Quotes about Peril
I have watched this famous island descending incontinently, fecklessly, the stairway which leads to a dark gulf.
— Winston Churchill
The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
— CS Lewis
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.
— George Bernard Shaw
Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
— Jonathan Edwards
Some people mistakenly think nature is very nice and benevolent and never betrays.
— Margaret Atwood
Any nation that neglects teaching the sacredness of life and the family does so at its own peril. Any nation that sanctions the removal of God's boundaries will destroy its own.
— Ravi Zacharias
You're inches away from death every time you go on a mission. How much older can you be at your age?
— Joseph Heller
For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
— Dorothy Sayers
We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.
— Aesop
A garden is like those pernicious machineries which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand, and draw in his arm, his leg , and his whole body to irresistible destruction.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our condition as men is risky and ticklish enough. One can not be sure of himself and his fortune an hour, but he may be whisked off into some pitiable or ridiculous plight.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.
— Aristotle