Quotes about Perilous

Au contraire..." "What?" Constance demanded. Curtain blinked. ~ The Perilous Journey Votes: 3

Perilous to us all are the devices of an art deeper than we possess ourselves. Votes: 3

Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution. Votes: 1

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. Votes: 1

Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs. Votes: 1

By far my most perilous assignment was covering a tank car explosion. Votes: 1

Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains. Votes: 1

A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head. Votes: 1

Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous. Votes: 1

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity. Votes: 1

I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor. Votes: 1

To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation. Votes: 1

Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race. Votes: 1

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are. Votes: 1

The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny, and that's why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright. Votes: 1

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger. Votes: 1

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. Votes: 1

In LA, where I live, it's all about perfectionism. Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women. Votes: 1

It is often more important to act than to understand... there are times... when two conflicting opinions, though one happens to be right, are more perilous than one opinion which is wrong. Votes: 1

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. Votes: 1

We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study. Votes: 1

I fear we might be losing the basic human facility to be alone - and with that you throw out independent decision-making, what to trust, what not to trust; key stuff - a perilous loss. Votes: 1

Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions. Votes: 1

Everyone seems agreed that writing about sex is perilous, partly because it threatens to swamp highly individualised characters in a generic, featureless activity (much like coffee-cup dialogue, during which everyone sounds the same), and partly because it feels... tacky. Votes: 1

This is a perilous time, and more than ever, the world needs a united and strong America. If, God forbid, we live to see Mr. Obama president, we will live through a socialist era that America has not seen before, and our country will be weakened in every way. Votes: 1

Modern motor vehicles are safer and more reliable than they have ever been - yet more than 1 million people are killed in car accidents around the world each year, and more than 50 million are injured. Why? Largely because one perilous element in the mechanics of driving remains unperfected by progress: the human being. Votes: 1

It used to be the case that for an Irishman to come to the U.S. involved a perilous journey on a ship. It involved singing lots of songs before you left saying goodbye, and once you were in the U.S., it involved singing lots of songs about how you were never going to set foot in Ireland again. Votes: 1

When you are on assignment, you stick to the facts, limit your vision, and often cut out the most revealing material. There is no texture, no shades of gray. In fiction, you can bring the reader on the perilous journey with your characters as they discover that war is more like a wilderness of mirrors, full of danger and uncertainty. Votes: 1

Beauty is a perilous gift ... Votes: 0

Nothing so perilous as procrastination Votes: 0

Being other than normal is a perilous advantage. Votes: 0

Poetry finds its perilous equilibrium somewhere between music and speech ... Votes: 0

How perilous it is to free a people who prefer slavery. Votes: 0

You speak like a green girl / unsifted in such perilous circumstances. Votes: 0

Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies. Votes: 0

The situation is perilous, but there is still one chance of escape. Votes: 0

Sudden and slashing reforms are as perilous as sudden and slashing surgery. Votes: 0

To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing. Votes: 0

O ruthless, perilous, imperious hate, you can not thwart the promptings of my soul. Votes: 0

Neither awake nor in a dark dream are perilous blades just as they seem. Votes: 0

All choices are fraught with peril, but inaction is the most perilous of all. Votes: 0

The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on a dim and perilous way! Votes: 0

Answers are a perilous grip on the universe. They can appear sensible yet explain nothing. Votes: 0

Have confidence. Even if it's a perilous road, one day you will reach your goal. Votes: 0

Having a perilous adventure is always better than comatose safety. Always, always, always, always, always. Votes: 0

There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success. Votes: 0

For one to grasp, whatever be his object, sov'reign power ... is an act of perilous presumption. Votes: 0

There's a perilous word fiction writers need to watch out for. The word is 'had.' Votes: 0

It saddened me that sometimes shopping was far more perilous than dealing with zombies and vampires. Votes: 0

It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill. Votes: 0

Are these perilous times? They are. But we can have peace in our hearts and in our homes. Votes: 0

A woman in such an emotional tempest is as perilous as a blind cobra to any about her. Votes: 0

Faerie is a perilous land, and in it are pitfalls for the unwary, and dungeons for the overbold. Votes: 0

I do think that the banking system is now in the most perilous state we've seen in over 70 years. Votes: 0

Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous. Votes: 0

Keeping kids safe is sometimes a delusion. The world is a perilous place. Sometimes the kitchen is a perilous place. Votes: 0

