Quotes About Peril

Candidates ignore New Hampshire at their own peril. You all remember President Giuliani? He's done a great job in the White House.

Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.

We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves.

If the main character's not in jeopardy - physical, psychological, emotional, whatever - then you don't have any tension, and you don't have a story.

Once you realise that heroes die, everything becomes that much more terrifying.

I hate heights, that's the most terrifying thing for me.

I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.

I think if you socialize, dine with, spend time with known terrorists that are on the list of those who want to do harm to America, you put yourself in peril. I don't dine, socialize or spend time with people who are on the terrorist lists.

To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.

That is to say, things have a way of getting worse and worse all the time, until in the end they get so bad that we lack even the means of knowing how bad they really are.

Till the vessel strikes with a shivering shock—"O Christ! It is the Inchcape Rock."

One insight was that the ordinary physical world through which one shuffled heedless and half-assed toward nonentity was capable of composing itself, at any time and without notice, into a massive instrument of agonizing death.

Ingesting poison, fighting for food, being attacked by a larger rat or beaten with a toilet plunger: these are everyday rat dangers that make the life expectancy of the rat in the city approximately one year.

Je loopt altijd gevaar. Dat is de zuivere waarheid. Je loopt altijd gevaar en bent een speelbal van het lot, zelfs op de meest onwaarschijnlijke plaatsen.

the greatest danger is always the one we are ignorant of.

This was a young man who had killed, but never before been in imminent danger of being killed. I felt oddly qualified to introduce him to the sensation.

Wide gape the gates of yellowed bone. A tongue of plank is our path between the teeth as we walk toward the gullet. Here I will be devoured. This is a true thing, near unavoidable on any path. I must enter those jaws.

All life was danger and death was the only way to be safe.

is deceived about what is offered by the other. What danger do you fear here, Tom?

The profit from danger only pays you interest in trouble

If he is smart, he will run. He is not.

The train is roaring toward you and the villain is twirling his moustache and you're fussing that he's tied you to the tracks with the wrong kind of rope.

The train is roaring toward you and the villain is twirling his moustache and you're fussing that he's tied you to the tracks with the wrong kind of rope.

The only way out is to Run. But you have to do it now. Stay where you are, and you're dead!