Peril Quotes

Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.

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.

A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.

Uncertainty and danger are always closely allied, thus making any kind of an unknown world a world of peril and evil possibilities.

We all covet wealth, but not its perils.

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

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

All art is at once surface and symbol.

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

The only people with power today are the audience. And that is increasing with Twitter, Facebook, and everything else. We cater to their likes and dislikes, and you ignore that at your peril.

I'm the little fat cruiser weight, write me off at your peril.

Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril

The pro-Israel lobby has been remarkably successful in suppressing criticism. Politicians challenge it at their peril because of the lobby's ability to influence political contributions.

Sacred Bands and elite squadrons aren't what the mercenaries' guild is about. Field them at your peril.

Hillary's [Clinton] policies on climate change are a problem too. We ignore her track record at our peril.

The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?

Language is the soul’s ozone layer and we thin it at our peril.

The search for truth is not a trade by which a man can support himself; for a priest it is a supreme peril .

Death is easier to bear without thinking of it, than the thought of death without peril.

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

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

Paul Rudnick is a champion of truth (and love and great wicked humor) whom we ignore at our peril.

People do have viewing patterns, and you disrupt those at your own peril. That's something that everybody learned after 1988. The numbers have gone down every year since that strike. Big time.

The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.

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

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.

Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril.

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.

I think we have to be fair in saying at this point that neither Roosevelt nor Lewis realized the peril to which they were exposing both the unions and the country.

Misprize common sense at your peril is my motto.

Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.

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

What the light of your mind, which is the direct inspiration of the Almighty, pronounces incredible, that, in God's name, leave uncredited. At your peril do not try believing that!

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.

Glory is the child of peril.

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

At bank, post office or supermarket, there is one universal law which you ignore at your own peril: the shortest line moves the slowest.

Obscenity is a notable enhancer of life and is suppressed at grave peril to the arts.

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

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.

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?

Surrendering to fear and allowing ourselves to be paralyzed by peril isn't something most of us can afford to do.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

To me, there's nothing funnier than funny people in peril, because it's just a great springboard for people to be at a heightened emotionality and things get funnier.

Indeed we are all in peril if the flawed messenger invalidates the message.

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, believed to have one of the highest rates of sexual violence in the world, girls and women face increased peril on the road to safety.