Quotes About Peril

Life was the most dangerous thing there was.

There's no such thing as safety. Only degrees of risk.

Even in the era that we think of as the "good old days" children were never truly safe. Monsters walked among us, even then. In this case, though, the monster in question was not an adult that preyed on a child, it was what the

Huye, Adso, de los profetas y de los que están dispuestos a morir por la verdad, porque suelen provocar también la muerte de muchos otros, a menudo antes que la propia, y a veces en lugar de la propia.

Dreadful, unspeakably wicked men the Nazi chieftains were, and Lanny was haunted by the idea that it was his duty to give up all pleasures and all other duties and try to awaken the people of Western Europe to a realization of the peril in which they stood.

Uno de los medios de los que se sirve el fascismo para actuar sobre el hombre es la total, o casi total, ceguera. El hombre no cree que vaya al encuentro de su propia aniquilación.

Human thought has no limit. At its risk and peril, it analyzes and dissects its own fascination. We could almost say that, by a sort of splendid reaction, it fascinates nature; the mysterious world surrounding us returns what it receives; it is likely that contemplators are contemplated.

Djali trotted along behind them, so overjoyed at seeing Gringoire again that she constantly made him stumble by affectionately putting her horns between his legs. 'That's life,' said the philosopher, each time he narrowly escaped falling flat on his face. 'It's often our best friends who cause our downfall.

There comes a day when the young girl glances in this manner. Woe to him who chances to be there! That first gaze of a soul which does not, as yet, know itself, is like the dawn in the sky. It

The abyss sometimes has these thoughtful ideas; but you will do well to beware of its kindness.

The only social peril is darkness.

A masmorra escura. É o teu futuro. A preguiça, o prazer, que precipícios! Não fazer nada, é um lúgubre partido a tomar, sabes? Viver ocioso da substância social! Ser inútil, ou seja, nocivo! Isso conduz directamente ao fundo da miséria.

L'ideale è spaventoso a vedersi, così, perduto nelle profondità, piccolo, isolato, impercettibile, brillante ma circondato da tutte quelle grandi minacce nere mostruosamente ammassate intorno a esso. Eppure, esso non è più in pericolo di quanto non lo sia una stella tra le fauci delle nembi.

In Alaska you can make one mistake. One. The second one will kill you.

felt to her as if her family stood poised on the edge of a great precipice that could collapse at any second, crumble away like the houses that crashed down Seattle's unstable, waterlogged hillsides.

but not only by believing in God. Prayers and faith will not be enough, I'm afraid. The path of righteousness is often dangerous. Get

With no local police and no one to call for help. All this time, Dad had taught Leni how dangerous the outside world was. The truth was that the biggest danger of all was in her own home.

Up here you can make one mistake. The second one will kill you.

Such...theatrics in the wrong place could be dangerous.

even though she felt danger slip silently into the water and swim toward her.

I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.

With peril a constant companion, a combat engineer took joy in life when he could and tended to shrug off dangers he considered minor.

Man," said Terl, "is an endangered species.

If you lose, there's the devil to pay.