Quotes About Peril

Well one tiny poisonous spider can kill a very large man if it bites him in the right place.

I'm an unabashed elitist. Everyone needs a good editor, and there is peril in worshiping amateurism and the unedited in science, art, and journalism.

A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up.

Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.

I look down from the branch I'm perched on. The Careers look murderous. Now I smile.'How have things been with you?' I ask sweetly.

and it occurs to me how fragile our lives are, how at any moment the sky can open and drown us, the earth can open and swallow us. I think of all the intricate ways our bodies can betray us, the accidents and the atrocities, the missteps and the misunderstandings.

Luke, I don't want to discourage your curiosity, but I have to remind you, if something goes wrong, this is an exceptionally embarrassing way to die.

One traveler to the Congo came on a deserted town where a fifteen-foot boa constrictor was dining on smallpox victims' flesh, and on another where the vultures were so gorged that they were too heavy to fly.

Fire became an enemy only if you couldn't move.

Yet the insidious guile of god—what mortal man can escape it? Who with agile foot can lightly overleap and escape its toils?

I don't think it's much use your looking for the brains: a creature who twice walked into a lions den can't have got any.

Danger sometimes comes from a source that is least suspected.

I've always believed that it's possible to discern true statements from false statements, and that it's critically important to do so, and that we put our entire democratic experiment in peril when we don't. It's a lesson I fear our nation is about to learn the hard way. That's

If she let go or otherwise lost her grip, of course, it would solve all her problems. Permanently.

Han Solo," came the clipped voice of the gang leader, "you are a dead man.

Quatermain (while climbing down): We are above an abyss such as satan's own, Miss Murray.Pray not to look down. Mina: And you, Sir, should not look up.You have me at a disadvantage and I trust you'll not misuse our situation.

this is going to be dangerous, I can't make any of you come with me on this one. Questions" Everybody put their hands up "Sorry", Skulduggery said, "I meant 'volunteers'. Thank you

Russian Roulette should not, under any circumstances, be copied. It is extremely dangerous.

Unicorns are man-eating monsters. They don't have wings, they aren't lavender or sparkly, and you could never catch one to ride without its goring you through the sternum. And even if it somehow managed to miss your major arteries-and it never misses-you'd still die from the deadly poison in its horn.

You got a problem?" "Aside from the fact that we are about to die? No. But I want to say thank you before it is too late.

Odds were in favor of you dying, either by running into Tyet operations, by starvation or thirst, or by Mother Nature giving you a stone spanking.

He narrowly avoided tragedy by dying.

Do we need neighborhood public schools? I believe we do ... For more than a century, they have been an essential element of our democratic institutions. We abandon them at our peril.

A fogged brain puts everyone in danger.