Quotes About Peril

you know what they say about messengers, right? Excuse me? Too much bad news will get you shot.[...]

Phury glanced at John and thought that sometimes it took only a hairbreadth between cars to avoid a mortal accident. Sometimes your whole life could hinge on a fraction of an inch. Or the beat of a nanosecond. Or the knock on a door. Kind of made a male believe in the divine.

you know what they say about messengers, right? Excuse me? Too much bad news will get you shot.

His big body was nothing but death waiting for a place to happen.

A couple of inches up and right and he would have been a soprano.

Una debilidad no reconocida puede resultar mortífera.

All was confusion and action, and every moment life and limb were in peril. There was imperative need to be constantly alert; for these dogs and men were not town dogs and men. They were savages, all of them, who knew no law but the law of club and fang.

Why do we as a people choose to live in beautiful and risky places? Beautiful places are relatively dangerous; the forces that made them beautiful are the same forces that will ultimately destroy them.

Being on the run, having to change the way that you do business, being unable to plan in a safe and secure environment, always looking over your shoulder, knowing that some day somebody's going to knock on your door and it's going to be your last.

Any American who has spent time in Iraq or Afghanistan will tell you: the closer you get, the less certain you are of anything. If you are in Iraq, if you are in Afghanistan, everything is ambiguous. Everything is murky and gray and uncertain and possibly lethal.

Place your army in deadly peril, and it will survive; plunge it into desperate straits, and it will come off in safety.

Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.

I just don't see this old idea of the Red peril, itching to take over the world. I think you can explain a lot of the Soviets' moves as stemming from a basic sense of insecurity.

It's one of the most serious things that can possibly happen to one in a battle - to get one's head cut off.

The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.

Ground on which we can only be saved from destruction by fighting without delay, is desperate ground.

In a middle of a war a single doubt about what you are fighting for could mean death.

There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.

If one tries to navigate unknown waters one runs the risk of shipwreck

Why is it that what we do know can save us, but what we don't know can kill us?

I enter a time of much peril, and am more likely to fail and die than succeed and live." "Those who succeed and those who fail are both destined to die.

yourself into a sheep, and you'll meet a wolf nearby.