Quotes About Peril

Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril.

Darkness got you like Shelob gor Frodo, only worse.

Angela nearly got inhaled by a shark while aquaplaning.

I don't think I have ever assisted at a ceremony which gave such universal pleasure to all concerned. The sheet didn't split, which pleased Gussie. Nobody came to interrupt us, which pleased me. And when I dropped the suitcase, it hit Gussie on the head, which delighted Aunt Dahlia. As for Jeeves, one could see that the faithful fellow was tickled pink at having been able to cluster round and save the young master in his hour of peril. His motto is 'Service.

Beautiful cities have a treacherous nature.

His ears were attuned for the steady firing of Couzens' heavy machine guns, which he knew should now commence, and the thud of his carefully sited mortars, but he did not hear them and he realized, suddenly and sickeningly, that the Chinese had not attacked across the spit of land. They were pouring across the ice, and had taken Dog Company in the rear.

They had fallen onto a section of the glacier that had already begun its inevitable plunge to the sea.

El enemigo más peligroso es el que nadie teme.

L'ennemi le plus dangereux est celui que personne ne craint.

The fabric of space/time is much like one of the elaborate Vatican tapestries, thinks Nemes, and she who begins pulling on loose threads does so at the peril of watching the whole tapestry ravel.

I was beginning to see the danger in adhering to a single narrative, hewing to a story. The peril wasn't only in getting it wrong. It was a kind of calcification, a narrowing, a perversion of reality that hardened and stilled the spirit.

You live for it. Like falling in love, moments that announce themselves as your subject are rare, and there's a magic to them. Ignorr them at your own peril.

You live for it. Like falling in love, moments that announce themselves as your subject are rare, and there's a magic to them. Ignore them at your own peril.

la crainte du danger est dix mille fois plus effrayante que le danger lui-meme,et nous trouvons le poids de l'anxiete plus lourd de beaucoup que le mal que nous redoutans.

fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself

Ne poznavaju?i opasnost koja mi prijeti, bio sam jednako sretan kao da je zapravo i nije bilo.

Delay always breeds danger.

there is no one on earth as dangerous as a really clever fool.

Expect poison from the standing water.

There isn't anyone to help you. Only me. And I'm the Beast. . .

William Goldman

he had known that the endless space below him that stretched out like a maw was exactly that: a mouth the size of the world, straining to swallow him.

Why's there a pharos here?" he said. "You don't put a lighthouse where no one's going to go. You put it somewhere dangerous where they have to go.

How to explain... that the warning signs were so slight ? That disaster, when it is quite sure of its own strength, will announce itself by hardly moving its lips?