Perilous Quotes

121 Perilous quotes by 106 unique authors

I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor. — Horatio Nelson
Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
By far my most perilous assignment was covering a tank car explosion. — Jessica Savitch
The perils of credit and debt, especially perilous in the computer age, have long been acknowledged in pop culture, but very infrequently by TV. — Tom Shales
To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation. — Adlai E. Stevenson
We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a… — Woodrow Wilson
Perilous to us all are the devices of an art deeper than we possess ourselves. — J.R.R. Tolkien
And as he, who with laboring breath has escaped from the deep to the shore, turns to the perilous waters and gazes. — Dante Alighieri
Be grateful you’re not in the forest in France Where the average young person just hasn’t a chance To escape from the perilous pants eating… — Dr. Seuss
We must be careful with our lives, for Christ's sake, because it would seem that they are the only lives we are going to have… — Frederick Buechner
It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill. — J.R.R. Tolkien
Virginia Woolf wrote, "Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword." On one side of that sword, she said,… — Elizabeth Gilbert
To put it another way, every love relationship is based upon unwritten conventions rashly agreed upon by the lovers during the first weeks of their… — Milan Kundera
I always looked forward to being an adult, because I thought the adult world was, well—adult. That adults weren’t cliquey or nasty, that the whole… — Peter Cameron
...that one most perilous and long voyage ended, only begins a second; and a second ended, only begins a third, and so on, for ever… — Herman Melville
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
Man is not by any means of fixed and enduring form (this, in spite of suspicions to the contrary on the part of their wise… — Hermann Hesse
Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard… — John Keats
Only philosophers embark on this perilous expedition to the outermost reaches of language and existence. Some of them fall off, but others cling on desperately… — Jostein Gaarder
Aren't there gradations of evil? Is evil a great perilous gulf into which one falls with the first sin, plummeting to the depth? — Anne Rice
It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success,… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Thought is no longer theoretical. As soon as it functions it offends or reconciles, attracts or repels, breaks, dissociates, unites or reunites; it cannot help… — Michel Foucault
Au contraire..." "What?" Constance demanded. Curtain blinked. ~ The Perilous Journey — Trenton Lee Stewart
You speak like a green girl / unsifted in such perilous circumstances. — William Shakespeare
Science fiction is a dialogue, a tennis match, in which the Idea is volleyed from one side of the net to the other. Ridiculous to… — C J Cherryh

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