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Quotes About Peril

When I write "paradise" I mean not only apple trees and golden women but also scorpions and tarantulas and flies, rattlesnakes and Gila monsters, sandstorms, volcanoes and earthquakes, bacteria and bear, cactus, yucca, bladderweed, ocotillo and mesquite, flash floods and quicksand, and yes -- disease and death and the rotting of flesh.
~ Edward Abbey
Our days begin with trouble here,Our life is but a span,And cruel death is always near,So frail a thing is man.
~ Anonymous
They be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
~ Anonymous
A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves.
~ Anonymous
Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
~ Anonymous
There is death in the pot.
~ Anonymous
It's like reaching into a sack full of cotton and finding a razor blade inside, everything constant and undeviating and then that one dangerous thing, so sharp you can hardly feel it open your skin.
~ Anthony Doerr
Octavian's surviving ships were blown against the craggy coast and pounded against the rocks
~ Anthony Everitt
We live in a world with so many dangers that we have to be careful whom we trust.
~ Anthony Horowitz
He had entered a veritable miasma of evil, and harm, in the worst possible way, was to come to us all too soon.
~ Anthony Horowitz
I warned you that danger can become a drug and it seems to me that in your case, it's too late. You're already hooked.
~ Anthony Horowitz
Alex knew he was in danger the same way an animal does. There was no need to ask why or how. Danger was simply there.
~ Anthony Horowitz
Alex was surrounded by 7 of the most dangerous and unpredictable people on the planet. It was just a question of which one would kill him first.
~ Anthony Horowitz
Putting our ecosystem in great peril is certainly not a part of Chinese culture that I know.
~ Yao Ming
as poison. To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
But I have a feeling Regina Morrow may be in for big trouble!
~ Francine Pascal
Oh! Hadassah said, a catch in her throat. Put me down, please. Rashid knew in that instant they were in the lion's den.
~ Francine Rivers
To use raw power is to make yourself infinitely vulnerable to greater powers.
~ Frank Herbert
The knife is more dangerous than the hand and the knife can be in either hand.
~ Frank Herbert
One moment of incompetence can be fatal.
~ Frank Herbert
Sietch: a meeting place in time of danger.
~ Frank Herbert
Bojim se slijepih, Stil. Bojim ih se. Oni tako lako mogu slomiti sve što im se na?e na putu.
~ Frank Herbert
Militant missionary religions can share this illusion of the proud past, ' but few understand the ultimate peril to humankind-that false sense of freedom from responsibility for your own actions.
~ Frank Herbert
completely accurate and total prediction is lethal.
~ Frank Herbert