A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.
Elizabeth I
By far my most perilous assignment was covering a tank car explosion.
Jessica Savitch
Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
Ambrose Bierce
Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.
Maria Edgeworth
History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.
David McCullough
I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.
Horatio Nelson
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 Morisette
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
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
Confucius
Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
Hannah More
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
Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.
Vladimir Nabokov
She has great problems of her own to solve, very grim and perilous problems, and a right solution, if we can attain to it, would largely benefit mankind.
Henry Cabot Lodge
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
Thomas Mann
The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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
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
To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.
Adlai E. Stevenson
We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.
Woodrow Wilson
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