Peril Quotes
286 quotes by 225 authors
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The pro-Israel lobby has been remarkably successful in suppressing criticism. Politicians challenge it at their peril because of the lobby's ability to influence political contributions.
— George Soros
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The issue of climate change is one that we ignore at our own peril. There may still be disputes about exactly how much we're contributing…
— Barack Obama
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If any of us hopes to survive, she must meet the extremity of the American female condition with immediate and political response. The thoroughly destructive…
— June Jordan
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Boredom is your window on the properties of time that one tends to ignore to the likely peril of one's mental equilibrium. It is your…
— Joseph Brodsky
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The peril of the hour moved the British to tremendous exertions, just as always in a moment of extreme danger things can be done which…
— Erwin Rommel
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There are no rules, but you break them at your peril.
— Peter Guber
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Our way of getting an army able to fight the German army is to declare war on Germany just as if we had such an…
— George Bernard Shaw
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The Animals of the planet are in desperate peril and they are fully aware of this. No less than human beings are doing in all…
— Alice Walker
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I feel that our planet is in peril and that creating a sustainable planet for my children and my children's children is the most important…
— Kyra Sedgwick
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Economies are supposed to serve human ends.. not the other way round. We forget at our peril that markets make a good servant, a bad…
— Amory Lovins
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The issue of climate change is one that we ignore at our own peril
— Barack Obama
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He that doth not as other men do, but endeavoureth that which ought to be done, shall thereby rather incur peril than preservation; for who…
— Walter Raleigh
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It is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged freeways that grip the imagination of others. Rather, it is the values upon which…
— J. William Fulbright
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It is only through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; Through Art and art only that we can shield ourselves…
— Oscar Wilde
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All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do…
— Oscar Wilde
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I had no fear of the stream's perils, and I listened with the greatest contentment to the quiet slap of water on rocks, the running…
— Clare B. Dunkle
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Language is the soul’s ozone layer and we thin it at our peril.
— Sven Birkerts
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My fellow citizens, the dangers to our country and the world will be overcome. We will pass through this time of peril and carry on…
— George W. Bush
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The writer cannot be a mere storyteller; he cannot be a mere teacher; he cannot merely X-ray society’s weaknesses, its ills, its perils. He or…
— Ken Saro-Wiwa
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The space between the young reader’s eyeballs and the printed page is a holy place and officialdom should trample all over it at their peril.’
— Terry Pratchett
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