Perils Quotes

There will always be some corners which are challenging and more dangerous than others.

A politician normally prospers under democracy in proportion ... as he excels in the invention of imaginary perils and imaginary defenses against them.

My grandfather was a civil servant. He was honest, so it would be unfair to say we enjoyed the perils of richness.

Only through perils and upheavals can Nations be brought to further developments. May the present upheavals lead to a better world.

The Englishman's strong point is his vigorous insularity; that of the American his power of adaptation. Each of these attitudes has its perils. The Englishman stands firmly on his feet, but he who merely does this never advances. The American's disposition is to step forward even at the risk of a fall.

Look back, and smile on perils past.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit ... The lesson that most of us on this voyage never learn, but can never quite forget, is that to win is sometimes to lose.

We stand today on the edge of a new frontier - the frontier of the 1960's - a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils - a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.

All the survivors of the war had reached their homes and so put the perils of battle and the sea behind them.

I'm hesitant to ever take on the crest of the veteran. So I don't know who I am to warn the younger writer about the perils to come. I think maybe the most dangerous influence is to think you have all the answers and should be giving counsel.

And when long years and seasons wheeling brought around that point of time ordained for him to make his passage homeward, trials and dangers, even so, attended him even in Ithaca, near those he loved.

At its core, 'Spring Awakening' is about the perils of miscommunication and what happens when people are denied a voice.

I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitments, awaited those who had the courage to go forth into it's expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst it's perils.

I have overlived the generation with which mutual labors & perils begat mutual confidence and influence.

I've always thought of myself as a catalyst. Look, it's not without its perils. Ann Coulter called me "learning disabled." The things people write about me.

I was a peaceful sedentary man, a lover of a quiet life, with no appetite for perils and commotions. But I was beginning to realise that I was very obstinate.

All our perils are nothing, so long as we have prayer.

How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.

Men soon get tired of shedding their blood for the advantage of a few individuals, who think they amply reward the soldiers perils with the treasures they amass.