Quotes About Peril

Caesar's ghost on the eve of the Battle of Philippi. We ignore them at our peril; we listen to them at the risk of our sanity. A French poet said, by the end of life, we all contain libraries and graveyards. It seemed to have happened to me already, my familiarity with both. I knew I had to get help with this now,

This time, the rapids sent them through a dark tunnel that seemed timeless, blind, malevolent. A yawning throat of water.

To put your trust in men is to get yourself killed a little. In

we are unattractive know-all obsessives who get things out of proportion and are in continual peril of being disowned by our exasperated families.

Goodness has never been a guarantee of safety.

My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business...

He that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the pit.

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room each believing himself in mortal peril from the other whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

Tuttavia, nessuno in paese usciva mai di casa quando era buio. Perché il buio, dicevano i genitori, il buio è pieno di cose che è decisamente meglio non incontrare.

C'est souvent lorsqu'elle est le plus désagréable à entendre qu'une vérité est le plus utile à dire, et lorsqu'elle risque de rencontrer l'opposition la plus vive. Mais il y a souvent péril à ne point souffler dans le sens du vent.

chilling start to Woolf's The Waves: I was too far out in the ocean to hear the lifeguard shouting, "Shark! Shark!

We know who the homicidal maniacs are. They are the ones cheering and dancing right now.

By 2003 he had begun to worry that powerful countries were pursuing their own security in ways that aggravated their peril. He

Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it.

And here the fell attorney prowls for prey; Here falling houses thunder on your head, And here a female atheist talks you dead.    While

Beware of women in white who look and move and talk like goddesses. Sooner or later there 'll be hell to pay.

Is the thing we love always our downfall? Always our destruction?

Be careful, darling. Your footsteps land heavy here. Your racket will wake the dragons.

She just has fixed herself on me to kill me. She can do it at long distance. One of these days I'll be struck down by suffocation or apoplexy because of her.

He squeezed her hand. Then I'll come get you, wherever you are when it happens. We'll be okay. But what about everybody else? He stared out across the river, nodding slowly. My guess is, everybody else is in big trouble.

Sevgili dostum, dikkat nedir ki? Tehlike sonu gelmez bir konudur, ö?renmekle bitmez!

Nicht die große, seltne Not der Welt, diese Fluten, die eure Dörfer wegspülen, diese Erdbeben, die eure Städte verschlingen, rühren mich; mir untergräbt das Herz die verzehrende Kraft, die in dem All der Natur verborgen liegt; die nichts gebildet hat, das nicht seinen Nachbar, nicht sich selbst zerstörte. Und so taumle ich beängstigt. Himmel und Erde und ihre webenden Kräfte um mich her: ich sehe nichts als ein ewig verschlingendes, ewig wiederkäuendes Ungeheuer.

Danger takes from a man all power of thought

She was in deep trouble and knew it