Quotes About Peril

Because in the twenty-first century, when we think by the seat of our pants, every correction can make things worse, and can send our democracy into a graveyard spiral.

Love is a dangerous commodity-fraught with peril.

A man is in no danger so long as he talks his love; but to write it is to impale himself on his own pothooks.

The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?

Horror and terror lurk behind the walls provided so wisely by our ancestors. We tear them down at our peril. We skate, unconsciously, on thin ice, with deep, cold waters below, where unimaginable monsters lurk.

So, if you are respectful of the rule, and conscious of its importance, and realize that it serves as a bulwark against the chaos of the unknown, and you still decide to break it, carefully, because the particularities of the circumstances demand it – well, then, more power to you. If you are just a careless, ignorant, antisocial narcissist instead, however, then look out. You break a rule at your peril, whether you know it or not.

Fue el engaño lo que mató a centenares de millones de personas en el siglo XX. Fue el engaño lo que casi condena por completo a la civilización. Es el engaño lo que aún hoy en día nos amenaza de forma total y absoluta.

Was it really a good thing, for example, to so dramatically liberalize the divorce laws in the 1960s? It's not clear to me that the children whose lives were destabilized by the hypothetical freedom this attempt at liberation introduced would say so. Horror and terror lurk behind the walls provided so wisely by our ancestors. We tear them down at our peril. We skate, unconsciously, on thin ice, with deep, cold waters below, where unimaginable monsters lurk.

Failing to look under the bed when you strongly suspect a monster is lurking there is not an advisable strategy.

If you stick your neck out, then the sword will come.

Her house was built on a foundation of sand. The ice she was skating on was simply too thin. She fell through, into the water below, and is drowning.

Antiwater would look and feel and behave the same way as regular water except that if you drank it you would explode in a blinding flash of light, which, we admit, would be antirefreshing.

The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?

Alice might end up neither good nor bad. She might end up somewhere in between. That would make her very dangerous to know. That girl could be the bane of your life, a blight, a poison on everything you do. Or she might turn out to be the best and strongest friend you'll ever have. Someone who'll make all the difference in the world. I just don't know which way it will go. I can't see it, no matter how hard I try.

The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

Siempre hay que estar alerta: el momento en que uno cree que ha ganado es siempre el momento más peligroso

As soon as there is life there is danger." —RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Die gefährlichste aller Krankheiten ist die Frau

Sparrow Fur, terrified

problems." "She's right," Jayfeather meowed, dipping his head toward the RiverClan leader. "Are we kits, play fighting while badgers attack our camp?

She was answered only by the hoot of an owl and the bark of a fox. Death panted hard on her paws, drawing closer with every footfall, and for all her twisting and turning, Leafpaw knew that there was no escape.

Think you have nine lives, do you? I saved you once.... don't make me save you again.

However deep you dig a well it affords no refuge in the time of flood.

These "wise men" apparently thought setting up a small shop in the middle of a monster-infested dungeon was a fine idea.)