Quotes About Peril

She also had this friend named The Asp, who whenever she was really in a tight spot would just show up and cut everybody's head off.

All the way from Chiapas to Chihuahua, they cling to the tops of the cars. The train has earned the name La Bestia because that journey is a mission of terror in every way imaginable. Violence and kidnapping are endemic along the tracks, and apart from the criminal dangers, migrants are also maimed or killed every day when they fall from the tops of the trains. Only the poorest and most destitute of people attempt to travel this way.

into tremendous peril, risking their very lives, all for the chance to get to the dream of some faraway country that doesn't even want them.

Don't kill her now, just when we've gone to all that trouble to rescue her," said Jeffrey.

I lived in a world that at any moment could erupt into fire. It was the sort of knowledge that kept you on your toes.

A woman is at her greatest peril in the presence of a beautiful man.

WILDERNESS SURVIVAL TIP! Ninety-seven percent of our nation's ponds are filled to the top with piranha, which can skeletonize a cow in seconds. If you value your cow, don't shove it into a pond.

Are you sure we can trust him?" I ask. "How do we know he's not an axe-murderer?" "I hope he is. Axe-murdering would be a useful skill.

At every step, white signs with black skulls looked down on us. The inscription: WARNING! DANGER OF DEATH. What irony. Was there here a single place where one was not in danger of death?

this method? Yeah, sure. It works great. Till it kills you.

at the time there were moments of extreme discomfort; but the adventure, the danger, the exhilaration of doubt and peril are in retrospect something I rather regret having lost.

Environmental history is, among other things, a lengthy account of human beings over and over imagining their way into a serious pickle.

The encircling ice fouled the oars, and collisions were unavoidable

The sight . . . is enough to make a landsman dream for a week about death, peril and shipwreck.

The rollers that raced shoreward were perhaps 40 feet high, maybe more.

in that single glimpse they saw to their terror that they were only a short distance outside the line of breakers

unsuspectingly around the ice hummock to his death with his tail wagging.

The kiss of death.

Surely the likeness of this world is that of a snake: it is soft to touch, and deadly poisonous. The ignorant child is distracted by it, and the one with understanding and intellect is cautious of it. So turn away from what fascinates you in it, for how little of it stays with you.

Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.

Liberation for who does not have a shack and freedom for who does not know how to live is fatal.

Well, Hem, all's well that ends well, but it almost ended very badly. Almost in disaster." Hem looked down, and his cheeks flushed. Cadvan patted his shoulder. "I forgive you for almost getting us killed, or worse," he said.

Never turn yer back on the sea, and remember what's hidden beneath her is always more deadly than what's in plain sight.

She had the best kind of courage, or maybe the worst kind, the kind that gets you into trouble.