Quotes About Peril

Does the universe hate us? How many pitfalls lie ahead, waiting to shred our conceited molecule-clusters back into unthinking dust? Shall we count them?

Te Occidere Possunt Sed Te Edere Non Possunt Nefas Est (Roughly, 'They can kill you, but the legalities of eating you are quite a bit dicier').

Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye Than twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet, And I am proof against their enmity.

You speak like a green girl / unsifted in such perilous circumstances.

How now? Even so quickly may one catch the plague?

Where we are, There's daggers in men's smiles: the near in blood, The nearer bloody.

As you all know, Security Is Mortals chiefest Enemy.

O momentary grace of mortal men, Which we more hunt for than the grace of God! Who builds his hopes in air of your good looks, Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, Ready, with every nod, to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep.

A lot of the literature available concerning depression is, as I say, breezily optimistic, spreading assurances that nearly all depressive states will be stabilized or reversed if only the suitable antidepressant can be found; the reader is of course easily swayed by promises of quick remedy...I am hardly able to believe that I possessed such ingenuous hope, or that I could have been so unaware of the trouble and peril that lay ahead.

like some unholy bird of prey was swooping down on him. Preacher saw the

They said it was only a ground shark; but I was not wholly reassured. It is as bad to be eaten by a ground shark as by any other.

A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.

There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away… people can face peril or misfortune with fortitude and buoyancy, but they bitterly resent being deceived or finding that those responsible for their affairs are themselves dwelling in a fool's paradise.

Early in 1193, at a moment already full of peril, the grave news reached England that the King was prisoner "somewhere in Germany". There was general and well-founded consternation among the loyal bulk of his subjects. John declared that Richard was dead, appeared in arms, and claimed the crown. That England was held for Richard in his long absence against all these powerful and subtle forces is a proof of the loyalties of the feudal age.

I saw quite plainly that Communism would be the peril civilisation would have to face after the defeat of Nazism and Fascism.

Mankind has never been in this position before. Without having improved appreciably in virtue or enjoying wiser guidance, it has got into its hands for the first time the tools by which it can unfailingly accomplish its own extermination.

I never had any doubts about it, for I saw quite plainly that Communism would be the peril civilisation would have to face after the defeat of Nazism and Fascism.

the one most awful thing in war is 'the careful man'!

Only Finland—superb, nay sublime—in the jaws of peril—Finland shows what free men can do.

My children, it is permitted you in time of grave danger to walk with the devil until you have crossed the bridge.

In these lands you're a name to avoid, you're bound for defeat, you're a sign pointing out those who must be destroyed.   At

Dojela sem tudi, da je ljubezen do ?loveštva zelo nevarno ?ustvo, ker najpogosteje vodi v nasilno osre?evanje ljudi.

Estar en casa es tremendamente peligroso. A cada paso que damos hay peligro de muerte o mutilación. Incluso me atrevería a decir que cuantas más comodidades civilizadoras guardamos en casa, mayores son las posibilidades de que nos suceda una catástrofe. Vivir en una caverna era más seguro que todo eso, claro, siempre y cuando no irrumpiera en ella un tigre dientes de sable en ausencia de la gente que se encargaba de cazar.

There are many ways in which life's little candle can be snuffed out. A cold wind pursues us all.