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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The hole in the ozone layer is a kind of skywriting. At first it seemed to spell out our continuing complacency before a witch's brew of deadly perils. But perhaps it really tells of a newfound talent to work together to protect the global environment.

  Carl Sagan

  Ozone Layer, Together, Layers

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• He knew that all the hazards and perils were now drawing together to a point: the next day would be a day of doom, the day of final effort or disaster, the last gasp.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Next Day, Drawing, Effort

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.919, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses have been specially designed to help people develop a relaxed attitude to danger. At the first hint of trouble, they turn totally black and thus prevent you from seeing anything that might alarm you.

  Douglas Adams

  Attitude, People, Black

  Douglas Adams (2008). “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, p.34, Del Rey

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• I could tell you a tale about something,' Miach offered, rubbing her hand absently. 'If you like.' She frowned thoughtfully. 'What sort of something?' 'Something that would soothe you,' he promised. 'I'm sure there would be swords involved. Bloodshed. Peril. That kind of thing.

  Lynn Kurland

  Hands, Would Be, Kind

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• I desired dragons with a profound desire. Of course, I in my timid body did not wish to have them in the neighborhood. But the world that contained even the imagination of Fáfnir was richer and more beautiful, at whatever the cost of peril.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Beautiful, Dragons, Profound

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “Tales from the Perilous Realm”, p.295, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Well do I remember the first night we met, how you questioned my opinion that first impressions are perfect. You were right to do so, of course, but even then I suspected what I've come to believe most passionately these past weeks: from that first moment, I knew you were a dangerous woman, and I was in great peril of falling in love." She thought she should say something witty here. She said, "Really?

  Shannon Hale

  Witty, Falling In Love, Believe

  Shannon Hale (2007). “Austenland: A Novel”, Bloomsbury USA

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• Love is both wondrous and yet full of peril. Love is a gateway through which hatred - disguised and unrecognized - can pass.

  David Gemmell

  Love Is, Hatred, Gateways

  David Gemmell (2009). “Dark Moon”, p.181, Random House

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• Let him who cannot be alone beware of community... Let him who is not in community beware of being alone... Each by itself has profound perils and pitfalls. One who wants fellowship without solitude plunges into the void of words and feelings, and the one who seeks solitude without fellowship perishes in the abyss of vanity, self-infatuation and despair.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Vanity, Self, Profound

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.58, SCM Press

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• No one must ever let power or social, economic, or political interest turn him or her away from other human beings, from the attention they deserve and the respect they are entitled to. nothing must ever lead to a person to compromise this principle or faith in favor of a political strategy aimed at saving or protecting a community from some peril. The freely offered, sincere heart of a poor, powerless individual is worth a thousand times more in the sight of God than the assiduously courted, self-interested heart of a rich one.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Heart, Sight, Self

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• The imagination says listen to me. I am your darkest voice. I am your 4 a.m. voice. I am the voice that wakes you up and says this is what I'm afraid of. Do not listen to me at your peril.... The imagination is not our escape. On the contrary, the imagination is the place we are all trying to get to.

  John Guare

  Voice, Imagination, Trying

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• Fenworth nodded. "Yes, yes. Urgent, deadly, insidious. The world is in peril and we must rise against evil." The old wizard released the general and patted him on the shoulder. "Tea and cake first, don't you think?

  Donita K. Paul

  Thinking, Cake, Evil

  Donita K. Paul (2008). “DragonQuest: A Novel”, p.87, WaterBrook

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• It's just this: that there are places we all come from-deep-rooty-common places- that makes us who we are. And we disdain them or treat them lightly at our peril. We turn our backs on them at the risk of self-contempt. There is a sense in which we need to go home again-and can go home again. Not to recover home, no. But to sanctify memory.

  Robert Fulghum

  Memories, Home, Self

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• i will follow it, though i know so well now the deep wounds i might find. for as long as i believe that i am walking the true road, if i am slain, then i die in the knowledge that for a brief time, at least, i was part of somethin bigger. this road has perils and i will surely die on it,but, i am not afraid to die.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Believe, Long, Deep Wounds

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• ... the connection between imperial politics and culture is astonishingly direct. American attitudes to American "greatness", to hierarchies of race, to the perils of "other" revolutions (the American revolution being considered unique and somehow unrepeatable anywhere else in the world) have remained constant, have dictated, have obscured, the realities of empire, while apologists for overseas American interests have insisted on American innocence, doing good, fighting for freedom.

  Edward Said

  Attitude, Fighting, Reality

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• Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye Than twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet, And I am proof against their enmity.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Lying, Eye

  William Shakespeare, James N. Loehlin (2002). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.136, Cambridge University Press

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• Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one's eternal peril.

  Laurens van der Post

  Change, Life Changing, Journey

  Laurens Van der Post (1979). “Venture to the interior”, Harcourt

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• If one learns from others, but does not think, one will be bewildered. If, on the other hand, one thinks but does not learn from others, one will be in peril.

  Confucius

  Yoga, Thinking, Hands

  Confucius (1979). “Lunyu”

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• Eight grown Americans out of ten dread the coming of the Fourth, with its pandemonium and its perils, and they rejoice when it is gone-if still alive.

  Mark Twain

  4th Of July, Eight, Gone

  Mark Twain, Charles Neider (1961). “The travels of Mark Twain”

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• The task of worrying is to come up with positive solutions for life's perils by anticipating dangers before they arise. If we are preoccupied by worries, we have that must less attention to expend on figuring out the answers. Our worries become self-fulfilling prophecies, propelling us toward the very disaster they predict.

  Daniel Goleman

  Self, Worry, Tasks

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