Top 100 Quotes About Peril

#1. Glorfindel smiled. 'I doubt very much,' he said, 'if your friends would be in danger if you were not with them! The pursuit would follow you and leave us in peace, I think. It is you, Frodo, and that which you bear that brings us all in peril.

J.R.R. Tolkien

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#2. It may be ordained that we have many nights and days to follow, if full of peril, but we must go on, and from no danger shall we shrink.

Bram Stoker

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#3. The man who stands by and says nothing, when the peril of his government is discussed, can not be misunderstood. If not hindered, he is sure to help the enemy.

Abraham Lincoln

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#4. God, help me. Help me to be wise and full of courage and sound judgment. Harden my heart to the sights that I must see so soon again, grant me only the power to think clearly, boldly, resolutely, no matter how unnerving the peril. Let me not fail them.

Anton Myrer

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#5. I am terrified of restrictive religious doctrine, having learned from history that when men who adhere to any form of it are in control, common men like me are in peril. [The World Is My Home (1991)]

James A. Michener

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#6. Choice in any sphere is a peril, the basic division of peoples is of those who believe in choice and those who mistrust it.

Nayantara Sahgal

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#7. The fabric of space/time is much like one of the elaborate Vatican tapestries, thinks Nemes, and she who begins pulling on loose threads does so at the peril of watching the whole tapestry ravel.

Dan Simmons

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#8. America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.

George W. Bush

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#9. A man may be buoyed up by the efflation of his wild desires to brave any imaginable peril; but he cannot calmly see one he loves braving the same peril; simply because he cannot feel within turn that which prompts another. He sees the danger, and feels not the power that is to overcome it.

George Henry Lewes

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#10. The nature of a coward is to avoid death. If such a man courts peril there can be only two reasons. Either he is not a coward at all or there is no danger.

David Gemmell

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#11. Oooh," Peril said, momentarily distracted by the idea of an enchanted piece of cheese.

Tui T. Sutherland

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#12. Their gowns and masks look lovely." "Not as lovely as yours," Jorgen said without hesitating. Her heart seemed to fly out of her chest and soar around the arched ceiling of the ballroom of Thornbeck Castle. Jorgen Hartman, rescuer of damsels in peril, might . . . perhaps . . . love her. But

Melanie Dickerson

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#13. Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye
Than twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet,
And I am proof against their enmity.

William Shakespeare

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#14. Are you who I think you are?

Lemony Snicket

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#15. Avoid,Profaneness; come not here: Nothing but holy, pure, and clear, Or that which groaneth to be so, May at his peril further go.

George Herbert

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#16. Do not forecast where the temptation will come; it is the least likely thing that is the peril. In the aftermath of a great spiritual transaction the "retired sphere of the leasts" begins to tell; it is not dominant, but remember it is there, and if you are not warned, it will trip you up.

Oswald Chambers

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#17. Peril thought her mother was dead. How would she react when she found out it was Kestrel - and she was still alive?

Tui T. Sutherland

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

Janet Frame

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#19. Like all paradises, Topanga is pitched at the tipping point of promise and peril.

Steve Erickson

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#20. Of course, a hole in the ice offers peril only to those who go skating.

Rex Stout

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#21. I don't know, maybe imminent peril made him feel more alive somehow, for the same reason zombies are carnivores with only one item on the menu. You never heard of undead vegetarians. Where's the challenge in attacking a plate of asparagus?

Rick Yancey

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#22. A splendid storehouse of integrity and freedom has been bequeathed to us by our forefathers. In this day of confusion, of peril to liberty, our high duty is to see that this storehouse is not robbed of its contents.

Herbert Hoover

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#23. There are no rules, but you break them at your peril.

Peter Guber

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#24. The real yellow peril: Gold.

Mark Twain

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#25. And I thought: I shall remember this all my life. The peril, the running, the howling of the dogs, the smothering. Then the happiness - of action, of leaping. Then the green sweetness of distance. And the trees: their thickness and their compassion, all around.

Mary Oliver

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#26. Planet Earth, creation, the world in which civilization developed, the world with climate patterns that we know and stable shorelines, is in imminent peril.

James Hansen

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#27. Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never be in peril. When you are ignorant of the enemy, but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal. If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain in every battle to be in peril.

Sun Tzu

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#28. Still hope leads men to venture; and no one ever yet put himself in peril without the inward conviction that he would succeed in his design.

Thucydides

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#29. Details can change or go missing entirely, particularly in moments of physical peril. A kind of amnesia goes hand in hand with sickness, and a good thing, too.

