Quotes about Peril
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
— Frank Herbert
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.
— Frank Herbert
The absence of a thing, can be as deadly as the presence.
— Frank Herbert
My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business...
— Madeleine L'Engle
One leak will sink a ship, and one sin will destroy a sinner.
— John Bunyan
The road of denial leads to the precipice of destruction.
— John Bunyan
The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.
— Joseph Heller
The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.
— Joseph Heller
To worry is to add another hazard.
— Amelia Earhart
minnows who go to a whale to learn how to grow bigger are likely to be swallowed in the process.
— Edith Wharton
We may reconcile ourselves to the world at our peril, but it will never reconcile itself to us. . . . This unwillingness to die, doth actually impeach us of high treason against the Lord : is it not a choosing of earth before him ; and taking these present things for our happiness, and consequently asking them our very God (469)?
— Richard Baxter
The sweetest poison doth often bring the surest death (645).
— Richard Baxter