Quotes About Peril

You're inches away from death every time you go on a mission. How much older can you be at your age?

The enemy, retorted Yossarian with weighted precision, is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on

The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them. Yossarian

Everywhere he looked was a nut, and it was all a sensible young gentleman like himself could do to maintain his perspective amid so much madness. And it was urgent that he did, for he knew his life was in peril.

I am always in danger.

Love is not enough to keep us from harm.

In the throat, the male is as vulnerable as the female. Once the sharp points of the shears pierce his skin, puncture the artery, there will be no turning back for either of them.

March felt his stomach twist. "I don't like chances when I'm a hundred feet above the pavement.

There are worse things in life than dragons. Falling in love, for instance.

Diphtheria struck suddenly, almost fatally.

the bee perishes because his lust for the lotus stupefies him and makes him stick to her even in death.

Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.

The tsunami was announced and those who didn't believe it went to the beach to see it.

Sweat was running down my face. The next turn wasn't too bad, and I noticed an old barn on the roadside, the roof caved-in, the windows empty holes, but I had already been distracted for too long, and the abyss came so close that I cried out. I

No había nada más peligroso, pensó, que un hombre paciente.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing." - Harkat Mulds (Hunters of the Dusk)

Aren't you frightened?" "No." The sailor pondered for a moment and then added, "If I warn't just a dumb jotunn I might be, I s'pose." This sudden insight seemed to worry him more than the dragons themselves.

Pirate Frank. Walks the Plank.

My life, my real life, was in danger, and not from anything other people might do but from the hatred I carried in my own heart.

They seemed greatly concerned for our safety - so concerned that they wanted to brain us.

A great many grown-up and intelligent people believe, or pretend to believe, that by behaving in a friendly and accommodating way to our attackers, we will show them that they have nothing to fear from us and so defuse their wrath. The idea that such behavior would be taken by a ruthless and implacable enemy only as a sign of weakness is as foreign to them as the idea of honor itself.

So it was, your majesty, that I forever relinquished my sewing, and became a lovely peril, a flashing desolation, and an evil which smites by night, in spite of my abhorrence of irregular hours: and what I do I dislike extremely, for it is a sad fate to become a vampire, and still to sympathize with your victims, and particularly with their poor mothers.

Needless to say, urgings by ravens are ignored at one's peril.

You'd think the little part about them supposedly killing us would be the attention getter.