Quotes About Peril

I am escaped by the skin of my teeth.

How often the fear of one evil leads into a worse.

Betwixt the devil and the deap sea.

The peril of the hour moved the British to tremendous exertions, just as always in a moment of extreme danger things can be done which had previously been thought impossible. Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas.

Wisdom consists in being able to distinguish among dangers and make a choice of the least harmful.

In 1975, when my students were kidnapped by rebels, I was accused of hiding instead of trying to save them, and of not giving enough money for their ransom. I wasn't believed.

If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it the light of the oncoming train.

Congress has turned its back on America's working families. There are Teamster families in every congressional district in America, and those families vote. Those who would oppose these families have done so at their own political peril.

I have been in danger of being drowned twice.

If I stay, they'll kill me... If I go, at least everything that wants me dead won't be taking it personally.

There's a war going on outside no man is safe from. You can run but you can't hide forever.

Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.

The war is like an actress who is getting old. It's less and less photogenic and more and more dangerous. (1944)

You shouldn't underestimate an enemy, but it is just as fatal to overestimate him.

More die in flight than in battle.

Four elements make up the climate of war: danger, exertion, uncertainty and chance.

Another victory like that and we are done for.

A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.

If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril.

It was close; but that's the way it is in war. You win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.

Here, in Cork district, you have in combination all the dangers which war can inflict.

I think war is a dangerous place.

Placid waters hide lethal currents.

The Sword of Damocles,