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Quotes About Peril

Bet kai esi labai protingas, tai, manau, kas nors gali išmušti tave iš v?ži?, jeigu nepasisaugosi
~ Julian Barnes
Oh, God," he said softly to himself. "I knew you were trouble.
~ Julie Anne Long
How had it never occurred to him the peril in which women walked every day, even the most pampered of them? How valiant the simple act of being a woman was in so many ways.
~ Julie Anne Long
Odysseus and his soldiers to certain destruction. Odysseus
~ Julie Garwood
You can do everything right, strictly according to procedure, on the ocean, and it'll still kill you, but if you're a good navigator, at least you'll know where you were when you died. (In The Nautical Chart by Arturo Perez-Reverte)
~ Justin Scott
Zadarnic curge nisipul, tot nu e ca apa. În ap? poÅ£i s? înoÅ£i, dar nisipul te înveleÅŸte ÅŸi te zdrobeÅŸte omorandu-te.
~ K?b? Abe
So he's harmless, then." "I wouldn't say that, exactly." "No?" "I would n't slip up behind him with a knife, for he might retaliate." Michael shrugged. "But that's to be expected. He kills only when necessary." Mary covered her face with her hands and moaned.
~ Karen Hawkins
In his speech, he warns of two possible threats to the republic. The first is found in the lawless actions of the mob, the second in the inevitable rise someday of an aspiring dictator. The gravest peril will come if the mob and the dictator unite.
~ Karen Joy Fowler
of an aspiring dictator. The gravest peril will come if the mob and the dictator unite.
~ Karen Joy Fowler
But both murders affect Lincoln deeply. In his speech, he warns of two possible threats to the republic. The first is found in the lawless actions of the mob, the second in the inevitable rise someday of an aspiring dictator. The gravest peril will come if the mob and the dictator unite.
~ Karen Joy Fowler
There was no place to hide from a creature who stalked the edges of death itself.
~ Kat Richardson
The only time you were safe was when you were dead.
~ Kate Atkinson
Marlee was fourteen. A dangerous age, although, let's face it, Jackson thought, every age was a dangerous age for a woman.
~ Kate Atkinson
A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.
~ Kate Atkinson
No woman was ever truly safe. It didn't matter if you were as tough as Sigourney Weaver in Alien Resurrection or Linda Hamilton in Terminator 2 because wherever you went there were men.
~ Kate Atkinson
One could lose everything in the blink of an eye, the slip of a foot. "One must avoid dark thoughts at all costs.
~ Kate Atkinson
still hope leads men to venture; and no one ever yet put himself in peril without the inward conviction that he would succeed in his design.
~ Thucydides
Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
~ Seneca the Younger
The life of man in this world is like the life of a fly in a room filled with 100 boys, each armed with a fly-swatter.
~ H. L. Mencken
To run away from danger, instead of facing it, is to deny one's faith in man and God, even one's own self. It were better for one to drown oneself than live to declare such bankruptcy of faith.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Hope was a dangerous emotion that more often than not led men into foolishness and peril, made them risk their lives and lose their wives and part with fortunes that they never recovered.
~ Bentley Little
Man is never watchful enough against dangers that threaten him every hour. [Lat., Quid quisque vitet nunquam homini satis Cautum est in horas.]
~ Horace
I am terrified of restrictive religious doctrine, having learned from history that when men who adhere to any form of it are in control, common men like me are in peril.
~ James A. Michener
The man who is in real danger is the man who thinks he is perfectly safe.
~ James M. Barrie