Top 100 Quotes About Peril
#1. We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.
Voltaire
#2. It is time for Democrats who distrust President Bush to acknowledge that he will be commander in chief for three more critical years, and that in matters of war we undermine presidential credibility at our nation's peril
Joe Lieberman
#4. You can't train a monkey to show character in times of peril, to be selfless, to be kind when there's no percentage in it, or to exercise pride without haughtiness.
Michael Reisig
#5. Hillary's [Clinton] policies on climate change are a problem too. We ignore her track record at our peril.
Jill Stein
#6. Are we bereft of citizenship because we are mothers, wives and daughters of a mighty people? Have women no country
no interests staked in public weal
no liabilities in common peril
no partnership in a nation's guilt and shame?
Angelina Grimke
#7. Only in the last few years did the science crystallize, revealing the urgency - our planet really is in peril. If we do not change course soon, we will hand our children a situation that is out of their control.
James Hansen
#8. Call a thing immoral or ugly, soul-destroying or a degradation to man, a peril to the peace of the world or to the well-being of future generations: as long as you have not shown it to be "uneconomic" you have not really questioned its right to exist, grow, and prosper.
E.F. Schumacher
#9. The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts and birds are found there; shoreless seas and stars uncounted; beauty that is an enchantment, and an ever-present peril; both joy and sorrow as sharp as swords.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#10. Positivism eliminates any kind of natural law principle - for example, that there are economic laws which can be transgressed only at your peril. With positivism, there is a tendency to leap into ad hoc economic theory.
Murray Rothbard
#11. Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views, and boldest action to bring it speedy relief.
Abraham Lincoln
#12. Looking' his last' upon the scene of his former joys and his later sufferings, and wishing 'she' could see him now, abroad on the wild sea, facing peril and death with a dauntless heart, going to his doom with a grim smile on his lips.
Mark Twain
#13. for faith and courage are the greatest gift that we can give to our descendants. And the Land holds mysteries of which we know nothing mysteries of hope as well as of peril.
Stephen R. Donaldson
#14. The ignorant and the deluded are, I think, in a strange way to be envied. That which is not known of does not trouble us, while an imagined but insubstantial peril does not harm us. To know the truths behind reality is a far greater burden.
H.P. Lovecraft
#15. The search for truth is not a trade by which a man can support himself; for a priest it is a supreme peril .
Alfred Loisy
#16. UNDER THE STORM AND THE CLOUD TODAY, AND TODAY THE HARD PERIL AND PAIN - TOMORROW
THE STONE WILL BE ROLLED AWAY, FOR THE SUNSHINE SHALL FOLLOW THE RAIN
Joaquin Miller
#17. There is not the slightest danger of women becoming too intellectual or knowing too much. Neither is there any danger of men knowing too much. At least, I know of no men who are in immediate peril from that source.
Robert G. Ingersoll
#18. He said the right dreams for a man in peril were dreams of peril and all else was the call of languor and death
Cormac McCarthy
#19. There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
Plato
#20. Peril, loneliness, an uncertain future, are not oppressive evils, so long as the frame is healthy and the faculties are employed; so long, especially, as Liberty lends us her wings, and Hope guides us by her star.
Charlotte Bronte
#21. ... Mellor's statement is extremist in two directions: human civilization is in imminent peril, and only one solution will work. I doubt both these formulations, and almost every fiction I have encountered that depends upon them.
Richard T. Nash
#22. These Fatalists preach that Chance and Peril are merely masks for Fate's workings, nothing in themselves, and moreover that all the gods move at Fate's bidding. Their followers take comfort in thinking that their every deed is meant to be; it excuses all manner of meanness.
Sarah Micklem
#23. I'm proud of my wrinkles. They give my face character. As an actress, you mess with that at your peril.
Jane Seymour
#24. The animals of the planet are in desperate peril ... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.
Alice Walker
#25. Rare is the person who has it all, and enjoys it all. It is only when the 'All' is in peril do we enjoy any of it.
Garry Fitchett
#26. That unsounded ocean you gasp in, is Life; those sharks, your foes; those spades, your friends; and what between sharks and spades you are in a sad pickle and peril, poor lad.
Herman Melville
#27. I believe I'll be the judge of how much peril you're worth," he said with a smile.
"You're daft."
"Again, besotted." he said, squeezing her hand. "I'll tell you of it in glorious detail if you can stay awake long enough to hear it."
She smiled at him, which eased his heart a bit.
Lynn Kurland
#28. Putting our ecosystem in great peril is certainly not a part of Chinese culture that I know.
