Running toward danger is foolhardy. ... But so is closing your eyes to it. Many perils become less dangerous once you understand… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
Against us are all timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty We are likely to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The only people with power today are the audience. And that is increasing with Twitter, Facebook, and everything else. We cater to… — Simon Cowell Copy Share Image
Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I've always thought of myself as a catalyst. Look, it's not without its perils. Ann Coulter called me "learning disabled." The things… — Barbara Boxer Copy Share Image
Avoid,Profaneness; come not here: Nothing but holy, pure, and clear, Or that which groaneth to be so, May at his peril further… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
“Do you know Poole," he said, looking up, "that you and I are about to place ourselves in a position of some… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The President of the United States has super star status. He's not a normal person, because he's protected like no other person… — Roland Emmerich Copy Share Image
It's vital to establish some rituals-automatic but decisive patterns of behavior-at the beginning of the creative process, when you are most at… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
The imagination says listen to me. I am your darkest voice. I am your 4 a.m. voice. I am the voice that… — John Guare Copy Share Image
I come from a state that has virtually no gun control. And yet, at political peril, I voted for an instant background… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
The tests of life are to make, not break us. Trouble may demolish a man's business but build up his character. The… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
Well do I remember the first night we met, how you questioned my opinion that first impressions are perfect. You were right… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
The Universe forces those who live in it to understand it. Those creatures who find everyday experience a muddled jumble of events… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Throughout the Old Testament, God warns his chosen people about the perils of assimilation, shiksappeal and false gods. — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image
Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state. — Plato Copy Share Image
“It was strange to realize that a dragon who couldn't be hurt on the outside could have so many ragged holes on… — Tui T. Sutherland Copy Share Image
Because everything we do and everything we are is in jeopardy, and because the peril is immediate and unremitting, every person is… — Jonathan Schell Copy Share Image
Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit. The game of life is to come… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
All the survivors of the war had reached their homes and so put the perils of battle and the sea behind them. — Homer Copy Share Image
All of humanity is in peril of extinction if each one of us does not dare, now and henceforth, always to tell… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
I feel that our planet is in peril and that creating a sustainable planet for my children and my children's children is… — Kyra Sedgwick Copy Share Image
Going public today is fraught with peril on many levels. One is earnings guidance. If you miss guidance, the stock price becomes… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
Men soon get tired of shedding their blood for the advantage of a few individuals, who think they amply reward the soldiers… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The Animals of the planet are in desperate peril and they are fully aware of this. No less than human beings are… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
choice in any sphere is a peril, the basic division of peoples is of those who believe in choice and those who… — Nayantara Sahgal Copy Share Image
The trick is to start early in our careers the stress-relieving avocation that we will need later as a mind-exercising final vocation.… — William Safire Copy Share Image
The nuclear arms race has no military purpose. Wars cannot be fought with nuclear weapons. Their existence only adds to our perils. — Lord Mountbatten Copy Share Image
It is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realise the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
If you are ever inclined to pray for a missionary, do it at once, where ever you are. Perhaps he may be… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
General knowledge may have to be slight or even amateurish knowledge, but it is none the less useful, and we discourage it… — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and Responsibility of our existence. — Elihu Burritt Copy Share Image
“There is no absolute peril except for him who abandons himself; There is no complete death except for him who aquires a… — Jacques Rivière Copy Share Image
I believe in standardizing automobiles. I do not believe in standardizing human beings. Standardization is a great peril which threatens American culture. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
People do have viewing patterns, and you disrupt those at your own peril. That's something that everybody learned after 1988. The numbers… — Dick Wolf Copy Share Image
Unfortunately for critics and audiences alike, I have made several films, and some films with really terrific actors. And I say this… — James Gray Copy Share Image
Biodiversity is the totality of all inherited variation in the life forms of Earth, of which we are one species. We study… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Men will find that they can ... avoid far more easily the perils which beset them on all sides by united action. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
