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Quotes About Peril

To be honest, it was slavery. Nobody should have any romantic ideas about working underground. It's very, very dangerous. You always knew you were living in danger. You were on your hands and knees half the day.
~ Dennis Skinner
Civilization is hideously fragile and there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.
~ Carrie Snow
Boss, life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and look for trouble.
~ Michael Cacoyannis
I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
~ Felix Baumgartner
Mountains are not fair or unfair - they are dangerous.
~ Reinhold Messner
If there is no wisdom, rationality can be very dangerous.
~ Nirmala Srivastava
At the door is at the door. Beware, there are wolves.
~ A.E.H. Veenman
There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.
~ Georges Pompidou
And the propensity of weak and empty people to follow a leader into the darkness from which there is no return is still flourishing, as ever.
~ Mary McGrory
IndyCar is what it is and in the back of our minds we all know it is a dangerous sport.
~ Scott Dixon
Each and every day, Israel's very existence is at stake.
~ John Boehner
Fantasy enabled me to break the shackles and create a whole new level of 'the world is in danger' stakes.
~ Matthew Reilly
Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.
~ Thornton Wilder
It's men you should be afraid of, not monsters.
~ Niccolo Ammaniti
He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.
~ William Shakespeare
The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.
~ E. W. Howe
I've made a connection with the television audience by being a proud Latino man. I am passionate for what I do, courageous in the face of peril, honest and straightforward.
~ Geraldo Rivera
Men soon get tired of shedding their blood for the advantage of a few individuals, who think they amply reward the soldiers perils with the treasures they amass.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
A Wolf eats sheep but now and then; Ten thousands are devour'd by men. An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretend friend is worse.
~ John Gay
Something had gone amiss with men, and the weak ones were dangerous.
~ Thomas McGuane
The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.
~ W. C. Fields
Ships are but boards, sailors but men; there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves, I mean pirates, and thenthere is the peril of waters, winds, and rocks.
~ William Shakespeare
A good man will kill you with hardly a word.
~ Terry Pratchett
A man sits as many risks as he runs.
~ Henry David Thoreau