Zitat des Tages über Gefährlich / Perilous:
It used to be the case that for an Irishman to come to the U.S. involved a perilous journey on a ship. It involved singing lots of songs before you left saying goodbye, and once you were in the U.S., it involved singing lots of songs about how you were never going to set foot in Ireland again.
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.
Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
Everyone seems agreed that writing about sex is perilous, partly because it threatens to swamp highly individualised characters in a generic, featureless activity (much like coffee-cup dialogue, during which everyone sounds the same), and partly because it feels... tacky.
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.
Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.
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.
Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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.
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.
Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.
A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions.
That's why 'Star Wars' is appealing. You watch someone fight the perilous monster.
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.
To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.
I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.
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.
Bilingualism is a great asset for any individual, but it has perilous consequences for a nation.
The perils of credit and debt, especially perilous in the computer age, have long been acknowledged in pop culture, but very infrequently by TV.
We are in perilous territory the stronger Iran gets. And they're getting stronger. We should make them weaker.
The United States, to state the obvious, is greatly concerned by the startling number of unaccompanied minors that - children and teenagers who are making a very perilous journey through Central America to reach the United States.
I do not run for the presidency merely to oppose any man, but to propose new policies. I run because I am convinced that this country is on a perilous course and because I have such strong feelings about what must be done, and I feel that I'm obliged to do all I can.
Practicing free speech on an open platform is a perilous path for any public figure, and there are no get-out-of-jail free passes in the court of public opinion.
Our position is extremely perilous; if we do not earnestly promote nationalism and weld together our four hundred millions into a strong nation, we face a tragedy - the loss of our country and the destruction of our race. To ward off this danger, we must espouse nationalism and employ the national spirit to save the country.
By far my most perilous assignment was covering a tank car explosion.
History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.
The initial spark, your affection for the characters, all those things can disappear. It's a perilous thing.