Perilous Quotes

121 Perilous quotes by 106 unique authors

Talk of world peace is heard today only among the white peoples, and not among the much more numerous coloured races. This is a perilous… — Oswald Spengler
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
In this perilous world, if a black boy wanted to live a halfway normal life and die a natural death he had to learn early… — Benjamin E. Mays
All appointments hurt. Five friends are made cold or hostile for every appointment; no new friends are made. All patronage is perilous to men of… — Rutherford B. Hayes
There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success. — Lord Acton
To create anything — whether a short story or a magazine profile or a film or a sitcom — is to believe, if only momentarily,… — Tom Bissell
Adventure,' then, is what might otherwise be called hardship if it were attempted in a different spirit. Turning a difficult task or a perilous journey… — Laura Miller
A just society must strive with all its might to right wrongs even if righting wrongs is a highly perilous undertaking. But if it is… — Eric Hoffer
Shall any of us repine that it is our lot to live in perilous and sacrificial days? Rather I say we are glad that we… — Unknown Author
To globalize for the sake of globalizing-as a matter of ego-is perilous. Expanding internationally is hard, risky work. Globalization is not just about putting up… — Kumar Mangalam Birla
The situation is perilous, but there is still one chance of escape. — William Strunk, Jr.
Danger has been a part of my life ever since I picked up a pen and wrote. Nothing is more perilous than truth in a… — Nawal El Saadawi
To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing. — Anne Carson
As for man, there is little reason to think that he can in the long run escape the fate of other creatures, and if there… — George R. Stewart
Literature is an ethical leap. It is a moral decision. A perilous exercise in constant failure. Literature should have grievances, because there are so many… — Miguel Syjuco
There's a perilous word fiction writers need to watch out for. The word is 'had.' — James Scott Bell
Why is it that one can look at a lion or a planet or an owl or at someone's finger as long as one pleases,… — Walker Percy
"Lawyers Are": Perilous mouths. — William Shakespeare
You are good when you are one with yourself. Yet when you are not one with yourself you are not evil. For a divided house… — Khalil Gibran
Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician. — Hippocrates
The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on a dim and perilous way! — William Wordsworth
Regarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth is sometimes perilous, naturally, since he's a high-handed old poem himself, but he's also sublime - and who goes to… — Reginald Horace Blyth
Today's dissenters mainly focus their attention and expend their energies on the most inconsequential of trivia. ...Allegedly serious intellectuals quibble endlessly over such ridiculous trivialities...In… — J. Paul Getty
Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains. — Hannah More
I fear we might be losing the basic human facility to be alone - and with that you throw out independent decision-making, what to trust,… — Dylan Moran

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