Quotes About Peril

The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it. —Albert Einstein, theoretical physicist

Don't ever step on a driver ant. If you do, fifty million of its pals could swarm all over you. Great. That's all I need, to be attacked by ants. I'd rather be attacked by ants than by a golden poison dart frog. It has enough poison in it to kill ten grown men. In that case, I'm glad I'm not a grown man yet.

I'd rather be attacked by ants than by a golden poison dart frog. It has enough poison in it to kill ten grown men. In that case, I'm glad I'm not a grown man yet. But I bet a golden poison dart frog wouldn't want to get into a fight with a blue-ringed octopus. It's only the size of a golf ball, but it has enough venom to kill twenty-six people.

We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves.

In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.

Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.

Stories amuse; facts illuminate. Stories divert; facts reveal. Stories are for cover; facts are for real. The trouble with this view is twofold. First, as that pop quiz gave us a quick glimmer, it runs counter to how our minds actually work. Second, in the Conceptual Age, minimizing the importance of story places you in professional and personal peril.

The lie that terrorists want you to believe is that you are in immediate and great peril.

I do feel if we underestimate the viewer, it's at our own peril.

Under Lenin, hardly less than under Stalin, historians harbored critical opinions at their peril. The writing, let alone the publication, of political diaries was virtually impossible.

Adventure is just a romantic name for trouble. It sounds swell when you write about it, but it's hell when you meet it face to face in a dark and lonely place.

A lot of people don't believe in curses. A lot of people don't believe in yellow-spotted lizards either, but if one bites you, it doesn't make a difference whether you believe in it or not.

The only way to know how much you love a thing is to see it in peril of being lost.

Some things hurtled. Some slithered. But nothing good ever came out of a blind spot.

Yes, the real danger always came from the thing you couldn't see.

How close they all were, without knowing it, to disaster. All the time.

patrons. Courage must always be rewarded. The other thing Jacques remembered was looking down the long corridor as Monsieur Horowitz paused at the mosaic in the tile floor by the entrance to the Hôtel Lutetia. It was the symbol of the hotel, and also the ancient symbol of Paris. The city had originally been called Lutetia. And her emblem was a ship in peril on a stormy sea. That symbol was imbedded in the hotel floor.

How far away the shore must seem when you're on thin ice.

She was scared to death. She was killed by her beliefs. By someone taking advantage of them.

Uncertainty and danger are always closely allied, thus making any kind of an unknown world a world of peril and evil possibilities.

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

One of my mother's favorite expressions is "Life is fraught with peril.

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

O miserable minds of men! O blind hearts! In what darkness of life, in what great dangers ye spend this little span of years!