Top 1200 Perilous Times Quotes & Sayings

By far my most perilous assignment was covering a tank car explosion.

To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.

Beauty is a perilous gift.

Answers are a perilous grip on the universe. They can appear sensible yet explain nothing.

O ruthless, perilous, imperious hate, you can not thwart the promptings of my soul.

Keeping kids safe is sometimes a delusion. The world is a perilous place. Sometimes the kitchen is a perilous place.

Life is but a day; A fragile dewdrop on its perilous way From a tree's summit.

"Lawyers Are": Perilous mouths.

Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.

For one to grasp, whatever be his object, sov'reign power ... is an act of perilous presumption.

That's why 'Star Wars' is appealing. You watch someone fight the perilous monster.

Nothing so perilous as procrastination

And as he, who with laboring breath has escaped from the deep to the shore, turns to the perilous waters and gazes.

Turn off your radio. Put away your daily paper. Read one review of events a week and spend some time reading good books. They tell too of days of striving and of strife. They are of other centuries and also of our own. They make us realize that all times are perilous, that men live in a dangerous world, in peril constantly of losing or maiming soul and body. We get some sense of perspective reading such books. Renewed courage and faith and even joy to live.

The initial spark, your affection for the characters, all those things can disappear. It's a perilous thing.

A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.

Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.

I have times when I'm off-balance. I have times when I slur my words. I have times when I walk into walls. I have times when I can't remember somebody's name.

The perils of credit and debt, especially perilous in the computer age, have long been acknowledged in pop culture, but very infrequently by TV.

The situation is perilous, but there is still one chance of escape.

Bilingualism is a great asset for any individual, but it has perilous consequences for a nation.

Believing your own bullshit is always a perilous activity, but never more fatal than for the owner of a start-up venture.

Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.

It's no laughing matter being a Republican in these perilous times. Anyone can be a Republican when the stock market is up, but when stocks are selling for no more than they're worth, I tell you, being a Republican - it's a sacrifice.

Kissing a witch is a perilous business. Everybody knows it's ten times as dangerous as letting her touch your hand, or cut your hair, or steal your shoes. What simpler way is there than a kiss to give power a way into your heart?

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

Poetry finds its perilous equilibrium somewhere between music and speech.

Being other than normal is a perilous advantage.

Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.

Human nature is so weak that the honest men who have no religion make me fret with their perilous virtue, as rope-dancers with their dangerous equilibrium.

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

Faerie is a perilous land, and in it are pitfalls for the unwary, and dungeons for the overbold.

Have confidence. Even if it's a perilous road, one day you will reach your goal.

Perilous to us all are the devices of an art deeper than we possess ourselves.

Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies.

The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny, and that's why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright.

Good times are a reminder and a reward for dealing with the difficult and challenging times we all go through. The trick is to celebrate the good times in advance of the difficult times. Always remember, good times await you after the difficult times pass.

The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on a dim and perilous way!

I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.

A woman in such an emotional tempest is as perilous as a blind cobra to any about her.

I was no hero. The dearest wishes of my heart were for safety and tranquility. The world was a perilous place, wrong for the likes of me.

Expectations are the most perilous form of dream, and when dreams do realise themselves it is in the waking world: the difference is subtly but often painfully felt.

Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.

Are these perilous times? They are. But we can have peace in our hearts and in our homes.

It is often more important to act than to understand... there are times... when two conflicting opinions, though one happens to be right, are more perilous than one opinion which is wrong.

In a high tech world the cure for the tragic shortcomings and perilous fallacies of human intuition is education, but education in economics, evolutionary biology, probability and statistics - unfortunately most High School and College curricula have barely changed since Medieval times!

There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success.

In 21 years there are a lot of ups and downs. There are melancholy times. There are sad times. There are happy times. There are unsure times. There are life lessons.

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

How perilous it is to free a people who prefer slavery.

I do think that the banking system is now in the most perilous state we've seen in over 70 years.

Neither awake nor in a dark dream are perilous blades just as they seem.

Au contraire..." "What?" Constance demanded. Curtain blinked. ~ The Perilous Journey

It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.

So, I never lose a sense of the whimsical and perilous charm of daily life, with its meetings and words and accidents.

Science fiction is a dialogue, a tennis match, in which the Idea is volleyed from one side of the net to the other. Ridiculous to say that someone 'stole' an idea: no, no, a thousand times no. The point is the volley, and how it's carried, and what statement is made by the answering 'statement.' In other words ? if Burroughs initiates a time-gate and says it works randomly, and then Norton has time gates confounded with the Perilous Seat, the Siege Perilous of the Round Table, and locates it in a bar on a rainy night ? do you see both the humor and the volley in the tennis match?

Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.

I run because I am convinced that this country is on a perilous course and I have such strong feelings about what must be done.

You speak like a green girl / unsifted in such perilous circumstances.

To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.