Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together. — Earl Nightingale
The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger. — Frank Herbert
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck. — Charles Caleb Colton
Greatness lives on the edge of destruction — Will Smith
The danger sensation is exciting. The challenge is to find new dangers. — Ayrton Senna
Great victory requires great risk. -Hera — Rick Riordan
A sea setting us upon the ice has brought us close to danger. — Henry Hudson
The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity. — Ouida
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. — Confucius
Life is but a day; A fragile dewdrop on its perilous way From a tree's summit. — John Keats
The perils of overwork are slight compared with the dangers of inactivity. — Thomas A. Edison
Companies not adjusting to this new reality — Larry Fink
I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor. — Lord Nelson
Look back, and smile on perils past. — Walter Scott
There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink. — Plato
Peril Image Quotes
Perilous Times Quotes
History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are. — David McCullough
Anyone who is aware of his environment knows that the peril of physical assault does exist, and that it exists everywhere and at all times. — Jeff Cooper
I think there's going to be a tug of war in this country over who are the real patriots because at a time of national crisis, economic collapse and calamity, ecological peril and social dislocation, the American people deserve to be a partner to the American government. — Van Jones
I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I think my father thought I might be president of the United States. I think he would've been satisfied with secretary of state. I'm a foreign policy person and to have a chance to serve my country as the nation's chief diplomat at a time of peril and consequence, that was enough. — Condoleezza Rice
Love in modern times has been the tailor's best friend. Every suitor of the nineteenth century spends more than his spare cash on personal adornment. A faultless fit, a glistening hat, tight gloves, and tighter boots proclaim the imminent peril of his position. — George Augustus Henry Sala
Are these perilous times? They are. But we can have peace in our hearts and in our homes. — Gordon B. Hinckley
Raising Black children-female and male-in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they will probably not survive. — Audre Lorde
One of the gravest perils which besets the ministry is a restless scattering of energies over an amazing multiplicity of interests which leaves no margin of time and of strength for receptive and absorbing communion with God. — Bonar Law
Earth's immune system - its rapid response team of self-protection - becomes invigorated at times of peril. And one sees it at play now in the upwelling of grassroots work aimed at finding a sustainable future. — Alison Hawthorne Deming
I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom. — Edgar Allan Poe
When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril. — Harry S Truman
The ignorant and the deluded are, I think, in a strange way to be envied. That which is not known of does not trouble us, while an imagined but insubstantial peril does not harm us. To know the truths behind reality is a far greater burden. — H. P. Lovecraft
When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril. — Harry S. Truman
Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return. — Colin Powell
Of all the branches of men in the forces there is none which shows more devotion and faces grimmer perils than the submariners. — Winston Churchill
The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it. — Albert Einstein
Peril, loneliness, an uncertain future, are not oppressive evils, so long as the frame is healthy and the faculties are employed; so long, especially, as Liberty lends us her wings, and Hope guides us by her star. — Charlotte Bronte
The peril of the hour moved the British to tremendous exertions, just as always in a moment of extreme danger things can be done which had previously been thought impossible. Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas. — Erwin Rommel
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. — Thomas Mann
In this perilous world, if a black boy wanted to live a halfway normal life and die a natural death he had to learn early the art of how to get along with white folks. — Benjamin E. Mays
According to physiological law, all natural, normal functions of the body are achieved without peril or pain. Birth is a natural, normal physiological function for normal, healthy women and their healthy babies. It can, therefore, be inferred that healthy women, carrying healthy babies, can safely birth without peril or pain. — John Dye
If you are ever inclined to pray for a missionary, do it at once, where ever you are. Perhaps he may be in great peril at that moment. — Amy Carmichael
America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud. — George W. Bush
The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them. — Joseph Heller
My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me...you will lead me by the right road, though I may know nothing about it. Therefore I will trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death. I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone. — Thomas Merton
Cowards shrink from toil and peril, Vulgar souls attempt and fail; Men of mettle, nothing daunted, Persevere till they prevail. — Dean Koontz
Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician. — Sayings
Relationship. R-E-L-A-T-I-O-N-S-H-I-P means this: Really exciting love affair turns into overwhelming nightmare. Sobriety hangs in peril. — Gary Busey
We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character. — Henry David Thoreau
You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril. — Joan of Arc
The tests of life are to make, not break us. Trouble may demolish a man's business but build up his character. The blow at the outward man may be the greatest blessing to the inner man. — Maltbie Davenport Babcock
When you face the perils of weariness, carelessness, and confusion, don't pray for an easier life. Pray instead to be a stronger man or woman of God. — Luis Palau
I come from a state that has virtually no gun control. And yet, at political peril, I voted for an instant background check, which I want to see strengthened and expanded. I voted to ban certain types of assault weapons which are designed only to kill people. — Bernie Sanders
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. — Oscar Wilde
The idea came like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed. — Nikola Tesla
Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain. — John F. Kennedy
For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear. — Lord Byron
If we do not catch men, we are in great danger of losing even the desire to catch them. Our purposed activity is in peril of becoming a dream. — John Henry Jowett
Sudden and slashing reforms are as perilous as sudden and slashing surgery. — Russell Kirk
By faith we are taken into Christ, made at once safe from holy wrath against sin, and kept safe from all perils and penalties. He, our divine Redeemer, becomes to us the new sphere of harmony and unity with God and His law, with His life and His holiness. — Arthur Tappan Pierson
If my life is surrendered to God, all is well. Let me not grab it back, as though it were in peril in His hand but would be safer in mine! — Elisabeth Elliot
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 carrying the passional equipment of our ferocious ancestors, emerging from black superstition amid carnage and atrocity to our perilous present. — Learned Hand
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