Penultimate Peril Quotes

#1. Two million felons have tried to buy a gun and, because of the background check, have been denied.

Joe Biden

#2. Are you who I think you are?

Lemony Snicket

#3. The business virtue par excellence is honesty without it markets can't long survive.

Ted Malloch

#4. No, I don't run all the way. I'm not like an Olympic class runner.

Bruce McCulloch

#5. Some people might leave you,' he said, for once ignoring a joke in favor of something real. 'But it doesn't mean you're worth leaving. It doesn't mean that at all.

Veronica Roth

#6. Suppose the arbitrary violence that is bound into action shapes us.

Aaron Apps

#7. So you're a real person! I always thought you were a legendary figure, like unicorns or Giuseppe Verdi.

Lemony Snicket

#8. Without the presence and energy of art in our lives, we are capable of engaging in heartless activities without remorse and cruelties with clear consciences.

Maya Angelou

#9. By the end of the nineteenth century, the stereotype of the ugly American - voracious, preachy, mercenary, and bombastically chauvinist - was firmly in place in Europe.

Simon Schama

#10. The Wilhelm Gustloff was pregnant with lost souls conceived of war. They would crowd into her belly and she would give birth to their freedom.

Ruta Sepetys

#11. Mentally ill. It's a phrase that once scared me, but now I wear it like an old jacket, comfortable but ugly.

Jenny Lawson

#12. O, undoubtedly yes, and very potable so, but one who deeper thinks will always bear in the baccbuccus of his mind that this downright there you are and there it is is only all in his eye. Why?

James Joyce

#13. Though we cannot SEE angles, we can INFER them, and this with great precision. Our sense of touch, stimulated by necessity, and developed by long training, enables us to distinguish angles far more accurately than your sense of sight, when unaided by a rule or measure of angles.

Edwin A. Abbott

#14. God spares us because He is good, but He could not be good if He were not just.

Aiden Wilson Tozer