Quotes of: Perilous Keyword

Look back, and smile on perils past!

The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott

You’re noble enough, Baudelaires. That’s all we can ask for in this world.

The Penultimate Peril

I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies.

The Penultimate Peril

Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.

Lucretius

Putting our ecosystem in great peril is certainly not a part of Chinese culture that I know.

Yao Ming

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

John Mason Brown

Throughout the Old Testament, God warns his chosen people about the perils of assimilation, shiksappeal and false gods.

David Harsanyi

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Electricity, the peril the wind sings to in the wires on a gray day.

Janet Frame

Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.

Ambrose Bierce

Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril

Andrew Motion

As many have noted, the peril for authors is that our work space is too easily our play space.

Guy Gavriel Kay

The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.

John T. Flynn

What is the purpose of living if there are no perils to be encountered and overcome?

The Boy Who Swam with Piranhas

Love is one of life’s greatest pleasures, as it is one of life’s greatest perils.

It's Just Business

A woman is at her greatest peril in the presence of a beautiful man.

The Interpretation of Murder

The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny, and that's why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright.

Alain Badiou

We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves.

Daniel Boone

When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril.

Harry S Truman

Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.

James Earl Jones

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Niccolo Machiavelli