Peril Quotes

The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril.

You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.

Having served as the majority spokesman for the House Ways and Means Committee after Republicans took the House in 1994, I've seen the promise and the peril of divided government before.

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

I think we have to be fair in saying at this point that neither Roosevelt nor Lewis realized the peril to which they were exposing both the unions and the country.

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

Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.

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

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

Thus united to them in the fellowship of life, he will both understand the things revealed to them by God and, thenceforth escaping the peril that threatens sinners in the judgment, will receive that which is laid up for the saints in the kingdom of heaven.

I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

The search for truth is not a trade by which a man can support himself; for a priest it is a supreme peril .

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

To vanquish without peril is to triumph without glory.

The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.

I've made a connection with the television audience by being a proud Latino man. I am passionate for what I do, courageous in the face of peril, honest and straightforward.

And I think detente had manifestly failed, and that the pursuit of it was encouraging Soviet expansion and rendering the world more dangerous, and especially rendering the Western world in greater peril.

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.

I would prefer being in a hard battle; however, I will be satisfied with whatever happens to me in this war, if only the country comes out of this peril safe and to the satisfaction of the finest and best government on earth.

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

America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.

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

Generally, social networking sites can be hugely promising and beneficial in opening new friendships and vistas and knowledge of the world, but they are also fraught with peril, when young people are reckless or headless.

Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.

Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.

People do have viewing patterns, and you disrupt those at your own peril. That's something that everybody learned after 1988. The numbers have gone down every year since that strike. Big time.

I get to do the most amazing things. We call it Host in Peril quite often, because people love to see me risk my life or be in danger.

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

Congress has turned its back on America's working families. There are Teamster families in every congressional district in America, and those families vote. Those who would oppose these families have done so at their own political peril.

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.