Top 366 Peril Quotes & Sayings

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

Indeed we are all in peril if the flawed messenger invalidates the message.

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

The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.

Love is a dangerous commodity-fraught with peril.

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.

A woman is at her greatest peril in the presence of a beautiful man.

IF we desire European civilization to be a raid and a rescue, we shall insist rather that souls are in real peril than that their peril is ultimately unreal. And if we wish to exalt the outcast and the crucified, we shall rather wish to think that a veritable God was crucified, rather than a mere sage or hero. Above all, if we wish to protect the poor we shall be in favour of fixed rules and clear dogmas. The rules of a club are occasionally in favour of the poor member. The drift of a club is always in favour of the rich one.

The best way to use the gold of the Redeemer is for the redemption of those in peril.

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

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

One resists categorization at one's peril.

The Way is eternal. Until your last day, you are free from peril.

I'm proud of my wrinkles. They give my face character. As an actress, you mess with that at your peril.

I'm the little fat cruiser weight, write me off at your peril.

You underestimate John Bolton at your peril.

The young reed dies so easily. Beginnings are times of great peril.

Obscenity is a notable enhancer of life and is suppressed at grave peril to the arts.

Before putting yourself in peril, it is necessary to foresee and fear it; but when one is there, nothing remains but to despise it.

The real yellow peril: Gold.

Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Glory is the child of peril.

For in tremendous extremities human souls are like drowning men; well enough they know they are in peril; well enough they know the causes of that peril;--nevertheless, the sea is the sea, and these drowning men do drown.

According to physiological law, all natural, normal functions of the body are achieved without peril or pain. Birth is a natural, normal physiological function for normal, healthy women and their healthy babies. It can, therefore, be inferred that healthy women, carrying healthy babies, can safely birth without peril or pain.

A man may be buoyed up by the efflation of his wild desires to brave any imaginable peril; but he cannot calmly see one he loves braving the same peril; simply because he cannot feel within turn that which prompts another. He sees the danger, and feels not the power that is to overcome it.

The issue of climate change is one that we ignore at our own peril

You cannot institute, without peril of charlatanism.

Love is a dangerous commodity - fraught with peril.

The decision to speak out is the vocation and lifelong peril by which the intellectual must live.

Ecological thought rejects consumerism at its peril.

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

Like all paradises, Topanga is pitched at the tipping point of promise and peril.

Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.

I do feel if we underestimate the viewer, it's at our own peril.

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

It's pretty tough to intimidate me. And that's probably at my own peril sometimes.

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

If we don't have workers organized into labor unions, we're in great peril of losing our democracy.

Language is the soul’s ozone layer and we thin it at our peril.

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

Take anything seriously in life, and you set yourself up for peril - trust me.

Surrendering to fear and allowing ourselves to be paralyzed by peril isn't something most of us can afford to do.

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself.

I have been in many countries, and I have found there people examining their own love of life, sense of peril, their own common sense. The one thing they cannot understand is why that same love of life, sense of peril and above all common sense, is not invariably shared among their leaders and rulers.

Therefore I say: know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never be in peril. When you are ignorant of the enemy but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal. If ignorant both of your enemy and of yourself, you are certain in every battle to be in peril.

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

I think to the extent Republicans depart from the historic commitment, we do so at our peril.

Marriage is the basic building block of civilization. We are redefining it at our own peril.

There are no rules, but you break them at your peril.

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

It is only if you happen to be a newscaster that the tongue-twister spells peril.

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

All choices are fraught with peril, but inaction is the most perilous of all.

When both my editors say 'This is really bad, you need to change this,' I ignore that at my peril.

The peril of this Nation is not in any foreign foe! We, the people, are its power, its peril, and its hope.

I think that loyalty surpasses the peril that we're all in.

Freedom is never more in peril than when politicians feel the pressure to 'do something.'

Misprize common sense at your peril is my motto.

We ignore the similarities between the religious extremism and ethno-nationalism at our peril.