Peril Quotes
286 quotes by 225 authors
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It's vital to establish some rituals-automatic but decisive patterns of behavior-at the beginning of the creative process, when you are most at peril of turning…
— Twyla Tharp
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What was once a tiny seed of belief for me has grown into the tree of life, so if your faith is a little tested…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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Only in the last few years did the science crystallize, revealing the urgency - our planet really is in peril. If we do not change…
— James Hansen
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It is time for Democrats who distrust President Bush to acknowledge that he will be commander in chief for three more critical years, and that…
— Joe Lieberman
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No matter what we have come through, or how many perils we have safely passed, or how many imperfect and jagged - in some places…
— Randolph Bourne
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There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
— Plato
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Turn off your radio. Put away your daily paper. Read one review of events a week and spend some time reading good books. They tell…
— Dorothy Day
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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
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When both my editors say 'This is really bad, you need to change this,' I ignore that at my peril.
— Robin Hobb
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Never buy an editor or publisher a lunch or a drink until he has bought an article, story or book from you. This rule is…
— John Creasey
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The aggressive and quite illogical idea of a single religion for all mankind, a religion universal by the very force of its narrowness, one set…
— Sri Aurobindo
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If the conquest of a great peak brings moments of exultation and bliss, which in the monotonous, materialistic existence of modern times nothing else can…
— Lionel Terray
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Biodiversity is the totality of all inherited variation in the life forms of Earth, of which we are one species. We study and save it…
— E. O. Wilson
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Moskin has brought together with care and lucidity an inside history of American diplomacy written through the eyes of the many diplomats who conceived and…
— Thomas R. Pickering
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There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away. The British people can face peril…
— Winston Churchill
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So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for…
— Lucretius
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I'm done with girls on rocks! I've painted them for thirteen years and I could paint them and sell them for thirteen more. That's the…
— Maxfield Parrish
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The Way is eternal. Until your last day, you are free from peril.
— Laozi
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You know, the cure for all this talk is really a good dose of incompetent government. You get that alternative and you'll never put Singapore…
— Lee Kuan Yew
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I think we have to be fair in saying at this point that neither Roosevelt nor Lewis realized the peril to which they were exposing…
— John T. Flynn
Who Wrote These Peril Quotes
225 authors contributed a total of 286 Peril Quotes, led by these top contributors: