The peril of this Nation is not in any foreign foe! We, the people, are its power, its peril, and its hope. — Charles Evans Hughes Copy Share Image
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
One of the greatest perils to an extensive republic is the disregard of individual rights. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The decision to speak out is the vocation and lifelong peril by which the intellectual must live. — Kay Boyle Copy Share Image
If a place is in your blood, you leave it at your peril. You will never be happy anywhere else. — Caroline Llewellyn Copy Share Image
There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink. — Plato Copy Share Image
There's real peril in trying to repeat yourself, and apply rules that applied to something else to a new project. — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
To me, there's nothing funnier than funny people in peril, because it's just a great springboard for people to be at a… — Paul Feig Copy Share Image
Love is both wondrous and yet full of peril. Love is a gateway through which hatred - disguised and unrecognized - can… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
If hush'd the loud whirlwind that ruffled the deep, The sky if no longer dark tempests deform; When our perils are past… — George Canning Copy Share Image
I'd love to do a movie where I actually get to be kind of quirky and odd and dorky and all that… — Rachel Nichols Copy Share Image
God has not chosen to save us without crosses; as He has not seen fit to create men at once in the… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Marriageable girls as well as mothers understand the terms and perils of the lottery called wedlock. That is why women weep at… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
When greater perils men inviron, Then women show a front of iron; And, gentle in their manner, they Do bold things in… — Thomas Dunn English Copy Share Image
[The purpose of a written constitution is] to bind up the several branches of government by certain laws, which, when they transgress,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
...Human thought has no limit. At its risk and peril, it analyzes and dissects its own fascination. We could almost say that,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I cannot love people in the country, I discover, because there is always this danger that they may be acquaintances, with all… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
Everything we knew condemned us, and our questioning condemned us most of all. Knowledge was the way of our people, and knowledge… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I embarked on a risky course of plastic surgery and silicone injections, major dental realignments and gruesome medical procedures. I pray that… — Gelsey Kirkland Copy Share Image
Human love, human trust, are always perilous, because they break down. The greater the love, the greater the trust, and the greater… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Let him who cannot be alone beware of community... Let him who is not in community beware of being alone... Each by… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Ecology movements, futurism, feminism, urbanism, protest and disarmament, personal individuation cannot alone save the world from the catastrophe inherent in our very… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
You know, the cure for all this talk is really a good dose of incompetent government. You get that alternative and you'll… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
Moskin has brought together with care and lucidity an inside history of American diplomacy written through the eyes of the many diplomats… — Thomas R. Pickering Copy Share Image
The military profession, especially is the long-established great powers, is deeply pessimistic about the likelihood that people and countries will behave well… — Gwynne Dyer Copy Share Image
My stepfather used to be a clown in The Shrine Circus. He took me backstage when I was 23. I saw three… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
For while this year it may be a Catholic against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed, in other years it has… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Imagine a person, tall, lean and feline, high-shouldered, with a brow like Shakespeare and a face like Satan, a close-shaven skull, and… — Sax Rohmer Copy Share Image
The thing that helps me do a good job is that I don't feel the need to explain everything about the world… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image