Peril Quotes - Page 2

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

  John Dewey

  World, Thinker, Portions

  John Dewey (1958). “Experience and Nature”, p.222, Courier Corporation

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• The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril.

  Winston Churchill

  War, World, Boat

  Winston Churchill (1986). “Their Finest Hour”, p.529, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.

  Winston Churchill

  Patriotism, World War 2, Tradition

  Winston Churchill (1952). “War Speeches: From September 11, 1943 to August 16, 1945”

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• I've made a connection with the television audience by being a proud Latino man. I am passionate for what I do, courageous in the face of peril, honest and straightforward.

  Geraldo Rivera

  Men, Connections, Passionate

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• I think we have to be fair in saying at this point that neither Roosevelt nor Lewis realized the peril to which they were exposing both the unions and the country.

  John T. Flynn

  Country, Thinking, Unions

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• The search for truth is not a trade by which a man can support himself; for a priest it is a supreme peril .

  Alfred Loisy

  Men, Support, Truth Is

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• Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Country, Blue, Cheesy

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• Call a thing immoral or ugly, soul-destroying or a degradation to man, a peril to the peace of the world or to the well-being of future generations: as long as you have not shown it to be "uneconomic" you have not really questioned its right to exist, grow, and prosper.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Men, Long, Soul

  Small is Beautiful (1973) pt. 1, ch. 3

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• Men will find that they can ... avoid far more easily the perils which beset them on all sides by united action.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Men, Sides, Cooperation

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• As a military man who has given half a century of active service I say in all sincerity that the nuclear arms race has no military purpose. Wars cannot be fought with nuclear weapons. Their existence only adds to our perils because of the illusions they have generated. There are powerful voices around the world who still give credence to the old Roman precept - if you desire peace, prepare for war. This is absolute nuclear nonsense.

  Lord Mountbatten

  Powerful, Military, War

  Speech at Strasbourg, 11 May 1979, in P. Ziegler 'Mountbatten' (1985) ch. 52

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• The nuclear arms race has no military purpose. Wars cannot be fought with nuclear weapons. Their existence only adds to our perils.

  Lord Mountbatten

  Military, War, Race

  Speech at Strasbourg, 11 May 1979, in P. Ziegler 'Mountbatten' (1985) ch. 52

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

  Herman Melville

  Obedience, Command, Needles

  Herman Melville (1850). “White-jacket: or, The world in a man-of-war”, p.114

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• still hope leads men to venture; and no one ever yet put himself in peril without the inward conviction that he would succeed in his design.

  Thucydides

  Men, Design, Inward

  Thucydides, Victor Davis Hanson, Robert B. Strassler (2008). “The Landmark Thucydides”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

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• Never buy an editor or publisher a lunch or a drink until he has bought an article, story or book from you. This rule is absolute and may be broken only at your peril.

  John Creasey

  Book, Editors, Lunch

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

  Thomas A. Edison

  Danger, Inactivity, Overwork

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• You cannot institute, without peril of charlatanism.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Institutions, Institute

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.444, Modern Library

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• Every morning brings thousands of opportunities; and thousands of perils too! Life is open to all the possibilities that a man can not even imagine!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Morning, Opportunity

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• By hook or by crook this peril too shall be something that we remember

  Homer

  Crooks, Hook, Remember

  Homer (1998). “The Odyssey: The Fitzgerald Translation”, p.216, Macmillan

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• 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

  Hands, Would Be, Life Is

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• Why do we wrap things? Usually to protect them. The more fragile they are, the more important the wrapping. Your dream is prey to many perils. It may shatter under the blows of criticism, evaporate with competition's heat, sink to the bottomless depths of others' indifference. Tend to your dream. Protect it as you would a fallen nestling. Until the day when it—and you—will fly.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Dream, Blow, Competition

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• When the wind is right and the cloud is gone, you can see down this road as far as Darjeeling," I told her. "But it is a long and difficult road, full of perils, and if a traveller on foot were to look at the length of it, his spirit would be overcome and he would sit down and refuse to go any further. You must not look to the end of the road, Portia. Look only to the step in front of you. That you can do. Just one step. And you will not make the journey alone.

  Deanna Raybourn

  Journey, Clouds, Wind

  Deanna Raybourn (2015). “Dark Road to Darjeeling”, p.217, MIRA

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• All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life. And if you be a philosopher, though seated in the whale-boat, you would not at heart feel one whit more of terror, than though seated before your evening fire with a poker, and not a harpoon, by your side.

  Herman Melville

  Heart, Men, Your Side

  Herman Melville (2015). “Moby-Dick: World Classics”, p.327, World Classic

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• The problem is that it has become politically awkward to draw attention to absolutes of bad and good. In place of manners, we now have doctrines of political correctness, against which one offends at one's peril: by means of a considerable circular logic, such offences mark you as reactionary and therefore a bad person. Therefore if you say people are bad, you are bad.

  Lynne Truss

  Mean, People, Political

  "Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door". Book by Lynne Truss, 2005.

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• But that was in the days when they expected perils to come from without, and nothing made less sense by that time than a survival room buried in a house itself becoming one big coffin.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Becoming One, House, Survival

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.158, Macmillan

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• His love for Frodo rose above all other thoughts, and forgetting his peril he cried aloud: 'I'm coming Mr. Frodo!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Rose, His Love, Forget

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.879, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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