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
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
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
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
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
Throughout the Old Testament, God warns his chosen people about the perils of assimilation, shiksappeal and false gods. — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image
The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-Boat peril...It did not take the form of flaring… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I desired dragons with a profound desire. Of course, I in my timid body did not wish to have them in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
i will follow it, though i know so well now the deep wounds i might find. for as long as i believe… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And in truth (as I now see) I had the wish to put off my journey as long as I could. Not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The spectator and historian of [Belisarius's] exploits has observed, that amidst the perils of war, he was daring without rashness, prudent without… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Our Founding Fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The ignorant and the deluded are, I think, in a strange way to be envied. That which is not known of does… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
In the annals of American blunders, the Bay of Pigs may have been even more feckless, and the invasion of Iraq more… — George Will 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character. — Henry David Thoreau 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
Congress has turned its back on America's working families. There are Teamster families in every congressional district in America, and those families… — James P. Hoffa Copy Share Image
There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away. The British people… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Our house is burning and we look elsewhere. Nature, mutilated and over-exploited, can no longer reconstitute itself and we refuse to admit… — Jacques Chirac Copy Share Image
Be the first to seize intersecting ground, that is ground which lies the intersections of borders or intersections of main thoroughfares of… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Since I have fought against these Jewish-Soviet ideas in Germany, since I have conquered and stamped out this peril, I fancy that… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Animals are not just other species. They are other nations. And we murder them at our peril. The peace map is drawn… — Philip Wollen Copy Share Image
My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me...you will lead… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
When you dream, all the scenery, characters, events, perils, and outcomes are built from your own consciousness, the darks and oppressions as… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
One has only to set a loved human being against the fact that we are all in peril all the time to… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
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