Quotes About Peril

A töprengés éppoly veszedelmes, mint a félelem.

Just as she goes and watch for that no-good Minerva. Keep well inside of that and outside the sand-spits.

in weakness, a man can present a great danger

But in weakness a man can be a great danger.

Clyman trying to warn Reed about the desolation he had just seen in the Great Salt Lake Desert. Remembering the conversation years later, Clyman said he told Reed to "take the regular wagon track, and never leave it—it is barely possible to get through if you follow it, and it may be impossible if you don't.

Spike traps are not my friends. Spike traps are the enemy. I will avoid them at all costs.

She paused for a moment and tried to work out why she was so horrified at the prospect of living in the middle of the country. 'I never feel safe away from the edge.

And I think detente had manifestly failed, and that the pursuit of it was encouraging Soviet expansion and rendering the world more dangerous, and especially rendering the Western world in greater peril.

Besides all those whaling details, Moby Dick is about someone who's looking for something so huge, something they've wanted all their life, yet they know when they find it, it will kill them.

I always look at these superhero films, and I see people hurdling towards at a hundred miles per hour, and then they get up, shake their head, and charge back at a hundred miles per hour. Nobody seems to really get injured or hurt. I don't find any threat in that. There is no tension in that whatsoever.

The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril.

The trends that are shaping the twenty-first-century world embody both promise and peril. Globalization, for example, has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty while contributing to social fragmentation and a massive increase in inequality, not to mention serious environmental damage.

Life is a dangerous thing. Insecurity is the price of living.

A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.

Your insurance broker has your telephone number, but your insurance broker doesn't have your Facebook ID. I think they are very different modes of communication. Commingling them can come with risk and peril.

Well, let's go. If the people in that city are going to cut our throats they may as well do it now, before the heat of the day begins.

Again the governor knelt, for part of his wisdom was the knowledge that a woman in such an emotional tempest is as perilous as a blind cobra to any about her.

Man goes looking for trouble, trouble's got a habit of following the scent right back to him.

Mingling grandiosity and short-sightedness in dangerous measure.

Trouble is, you're just as dead if you're knifed by a self-dramatizing twat as by a professional.

a fronte praecipitium, a tergo lupi.

When life looks like easy street there is danger at your door

We feel the machine slipping from our handsas if someone else were steering;if we see the light at the end of the tunnel,it's the light of the oncoming train.

The light at the end of the tunnel is just the light of an oncoming train.