Quotes About Peril

mass execution appeared to be in the making, but the expedition could not continue without

It was astonishing that Magellan's nemesis would risk his life again, after all the carnage

sparing their lives, they grasped the desperate situation they now faced.

only 67 ships and ten thousand men survived, and many of those survivors perished as they tried to return to Spain.

As proof, the sole cable protecting them from disaster held until dawn, when the storm finally relented.

If you find yourself in enough trouble to be staring death in the face, you've gotten there by a well-worn path.

Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one's eternal peril.

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A wicked wife, a foolish friend, an ill tongued servant and a house infested with serpents will undoubtedly bring death.

The worst things always happen at night, and oftener than one would think on stormy nights. ("The Compensation House")

Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.

In England, there was scarcely an amount of order and protection to justify much national boasting. Daring burglaries by armed men, and highway robberies, took place in the capital itself every night; families were publicly cautioned not to go out

As mariposas, e todo tipo de criaturas horríveis, sempre rondam a vela. O que é que a vela pode fazer?

A medida que esta era se vuelve más tenebrosa, más serán las voces perjudiciales para el pueblo de Dios. Los que con desgano buscan su rostro y no anhelan conocerle con fervor serán fácilmente inducidos a aceptar numerosos errores doctrinales.

A little learning is dangerous, but downright ignorance is even more disastrous.

Working without safety is a dead-end job.

Danger never takes a vacation.

We know not which stone the scorpion lurks under.

Hear ye, intruders! Beware of guard dreams.

Dead folks can't hurt you none. It's the ones that are alive, you have to watch out for.

Life is dangerous, she thought. No one survives it.

We've been half right about a lot of things, but there's something missing from our theories, something whose nature we haven't even guessed yet. If we don't learn to understand it, it will kill us.

She can see now (the baby has shown her) that to be in the world is to be in danger; and to move through the world is to be in a constantly shifting relationship with tragedy: we avoid it by a wide margin, or we narrowly escape it, or we feel it suddenly upon us, a thing too big and fast-moving to be outrun.

La madre de Ofelia no lo sabía, pero ella también creía en los cuentos de hadas. Carmen Cardoso creía en el cuento más peligroso de todos: aquel en que un príncipe la salvaría.