Peril Quotes

America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.

Putting our ecosystem in great peril is certainly not a part of Chinese culture that I know.

A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.

Generally, social networking sites can be hugely promising and beneficial in opening new friendships and vistas and knowledge of the world, but they are also fraught with peril, when young people are reckless or headless.

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.

People do have viewing patterns, and you disrupt those at your own peril. That's something that everybody learned after 1988. The numbers have gone down every year since that strike. Big time.

Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.

Congress has turned its back on America's working families. There are Teamster families in every congressional district in America, and those families vote. Those who would oppose these families have done so at their own political peril.

I get to do the most amazing things. We call it Host in Peril quite often, because people love to see me risk my life or be in danger.

When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.

When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril.

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.

Belgium thinks that however great the peril which a country might have to undergo under the system which we seek to establish here, that country ought to do its duty.

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.

The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril.

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.

Having served as the majority spokesman for the House Ways and Means Committee after Republicans took the House in 1994, I've seen the promise and the peril of divided government before.

Electricity, the peril the wind sings to in the wires on a gray day.

The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?

Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.

Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.

If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril.

Thus united to them in the fellowship of life, he will both understand the things revealed to them by God and, thenceforth escaping the peril that threatens sinners in the judgment, will receive that which is laid up for the saints in the kingdom of heaven.

I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

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

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.

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.