Peril Quotes

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

  Pierre Corneille

  Motivational, Success, Fighting

  'Le Cid' (1637) act 2, sc. 2

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• The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Love, Hope, Inspiration

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.246, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Dark, World, Lord Of The Ring

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.246, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Look back, and smile on perils past.

  Walter Scott

  Smile, Past, Looks

  Walter Scott (1873). “Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott ...”, p.339

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

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Freedom

  Speech by minister Koenders at the presentation of the 2015 Human Rights Tulip, November 12, 2015.

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• 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.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Work, Ocean, Ambition

  Edward Dahlberg (1967). “Alms for Oblivion”, U of Minnesota Press

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

  Elizabeth I

  Stupid, Past, Too Late

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• Right defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kings, Truth, Unconditional Love

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2015). “The Radical King”, p.84, Beacon Press

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• The idea came like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed.

  Nikola Tesla

  Odds, Ideas, Lightning

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “My Inventions”, p.28, Lulu Press, Inc

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• 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.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Believe, Men, Two

  "The White House Years". Book by Henry Kissinger, 1979.

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

  John Mason Brown

  Home, Heaven, Causes

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• We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.

  Voltaire

  Risk, Freedom Of Speech, Hazards

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.103, Penguin

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• And I think detente had manifestly failed, and that the pursuit of it was encouraging Soviet expansion and rendering the world more dangerous, and especially rendering the Western world in greater peril.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Thinking, Expansion, World

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• All art is at once surface and symbol.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Beneath The Surface, Symbols

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.6, First Avenue Editions

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• 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.

  Dick Wolf

  Time, Years, Numbers

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

  Lucretius

  War, Encounters, Literature

  Titus Lucretius Carus (1937). “Lucretius, de rerum natura”

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• 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.

  George W. Bush

  Gun, Clouds, Mushrooms

  Address to the Nation on the Threat of Iraq, delivered 7 October 2002, Cincinnati Union Terminal, Cincinnati, Ohio

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• If I were constantly worried about death, I couldn't function. After a while, if your life is more or less constantly in peril, you come to a point where you accept the possibility philosophically.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Life Is, Worried, Possibility

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

  John F. Kennedy

  Education, Freedom, Learning

  Vanderbilt University 90th Anniversary Convocation Address, delivered 18 May 1963, Vanderbilt University Stadium, Nashville Tennessee

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• The aggressive and quite illogical idea of a single religion for all mankind, a religion universal by the very force of its narrowness, one set of dogmas, one cult, one system of ceremonies, one ecclesiastical ordinance, one array of prohibitions and injunctions which all minds must accept on peril of persecution by men and spiritual rejection or eternal punishment by God, that grotesque creation of human unreason which has been the parent of so much intolerance, cruelty and obscurantism and aggressive fanaticism, has never been able to take firm hold of the Indian mentality.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Spiritual, Men, Ideas

  "A Defense of Indian Culture". Essay by Sri Aurobindo, as quoted in Sisirkumar Mitra "The Vision of India", 1947.

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

  Saint Augustine

  Falling In Love, Honor, Puff

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

  Sun Tzu

  War, Ignorant, Enemy

  Sun-tzu, Gerald A. Michaelson (2001). “Sun Tzu: The Art of War for Managers; 50 Strategic Rules”, p.240, Adams Media

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• 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.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Ronald K. L. Collins (2010). “The Fundamental Holmes: A Free Speech Chronicle and Reader - Selections from the Opinions, Books, Articles, Speeches, Letters and Other Writings by and about Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.”, p.21, Cambridge University Press

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• 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.

  Harry S. Truman

  Fear, War, Marijuana

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1965). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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

  Janet Frame

  Wind, Wire, Electricity

  Janet Frame (1980). “Faces in the water”

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