25 Perilous Quotes for You to Enjoy

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. Niccolo Machiavelli

Success Nothing Difficult Introduction Uncertain More Take Lead New Perilous Hand New Order Conduct Than Order Things

I do not run for the presidency merely to oppose any man, but to propose new policies. I run because I am convinced that this country is on a perilous course and because I have such strong feelings about what must be done, and I feel that I'm obliged to do all I can. Robert Kennedy

Man Strong Country Feelings Oppose Presidency Run Must Strong Feelings About Obliged Propose Merely Feel New Perilous Policies Course Because Am Any Done Convinced

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

Coward Emergency Perilous His Legs Who Thinks

I fear we might be losing the basic human facility to be alone - and with that you throw out independent decision-making, what to trust, what not to trust; key stuff - a perilous loss. Dylan Moran

Alone You Trust Key Fear Losing Independent Out Facility Throw Stuff Perilous Loss Human Decision-Making Might Basic

Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions. Francesco Guicciardini

Modern motor vehicles are safer and more reliable than they have ever been - yet more than 1 million people are killed in car accidents around the world each year, and more than 50 million are injured. Why? Largely because one perilous element in the mechanics of driving remains unperfected by progress: the human being. Tom Chatfield

People Human Being World Progress Car Year Accidents Reliable More Remains Driving Vehicles Perilous Safer Because Around Been Motor Than Modern Human Being Mechanics Each Element Injured Largely Why Ever Each Year Million Million People

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

Man Nation Circumstances Perilous Also Test Act Cool

In LA, where I live, it's all about perfectionism. Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women. Alanis Morissette

Women Beauty Live Defined Out About Perfectionism Perilous Sticking La Where Really Your Standard Now Bones

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

Youth Luxury Poverty More Perilous Quicksand Than Storms Chains

Rereading one's own novels after many years is always a fraught business, but when a novel has fallen out of print - 'The Very Model of a Man' is the only novel of mine that has - and so crops up infrequently in conversations with readers or indeed with oneself, revisiting it can be perilous. Howard Jacobson

Man Business Own Mine Indeed Out Fraught Crops Oneself Only Perilous Print Readers Always Fallen Years Up Very Revisiting Model After Conversations Many Novel Novels

During my childhood, Washington was a segregated city, and I lived in the midst of a poor black neighborhood. Life on the streets was often perilous. Indoor reading was my refuge, and twice a week, I made the hazardous bicycle trek to the central library at Seventh and K streets to stock up on supplies. Irvin D. Yalom

Life Library Black Made Bicycle Reading Trek Seventh Neighborhood City Segregated Week Hazardous Supplies Indoor Perilous Up Stock Often Refuge Childhood Central Midst Poor Washington Lived Twice Twice A Week Streets

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. John Grierson

Important Though More Wrong Perilous Opinion Understand Opinions Times Than Often Happens Conflicting Which Act Right Two

This is a perilous time, and more than ever, the world needs a united and strong America. If, God forbid, we live to see Mr. Obama president, we will live through a socialist era that America has not seen before, and our country will be weakened in every way. Jon Voight

God Time Needs World Strong Will Seen Country Before Live Every President Our Way Weakened Obama See More Through Perilous Forbid Era Than America United Socialist Ever

Too few presidents have steeped themselves not just in Lincoln's words but his deeds, which is why Obama's acquaintance with the great man is so compelling - especially since, like President-elect Lincoln, Obama will take office at a perilous time. Michael Beschloss

Time Great Man Words Will Few Too Presidents Obama Great Man Take Since Like Perilous Lincoln His Office Just Which Acquaintance Themselves Deeds Why Compelling

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

Affection Those Characters Disappear Perilous Spark Your Initial Thing Things

I know the world is pretty intense, but in my opinion, there's nothing more perilous than being a teenager and watching a raunchy comedy with your parents. Phoebe Robinson

World Comedy Parents Nothing Teenager Pretty More Know Perilous Opinion Than Intense Being In My Opinion Being A Teenager Your Watching

People only attempt perilous journeys like crossing the Channel because they are desperate. It is deeply concerning that men, women, and children feel they have no choice but to put their lives at risk in their search for a safe place to live. Sajid Javid

Women People Safe Place Desperate Men Live Channel No Choice Crossing Risk Only Attempt Put Feel Journeys Like Perilous Safe Concerning Because Women And Children Children Place Choice Search Lives Deeply

Our position is extremely perilous; if we do not earnestly promote nationalism and weld together our four hundred millions into a strong nation, we face a tragedy - the loss of our country and the destruction of our race. To ward off this danger, we must espouse nationalism and employ the national spirit to save the country. Sun Yat-sen

Together Destruction Strong Face Country Nation National Nationalism Earnestly Our Hundred Danger Extremely Must Promote Spirit Employ Perilous Loss Off Tragedy Ward Race Four Millions Position Save

'The Big Girls' has always seemed to me to be a story about different kinds of families - a divorced mother with a child; a father with his child and his girlfriend; a mother of three children, suffering from postpartum depression; and the rigid artificial families maintained by women in prison - all potentially perilous. Susanna Moore

Depression Me Suffering Women Mother Father Girl Three Big Prison Different Kinds Rigid Kinds Postpartum Girlfriend About Seemed Potentially Divorced Maintained Perilous Always His Families Child Artificial Children Different Story

You reach a point at which you have to view your life through the things you've spent so much time doing. The alternative is a perilous feeling of waste. Thomas McGuane

Life Time You Feeling Spent Point Through Reach Perilous Alternative Doing So Much Time Which Much View Your Waste Things

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

Great Nation Consequences Individual Perilous Any Asset

It used to be the case that for an Irishman to come to the U.S. involved a perilous journey on a ship. It involved singing lots of songs before you left saying goodbye, and once you were in the U.S., it involved singing lots of songs about how you were never going to set foot in Ireland again. Joseph O'Neill

Saying Journey You Singing Before Once Saying Goodbye About Case Foot Never Songs Goodbye Come Involved Perilous How Were Ship Lots Left Ireland Irishman Going Again Used Set

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