Quotes About Peril

That was a narrow escape!" said Alice, a good deal frightened at the sudden change, but very glad to find herself still in existence.

Yes, what's the good of a messenger you can't understand?" Felicity complains. "Why, just once, can't one of these haunts simply say, 'Hello, Gemma, frightfully sorry to bother you, but I thought you might like to know that Mrs. X is the one to watch out for—she'll eat your heart. Cheerio!

Syria was one of the most dangerous places on Earth.

Th-they're following my tracks . . . ," and she could feel her breath being stolen from her body. She was going to die!

What history had taught him was Amazement. A tremendous amazement that each time those in jeopardy had been so slow in thinking about their safety.

Confidence without clarity is always a disaster.

Most people guard against going into the fire, and so end up in it.

The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.

Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.

If one tries to navigate unknown waters one runs the risk of shipwreck

The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.

So in a certain sense disintegration may have its advantages. But of course it's dangerous, horribly dangerous. Suppose you couldn't get back, out of the chaos...

On the Path of the Wise there is probably no danger more deadly, no poison more pernicious, no seduction more subtle than Spiritual Pride; it strikes, being solar, at the very heart of the Aspirant; more, it is an inflation and exacerbation of the Ego, so that its victim runs the peril of straying into a Black Lodge, and finding himself at home there.

No hace falta conocer el peligro para tener miedo; de hecho, los peligros desconocidos son los que inspiran más temor.

Così finì per capire che si trovava in una situazione nota a molti umani, ma non per questo meno dolorosa: ciò che, solo, li fa sentire vivi, è qualcosa che però, lentamente, è destinato ad ammazzarli. I figli per i genitori, il successo per gli artisti, le montagne troppo alte per gli alpinisti. Scrivere libri, per Jasper Gwyn.

Only he who has never been in danger is really saved.

Yeah, like that old Chinese curse about living in interesting times. Interesting times meant the barbarians were about to ride over your fields and kill you and your family.

Yes; and remember that two-legged crocodiles are more dangerous that the others.

Something terrible happened and people began to shake. It was the reminder that frightened them; the reminder of just how close to the edge we are in life, always, at every moment.

It was a voice that you felt you had to listen to—or you ignored at your peril.

There is a tidal wave of ignorance, Mma Ramotswe. It is a great tidal wave and it will drown all of us if we are not careful.

Minty's in a bit of trouble, and he was not surprised. He said something about her sailing too close to the wind.

Upon my word, said Dantes, you make me shudder. Is the world filled with tigers and crocodiles? Yes; and remember that two legged tigers and crocodiles are more dangerous than the others.

D'Artagnan, my friend, thou art brave, thou art prudent, thou hast excellent qualities, but- women will destroy thee! -D'Artagnan