Perilously Close Quotes

#1. He came for a moment perilously close to believing that he could fly, but a quick-thinking error-checking protocol cut in and told him not to be so silly. It

Douglas Adams

#2. After the assassination of my wife, our nation was perilously close to civil strife. If I, as the co-chairman of the Party, had asked my people to take to the streets, the very existence of the federation would have been threatened.

Asif Ali Zardari

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 In 2008 we came perilously close to killing money, exposing in the process how out of date money's infrastructure has become.

Douglas Coupland

#4. To suggest that the merciful, longsuffering, gracious and loving God of the Bible would invent a dreadful doctrine like Calvinism, which would have us believe it is an act of 'grace' to select only certain people for heaven and, by exclusion, others for hell, comes perilously close to blasphemy.

Tim LaHaye

#5. Unbelief has put self where God should be, and is perilously close to the sin of Lucifer who said, "I will set my throne above the throne of God." Faith looks out instead of in and the whole life falls into line.

A.W. Tozer

#6. His eyebrows drew together. He was perilously close to unibrow; I guess nobody had held him down and administered a good plucking to the caterpillar climbing across his forehead.

Lilith Saintcrow

#7. Gentleness was sometimes perilously close to pity.

Julie Anne Long

#8. Johnny Appleseed was revered . he was ... an evangelist (of a doctrine veering perilously close to pantheism).

Michael Pollan

#9. Has a control system so perilously close to intelligence that a government agent must be on hand at all times, ready to destroy the machine if it slips over the threshold into consciousness.

Alastair Reynolds

#10. And (b) Kissing someone so that you can get a free trip is perilously close to full-on hooking

John Green

#11. mandating innovation is an oxymoron, maybe not as absurd as "scheduling spontaneity," but perilously close. I

Eric Weiner

#12. We are already perilously close to killing off the top of the oceanic food chain - with catastrophic consequences that we can't begin to imagine. Let us not, in the heat of anger, reduce the already devastated population of great white sharks by one more member.

Peter Benchley

#13. More worryingly, my baby fangs were out, which usually happened only when I was perilously close to tipping over into Mr. Hyde territory. I quickly drew them back in. It didn't help much. I still looked like Dracula's daughter. Which was completely unfair, since he'd only been an uncle.

Karen Chance

#14. The greater a man's talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.

Honore De Balzac

#15. Playing the clown is not an easy task. Clowns, I have come to believe, are placed upon the earth solely to fill the needs of others, while running perilously close to "Empty" themselves.

Alan Bradley

#16. There are times in my 30 years in the theater that I have come perilously close to losing faith in the one form of action I have in this life.

Athol Fugard

#17. already imprisoned inside themselves. Prisons of hatred and self-contempt he recognised all too well.

Jo Nesbo

#18. I got a fan letter on the back of a prison menu. And I remember thinking, 'Well, they get pie. It's not so bad. They get pie on the weekends.' I want to say blueberry and also a Boston cream pie. Not so bad.

Tina Fey

#19. In the army of indigence the uniform is rags; they serve to distinguish the rank and file from the recruiting officers.

Ambrose Bierce

#20. Penn State University is also nationally recognized for the exceptional research and patient care provided at the College of Medicine, located in my Congressional District in Hershey, PA.

Tim Holden

#21. In the beginning, there was house. In the end, there was house, and in the middle, there is Axwell

Axwell

#22. Whether I'm shooting 10-under or 10-over I have to realize people have come a long way to see me play. I can't be back-handing putts.

John Daly

#23. Greece, maneuvering for debt relief, is flirting treacherously with Moscow. Recession-hit economies such as Italy seem to believe business as normal with Russia trumps calls for solidarity over Ukraine.

Anonymous

#24. I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of Faults than I had imagined, but I had the Satisfaction of seeing them diminish.

Benjamin Franklin

#25. The problem isn't money. Money isn't the root of all kinds of evil, but the love of money is.

Kyle Idleman

#26. The more you have, the more people want to use you and damage you.

Lee Bo-na

#27. The Chinese government launched China's first 24-hour news channel. And since the channel will only report stories that are favorable to the ruling party, they've decided to call it Fox News.

Conan O'Brien

#28. It's not a terrible thing that we feel fear when faced with the unknown. It is part of being alive, something we all share.

Pema Chodron

#29. I hurt my hand on his head. He has a very hard head.

Carl Froch

#30. Credulity is always ridiculous.

Frances Wright