drop on you." "I'm looking down," cried Piglet loudly, so as the Jagular shouldn't do the wrong thing by accident.
~ A.A. Milne