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Quotes About Peril

It's more dangerous to be a friend or relative of Jackie Chan in the star's movies than it is to play the third yeoman on a 'Star Trek' episode.
~ Elvis Mitchell
Horseracing already has the highest mortality rate of any sport in the world per capita to the people who do it. If you crash in Nascar you still have a roll bar, and a cage, and a lot of protection. It's built to crash, but if you fall off a racehorse we all know what can happen, so it's tremendously dangerous.
~ Gary Ross
Beware! said the peridxis's voice in her head. Don't let It's shadowy little truth overwhelm the greater one.
~ Diane Duane, Wizards at War
everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent
~ Michel Foucault
There is no greater despair, than to tread with care upon ice that is already broken
~ Johnathan Jena
If thinking and reason crack under pressure of emotional convulsions or when commissioned facts are resulting from fibs and fake constructions, truth may be in great peril. ( "Blame storming")
~ Erik Pevernagie
When you walk through a bad neighborhood, you don't want a poodle by your side. You want a Rottweiler.
~ Gene Simmons
Anyone ever lost in the wild knows that nature wants you dead.
~ David Mamet
People talk about human intelligence as the greatest adaptation in the history of the planet. It is an amazing and marvelous thing, but in evolutionary terms, it is as likely to do us in as to help us along.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
The fruit of hyper-partisanship and a toxic informational environment is paralysis—paralysis at a moment of peril.
~ Stephen Marche
Prayer is our greatest and most salutary weapon in the eternal battle," put in the man called Schecter, joining them. He took a sip of coffee and continued, "No less than gravity, prayer is one of the elemental forces that moves the world. We underestimate it at our peril.
~ Stephen R. Lawhead
Bush asked whether killing bin Laden would end the problem. Pavitt and Tenet replied that it would make an impact but not end the peril.
~ Steve Coll
Nobody is safe. Ever. Anywhere. I
~ Steve Hamilton
Crocodiles are easy. They try to kill and eat you. People are harder. Sometimes they pretend to be your friend first.
~ Steve Irwin
You know, you can touch a stick of dynamite, but if you touch a venomous snake it'll turn around and bite you and kill you so fast it's not even funny.
~ Steve Irwin
In fact, being old and decrepit makes you an easy target—especially if you're addicted to opium!
~ Steve Wiegand
Staring into the dragon's maw, one quickly learns wisdom.
~ Steven Brust
A civilization for ever within easy reach of a blade had little to boast about.
~ Steven Erikson
If the arts are in peril, we must do our small part to to fight the good fight and protect and preserve.
~ Emma Walton Hamilton
I think when you see an aircraft fire, these angry, black puffs of smoke, knowing that one of them could kill you that you - you - you understand the seriousness of the mission. And you understand your own mortality.
~ George H. W. Bush
There's a snake lurking in the grass.
~ Virgil
Mother's Day, like motherhood itself, is fraught with peril. There are so many ways to get it wrong, so many opportunities to disappoint and be disappointed.
~ Meghan Daum
That is why Bias jested with those who were going through the perils of a great storm with him and calling on the gods for help: Shut up, he said, so that they do not realize that you are here with me.
~ Michel de Montaigne
but the world remains a dangerous place and we remain—merely by being human—vulnerable to the horrors that humans can cause.
~ Michel Faber