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Come to me, squeeze my hand, know my loneliness, and give me the love, the strength to prevail on the perilous road before me.
— Dang Thuy Tram
Are these perilous times? They are. But we can have peace in our hearts and in our homes.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
The situation is perilous, but there is still one chance of escape.
— William Strunk Jr.
On the side of Mount Calamon a grove of glass flowers grows. The journey there is perilous, and the journey back is more so.
— Neil Gaiman
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.
— Robert Kennedy
Perhaps the most perilous dangers are the ones we face within ourselves. Who we are inside permits the chances we take with the outside world.
— Ellen Anne Eddy
The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on a dim and perilous way!
— William Wordsworth
Neither awake nor in a dark dream are perilous blades just as they seem.
— Dennis L. McKiernan
The perils of credit and debt, especially perilous in the computer age, have long been acknowledged in pop culture, but very infrequently by TV.
— Tom Shales
To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
— Anne Carson
Without trying, I seem to write about these poor boys who are absolutely mad for girls who are otherwise engaged in perilous endeavors.
— Lauren DeStefano
I do think that the banking system is now in the most perilous state we've seen in over 70 years.
— Nigel Farage
A woman in such an emotional tempest is as perilous as a blind cobra to any about her.
— Robert E. Howard
The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
Stop and consider! life is but a day; A fragile dew-drop on its perilous way From a tree's summit.
— John Keats
The townhouses looked bedraggled, unkempt, like an old homeless woman with an interesting history but a perilous future.
— Sharon Shinn
The initial spark, your affection for the characters, all those things can disappear. It's a perilous thing.
— Patrick DeWitt
I have been reading the Old Testament, a most bloodthirsty and perilous book for the young. Jehovah is beyond doubt the worst character in fiction.
— Edwin Arlington Robinson
The same that oft-times hath
charm'd magic casements,
opening on the foam
of perilous seas, in fairy lands forlorn. — John Keats
charm'd magic casements,
opening on the foam
of perilous seas, in fairy lands forlorn. — John Keats
Au contraire..."
"What?" Constance demanded.
Curtain blinked.
~ The Perilous Journey — Trenton Lee Stewart
"What?" Constance demanded.
Curtain blinked.
~ The Perilous Journey — Trenton Lee Stewart
Having a perilous adventure is always better than comatose safety. Always, always, always, always, always.
— James Alan Gardner
Answers are a perilous grip on the universe. They can appear sensible yet explain nothing.
— Frank Herbert
Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
— Ambrose Bierce
The art of medicine is long, Hippocrates tells us, and life is short; opportunity fleeting; the experiment perilous; judgment flawed.
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
You could call her perilous because she was so strong in herself.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
How perilous it is to free a people who prefer slavery.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man's honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
— Anthony Trollope
Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.
— James Earl Jones
I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.
— Horatio Nelson
Beauty is a perilous gift ...
— Ellis Peters
Believing your own bullshit is always a perilous activity, but never more fatal than for the owner of a start-up venture.
— Felix Dennis
You speak like a green girl / unsifted in such perilous circumstances.
— William Shakespeare
Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.
— Vladimir Nabokov
In the world of the Machiguenga, sadness could be equated with anger, and anger was a perilous emotion, by which a foreigner could lose his life.
— Tahir Shah
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.
— Gail Carson Levine
What an effort I make to be myself. I struggle against a tide in a boat with just enough room for my two feet in a perilous and fragile balance.
— Clarice Lispector
Keeping kids safe is sometimes a delusion. The world is a perilous place. Sometimes the kitchen is a perilous place.
— Anna Quindlen
The fact that pigs were abroad in the night seemed to bring home to me the perilous nature of my enterprise.
— P.G. Wodehouse
By far my most perilous assignment was covering a tank car explosion.
— Jessica Savitch
Western culture has allowed for the open admiration of beauty because it is a human value and a pleasure, rather than some perilous evil.
— Olivia Pierson
Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.
— Maria Edgeworth
New York City, city of exaggerations. Place of Herculean ascensions and perilous falls.
— Kurt Wenzel
Success is far more perilous than failure, isn't it? You've got to be doubly strong and watchful and wary.
— Noel Coward
And as he, who with laboring breath has escaped from the deep to the shore, turns to the perilous waters and gazes.
— Dante Alighieri
Go mad I cannot: I maintain
The perilous outpost of the sane. — Herman Melville
The perilous outpost of the sane. — Herman Melville
Man can find meaning in life, short and perilous as it is, only through devoting himself to society.
— Albert Einstein
All choices are fraught with peril, but inaction is the most perilous of all.
— Allan Frewin Jones
Nations will seldom obtain good national anthems by offering prizes for them. The man and the occasion must meet.
— John Philip Sousa
This is why it's perilous to ignore a librarian.
— Jeffe Kennedy
Nothing so perilous as procrastination
— John Lyly
Being other than normal is a perilous advantage.
— Natalie Clifford Barney
The central theme of the book is that prayer is best understood as a long, sometimes perilous, epic journey that eventually leads to triumph.
— Gerald L. Sittser
The only thing worse than a perilous adventure is a boring one.
— Lemony Snicket
History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.
— David McCullough
Aren't there gradations of evil? Is evil a great perilous gulf into which one falls with the first sin, plummeting to the depth?
— Anne Rice
The most perilous moment for a bad government is one when it seeks to mend its ways.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
Breasts are uniformly zeppelinesque and in various perilous stages of semiconfinement.
— David Foster Wallace
They immediately spent a moment in bemused silence in honor of the perilous little paradox that was the English female
— Julie Anne Long
Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous.
— Walter Raleigh
Weddings have become more perilous than battles, it would seem.
— George R R Martin
There's a perilous word fiction writers need to watch out for. The word is 'had.'
— James Scott Bell
You see what the word of Michael Laski is: a minor but perilous triumph of being over nothingness.
— Joan Didion
He asked me again if I would marry him, because, he said, love is a perilous dance, but worth dancing all the same. This time, I said yes.
— Kate Avery Ellison
So, I never lose a sense of the whimsical and perilous charm of daily life, with its meetings and words and accidents.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
He no longer lives in years; he is down to seasons. Finally it will become single nights, each one perilous as a lunar journey. He
— James Salter
For acting, darlings, is the world's most perilous trade. Compared with actors, steeple jacks and deep-sea divers lead snug and placid lives.
— Tallulah Bankhead
For one to grasp, whatever be his object, sov'reign power ... is an act of perilous presumption.
— Vittorio Alfieri
Danger has been a part of my life ever since I picked up a pen and wrote. Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies.
— Nawal El Saadawi
It is perilous to live past the end of your myth
— Anne Carson
It saddened me that sometimes shopping was far more perilous than dealing with zombies and vampires.
— Anton Strout
Thus situated, the perilous experiment must be made. Let me make it with full deliberations, and be prepared for the consequences.
— John Quincy Adams
How perilous is it to choose not to love the life we're shown?
— Seamus Heaney
To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
Might be a task as politically perilous to the former as the latter.
— Meredith Duran