Quotes About Peril

In extreme danger fear feels no pity. [Lat., In summo periculo timor miericordiam non recipit.]

Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.

Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a collective disaster. Terrorism, genocide, flu, tsunamis.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

We often suffer more from our fears, than from the dangers of our situation.

The less there is of fear, the less there is of danger.

The patriots of 1776 had far more to fear from Benedict Arnold than they did King George. An enemy easily identified is much less formidable than one who marches in the uniform of an ally.

It is a basilisk unto mine eye, Kills me to look on't.

Surrendering to fear and allowing ourselves to be paralyzed by peril isn't something most of us can afford to do.

It's fear that makes a situation dangerous.

Oh, pilot! 'tis a fearful night, There's danger on the deep.

Before putting yourself in peril, it is necessary to foresee and fear it; but when one is there, nothing remains but to despise it.

Ships feare fire more then water. [Ships fear fire more than water.]

Men do not fear swords...they fear monsters.

Were the diver to think on the jaws of the shark he would never lay hands on the precious pearl.

The most dangerous enemy is that which no one fears.

There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring.

Our fears always outnumber our dangers.

Man will be the death of life yet.

As soon as there is life there is danger.

Most good things come with the risk of something bad.

Does anybody really think a guy riding a bike toward a firefight wearing a black scarf around his head and carrying a rifle slung on his back is looking for a barbershop quartet rehearsal?

Well, in the view of most Navy SEALs, the public does not have that right to know, not if it means placing our lives in unnecessary peril