Quotes About Peril

For all of nature's wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable.

Nature will kill you without a minute's thought, and in nastier ways than a crazy guy with agun. It doesn't make her any less beautiful.

I really love nature. I grew up in the country. But one of the things about nature is that it is beautiful but it's also very dangerous.

If a lion invites you home for dinner, it is you he wants to serve as a meal to his guests.

The leader of armies is the arbiter of the people's fate, the man on whom it depends whether the nation shall be in peace or in peril.

But I was used to finding something deadly in things that attracted me; there was always something deadly lurking in anything I wanted, anything I loved.

The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

The world is a dangerous place to live - not because of the people who are evil but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

Behind every wolf in sheep's clothing is a trail of dead sheep - rjs

He that seeks trouble always finds it.

The more wary you are of danger the more likely you are to meet it.

The world is a terrifying place these days. We're all operating right there on the edge of tilt, all the time. This shit can just happen. There are monsters around every corner. Pianos fall from the sky.

Unhappy Land, whose Blessings tempt the Sword. Eclogue the Fourth. Agib and Secander; or the Fugitives

America is an outstandingly dangerous place. Consider this: every year in New Hampshire a dozen or more people are killed crashing their cars into moose. Now correct me if I am wrong, but this is not something that is likely to happen to you on the way home from Sainsbury's.

This indeed makes it easy for Christ's sheep to be infected with the scab of error, because that weed which breeds the rot is so like the grass that nourisheth them.

Risk, like pornography, is difficult to define, but we think we know it when we see it.

All the pirates, and Lord Pitch's mercy, were dead in less time than it takes to sing a song.

The main thing that gets us men into dangerous situations is, well, ourselves. It's the belief, cherished in the heart of every man in the world--single and married, young and old--that he is James Bond. . . . And while most of us don't carry guns, we do have something in our pants that frequently gets us into foolhardy situations.

Tucked in safe suburban redoubts, kids who had it soft like me manufactured peril.

When there is no edge, we make our own, reaching for something that would approximate the cliché of being fully alive because we could die at any minute. That search for sensation leads to the self divorcing from the body, à la Descartes, and a life of faux peril. Everything that brought me joy involved risk.

Adventure is somebody else in deep shit, far, far away

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

What the light of your mind, which is the direct inspiration of the Almighty, pronounces incredible, that, in God's name, leave uncredited. At your peril do not try believing that!