Quotes About Peril

Men fight more fiercely for a king who shares their peril than one who hides behind his mother's skirts.

No wall can keep you safe," his father told him once, as they walked the walls of Winterfall. "A wall is only as strong as the men who defend it.

We are walking on a bridge of ice with an abyss on either side.

Surely the Gods did not bring me safe through fire and sea only to kill me with a flux.

you would sleep beneath a roof tonight, you must climb off your horses and cross the mud with me. The path of faith, we call it. Only the faithful may cross safely. The wicked are swallowed by the quicksands, or drowned when the tide comes rushing in. None of you are wicked, I hope? Even so, I would be careful where I set my feet. Walk only where I walk, and you shall reach the other side." The path of faith was a crooked one, Brienne could not help but note.

Trust would get you killed.

The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.

I think war is a dangerous place.

It was growing late, and though one might stand on the brink of a deep chasm of disaster, one was still obliged to dress for dinner.

In my experience it is always the most innocent-looking creatures that can cause you the worst damage.

It seemed to me at that moment that the peril hanging over us, the horrors we had seen at Babi Yar and elsewhere, made it all the more vital that we love each other, never hurt each other, always be truthful and gentle with each other. Helena understood that also. I could see it in her eyes, sense it in her sighs, and small cries, and reluctance to let go of me.

Adventure is something that happens to someone else. When it's happening to you, it's only trouble.

O pilot! 'tis a fearful night, There's danger on the deep.

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, who he assumes to have perfect vision.

Give us grace and strength to preserve. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends and soften to us our enemies. Give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we may be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temperate in wrath and in all changes of fortune, and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving to one another.

Give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we may be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temperate in wrath, and in all changes of fortune, and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving one to anther.

A hole is nothing at all, but you can break your neck in it.

Life is a perilous voyage.

He that is not in the war is not out of danger.

A leader must face danger. He must take the risk and the blame, and the brunt of the storm.

The way to be safe is never to be secure.

To be on the alert is to live; to be lulled into security is to die.

Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.

V shook his head. "Remember what you saw in that clearing, cop? How'd you like that anywhere near a female you loved?" Butch put down the Bud without drinking from it. His eyes traveled over Rhage's body. "We're going to need a shitload of steel," the human muttered.