Quotes About Peril

Life can be like walking on a high wire. Falling seems a tiny misstep away.

How likely is it that America will break its word to defend Israel? Chapter 14 analyzes what America has done to Israel to pressure it to give up His land, since President Bush (41) to President Obama. Suffice it to say that America has been taking actions that are contrary to God's word on this issue, at our peril.

America has done to Israel to pressure it to give up His land, since President Bush (41) to President Obama. Suffice it to say that America has been taking actions that are contrary to God's word on this issue, at our peril. GOD IS SERIOUS ABOUT ISRAEL God is quite serious about Israel, and His promise to bless those who bless Israel, and conversely curse those who curse Israel. When Israel is invaded, it will be in dire nation-destroying circumstances.

The options are really only two: 1.) wait and hope that over a hundred years or so America becomes a Muslim state; or 2.) take America out. There are no other options for radical Jihadists. Given the fact that Jihadists apparently have the resources to take America out, option 2 will clearly be most attractive and doable and much quicker. It would be better for Americans if there were a third option, but that's just not reality. America is in deadly peril from radical Muslim extremists.

When one carries poison, thoughts of death are never far away.

it depends whether the accommodation of social institutions to the altered state of human society, shall be the work of wise foresight, or of a conflict of opposite prejudices. The future of mankind will be gravely imperilled, if great questions are left to be fought over between ignorant change and ignorant opposition to change.

There is not the same willingness to admit that our desires and should be our own likewise, or that to possess impulses of our own, and of any strength, is anything but a peril and a snare. Yet desires and impulses are as much a part of a perfect human being as beliefs and restraints; and strong impulses are only perilous when not properly balanced.

Life is dangerous. That's what makes it interesting.

Things are fearsome enough, without taking a road that must lead destruction.

Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear;But seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near.

The living form defies evolution at its peril; if it does not adapt, it will be broken. The idea of completed man is the supreme vanity: the finished image is a sacrilegious myth.

If I am very lucky - I mean if I am clever about it - I will get myself shot. Here, soon.

False religion may prevail, iniquity may abound, the love of many may wax cold, the cross of Calvary may be lost sight of, and darkness, like the pall of death, may spread over the world; the whole force of the popular current may be formed to overthrow the people of God; but in the hour of greatest peril the God of Elijah will raise up human instrumentalities to bear a message that will not be silenced.

Men are in peril. Multitudes are perishing. But how few of the professed followers of Christ are burdened for these souls.

The little incidents of everyday life often pass without our notice, but it is these things that shape the character. Every event of life is great for good or for evil. The mind needs to be trained by daily tests, that it may acquire power to stand in any difficult position. In the days of trial and of peril you will need to be fortified to stand firmly for the right, independent of every opposing influence.

All I seem to be doing this week is nearly getting killed and buying clothes

The north wind roaring down in October is cruel and cold and reminds you again — as the sea has a way of doing — that nature does not care for man. And somehow that makes the red and yellow leaves and the blue, deceptive noons all the sweeter and more precious because living is so dangerous and so short and can be so bitter.

Esto, después de todo, no ha hecho más que terminar. Dentro de poco, si hay suerte, estaremos todos perdidos.

Un popor exist? întrucât constituie o primejdie.

The Iliad thus begins to suggest that no community can succeed by honoring exceptional individuals whose indulgence in rage and ruthless pursuit of honor causes them to neglect or imperil those who depend upon them.

Espionage has something of the quality of a dream. In the spy's world, as in dreams, the terrain is always uncertain. You put your foot on what looks like solid ground and it gives way under you and you go into a kind of free fall, turning slowly tail over tip and clutching onto things that are themselves falling. This instability, this myriad-ness, that the world takes on, is both the attraction and terror of being a spy.

Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers—danger, death, and live ammunition

Once he gets inside your head, you're dead.

I will tell you a parable. To what can this situation be compared: A fox was once walking alongside of a river and saw swarms of fish going from place to place. He said to them: 'From what are you fleeing?' "The fish replied: 'From the nets that people throw to catch us.