Perilous Quotes

121 Perilous quotes by 106 unique authors

We are on a perilous margin when we begin to look passively at our future selves, and see our own figures led with dull consent… — George Eliot
Macbeth: How does your patient, doctor? Doctor: Not so sick, my lord, as she is troubled with thick-coming fancies that keep her from rest. Macbeth:… — William Shakespeare
Sure, we were friends who exchanged soulful glances, friends who slept in a bed filled with sexual tension, friends who found any excuse to touch,… — Emily Giffin
I was no hero. The dearest wishes of my heart were for safety and tranquility. The world was a perilous place, wrong for the likes… — Gail Carson Levine
All choices are fraught with peril, but inaction is the most perilous of all. — Allan Frewin Jones
People have fallen into a foolish habit of speaking of orthodoxy as something heavy, humdrum, and safe. There never was anything so perilous or so… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Truth is dangerous. It topples palaces and kills kings. It stirs gentle men to rage and bids them take up arms. It wakes old grievances… — Frances Hardinge
I was once told by someone wise that writing is perilous as you cannot always guarantee your words will be read in the spirit in… — Jojo Moyes
The ambitious climb high and perilous stairs, and never care how to come down; the desire of rising hath swallowed up their fear of a… — Thomas Adams
When you are on assignment, you stick to the facts, limit your vision, and often cut out the most revealing material. There is no texture,… — Leslie Cockburn
Modern motor vehicles are safer and more reliable than they have ever been - yet more than 1 million people are killed in car accidents… — Tom Chatfield
The United States, to state the obvious, is greatly concerned by the startling number of unaccompanied minors that - children and teenagers who are making… — Joe Biden
Everyone seems agreed that writing about sex is perilous, partly because it threatens to swamp highly individualised characters in a generic, featureless activity (much like… — Edmund White
She has great problems of her own to solve, very grim and perilous problems, and a right solution, if we can attain to it, would… — Henry Cabot Lodge
But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers,… — Bible
The world today has a strong democratic core shaped by American ingenuity, sacrifice, and spirit. But on the periphery are many unstable and dangerous places,… — Senator John Kerry
Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous. — Confucius
The perilous highs, and desperate lows, and extravagent flurries of mood are not always symptoms of a broken mind, but signs of a beating heart. — Unknown Author
Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain, And with… — William Shakespeare
Among the Indians he had fought; And with him many tales he brought Of pleasure and of fear; Such tales as told to any Maid… — William Wordsworth
The profession of magician, isone of the most perilous and arduous specialisations of the imagination. On the one handthere is the hostility of God and… — William Bolitho

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