Quotes About Peril

The poison of death can damage and destroy the saints.

Truly, men often fail to understand their own weaknesses," I said neutrally, "and their lack of self-knowledge can bring terrible disasters down on their own heads.

The blades touched my abdomen. A cold shock ran through me, and my head began to spin. If he had pressed just a bit harder, the scissors might have pierced my soft belly. The skin would have peeled back, the fat beneath laid bare. Blood would have dripped on the bedspread.

Why does it always feel like I'm standing on the edge of some kind of big, black pit?" "There are a lot of pits," Donovan said. "The most interesting lives are lived walking around the rims.

You are permitted in times of great danger to walk with the devil until you have crossed the bridge.

Indications, of course, are not enough. Knowledge of the time must be combined with obedience -- what social scientists like to call time discipline. The indications are in effect commands, for responsiveness to these cues is imprinted on us and we ignore them at our peril.

Fail not in this charge at your peril.

I am not the star of a zombie movie. I am the guy in the background who gets eaten in the first montage.

Like lemmings voting for steeper cliff faces

Stoker's smile was slow and terrible. 'You think that is love, brother? That I should kill for her?' He shook his head, his eyes locked with mine. 'You are the fool, Tiberius, because you still do not understand. I do not love her enough to kill for her.' He stepped to the edge of the rock. 'I love her enough to die for her.' And without another word, he disappeared over the edge of the rock and into the blackness of the sea.

In my experience it is the trouble you do not anticipate that is the most dangerous.

This is the problem with danger, isn't it? You can even be warned and ignore the warning. Danger can seem far away until the sky grows dark, and a bolt of fury heads straight toward you.

She wants to propel herself into the dark and terrifying universe. Being that unanchored and that much in peril seems preferable to being here, grounded on the earth that wrecked her.

If you have a fish intelligence, you will be easily trapped in the net.

Sacred Bands and elite squadrons aren't what the mercenaries' guild is about. Field them at your peril.

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

And yet wrong steps have to be taken sometimes lest some worse peril befall us; that is the great paradox of politics, and no man can say with surety whether present wrong-doing is better and safer in the end than the possibility of that imagined peril.

Cautious people are often criticized by those who later become victims.

For the first time in history, sex is more dangerous than the cigarette afterward.

I've always heard that by the time you see the teeth, its too late." (this quote paraphrased in several Jayne Castle books)

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.

Still people are dangerous.

Rien n'est si dangereux qu'un ignorant ami; Mieux vaudrait un sage ennemi.