Peril Quotes

The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.

The perils of overwork are slight compared with the dangers of inactivity.

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

The peril of this Nation is not in any foreign foe! We, the people, are its power, its peril, and its hope.

I believe in standardizing automobiles. I do not believe in standardizing human beings. Standardization is a great peril which threatens American culture.

For I am fresh of spirit, and resolved To meet all perils very constantly.

Love is a dangerous commodity-fraught with peril.

Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.

I will not fear, for you are ever with me and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.

The issue of climate change is one that we ignore at our own peril

Throughout the Old Testament, God warns his chosen people about the perils of assimilation, shiksappeal and false gods.

I distrust all multiculturalism, liberal or conservative. The Balkans amply demonstrate the perils of Balkanization.

We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

We all covet wealth, but not its perils.

All art is at once surface and symbol.

There are no rules, but you break them at your peril.

Because everything we do and everything we are is in jeopardy, and because the peril is immediate and unremitting, every person is the right person to act and every moment is the right moment to begin.

All our perils are nothing, so long as we have prayer.

Glory is the child of peril.

We stand today on the edge of a new frontier - the frontier of the 1960's - a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils - a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.

The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.

In time of peril, like the needle to the loadstone, obedience, irrespective of rank, generally flies to him who is best fitted to command.

Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril.

Misprize common sense at your peril is my motto.

She felt as if she had strayed into a fairy tale, as full of peril as of wonder, a place where anything could happen.

Indeed we are all in peril if the flawed messenger invalidates the message.

General knowledge may have to be slight or even amateurish knowledge, but it is none the less useful, and we discourage it at our peril.

Surrendering to fear and allowing ourselves to be paralyzed by peril isn't something most of us can afford to do.

To me, there's nothing funnier than funny people in peril, because it's just a great springboard for people to be at a heightened emotionality and things get funnier.

Perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures.

If a place is in your blood, you leave it at your peril. You will never be happy anywhere else.

You cannot institute, without peril of charlatanism.

Before putting yourself in peril, it is necessary to foresee and fear it; but when one is there, nothing remains but to despise it.

When both my editors say 'This is really bad, you need to change this,' I ignore that at my peril.

The young reed dies so easily. Beginnings are times of great peril.

I have overlived the generation with which mutual labors & perils begat mutual confidence and influence.

A woman is at her greatest peril in the presence of a beautiful man.

All choices are fraught with peril, but inaction is the most perilous of all.

Avoid,Profaneness; come not here: Nothing but holy, pure, and clear, Or that which groaneth to be so, May at his peril further go.

As many have noted, the peril for authors is that our work space is too easily our play space.