Quotes About Peril

Danger breeds best on too much confidence.

If we don't preserve the oceans from nitrate runoff and plastic and chemicals, and if we don't preserve it from acidification, and if we don't preserve it from grotesque overfishing - too much money chasing too few fish - we're going to have the most massive ecosystem on the planet in peril.

There is no avoiding the realities of the information age. Its effects manifest differently in different sectors, but the drivers of speed and interdependence will impact us all. Organizations that continue to use 20th-century tools in today's complex environment do so at their own peril.

Getting hit in the eye is scary thing, not like a tooth or finger. You get hit in the eye, you only got two of those.

I don't think us going out in the crowd would be a good idea. I think that we'd be torn apart limb from limb.

Had I been in Toronto, I would certainly have been killed in this attack. In the room where I normally sleep, the flames and the smoke and the soot is such that the gases would have killed me.

Well, all speaking is difficult, whether peril attends it or not. Sometimes peril to the body, sometimes a more intimate, miniature, invisible peril to the soul. When to speak at all is a betrayal of something, perhaps a something not even identified, hiding inside the chambers of the body like a scared refugee in a site of war.

You have got to remember how dangerous the world is and that here is a mighty patch of danger and you have got to live through it.

Angst ist ein schlecht dressierter Kampfhund, den man nicht an der Leine halten kann, wenn er Blut wittert.

Well do I remember the first night we met, how you questioned my opinion that first impressions are perfect. You were right to do so, of course, but even then I suspected what I've come to believe most passionately these past weeks: from that first moment, I knew you were a dangerous woman, and I was in great peril of falling in love." She thought she should say something witty here. She said, "Really?

don't want you anywhere near this story. It's too dangerous. I don't get why you and the other Narrators don't want this story to be told. Draculaura and Frankie will do whatever they're going to do whether we narrate it or not.

Lack of vigilance will get you killed. A McCloud creed that he seemed to have internalized.

You need to accept the fact that Theo's natural state is 'in trouble

I've found it's never the animals you have to worry about, Miki. It's the humans.

You can get hurt at any time.

When things seem calmest, that is the time you should fear the most, it's when you have the most to lose.

Okay," I said, clasping her hand. "I swear it. The next time I do something stupid that might get me killed, you can come along.

This is a dark age. That's not news. It's a dark time when we have to be particularly aware of danger.

The dangerous falls were the ones that happened so fast you didn't have time to react

Seriously, this old woman had no idea how close she came to being squashed like a roach. -Sage Hannigan, Contingency

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.

Life is fraught with risks

This house party was not safe at all.