The conclusion, so vexatious to democracy, that wisdom and not popularity qualifies for rule may be forced upon us by the peril… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
I was a peaceful sedentary man, a lover of a quiet life, with no appetite for perils and commotions. But I was… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
As a camel beareth labor, and heat, and hunger, and thirst, through deserts of sand, and fainteth not; so the fortitude of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject. — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
Woman is a necessary evil, a natural temptation, a desirable calamity, a domestic peril, a deadly fascination, and a painted ill. — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
These are facts that would make every American upset. Our birthright is being stolen, the legacy of our country is at stake,… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
Economies are supposed to serve human ends.. not the other way round. We forget at our peril that markets make a good… — Amory Lovins Copy Share Image
His love of danger, his intense appreciation of the drama of an adventure--all the more intense for being held tightly in--his consistent… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We label judges with having the meanest motives, and yet we desire that our reputation and fame should depend upon the judgment… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
As a kid, I didn't need to be convinced the future promised peril and oppression, so when I started thinking up the… — Greg van Eekhout Copy Share Image
A peril of the night road is that flecks of dust and streaks of bug blood on the windshield look to me… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
We're losing ground. This planet is losing ground. So things need to happen and they need to happen quick. Our message should… — Diane Wilson Copy Share Image
No matter what we have come through, or how many perils we have safely passed, or how many imperfect and jagged -… — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
It would be foolish and wrong to ignore the fact that all our universities today tread a very dangerous path. Increasingly, they… — Vincent Massey Copy Share Image
We seem, these days, much more willing to recognize the perils before us than we were even a decade ago. The newly… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
What the light of your mind, which is the direct inspiration of the Almighty, pronounces incredible, that, in God's name, leave uncredited.… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
UNDER THE STORM AND THE CLOUD TODAY, AND TODAY THE HARD PERIL AND PAIN - TOMORROW THE STONE WILL BE ROLLED AWAY,… — Joaquin Miller Copy Share Image
If one learns from others, but does not think, one will be bewildered. If, on the other hand, one thinks but does… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Fenworth nodded. "Yes, yes. Urgent, deadly, insidious. The world is in peril and we must rise against evil." The old wizard released… — Donita K. Paul Copy Share Image
Every time I put on high heels, I think: 'Well, I'll fall over today.' Almost always, I don't. Almost. But all high-heel-wearing… — Kate Reardon Copy Share Image
Never buy an editor or publisher a lunch or a drink until he has bought an article, story or book from you.… — John Creasey Copy Share Image
Having served as the majority spokesman for the House Ways and Means Committee after Republicans took the House in 1994, I've seen… — Ari Fleischer Copy Share Image
The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The pro-Israel lobby has been remarkably successful in suppressing criticism. Politicians challenge it at their peril because of the lobby's ability to… — George Soros Copy Share Image
God is waiting for the response of our freedom. Our own choice, our own creativity, is essential to the drama, and this… — Stratford Caldecott Copy Share Image
Eight grown Americans out of ten dread the coming of the Fourth, with its pandemonium and its perils, and they rejoice when… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
But that was in the days when they expected perils to come from without, and nothing made less sense by that time… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Every morning brings thousands of opportunities; and thousands of perils too! Life is open to all the possibilities that a man can… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
At bank, post office or supermarket, there is one universal law which you ignore at your own peril: the shortest line moves… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
The more keenly we are awake to the perils of life, the higher and grander is the possibility of being truly brave. — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Money and sex are forces too unruly for our reason; they can only be controlled by taboos with which we tamper at… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
Art is always at peril in universities, where there are so many people, young and old, who love art less than argument,… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The search for truth is not a trade by which a man can support himself; for a priest it is a supreme… — Alfred Loisy Copy Share Image
We need to EARN the right to be leaders. It is to our peril when we are given things for which we… — Chris Alexander Copy Share Image
Relationship. R-E-L-A-T-I-O-N-S-H-I-P means this: Really exciting love affair turns into overwhelming nightmare. Sobriety hangs in peril. — Gary Busey Copy Share Image
The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The writer cannot be a mere storyteller; he cannot be a mere teacher; he cannot merely X-ray society’s weaknesses, its ills, its… — Ken Saro-Wiwa Copy Share Image
The perils of credit and debt, especially perilous in the computer age, have long been acknowledged in pop culture, but very infrequently… — Tom Shales Copy Share Image
