Quotes About Peril

Your Excellence, it is not usually the obvious that is dangerous.

Such trouble, when wolves sleep. The lambs think they can play.

Sailors will tell you that seasickness comes in two stages – in the first you think you're going to die and in the second you're very afraid you're not going to.

here. "I thought it was too dangerous

A locked door makes you feel secure until the surrounding house is blown down.

You scare one stupid man, he'll most likely run off. But a crowd of stupid men—there ain't nothing more dangerous, or meaner.

A hole ain't nothing either, but you can still break your neck in it.

Don't trust the fire, for it will burn you. Don't trust the ice, for it will freeze you. Don't trust the water, for it will drown you. Don't trust the air, for it will choke you. Don't trust the earth, for it will bury you. Don't trust the trees, for they will rip you, rend you, tear you, kill you dead.

Who knows but the world may end tonight

Old times, as my father used to say: If you're not careful, they'll gut you like a fish.

People do have viewing patterns, and you disrupt those at your own peril. That's something that everybody learned after 1988. The numbers have gone down every year since that strike. Big time.

In time of peril, like the needle to the loadstone, obedience, irrespective of rank, generally flies to him who is best fitted to command.

Luke thought he'd been escaping danger when he took Lee Grant's identity. Why did he suddenly feel like he'd only traded one peril for another?

He should be careful. It's dangerous to be an honest man.

Life is like a box of Hand grenades,You never know what will blow you to kingdom come

A belief in one's own virtue is far more dangerous than a belief in one's cunning.

Some stories you should run from while you still have legs.

Gunny, get down!" Ker told him. "You're going to get hit!" "By the time I get down, I'll already be hit," he said. "So I may as well stand up here and see what the hell is going on.

the entire rationale for fighting in Vietnam was rooted in faith. Faith that his elected leaders and military bosses knew what they were doing and that the calculation that had placed his life at such peril mattered, that it did more than just make sense but demanded his suffering and sacrifice.

even writing this makes me feel shaky and scared, like I do when I'm standing on the top of a very tall building and there are thousands of houses and cars and people below me and my head is so full of all these things that I'm afraid that I'm going to forget to stand up straight and hang on to the rail and I'm going to fall over and be killed.

There is death in the pot for the living's food.

Shortcut.' The word filled me with dread. When has a shortcut ever worked out as planned? The word – in a horror film at least – usually precedes disembowelment and death. A 'shortcut' almost never leads to good times.

The religious impulse can be very dangerous. It damages, sometimes permanently.

The Constitution has never been in such danger …