Quotes About Peril

Fame is often called a deal with the devil. Reality show fame is a really bad deal with the devil.

The role of the media in economic management is not often recognised even by professional economists. Politicians, however, ignore this at their own peril.

The best way to use the gold of the Redeemer is for the redemption of those in peril.

Every job carries occupational hazards.

Ackbar spoke desperately into the comlink. "It's a trap.

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

You always, I notice, feel the same when you are under heavy fire - not so much afraid of being hit as afraid because you don't know where you will be hit. You are wondering all the while just where the bullet will nip you, and it gives your whole body a most unpleasant sensitiveness.

Like the crocodile, he strikes always at the weakest spot.

I sometimes fear that we shall never wake till we are jerked out of it by the roar of bombs.

It was queer to think that less than three minutes earlier I'd been in the devil of a stew, with actual cold sweat on my backbone, at the thought that she might be dead.

This storm is dangerous

For the Negroes on the island" of Jamaica "being 80,000," it was said in 1714, and the "white people not above 2000," the former "may at any time rise and destroy the white people"; besides, Jamaica had a "formidable neighbour," referring to the "French on Hispaniola," which increased the peril, as the internal and external antagonists could combine.

And George knew just what it was, too. It was an avalanche. He jumped just like his horse had done—for it had known something was wrong, the way animals do. Anyway, George jumped and tried to run, but it was too late.

What's the best angle to cut someone's throat? Well, usually from behind. That's usually how it works.

The world may end up under a Sword of Damocles on a tightrope over the abyss.

Like all paradises, Topanga is pitched at the tipping point of promise and peril.

Human civilization as we know it is like the Titanic headed for the iceberg, whether the iceberg be nuclear, environmental or terrorism-related.

When danger through the realm may reach The Nargis Nymph allots to each A Talent for the Times

These Fatalists preach that Chance and Peril are merely masks for Fate's workings, nothing in themselves, and moreover that all the gods move at Fate's bidding. Their followers take comfort in thinking that their every deed is meant to be; it excuses all manner of meanness.

The spikes above Livergate were a cruel reminder that his life now depended on mine, and it was by no means a foregone conclusion that I would live to see sunset tomorrow.

In Aunt Boo's opinion, it was better to know how to avoid danger than to avoid dangerous places.

The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief.

Risk management seemed to have completed its transformation into pure entertainment. Dudley seemed the epitome of a risk manager who would drown crossing a river that was 12 inches in depth on average .

If you play with fire, you're gonna get burned.