Quotes About Peril

The search for truth is not a trade by which a man can support himself; for a priest it is a supreme peril .

That glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing.

Out of the frying pan into the fire.

Since thou hast faithfully obeyed the true religion of God in the past, it behooveth thee to follow His true religion hereafter, inasmuch as every religion proceedeth from God, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting.

Tu n'étais plus qu'un insecte prisonnier d'une araignée repue, qui te gardait en réserve pour un repas à venir. Elle t'avait capturé pour te savourer en toute quiétude, quand l'envie lui viendrait de goûter ton sang. Tu imaginais ses pattes velues, ses gros yeux globuleux, implacables, son ventre mou, gorgé de viande, vibrant, gélatineux, et ses crocs venimeux, sa bouche noire qui allait te sucer la vie.

As good Archbishop Loménie was wont to say: 'There are so many accidents; and it needs but one to save us.'—How many to destroy us?

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

She wasn't the sort of catch one could take home and show off to people; she was the sort of catch that drags the angler off the end of the pier and pulls him out to sea before tearing him to pieces as he's drowning. He shouldn't have been fishing at all, not when he was so ill-equipped.

The logic is that of a man falling from a skyscraper who waves to a friend on the fiftieth floor and says it's all fine, just look how many floors I've passed with no problems.

Love, even when it's not real, can be deadly.

would only lead to trouble. She took a solemn

So if you think this is going to save you...If you think anything is going to save you...Please consider this your final warning.

The whole world is a disaster waiting to happen.

Every takeoff and landing, when the plane banked too much to one side, I prayed for a crash.

The whole world is a dis­as­ter wait­ing to hap­pen.

Death isn't the end of peril. There are deaths beyond death. Like it or not, death isn't the end of anything.

Since the dawn of films when young women had been tied to railroad tracks and tied to logs sent into hug sawmill blades, Hollywood ha never lacked new ways to take pretty girls apart.

So why, then, can't Ackbar shake the feeling that once again they are about to fall into a trap?

It's a trap!

There are no snares more dangerous than those which lurk under the guise of duty or the name of relationship.

Even from just a little thing, it's still possible to die.

Things were somehow so good that they were in danger of becoming very bad because what is fully mature is very close to rotting

It was bad enough that these creatures had children and art; that they might also have vision was too dangerous a thought to entertain.

Joe had the distinct impression they were getting in deeper than they expected with each turn, almost as if they'd hooked a small fish that had been eaten by a larger fish and was being chased by a giant shark.