Yao Ming
#29. To pray only when in peril is to use safety belts only in heavy traffic.
Corrie Ten Boom
#30. The trick is to start early in our careers the stress-relieving avocation that we will need later as a mind-exercising final vocation. We can quit a job, but we quit fresh involvement at our mental peril.
William Safire
#31. Sacred Bands and elite squadrons aren't what the mercenaries' guild is about. Field them at your peril.
Janet Morris
#32. Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one's eternal peril.
Laurens Van Der Post
#34. You never chased a sentient into his own environment unless you absolutely had to and you had sufficient forces to handle ten times the force you could see. Break that rule at your peril, as the poor screaming bastard in the water was now learning.
Evan Currie
#35. You want the air
but not the words that come with it:
breathe at your peril.
Margaret Atwood
#36. Hung on our driving boat, I saw your brother, Most provident in peril, bind himself, - -
William Shakespeare
#37. Our inner lives are something we ignore at our own peril, and many of the greatest problems we face in today's world are the result of such neglect. Not
Dalai Lama XIV
#38. If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril.
Sun Tzu
#39. I'd love to do a movie where I actually get to be kind of quirky and odd and dorky and all that stuff. My parents would like to see some movies where I'm not in peril. They'd appreciate it.
Rachel Nichols
#40. Needless to say, urgings by ravens are ignored at one's peril.
James D. Doss
#41. For better or for worse, at this time science is still the most trustworthy mirror of reality, and we ignore it only at our peril.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#42. His foodWas glory, which was poison to his mindAnd peril to his body.
Henry Taylor
#43. Generally, social networking sites can be hugely promising and beneficial in opening new friendships and vistas and knowledge of the world, but they are also fraught with peril, when young people are reckless or headless.
Richard Blumenthal
#44. She was right that reality can be harsh and that you shut your eyes to it only at your peril because if you do not face up to the enemy in all his dark power, then the enemy will come up from behind some dark day and destoy you while you are facing the other way.
Frederick Buechner
#45. If a building is falling on you, you don't concern yourself with the horn of an approaching car. You deal with the most immediate peril first. That's survival.
Roger Zelazny
#46. Lincoln was as calm and unruffled as the summer sea in moments of the gravest peril;
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#47. Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril.
John Dewey
#48. We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.
John F. Kennedy
#49. Prayer is our greatest and most salutary weapon in the eternal battle," put in the man called Schecter, joining them. He took a sip of coffee and continued, "No less than gravity, prayer is one of the elemental forces that moves the world. We underestimate it at our peril.
Stephen R. Lawhead
#51. The symptoms of compassion and benevolence, in some people, are like those minute guns which warn you that you are in deadly peril.
Sophie Swetchine
#52. That is the peril of a solar empire: all the power in all the worlds means nothing if it is in the wrong place.
Pierce Brown
#54. There's real peril in trying to repeat yourself, and apply rules that applied to something else to a new project.
Mitchell Hurwitz
#56. General knowledge may have to be slight or even amateurish knowledge, but it is none the less useful, and we discourage it at our peril.
C.V. Wedgwood
#57. A smile bloomed across Vika's face. "A little peril has never stopped me.
Evelyn Skye
#59. If one learns from others, but does not think, one will be bewildered. If, on the other hand, one thinks but does not learn from others, one will be in peril.
Confucius
#60. All of humanity is in peril of extinction if each one of us does not dare, now and henceforth, always to tell only the truth, and all the truth, and to do so promptly -right now.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#62. He comes here at the peril of his life, for the realization of his fixed idea. In the moment of realization, after all his toil and waiting, you cut the ground from under his feet, destroy his idea, and make his gains worthless to him. Do you see nothing that he might do, under the disappointment?
Charles Dickens
#63. These are facts that would make every American upset. Our birthright is being stolen, the legacy of our country is at stake, and the values of our nation are in peril. The future whispers, and the present shouts.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
#64. For in tremendous extremities human souls are like drowning men; well enough they know they are in peril; well enough they know the causes of that peril;
nevertheless, the sea is the sea, and these drowning men do drown.
Herman Melville
#65. To paraphrase Lucretius, there's nothing more useful than to watch a man or woman in times of contagious deadly disease peril combined with his or her assumptions of financial adversity to discern what kind of man or woman they really are.
T.K. Naliaka
#66. If we cannot provide excellent educational opportunities to all children, safe communities, quality health coverage, or robust and fair avenues towards wealth creation, then our nation will increasingly be in peril.
