Quotes About Peril

Inside the half-basement, they found Wroth alongside Garreth, grappling to hold up the ceiling. The vampire's voice was incongruously calm when he asked, What kind of idiot would find this a worthy plan?

but there is no doubt they intend to kill us as dead as possible in a short time. - said the Wizard As dead as poss'ble would be pretty dead, wouldn't it? asked Dorothy. from Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz

An unsuspected enemy is doubly dangerous.

And the Lion said to Dorothy: 'We are lost, for they will surely tear us to pieces with their sharp claws. But stand close behind me, and I will fight them as long as I am alive.

Eu sei que você tem muita coragem — respondeu Oz. — Só precisa de confiança em si mesmo. Não existe criatura viva que não sinta medo quando se vê diante do perigo. A verdadeira coragem consiste em enfrentar o perigo mesmo com medo, e esse tipo de coragem você tem de sobra.

The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

I am terrified of restrictive religious doctrine, having learned from history that when men who adhere to any form of it are in control, common men like me are in peril. [The World Is My Home (1991)]

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.

Ocean into tempest wrought, To waft a feather, or to drown a fly.

Fear will kill you, said Nini Mo, faster than any bullet.

If subaltern voices are to be made visible in a fashion that parts ways with the cultural Left's humanist playbook of empathetic imaginings, a new revolutionary grammar is needed. Indeed such a grammar requires constructing new bonds of solidarity, based not on common enemies or goals but, as just underlined, loss and peril.

She had a feeling he could get into trouble in an empty room with all the doors and windows locked and one arm tied behind his back. Maybe both arms.

Skul-man!' he exclaimed as he rushed forward to shake his hand. 'Last I heard you were trapped on a dead world overrun by evil trans-dimensional superfiends!' Skulduggery nodded. 'Just got back.

We're going to get killed, aren't we?" "It looks likely. Our only hope is a surprise attack." "They're looking right at us." "Dammit.

isolation without end was a dangerous thing.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.

Knowledge is a terrible burden. It may help you, but it might also destroy you.

Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know.

Fear was the knowledge of pain, the awareness that you could be hurt, that you could die.

Beware the knowledge thou seek, for knowledge though oft light, can sow the seeds of night and reap from the darkness that ensues"- 1654

They were in a position of total ignorance and people in that position often died without being enlightened.

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

Know when to push, pull & hold your followers, lest you push them while on the edge of a cliff

Anarcharsis, on learning that the sides of a ship were four fingers thick, said that "the passengers were just that distance from death.