Believing your own bullshit is always a perilous activity, but never more fatal than for the owner of a start-up venture. Votes: 0

For acting, darlings, is the world's most perilous trade. Compared with actors, steeple jacks and deep-sea divers lead snug and placid lives. Votes: 0

And as he, who with laboring breath has escaped from the deep to the shore, turns to the perilous waters and gazes. Votes: 0

So, I never lose a sense of the whimsical and perilous charm of daily life, with its meetings and words and accidents. Votes: 0

Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician. Votes: 0

Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women. Votes: 0

Aren't there gradations of evil? Is evil a great perilous gulf into which one falls with the first sin, plummeting to the depth? Votes: 0

Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man's honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself. Votes: 0

The perils of credit and debt, especially perilous in the computer age, have long been acknowledged in pop culture, but very infrequently by TV. Votes: 0

I run because I am convinced that this country is on a perilous course and I have such strong feelings about what must be done. Votes: 0

I have been reading the Old Testament, a most bloodthirsty and perilous book for the young. Jehovah is beyond doubt the worst character in fiction. Votes: 0

Human nature is so weak that the honest men who have no religion make me fret with their perilous virtue, as rope-dancers with their dangerous equilibrium. Votes: 0

Today, it is especially difficult for most people to understand our perilous global energy situation precisely because it has never been more important to do so. Votes: 0

The ambitious climb high and perilous stairs, and never care how to come down; the desire of rising hath swallowed up their fear of a fall. Votes: 0

Women are safer in perilous situations and emergencies than men, and might be still more so if they trusted themselves more confidingly to the chivalry of manhood. Votes: 0

I was no hero. The dearest wishes of my heart were for safety and tranquility. The world was a perilous place, wrong for the likes of me. Votes: 0

She has great problems of her own to solve, very grim and perilous problems, and a right solution, if we can attain to it, would largely benefit mankind. Votes: 0

The spiritual desire for poetry can be overwhelming, so much do I need it to experience and name my own perilous depths and vast spaces, my own well-being. Votes: 0

Danger has been a part of my life ever since I picked up a pen and wrote. Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies. Votes: 0

Expectations are the most perilous form of dream, and when dreams do realise themselves it is in the waking world: the difference is subtly but often painfully felt. Votes: 0

Literature is an ethical leap. It is a moral decision. A perilous exercise in constant failure. Literature should have grievances, because there are so many grievances in the world. Votes: 0

Regarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth is sometimes perilous, naturally, since he's a high-handed old poem himself, but he's also sublime - and who goes to poetry for safety anyway. Votes: 0

It is always perilous to suppose that the past is over and done with or that it can ever safely be disconnected from the pressing concerns of the present. Votes: 0

I was once told by someone wise that writing is perilous as you cannot always guarantee your words will be read in the spirit in which they were written. Votes: 0

We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty. Votes: 0

The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool, And to the false, error and truth alike, Error is worse than ignorance. Votes: 0

We are on a perilous margin when we begin to look passively at our future selves, and see our own figures led with dull consent into insipid misdoing and shabby achievement. Votes: 0

Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment? Votes: 0

love is a chemical imbalance, too. That perilous highs and desperate lows and extravagant flurries of mood are not always symptoms of a broken mind, but signs of a beating heart. Votes: 0

Raising Black children-female and male-in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they will probably not survive. Votes: 0

Religious externals may have meaning for the God-inhabited soul; for any others they are not only useless but may actually become snares, deceiving them into a false and perilous sense of security. Votes: 0

We are at a crossroads in human history. Never before has there been a moment so simultaneously perilous and promising. We are the first species to have taken evolution into our own hands. Votes: 0

God! sing, ye meadow-streams, with gladsome voice! Ye pine-groves, with your soft and soul-like sounds! And they too have a voice, you piles of snow, And in their perilous fall shall thunder, God! Votes: 0

Sympathy for the enemy -- a weakness of police and armies alike. Most perilous are the unconscious sympathies directing you to preserve your enemy intact because the enemy is your justification for existence. Votes: 0

Margaret Thatcher was a great leader for her nation at a pivotal and a perilous time. So, I find the comparison flattering, but that's up to others to say whether that comparison is justified. Votes: 0

In this perilous world, if a black boy wanted to live a halfway normal life and die a natural death he had to learn early the art of how to get along with white folks. Votes: 0