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Quotes About Peril

Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.
~ Thucydides
This war is like an actress who is getting old. It is less and less photogenic and more and more dangerous.
~ Robert Capa
War is the province of danger.
~ Carl von Clausewitz
When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens.
~ Desmond Tutu
I've spent most of my life embracing violence in wars and revolutions. Even a famine is a form of violence. Because I photograph people in peril, people in pain, people being executed in front of me, I find it very difficult to get my head around the art narrative of photography.
~ Don McCullin
Invisible factors in my life would inevitably lead to my downfall. I felt I had known this all along. There was no escape.
~ Rachel Hartman
Mickie, and watch yourself. Something's in the water.
~ Rachel Howzell Hall
There's always a siren, singing you to shipwreck.
~ Radiohead
A man may not fear to die, and yet be appalled by the form in which death comes to him.
~ Rafael Sabatini
that plane isn't going to make it
~ Ralph Sprague
Un dragón al que se le ve el final de la cola no es un dragón demasiado peligroso, y un tren de diez vagones puede pasarte por encima pero no puede estar pasándote por encima toda la vida.
~ Ray Loriga
This idea is fraught with peril, and I fear that my answers to your questions will be interpreted as approval rather than reluctant assistance.
~ Raymond Chen
You would do well to know, Marcus, that irritating a better swordsman than yourself is a good way to end up dead.
~ Raymond E. Feist
I want to make people see that evil is seductive and that we need to be careful.
~ Steven Knight
There is risk everywhere. Being alive carries the risk of death.
~ Heather Brooke
America's bastions of free thought have become hubs of suppression. If you're on the left, riot in the streets without repercussion. But if you're on the right, speak at your own peril.
~ Kayleigh McEnany
The muzzle of the Luger looked like the mouth of the Second Street tunnel, but I didn't move. Not being bullet proof is an idea I had had to get used to.
~ Raymond Chandler
You know what they say: 'Men have throats and daggers have sharp edges'.
~ Raymond E. Feist
He could not challenge him on that and besides, what he said was truth, which at this moment was dangerous.
~ Raymond E. Feist
We die all the time to avoid being killed.
~ Rebecca Solnit
In the myths, women keep turning into other things because being a woman is too difficult, too dangerous.
~ Rebecca Solnit
A Threat to Humanity
~ Richard Brodie
The peak of a mountain, he says, is always a perilous place to stand, no matter how sweeping the view.
~ Julia Glass
d) (1850) «De vez en cuando, en las ciudades, abro un periódico. Tengo la sensación de que todo avanza rápidamente. No estamos bailando sobre un volcán, sino sobre las tablas de una letrina, que a mí me huele bastante a podrido. Próximamente, la sociedad se precipitará en la mierda de diecinueve siglos, y se ahogará rápidamente en ella. Se oirán muchos gritos.»
~ Julian Barnes