Quotes About Peril

But no matter how much planning you do, one tiny miscalculation, one moment of distraction, can end it all in an instant.

I think my work is influenced by the fact that we're living in dangerous times. If I could put it in a sentence, in fact, my work is about just that: living in dangerous times.

The work you are treating is one full of dangerous hazard, and you are treading over fires lurking beneath treacherous ashes.

On the steps is a machine-gun ready for action. The square is empty; only the streets that lead into it are jammed with people. It would be madness to go farther - the machine-gun is covering the square.

I have seen streets where someone said it's all fine, and then it was full of land mines.

The border crossing is the most dangerous moment for anyone attempting to escape. But my brother and mother had been waved off by every armed border guard along that stretch of the river.

We managed to get underway, and I don't know to this day why we didn't get struck or take a torpedo, but we didn't. We got outside of the exit of the harbor and we started dropping depth charges.

The thing that always struck me about 'Jonny Quest' is: What kind of parent brings his kid to the Amazon so that yetis can throw boulders at him?

If the hoods don't get you, the monoxide will.

this fails—then woe to Europe!

The railroad, for instance, was "an unnatural impetus to society," one journalist concluded, that would "destroy all the relations that exist between man and man, overthrow all mercantile regulation, and create, at the peril of life, all sorts of confusion and distress.

Welcome to the real world, Mother Robot, a beautiful and dangerous place. Now you can truly begin to live.

Boy finds treasure, plummets to his death. Great story. It

Oooh," Peril said, momentarily distracted by the idea of an enchanted piece of cheese.

Something is coming to shake the earth. Something is coming to scorch the ground. Jade Mountain will fall beneath thunder and ice, unless the lost city of night can be found.

What kind of sigh was that? Peril wondered. Was it an "I wish I were alone with Peril" sigh? Or a "worried about my students" sigh? Knowing Clay, it could also be a "we're all out of goats and I really wanted one" sigh.

I don't have an evil plan!" said Peril, panicking. "All my evil is spur of the moment! Turtle, tell them how bad I am at planning.

Ah. That's infinitely better," he said. "Nice to finally meet you, Peril. Thank you so much for your help.

Peril thought her mother was dead. How would she react when she found out it was Kestrel — and she was still alive?

Holy mother of lava, Deathbringer thought. I'm supposed to kill THAT? Commander

Turtle yelling "AAAH!" and leaping backward as the stick he'd poked her with burst into flames. Peril stretched, yawning. "Well, what did you think was going to happen?

Summary: Peril is possibly the most dangerous dragon in Pyrrhia, because she has firescales that can kill an opponent with a touch, but now she has a mission — find her former queen, Scarlet, who is threatening the Jade Mountain Academy, and then stop her, and she is not sure if the persistent SeaWing, Turtle, who is accompanying her will be a help or a hindrance. ISBN

Greetings, Queen of the RainWings!" Starflight said grandly. He swept his wings out and bowed low. "Ooooo," the queen said again. "We have come to you despite great peril, in a time of crisis, to throw ourselves upon your merciful —" "We need your help," Tsunami said.

can do that!" Peril said cheerfully. "I'll practice my menacing face right now. Rrrrgh. Hrrgrrrmbrrgh. Rrrroarrrrg." "You sound like you're digesting an overweight grizzly bear," Scarlet commented acidly.