Peril famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I believe in standardizing automobiles. I do not believe in standardizing human beings. Standardization is a great peril which threatens American culture.
-- Albert Einstein -
The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.
-- Albert Einstein -
All choices are fraught with peril, but inaction is the most perilous of all.
-- Allan Frewin Jones -
Surrendering to fear and allowing ourselves to be paralyzed by peril isn't something most of us can afford to do.
-- Benjamin Carson -
General knowledge may have to be slight or even amateurish knowledge, but it is none the less useful, and we discourage it at our peril.
-- C. V. Wedgwood -
If a place is in your blood, you leave it at your peril. You will never be happy anywhere else.
-- Caroline Llewellyn -
The peril of this Nation is not in any foreign foe! We, the people, are its power, its peril, and its hope.
-- Charles Evans Hughes -
Throughout the Old Testament, God warns his chosen people about the perils of assimilation, shiksappeal and false gods.
-- David Harsanyi -
As many have noted, the peril for authors is that our work space is too easily our play space.
-- Guy Gavriel Kay -
It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.
-- Jean-Francois Regnard -
A woman is at her greatest peril in the presence of a beautiful man.
-- Jed Rubenfeld -
We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.
-- John F. Kennedy -
Because everything we do and everything we are is in jeopardy, and because the peril is immediate and unremitting, every person is the right person to act and every moment is the right moment to begin.
-- Jonathan Schell -
She felt as if she had strayed into a fairy tale, as full of peril as of wonder, a place where anything could happen.
-- Kate Forsyth -
Misprize common sense at your peril is my motto.
-- Kingsley Amis -
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.
-- Oscar Wilde -
To me, there's nothing funnier than funny people in peril, because it's just a great springboard for people to be at a heightened emotionality and things get funnier.
-- Paul Feig -
There are no rules, but you break them at your peril.
-- Peter Guber -
Love is a dangerous commodity-fraught with peril,
-- Robert Indiana -
The perils of overwork are slight compared with the dangers of inactivity.
-- Thomas A. Edison -
I will not fear, for you are ever with me and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.
-- Thomas Merton
