Peril Quotes

286 Peril quotes by 225 unique authors

i will follow it, though i know so well now the deep wounds i might find. for as long as i believe that i am… — R A Salvatore
... the connection between imperial politics and culture is astonishingly direct. American attitudes to American "greatness", to hierarchies of race, to the perils of "other"… — Edward Said
One has only to set a loved human being against the fact that we are all in peril all the time to get back a… — May Sarton
Peril, loneliness, an uncertain future, are not oppressive evils, so long as the frame is healthy and the faculties are employed; so long, especially, as… — Charlotte Bronte
Everything we knew condemned us, and our questioning condemned us most of all. Knowledge was the way of our people, and knowledge was dangerous. It… — Alice Hoffman
Sticklers never read a book without a pencil at hand, to correct the typographical errors. In short, we are unattractive know-all obsessives who get things… — Lynne Truss
And in truth (as I now see) I had the wish to put off my journey as long as I could. Not for any peril… — C.S. Lewis
It was titillating to brush up against the enigma of mortality, to steal a glimpse across its forbidden frontier. Climbing was a magnificient activity, I… — Jon Krakauer
Human love, human trust, are always perilous, because they break down. The greater the love, the greater the trust, and the greater the peril, the… — D. H. Lawrence
You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are. — Joss Whedon
Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye Than twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet, And I am proof against their enmity. — William Shakespeare
She felt as if she had strayed into a fairy tale, as full of peril as of wonder, a place where anything could happen. — Kate Forsyth
I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more /the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea,… — Joseph Conrad
Yea, and if some god shall wreck me in the wine-dark deep, even so I will endureâ€¦ For already have I suffered full much, and… — Homer
His love of danger, his intense appreciation of the drama of an adventure--all the more intense for being held tightly in--his consistent view that every… — Arthur Conan Doyle
His love for Frodo rose above all other thoughts, and forgetting his peril he cried aloud: 'I'm coming Mr. Frodo! — J.R.R. Tolkien
But that was in the days when they expected perils to come from without, and nothing made less sense by that time than a survival… — Jeffrey Eugenides
The problem is that it has become politically awkward to draw attention to absolutes of bad and good. In place of manners, we now have… — Lynne Truss
By hook or by crook this peril too shall be something that we remember — Homer
All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn… — Herman Melville

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