Quotes about Peril

Our days begin with trouble here,Our life is but a span,And cruel death is always near,So frail a thing is man.

They be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.

Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.

Militant missionary religions can share this illusion of the proud past, ' but few understand the ultimate peril to humankind-that false sense of freedom from responsibility for your own actions.

We try to copy these patterns in our lives and our society, seeking the rhythms, the dances, the forms that comfort. Yet, it is possible to see peril in the finding of ultimate perfection. It is clear that the ultimate pattern contains its own fixity. In such perfection, all things move toward death.

Be deaf! You do not need to hear or, hearing, you do not need to remember. How soothing it is to forget. And how dangerous

You can say to yourself, "Yes, I see how such a thing may be." But when you look inward and confront the raw force of your own life unshielded, you see your peril. You see that this could overwhelm you. The greatest peril to the Giver is the force that takes. The greatest peril to the Taker is the force that gives. It's as easy to be overwhelmed by giving as by taking.

The absence of a thing, can be as deadly as the presence.

My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business...

One leak will sink a ship, and one sin will destroy a sinner.

The road of denial leads to the precipice of destruction.

The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.