Perilous Quotes

121 Perilous quotes by 106 unique authors

Would we hold liberty, we must have charity- charity to others, charity to ourselves, crawling up from the moist ovens of a steaming world, still… — Learned Hand
The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it... ''Beware of me,'' it says,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Laws gain their authority from actual possession and custom: it is perilous to go back to their origins; laws, like our rivers, get greater and… — Michel de Montaigne
So, I never lose a sense of the whimsical and perilous charm of daily life, with its meetings and words and accidents. — Logan Pearsall Smith
Are these perilous times? They are. But we can have peace in our hearts and in our homes. — Gordon B. Hinckley
This is a perilous time, and more than ever, the world needs a united and strong America. If, God forbid, we live to see Mr.… — Jon Voight
But a good patriot, and a true politician, always considers how he shall make the most of the existing materials of his country. A disposition,… — Edmund Burke
It is often more important to act than to understand... there are times... when two conflicting opinions, though one happens to be right, are more… — John Grierson
The office of reformer of the superstitions of a nation, is ever more dangerous. Jesus had to work on the perilous confines of reason and… — Thomas Jefferson
We ought to be very cautious in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous… — Baron de Montesquieu
Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed as the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright… — Francis Scott Key
The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool, And to the false, error and truth alike,… — Philip James Bailey
It's no laughing matter being a Republican in these perilous times. Anyone can be a Republican when the stock market is up, but when stocks… — Will Rogers
Once upon a time, began the story of you.Many perilous, wonderful, harrowing, brilliant, delightful, profound things happened.And yet—the most exciting twists and best turns are… — Vera Nazarian
Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools… — Francesco Guicciardini
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. — Confucius
A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head. — Elizabeth I
Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race. — James Earl Jones
There may be no more-radioactive term in the English language than what we now almost always refer to as the 'n-word' - itself a coy… — Jeffrey Kluger
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to… — Thomas Mann
History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are. — David McCullough
The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity. — Edna St. Vincent Millay
Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women. — Alanis Morissette
Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution. — Vladimir Nabokov

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