Quotes About Peril

Beware, the light seemed to say, for I come to burn and judge.

That's just it. What if I can't protect you? I'll be outnumbered, outgunned. What if I can't get you out of there?

When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.

One more such victory and we are undone.

It is a tragic paradox that the very qualities that have led to man's extraordinary capacity for success are also those most likely to destroy him.

Success is beautiful and dangerous.

Is the world filled with tigers and crocodiles?" "Yes; and remember that two-legged tigers and crocodiles are more dangerous than the others.

Tigers and crocodiles with two legs are more dangerous than the rest.

The feet of Raoul were over the edge of the cliff, bathed in that void which is peopled by vertigo, and provokes to self-annihilation.

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

He was a fine, tall, slim young fellow of eighteen or twenty, with black eyes, and hair as dark as a raven's wing; and his whole appearance bespoke that calmness and resolution peculiar to men accustomed from their cradle to contend with danger. Ah, is it you, Dantès?

Remember that two-legged tigers and crocodiles are more dangerous than those that walk on four.

Inured as men may be to danger, forewarned as they may be of peril, they understand, by the fluttering of the heart and the shuddering of the frame, the enormous difference between a dream and a reality, between the project and the execution

Woman was created for our ruin, and it is from her that all our miseries come.

The highest places are always slippery: Men's eyes dazzle when they are carried up to them; and falls from them are mortal. Few kings or tyrants, says Juvenal, go down to the grave in peace...

the eldest who had the misfortune of being too beautiful and had a far off look in her eyes. Madame Cohen had seen what could happen to girls like that, they were picked off like fruit on a tree, devoured by blackbirds.

They learned that sometimes the most dangerous thing of all in matters of live was to be granted your heart's desire.

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

A man who lifts his chin in pride will fail to see the chasm at his feet.

war was a dangerous business, and those who escaped death at the hands of the enemy often perished as a result of the dysentery and disease that could decimate armies.

between Scylla and Charybdis

COWARD, n. One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.

When the best you can get from your wife's father is that he won't help to kill you, it doesn't take a clever man to see you're in shit to your chin.

If there is one thing I have learned in all my many last stands, it is that death is never certain, only… extremely likely.