Cory Booker
#67. Even if it's to my peril, I think it's pertinent to point out at this juncture that you're in a serious fucking jealous rage and I haven't even kissed you yet.
Kristen Ashley
#68. Perfection is fragile; interacting with something that seems perfect puts it in peril.
Sharon Salzberg
#69. If we do not catch men, we are in great danger of losing even the desire to catch them. Our purposed activity is in peril of becoming a dream.
John Henry Jowett
#70. The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?
Saint Augustine
#71. Typical of the limitations, even the contradictions of life, is the fact that what is most worth having can often only be had at the peril of life itself.
H.D.F. Kitto
#72. And the customer has a voice; provide a bad product or lousy service at your peril.
Eric Schmidt
#73. A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.
Elizabeth I
#74. When one knows that he is his mother's child, and proceeds to guard (the qualities of) the mother that belong to him, to the end of his life he will be free from all peril.
Lao-Tzu
#75. Uncertainty and danger are always closely allied, thus making any kind of an unknown world a world of peril and evil possibilities.
H.P. Lovecraft
#76. Never buy an editor or publisher a lunch or a drink until he has bought an article, story or book from you. This rule is absolute and may be broken only at your peril.
John Creasey
#78. Unfortunately for critics and audiences alike, I have made several films, and some films with really terrific actors. And I say this at my own peril, but Marion Cotillard is the best actor I've ever worked with.
James Gray
#79. The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-Boat peril ... It did not take the form of flaring battles and glittering achievements, it manifested itself through statistics, diagrams, and curves unknown to the nation, incomprehensible to the public.
Winston Churchill
#80. Everywhere he looked was a nut, and it was all a sensible young gentleman like himself could do to maintain his perspective amid so much madness. And it was urgent that he did, for he knew his life was in peril.
Joseph Heller
#81. Before putting yourself in peril, it is necessary to forsee and fear it; but when one is there, nothing remains but to despise it.
Francois Fenelon
#82. There is no absolute peril except for him who abandons himself; There is no complete death except for him who aquires a taste of dying.
Jacques Riviere
#83. In spite of despair, hope must exist. In spite of suffering, humanity must prevail. And in spite of all the differences in the world, the worst enemy, the worst peril, is indifference.
Elie Wiesel
#84. Never close the doors of opportunity to climb through the windows of peril.
Dennis Adonis
#85. The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#86. A pilot must have a memory developed to absolute perfection. But there are two higher qualities which he also must have. He must have good and quick judgment and decision, and a cool, calm courage that no peril can shake.
Mark Twain
#87. I think to the extent Republicans depart from the historic commitment, we do so at our peril.
Mike Pence
#88. Anyone who is aware of his environment knows that the peril of physical assault does exist, and that it exists everywhere and at all times.
Jeff Cooper
#89. Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return.
Colin Powell
#90. Since I have fought against these Jewish-Soviet ideas in Germany, since I have conquered and stamped out this peril, I fancy that I possess a better comprehension of its character than do these men who have only to deal with it in the field of literature.
Adolf Hitler
#91. An audience who watches my shows knows who I am, knows that right when they think I'm going to make a joke, I'm going to blow something up, or during the worst peril, I'm going to have someone give someone a kiss - it's just going to happen.
Joss Whedon
#92. 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.
Leslie McFarlane
#93. To enlighten mankind and improve its morals is the only lesson which we offer in this story. In reading it, may the world discover how great is the peril which follows the footsteps of those who will stop at nothing to satisfy their desires.
Marquis De Sade
#94. This is the greatest challenge of faith, says Polish, "to live with a God we cannot fully understand, whose actions we explain at our own peril.
James Martin
#95. There was no let-up. The tempo was always moderate but steady. If a new guy decided to pick up the pace, that's where it stayed, whether he finished with the group or not. You showed off at your peril.
John L. Parker Jr.
#96. His love for Frodo rose above all other thoughts, and forgetting his peril he cried aloud: 'I'm coming Mr. Frodo!
J.R.R. Tolkien
#97. Penelope glared at her, "Madame said that men love damsels in distress. She failed to point out that damsels in distress look wretched, miserable and downright horrid."
"Men do love damsels in distress. We simply need to look lovely while fighting mortal peril.
Anya Wylde
#98. So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.
Lucretius
#99. God is waiting for the response of our freedom. Our own choice, our own creativity, is essential to the drama, and this makes the world a drama fraught with real peril.
Stratford Caldecott
#100. Ignore your pain at your peril. Your most potent lessons are often wrapped within its uncomfortable embrace ...
Simon Boylan
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