Quotes About Peril

There are almost no sports within which mortal accidents are not a reality.

The people who would destroy themselves would be dangerous to others.

The French phrase "femme fatale" literally means "deadly woman," which understates the human embodiment of lust and peril, that intoxicating allure of sex and death that makes these creatures so fascinating. The femme fatale is a sleek and sensuous creature, dangerous either physically or emotionally to her victims.

And the most dangerous place on earth— Is where you're safe.

Since Lake Erie water can eat through a human body in under three minutes, a wood or aluminum boat in ten and a steel hull in twenty-five, this resort couldn't offer much by way of the usual swimming and boating

I had my nearest and most intimate glimpses of the presence of my Lord in those dread moments when musket, club or spear was being levelled at my life.

The key to life is balance, especially if you are on a ledge.

The sustaining of life, in a bodily sense as well as in the sense of psychological health, is inherently subject to risk.

Everything in life is a risk! I mean, you walk out onto the street and it's a risk! Don't you think?

Life is a picnic on a precipice.

Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one's eternal peril.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Maybe, she thought, everyone was only ever two feet from disaster, and it was luck, not fundamental goodness, that made all the difference.

He wore his anger like knives, and you didn't want them aimed at you.

I abducted Princess Petunia last week. I didn't harm her; I delivered her to the Grand Duchess Volenskaya, but now she is in terrible danger," he said.

You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone.

Bu nas?l oldu? Nas?l oldu da, insano?lu, do?aya kar?? kazand??? utkunun doru?undayken, kendi yaratt??? ?eylerin tutsa?? haline geldi, nas?l oldu da, ciddi olarak kendi kendini yok etme tehlikesiyle kar?? kar??ya kald??

Der Autor (...) sieht, daß die Zeitgenossen, störrisch wie die Esel, rückwärts laufen, einem klaffenden Abgrund entgegen, in dem Platz für sämtliche Völker Europas ist. Und so ruft er, wie eine Reihe Anderer vor ihm und außer ihm: Achtung, beim Absturz linke Hand am linken Griff!

No soldier outlives a thousand chances.

Jednostavna duša, još nezaražena ni skepsom ni prekomernom inteligencijom. Parsifol je bio glup. Da je bio mudar, nikad ne bi osvojio sveti Gral. Samo glupak pobe?uje u životu; drugi vidi suviše prepreka i postaje kolebljiv pre no što i po?ne... U teškim prilikama bezazlenost je najdragocenije blago, ?udotvorni plašt koji skriva opasnost u koju pametnjakovi? ule?e kao oma?ijan...

Passengers were crushed by descending boats. Swimmers were struck by chairs, boxes, potted plants, and other debris falling from the decks high above. And then there were those most ill-starred of passengers, who had put on their life preservers incorrectly and found themselves floating with their heads submerged, legs up, as in some devil's comedy.

ties knotted to a wasp's waist at his neck.

of mounting threat.

It must be most dangerous then to be a man. It is indeed, madame, and but few survive it. ? Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon (Zinc Read, February 21, 2023) Originally publishedJanuary 1, 1932