logo

Quotes About Peril

Never feel safe with the woman you love, for a woman's nature conceals more dangers than you think.
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Shall I tell you what makes love so dangerous? 'Tis the too high idea we are apt to form of it.
~ Ninon de L'Enclos
Doesn't matter how smart you are, how clever, how self-reliant—you can always be bettered by a stupid man with a gun. The
~ Jojo Moyes
The past shows unvaryingly that when a people's freedom disappears, it goes not with a bang, but in silence amid the comfort of being cared for. That is the dire peril in the present trend toward statism. If freedom is not found accompanied by a willingness to resist, and to reject favors, rather than to give up what is intangible but precarious, it will not long be found at all. —Richard Weaver, 1962 I
~ Jonah Goldberg
Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering, and there are innumerable places in this covering so weak that they won't bear their weight, and these places are not seen.
~ Jonathan Edwards
That placed her inches from a yawning abyss.
~ Jonathan Kellerman
She said, "Look down at your chest." I held the cell phone to my ear as I bend my head. Two red dots, quivering slightly, danced right over my heart. "You are one second away from death," said the caller.
~ Jonathan Maberry
And they don't know what kind of raw, unfiltered hell they'd be stepping into if they try to break in here." Lindsey
~ Jonathan Maberry
Suddenly we were in outer space. Aboard a rusty old piece of junk freighter. Far away. And in real trouble.
~ Jonathan Maberry
the compactor scene from the 1977 Star Wars movie.
~ Jonathan Rauch
When we have gold we are in fear, when we have none we are in danger.
~ English proverb
Danger and delight grow on one stalk.
~ English proverb
Creemos que hoy más que nunca es peligroso vivir en un lugar pequeño como lo es Teziutlán, pues nuevas
~ Enrique Krauze
All you do when you are visible is map ways for yourself to be harmed by others, to give them the tools and strategies.
~ Eric Gansworth
When in unknown territory, before you did anything else, make darn sure you look around to see if someone was about to blow your head off.
~ Eric S. Nylund
The worst your enemy can do is kill you. The worst your enemy can do is betray you. Fear only the indifferent because at their silent consent treachery and death flourish.
~ Eric Van Lustbader
Hoe pathetic is it that I'd rather risk death that face the dead?
~ Eric Walters
Even the most powerful flames can be destroyed by water.
~ Erin Hunter
We'll be slaughtered if we show ourselves now. We won't leave your kits, Graystripe, I promise we won't, but we've got to wait for the right moment to rescue them.
~ Erin Hunter
Knowledge can be dangerous
~ Erin Hunter
Goosekit shook his head stubbornly. There were pictures crowding into his head, as clearly as if they were right in front of him. "There will be a badger," he insisted, "and Stormpaw will leave me to fight it on my own.
~ Erin Hunter
He'd die of hunger in a week, if a fox or a gang of crows didn't kill him first.
~ Erin Hunter
feel like a bird!" he cried. The words were hardly out of his mouth before he felt his paws slipping. For a heart-stopping moment he thought the wind would bowl him over to plummet down to the rocks below. The landscape whirled sickeningly around him. Then teeth fastened in his scruff and yanked him back to safety. He looked up to see Crowfeather. "Thanks," he gasped. "Just remember you're not a bird," the WindClan cat growled.
~ Erin Hunter
Thanks, Crowfeather!" he panted. Looking around, Crowfeather spotted Gorsetail in a nearby beech tree, her fur fluffed up as she spat defiance at the foxes below. And where were you when your apprentice was in danger? Crowfeather wondered.
~ Erin Hunter