Peril Quotes

286 quotes by 225 authors

We seem, these days, much more willing to recognize the perils before us than we were even a decade ago. The newly recognized dangers threaten… — Carl Sagan
We risk great peril if we kill off this spirit of adventure, for we cannot predict how and in what seemingly unrelated fields it will… — James A. Michener
Our house is burning and we look elsewhere. Nature, mutilated and over-exploited, can no longer reconstitute itself and we refuse to admit it. Humanity is… — Jacques Chirac
The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it. — Albert Einstein
I believe in standardizing automobiles. I do not believe in standardizing human beings. Standardization is a great peril which threatens American culture. — Albert Einstein
There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we… — J. Michael Straczynski
In spite of despair, hope must exist. In spite of suffering, humanity must prevail. And in spite of all the differences in the world, the… — Elie Wiesel
We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation. — John F. Kennedy
Anyone who is aware of his environment knows that the peril of physical assault does exist, and that it exists everywhere and at all times. — Jeff Cooper
This age is fraught with limitless perils, as well as untold possibilities. — David O. McKay
Love wakes much and sleeps little and, in sleeping, does not sleep. It faints is not weary; it is restricted in its liberty and is… — Thomas a Kempis
[The purpose of a written constitution is] to bind up the several branches of government by certain laws, which, when they transgress, their acts shall… — Thomas Jefferson
People do have viewing patterns, and you disrupt those at your own peril. That's something that everybody learned after 1988. The numbers have gone down… — Dick Wolf
But we are pledged to set the world free. Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret. For in this enlightened… — Bram Stoker
IF we desire European civilization to be a raid and a rescue, we shall insist rather that souls are in real peril than that their… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The Oldfields of the future are beyond hearing; they are shut up in the factories and the workshops, leading a rackety and mechanical existence, to… — Beverley Nichols
The Universe forces those who live in it to understand it. Those creatures who find everyday experience a muddled jumble of events with no predictability,… — Carl Sagan
In time of peril, like the needle to the loadstone, obedience, irrespective of rank, generally flies to him who is best fitted to command. — Herman Melville
Putting our ecosystem in great peril is certainly not a part of Chinese culture that I know. — Yao Ming
Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views, and boldest action to bring it speedy relief. Once relieved, its form of government… — Abraham Lincoln

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