David Rakoff

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#30. You who call yourselves liberals must understand that it is your way of life that is under threat. Withdraw my right to speak freely, and you jeopardize your own in the future. Ally yourselves with the Islamists at your peril. Tolerate their intolerance at your peril.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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#31. You and I are going to happen, that's all I'm sayin'. You say the word, I will make your body feel things that your pretty boy at home has never even come close to making you feel." Holding On (Lights of Peril)

A.C. Bextor

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#32. I've never owned an actual trail-running shoe myself, but maybe I should. My favorite paths are fraught with peril, much of it skulking at shoelace level. A rock, a root, an errant pine cone. Wham, and you're down, choking in dust and picking pebbles from wounds in your forearms and knees.

Don Kardong

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#33. Friends can feel such things in times of peril, as if a long, thin string holds them carefully together, tugging at one another through the open space of a dangerous world. The

Patrick Carman

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#34. A scholar like myself who is not a Sinologist and yet ventures the proposition that Chinese languages should be rewritten in the Greek alphabet (or "Romanized", to use the current term) is treading on uncharted territory (for him) and does so at his peril.

Eric A. Havelock

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#35. The power of the Web is obvious and undeniable. We diminish it at our peril. But what if the most potent social effect to spread outward from the Internet turns out to be disinhibition, the breaking down of personal restraints and the endless elevation of oneself? It may be already.

Daniel Henninger

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#36. Oh, what peril attaches to sin willfully committed! For it is so difficult for man to bring himself to penance, and without penitence guilt remains and will ever remain, so long as man retains unchanged the will to sin, or is intent upon committing it.

Catherine Of Genoa

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#37. Love is a dangerous commodity-fraught with peril,

Robert Indiana

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#38. Any nation that neglects teaching the sacredness of life and the family does so at its own peril. Any nation that sanctions the removal of God's boundaries will destroy its own.

Ravi Zacharias

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#39. Misprize common sense at your peril is my motto.

Kingsley Amis

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#40. Biodiversity is the totality of all inherited variation in the life forms of Earth, of which we are one species. We study and save it to our great benefit. We ignore and degrade it to our great peril.

E. O. Wilson

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#41. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril.

Oscar Wilde

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#42. I believe in standardizing automobiles. I do not believe in standardizing human beings. Standardization is a great peril which threatens American culture.

Albert Einstein

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#43. 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

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#44. 10Xers distinguish themselves by an ability to recognize defining moments that call for disrupting their plans, changing the focus of their intensity, and/or rearranging their agenda, because of opportunity or peril, or both.

James C. Collins

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#45. for in such mad worships there is peril, the peril of losing them, no less than the peril of keeping them....

Oscar Wilde

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#46. It was a voice that you felt you had to listen to - or you ignored at your peril.

Alexander McCall Smith

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#47. He should come with a warning from
the health department: Handle with extreme caution and use at your own peril. Looking will cause palpitations, dizziness, and hyperventilation. She
knew, for she was having all of those and then some.

Elle Aycart

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#48. By hook or by crook this peril too shall be something that we remember

Homer

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

John T. Flynn

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#50. A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.

Winston S. Churchill

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#51. The Way is eternal. Until your last day, you are free from peril.

Laozi

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#52. Those who go beneath the surface, do so at their peril.

Oscar Wilde

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#53. Hope was a dangerous emotion that more often than not led men into foolishness and peril, made them risk their lives and lose their wives and part with fortunes that they never recovered.

Bentley Little

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

Joss Whedon

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#55. Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.

Plato

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#56. Herein fail not at your peril.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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#57. We ignore the emotional needs of young children at our peril.

Bruce D. Perry

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#58. God may promise not to destroy creation, but it is not a promise humankind made - to our peril.

Diane Ackerman

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#59. 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

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#60. Place your army in deadly peril, and it will survive; plunge it into desperate straits, and it will come off in safety.

Sun Tzu

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#61. I supplied in a tone so saccharine that it should have tipped him off that his testicular health was in serious peril.

Molly Harper

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#62. There is something obscure which is complete before heaven and earth arose; tranquil, quiet, standing alone without change, moving without peril. It could be the mother of everything. Not knowing its name, I call it Tao.

Laozi

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#63. She felt as if she had strayed into a fairy tale, as full of peril as of wonder, a place where anything could happen.

Kate Forsyth

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#64. Leaders often assume to their own peril that spirituality/faith is a good but separate part of their lives. Faith is less like your arm and more like your heart. It is not supplementary to who we are but integral. As such, you should work to keep it in good health.

Brad Lomenick

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#65. Sick and yet happy, in peril and yet happy, dying and yet happy, in exile and happy, in disgrace and happy.

Epictetus

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#66. When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.

Pierre Corneille

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#67. I have overlived the generation with which mutual labors & perils begat mutual confidence and influence.

Thomas Jefferson

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#68. The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.

Albert Einstein

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#69. Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile,
Hath not old custom made this life more sweet
Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods
More free from peril than the envious court?

William Shakespeare

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#70. I think if you socialize, dine with, spend time with known terrorists that are on the list of those who want to do harm to America, you put yourself in peril. I don't dine, socialize or spend time with people who are on the terrorist lists.

Harold Ford Jr.

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#71. Love is both wondrous and yet full of peril. Love is a gateway through which hatred - disguised and unrecognized - can pass.

David Gemmell

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

Joseph Heller

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#73. There is a tradition that jumping off a precipice is prejudicial to the health; and therefore nobody does it. Then appears a progressive prophet and reformer, who points out that we really know nothing about it, because nobody does it. And the tradition is thereby mocked - to the peril of us all.

G.K. Chesterton

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#74. Woman is a necessary evil, a natural temptation, a desirable calamity, a domestic peril, a deadly fascination, and a painted ill.

Saint John Chrysostom

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#75. All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.

Oscar Wilde

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#76. All our perils are nothing, so long as we have prayer.

Charles Spurgeon

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#77. Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.

William Lloyd Garrison

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#78. I'm done with girls on rocks! I've painted them for thirteen years and I could paint them and sell them for thirteen more. That's the peril of the commercial art game. It tempts a man to repeat himself. it's an awful thing to get to be a rubber stamp. I'm quitting my rut now while I'm still able.

Maxfield Parrish

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#79. In time of peril, like the needle to the loadstone, obedience, irrespective of rank, generally flies to him who is best fitted to command.

Herman Melville

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#80. By 2003 he had begun to worry that powerful countries were pursuing their own security in ways that aggravated their peril. He

Samantha Power

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#81. If I were constantly worried about death, I couldn't function. After a while, if your life is more or less constantly in peril, you come to a point where you accept the possibility philosophically.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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#82. If my life is surrendered to God, all is well. Let me not grab it back, as though it were in peril in His hand but would be safer in mine!

Elisabeth Elliot

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#83. The best way to use the gold of the Redeemer is for the redemption of those in peril.

Saint Ambrose

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#84. Cowards shrink from toil and peril, Vulgar souls attempt and fail; Men of mettle, nothing daunted, Persevere till they prevail.

Dean Koontz

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#85. Human thought has no limit. At its risk and peril, it analyzes and dissects its own fascination. We could almost say that, by a sort of splendid reaction, it fascinates nature; the mysterious world surrounding us returns what it receives; it is likely that contemplators are contemplated.

Victor Hugo

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#86. I better understood the little lies that liquor told, lifting spirits and drowning sorrows while withholding the whole truth--that, in the end, it is the spirit in peril of drowning. Sorrows have gills.

Charles M. Blow

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#87. If we don't have workers organized into labor unions, we're in great peril of losing our democracy.

Dolores Huerta

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#88. No counsel is more trustworthy than that which is given upon ships that are in peril.

Leonardo Da Vinci

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#89. Money and sex are forces too unruly for our reason; they can only be controlled by taboos which we tamper with at our peril.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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#90. Anna ... the night of the summit, when you were saved, it was the only time in my life I've thenked God for anything
Those words. They would melt me over and over for all time

Wendy Higgins

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#91. The leader of armies is the arbiter of the people's fate, the man on whom it depends whether the nation shall be in peace or in peril.

Sun Tzu

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#92. The truth for a man, it's what makes him a man.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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#93. The feeling of having shared in a common peril is one element in the powerful cement which binds us.

Alcoholics Anonymous

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#94. You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.

Joan Of Arc

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#95. Your insurance broker has your telephone number, but your insurance broker doesn't have your Facebook ID. I think they are very different modes of communication. Commingling them can come with risk and peril.

Brian Acton

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#96. I would prefer being in a hard battle; however, I will be satisfied with whatever happens to me in this war, if only the country comes out of this peril safe and to the satisfaction of the finest and best government on earth.

Knute Nelson

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#97. Keep unscathed the good name; keep out of peril the honor without which even your battered old soldier who is hobbling into his grave on half-pay and a wooden leg would not change with Achilles.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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#98. It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Jean-Francois Regnard

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#99. Having served as the majority spokesman for the House Ways and Means Committee after Republicans took the House in 1994, I've seen the promise and the peril of divided government before.

Ari Fleischer

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#100. He who is ready to despair in solitary peril, plucks up a heart in the presence of another. In a plurality of comrades is much countenance and consolation.

Herman Melville

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