Perils Quotes
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Lighten our darkness, we beseech thee,O Lord; and by thy great mercy
defend us from all perils and dangers of this night.
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Ay me! what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron!
— 1663 Hudibras, pt.1, canto 3, l.1-2.
Then were the entrances of this world made narrow, full of sorrow and travail: they are but fewand evil, full of perils, and very painful. For the entrances of the elder world were wide and sure, and brought immortal fruit. If then they that live labour not to enter these strait and vain things, they can never receive those that are laid up for them.
Bible (Apocrypha)— 1072Esdras 7:12-14.
I remember my youth and the feeling that it will never come back any morethe feeling that I could last for ever, outlast thesea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effortto death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expiresand expires, too soon, too soonbefore life itself.
Sir William Neil pseudonym Cassandra Connor— 1902 'Youth'.
Look back, and smile at perils past!
— 1813 The Bridal of Triermain, introduction.
Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
Anthony Trollope— 1858 DoctorThorne, ch.47.
Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.
alan hirsch— p. 20 (The Faith of Leap (2011))
I want to govern provincially no more. I want national independence. […] I took time for this decision because I know all the perils of this mission. I want to ask you to struggle also in order that our country can be born in a close future.
bernard landry— August 2004 National Council speech announcing his intention to remain leader
Return unto thy rest, my soul,From all the wanderings of thy thought,From sickness unto death made whole,Safe through a thousand perils brought.
james montgomery— Rest for the Soul.
Ay me, how many perils doe enfoldThe righteous man, to make him daily fall!
Edmund Spenser— Canto 8, stanza 1.
Ay me! what perils do environThe man that meddles with cold iron!
— Samuel Butler, Hudibras, Part I (1663-64), Canto III, line 1.
Ay me, how many perils doe enfoldThe righteous man to make him daily fall!
Edmund Spenser— Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (1589-96), Book I, Canto VIII, Stanza 1.
I was a peaceful sedentary man, a lover of a quiet life, with no appetite for perils and commotions. But I was beginning to realise that I was very obstinate.
john buchan— Ch. 4 "I Follow The Trail Of The Super-Butler"
Ay me! what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron!
— Canto III, line 1.
Our deep spiritual confidence that this nation will survive the perils of today - which may well be with us for decades to come - compels us to invest in our nation's future, to consider and meet our obligations to our children and the numberless generations that will follow.
john f. kennedy— "Special message to the Congress on Conservation (69)," March 1, 1962, Public Papers of the President: John F. Kennedy, 1962.
Every man among us is more fit to meet the duties and responsibilities of citizenship because of the perils over which, in the past, the nation has triumphed; because of the blood and sweat and tears, the labor and the anguish, through which, in the days that have gone, our forefathers moved on to triumph.
theodore roosevelt— Speech before the Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island (June 1897), reported in "Washington’s Forgotten Maxim", American Ideals (1926), vol. 13 of The Works of Theodore Roosevelt, national ed., chapter 12, p. 198.
Ay me! what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron!
— Samuel Butler, Hudibras, Part I (1663-64), Canto III, line 1.
Ay me, how many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall!
Edmund Spenser— Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (1589-96), Book I, Canto VIII, Stanza 1.
Today some would say that those struggles are all over--that all the horizons have been explored--that all the battles have been won-- that there is no longer an American frontier. But I trust that no one in this vast assemblage will agree with those sentiments. For the problems are not all solved and the battles are not all won--and we stand today on the edge of a New Frontier--the frontier of the 1960's--a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils-- a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.
— John F. Kennedy, John F. Kennedy's Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech. Delivered on 15 July 1960 to the Democratic National Convention at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
Have you never observed how free the Lord's Prayer is of any material that can tempt to subtle self-inspection in the art of devotion? It is full of an outflowing of thought and of emotion toward great objects of desire, great necessities, and great perils.
— Austin Phelps, p. 465. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Ay me! what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron!
Samuel Butler— Hudibras, Part I (1663-64), Canto III, line 1.
The perils of change are so great, the promise of the most hopeful theories is so often deceptive, that it is frequently the wiser part to uphold the existing state of things, if it can be done, even though, in point of argument, it should be utterly indefensible.
— Robert Gascoyne-Cecil (Lord Salisbury), c. 1890. Quoted in Peter Clarke, A Question of Leadership (Penguin, 1991).
Every thing here, but the soul of man, is a passing shadow. The only enduring substance is within. When shall we awake to the sublime greatness, the perils, the accountableness, and the glorious destinies of the immortal soul?
william ellery channing— Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
God has not chosen to save us without crosses; as He has not seen fit to create men at once in the full vigor of manhood, but has suffered them to grow up by degrees amid all the perils and weaknesses of youth.
— François Fénelon, p. 584. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Through perils both of wind and limb, Through thick and thin she follow'd him.
— Samuel Butler, Hudibras, Part I (1663-64), Canto II, line 369.
There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.
bertrand russell— Bertrand Russell, Human Society in Ethics and Politics (1954), p. 219
If Greer were a bit more honest and had a bit more perspective, she'd have a useful message to relay to young women about the perils of confusing sexual autonomy with the real but ephemeral ability to manipulate men.
Laura Miller— Brilliant Careers - "Germaine Greer" profile at Salon (22 June 1999).
Being thus arrived in a good harbor, and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of Heaven who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean, and delivered them from all the perils and miseries thereof, again to set their feet on the firm and stable earth, their proper element.
william bradford— Ch. 9 (Of Plymouth Plantation (1620-1647))
In an updated and expanded version of the four horsemen of the apocalypse, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has identified five "global shocks" that will destabilise the world economy with increasing frequency in coming years. Rather than the traditional perils of conquest, war, famine and death, the OECD identifies viral pandemics, cyber attacks, financial crises, socio-economic unrest and geomagnetic storms as the five "global shocks" that will have to be endured.
— "World economy set to face more frequent shocks". The Independent. June 28, 2011. Retrieved on 2011-07-04.
