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Quotes about Peril

Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one--the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts,...Your affectionate uncle, Screwtape.
- CS Lewis
I think war is a dangerous place.
- George W. Bush
Oh, she knew it. Apparently, she had a type. The kind of men who didn't care what trouble—or death—might be waiting for them. Who turned their face to it and charged ahead. The kind of men who died for what they believed in. The kind of men who would break her heart.
- Susan May Warren
Give us grace and strength to preserve. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends and soften to us our enemies. Give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we may be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temperate in wrath and in all changes of fortune, and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving to one another.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we may be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temperate in wrath, and in all changes of fortune, and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving one to anther.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.
- John F. Kennedy
Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
- Jonathan Edwards
The abyss sometimes has these thoughtful ideas; but you will do well to beware of its kindness.
- Victor Hugo
By this, he seemed to mean, not only that the most reliable and useful courage was that which arises from the fair estimation of the encountered peril, but that an utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward. Aye
- Herman Melville
Then, if the hull go down, there'll be thirty lively fellows all fighting for one coffin, a sight not seen very often beneath the sun!
- Herman Melville
Danger breeds best on too much confidence.
- Pierre Corneille
All those hopes placed in such a precarious vessel.
- Barbara Kingsolver