Quotes About Peril

He stepped on the unexploded artillery shell, and it tore him apart.

Billy was frantically hanging on as Poseidon used the middle tip of his trident to nudge him toward the island.

This was far worse than that. It was like the moment after you realize someone has taken the pin out of a grenade. Like the quiet but deadly click of a landmine beneath a soldier's boot.

Yukon Men is a popular Discovery Channel reality series about the citizens of the small town of Tanana in central Alaska. It portrays wolves as highly dangerous predators that besiege the town and threaten the safety of all of the residents. One of the show's characters, Charlie, says, "Wolves

Whoever did this may still be here.

Ich fürchtete das Schlimmste, nicht, weil ich den Plan der Griechen Zug um Zug durchschaute, sondern weil ich den haltlosen Übermut der Troer sah. Ich schrie, bat, beschwor und redete in Zungen.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

You're the kind of man my mother warned me about.

She claims I've got a habit of finding dangerous situations and effortlessly making them worse.

Life is a flimsy branch over an abyss.

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal.

Christ save us all from a death like this,On the reef of Norman's Woe!

Sound the tocsin of national peril and hordes of well-meaning folk with nothing much to do always materialize from nowhere. They itch to meddle in great matters of which their comprehension is usually pretty dim, and have no objection to getting their names and pictures in the papers.

As the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

Why does everyone think I've been in prison?" "Because you were heading towards either death or prison when we last met—and you are not dead.

Drowning isn't the only way water can kill you.

The approaching storm turns the surface of the sea to steel and silver. Only danger reflects clearly from such a mirror.

Showing signs of weakness was a good way to get eaten.

There was a saying about dust bunnies: by the time you see the teeth, it's too late.

There is something occulted inside us: our death. But something else is hidden there, lying in wait for us within each of our cells: the forgetting of death. In our cells our immortality lies in wait for us. It's common to speak of the struggle of life against death, but there is an inverse peril. And we must struggle against the possibility that we will not die. (p. 5)

A foolish friend may cause more woe Than could, indeed, the wisest foe.

In the modern world there was so much safety that safety had become the chief source of danger.

I walk the line that continually threatens to lose its tautness under me, dropping me into the dark pit where there is no meaning.