Quotes About Peril

What use is decency when we have been thrust into this peril—treading about without even a corset! Are we to be judged?

Suddenly, they saw its back end drop down, as into a rut, and the gee-pole, with Hal clinging to it, jerk into the air. Mercedes's scream came to their ears. They saw Charles turn and make one step to run back, and then a whole section of ice give way and dogs and humans disappear. A yawning hole was all that was to be seen. The bottom had dropped out of the trail. John Thornton and Buck looked at each other. You poor devil, said John Thornton, and Buck licked his hand.

Then he would cast a glance of fear at the wolf-circle drawn expectantly about him, and like a blow the realisation would strike him that this wonderful body of his, this living flesh, was no more than so much meat, a quest of ravenous animals, to be torn and slashed by their hungry fangs, to be sustenance to them as the moose and the rabbit had often been sustenance to him

If you are careless enough to be killed," said Kelle, "you put us to enormous inconvenience.

It went well enough at first. One need not be able to name a danger to sense and avoid it.

Sache seulement que si,comme je le crains,le malheur s'abat sur cette ville,si les hommes y perdent le droit,unique au monde,de penser librement,c'est tout l'avenir de l'humanité qui sera menacé.

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. [The World Is My Home (1991)]

In Malaya, in China, over Europe or in the jungle airports of the Amazon this word betokens final catastrophe: "Mayday, Mayday.

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

That the world calls morality is nothing but the dream of safety. That's how the world gets to be so fucking moral. The only way to know that you are safe is to see somebody else in danger-otherwise you can't be sure if you're safe.

Every Negro boy—in my situation during those years, at least—who reaches this point realizes, at once, profoundly, because he wants to live, that he stands in great peril and must find, with speed, a "thing," a gimmick, to lift him out, to start him on his way. And it does not matter what the gimmick is.

I saw nothing very clearly but I did see this: that my life, my real life, was in danger, and not from anything other people might do but from the hatred I carried in my own heart.

It had been written because he was afraid, afraid of things dark, strange, dangerous, difficult, and deep.

I'm aware, you know, that I and the people I love may perish in the morning. I know that. But there's light on our faces now.

Her voice reminded me for a minute of what heroin feels like sometimes—when it's in your veins.

10Xers distinguish themselves by an ability to recognize defining moments that call for disrupting their plans, changing the focus of their intensity, and/or rearranging their agenda, because of opportunity or peril, or both.

There are districts in which the position of the rural population is that of a man standing permanently up to the neck in water, so that even a ripple is sufficient to drown him.

There's an old saying, Buck said. A hundred things can go wrong in a holdup, and if you can think of fifty of them you're a damn genius.

The uncertainty of the danger belongs to the essence of terrorism.

It is always dangerous to underestimate anybody.

You underestimate John Bolton at your peril.

Underestimate the intelligence of the electorate at your peril.

Republicans keen to shake Donald Trump loose from the party underestimate his popularity at their peril.

Belgium thinks that however great the peril which a country might have to undergo under the system which we seek to establish here, that country ought to do its duty.