Quotes of: Perilous Keyword

It was clear, for example, in 1988 that the political process had already become perilously remote from the electorate it was meant to represent.

Joan Didion

We stand today on the edge of a new frontier - the frontier of the 1960's - a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils - a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.

John F. Kennedy

In 2008 we came perilously close to killing money, exposing in the process how out of date money's infrastructure has become.

Douglas Coupland

Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.

Thucydides

Sometimes time can play tricks. One moment it idles by, an hour can seem a lifetime, such as when sitting by the river at dusk watching the bats snatching insects above the limpid waters; the breaching fish causing ringed ripples and a satisfying plo...

Mizpah Cousins: life, love and perilous predicaments during the Great War era.

Did the men steal the papers?" Reynie asked, fearing her response. No, because they are fools," Sophie said bitterly. "They demanded to see the papers, and when I did not answer fast enough -- they were very frightening, you see -- they hurt me so th...

The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey

Ah, it is impossible." "No, it is only very difficult - so very difficult that I shall be sure to accomplish it!

Capitola's Peril

Things difficult - almost to impossibility - can always be accomplished. Write that upon your tablets, for it is a valuable truth.

Capitola's Peril

The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

Catch-22

It saddened me that sometimes shopping was far more perilous than dealing with zombies and vampires.

Dead Waters

I fear we might be losing the basic human facility to be alone - and with that you throw out independent decision-making, what to trust, what not to trust; key stuff - a perilous loss.

Dylan Moran

I get to do the most amazing things. We call it Host in Peril quite often, because people love to see me risk my life or be in danger.

Rick Mercer

He was a visionary or a fool I have found the line perilously thin myself

And the Mountains Echoed

My girlfriend is a party girl angel who can kick some arse and cook.

Sweet Peril

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

You cannot fix a problem that you refuse to acknowledge.

Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril

You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.

Joss Whedon

Please take note that any and all dragon petting will be at your own peril. We are not liable for any injuries sustained while petting.

Love The Stacks Bookstore

Belgium thinks that however great the peril which a country might have to undergo under the system which we seek to establish here, that country ought to do its duty.

Henri La Fontaine

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.

Edward Dahlberg