Quotes about Peril

The world is a dangerous place and I've had a nice fanbase without any of the hassle.

We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.

It is bad enough to have a bear in your house, but it does not seem to me to mend matters if you call in a pack of ferocious wolves as well.

Life itself is a sea full of rocks and whirlpools that man avoids with the greatest caution and care, although he knows that, even when he succeeds with all his efforts and ingenuity in struggling through, at every step he comes nearer to the greatest, the total, the inevitable and irremediable shipwreck, indeed even steers right on to it, namely death. This is the final goal of the wearisome voyage, and is worse for him than all the rocks that he has avoided.

The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.

The arrows of death fly unseen at noon-day; the sharpest sight cannot discern them.

The argument of danger only applies to those who live in relative safety. (The Power and the Glory)

I don't think it's much use your looking for the brains: a creature who twice walked into a lions den can't have got any.

A fogged brain puts everyone in danger.

It must be most dangerous then to be a man. It is indeed, madame, and but few survive it.

But it must be borne in mind that, if there is a Scylla before me, there is also a Charybdis - and that, in my fear of being read as a jest, I may incur the darker destiny of not being read at all.

Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.