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Quotes About Peril

a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he's not careful.
~ Yann Martel
Give me four days. If I'm not back in four days you'll know I'm dead. For that only shall keep me. Oh! Bess, I'll come back. There's danger—I wouldn't lie to you—but I can take care of myself.
~ Zane Grey
They passed a dead man in a sitting position on a hummock, entirely surrounded by wild animals and snakes. Common danger made common friends. Nothing sought a conquest over the other.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
I nearly got killed in a film, 'Patthar Ke Insaan.' I nearly lost my eyes another time and have been in many accidents in my career.
~ Jackie Shroff
I am not free because I can be exploded anytime.
~ Jenny Holzer
But if the woman is young and pretty, if she enters a house in one of those streets, if the house has a long, dark, damp, and evil-smelling passage-way, at the end of which flickers the pallid gleam of an oil lamp, and if beneath that gleam appears the horrid face of a withered old woman with fleshless fingers, ah, then! and we say it in the interests of young and pretty women, that woman is lost. She is at the mercy of the first man of her acquaintance who sees her in that Parisian slough.
~ Honore de Balzac
The neck which was short and thick, seemed to tempt the axe.
~ Honore de Balzac
About a league out of Pouilly the coach was overturned. My luckless comrade, thinking to save himself, jumped to the edge of a newly-ploughed field, instead of following the fortunes of the vehicle and clinging tightly to the roof, as I did. He either miscalculated in some way, or he slipped; how it happened, I do not know, but the coach fell over upon him, and he was crushed under it.
~ Honore de Balzac
Mad folks are often as dangerous as bad ones.
~ Unknown
Who can hope to be safe? who sufficiently cautious? Guard himself as he may, every moment's an ambush.
~ Horace
Love of novelties has been the shipwreck of many a soul.
~ Horatius Bonar
Death and disaster are at our shoulders every second of our lives, trying to get at us. Missing, a lot of the time. A lot of miles on the motorway without a front wheel blow-out. A lot of viruses that slither through our bodies without snagging. A lot of pianos that fall a minute after we've passed. Or a month, it makes no difference. So unless we're going to get down on our knees and give thanks every time disaster misses, it makes no sense to moan when it strikes.
~ Hugh Laurie
Lieutenant Jokai Chuma in I-27's midget was first to reach the Heads and at 8 p.m. crossed the indicator loop undetected by following close behind ferries and other traffic. A few minutes later, however, the midget's propeller became entangled in the torpedo net near the West Gate and she became hopelessly trapped like a fly in a spider web.
~ Unknown
You may be able to get the bone down your throat But if it reaches your stomach it will tear your navel. (Gulistan)
~ Idries Shah
Demasiada amabilidad para con el zorro podría significar la perdición para el conejo.
~ Idries Shah
STUPEFYING Fair as a bride is the world. But beware — For none may marry this stupefying one. (Anwar-i -Suhaili)
~ Idries Shah
To think is wondrous, but to constantly repeat such, is dangerous.
~ Unknown
A knowledge isn't dangerous. Only the man is dangerous.
~ Conn Iggulden
As he prepared to ride on, he chuckled at the thought of the wolf entering the sheepfold. He would not ride with fire and destruction. The shepherd did not frighten his own pretty lambs.
~ Conn Iggulden
And the next time a pretty girl looks twice at you, start running. They're more trouble than they're worth.
~ Conn Iggulden
If you ignore the warning signs, a tragedy awaits you ahead." - Cory Herndon
~ Unknown
If you ignore the warning signs, a tragedy awaits you ahead.
~ Unknown
But sometimes, the things you wanted most were the things that would destroy you.
~ Unknown
Men! The only animal in the world to fear.
~ D. H. Lawrence