The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling? — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I am wise enough to know that there are some perils from which a man must flee. — Faramir Copy Share Image
I'm proud of my wrinkles. They give my face character. As an actress, you mess with that at your peril. — Jane Seymour Copy Share Image
For I am fresh of spirit, and resolved To meet all perils very constantly. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall. — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
“life is risk. All who inhabit the Earth inhale peril with each breath.” — Stephen R. Donaldson Copy Share Image
“Similar to the hermit crab, She finds refuge within her shell, To safeguard herself from peril.” — Charmaine J Forde Copy Share Image
Belgium thinks that however great the peril which a country might have to undergo under the system which we seek to establish… — Henri La Fontaine Copy Share Image
Perils as well as privileges attend the higher Christian life. The nearer we come to God, the thicker the hosts of darkness… — A. B. Simpson 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
Money and sex are forces too unruly for our reason; they can only be controlled by taboos which we tamper with at… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
It was lovely, and tempting, to exert power over men and to shine before others, but power also had its perditions and… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I've made a connection with the television audience by being a proud Latino man. I am passionate for what I do, courageous… — Geraldo Rivera Copy Share Image
Ships are but boards, sailors but men; there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves, I mean pirates, and thenthere is the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different… — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
I've never owned an actual trail-running shoe myself, but maybe I should. My favorite paths are fraught with peril, much of it… — Don Kardong Copy Share Image
The newspaper is of necessity something of a monopoly, and its first duty is to shun the temptations of monopoly. Its primary… — C. P. Scott Copy Share Image
She was right that reality can be harsh and that you shut your eyes to it only at your peril because if… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“Youth is like being carried through life by a strong current," Admiral Winter said. "All you feel is the speed of the… — Andrea Cremer Copy Share Image
Boredom is your window on the properties of time that one tends to ignore to the likely peril of one's mental equilibrium.… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
When the warrior returns, from the battle afar,To the home and the country he nobly defended,O! warm be the welcome to gladden… — Francis Scott Key Copy Share Image
All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“In History, stagnant waters, whether they be stagnant waters of custom or those of despotism, harbour no life; life is dependent on… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
No one must ever let power or social, economic, or political interest turn him or her away from other human beings, from… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
We underestimate teenagers at our peril. Even the dismissive thing out on the street--look at what they're wearing. Then we'll hear stories… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
I love moving water, I love ships, I love the sharp definition, the concentrated humanity, the sublime solitude of life at sea.… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I am not here to pass civilities or compliments with you, but on other business. I have stood your meanness as long… — Nathan Bedford Forrest Copy Share Image
The air is an extremely dangerous, jealous and exacting mistress. Once under the spell most lovers are faithful to the end, which… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
As a military man who has given half a century of active service I say in all sincerity that the nuclear arms… — Lord Mountbatten Copy Share Image
What was once a tiny seed of belief for me has grown into the tree of life, so if your faith is… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
“What he'd find there, of course, was up to Pete. But he was sure there were magicians in Tampico and leopard-skins and… — Henry Kuttner Copy Share Image
