Perils Quotes

“he couldn't entice me with his pills, hookers, guns or war mission”
― Edward Williams, Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution

“Maybe that’s how it has to be. Maybe there is no diplomatic solution for this? Perhaps one of them has to die?”
― Cade Mengler, The Companions

“We…realized that no matter who won the race, we were girls, and we were from Soso, Mississippi, population 434, which meant we were destined to be last in pretty much everything else.”
― Karen Hinton, Penis Politics: A Memoir of Women, Men and Power

“Even with all this power, it comes down to the same old things. Connections, money, influence.”
― Edward Williams

“Look back, and smile on perils past!”
― Walter Scott, The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott

“What seemed at first like an act of incandescent self-destruction turned out to be the onramp to a bleak treadmill, one that felt designed to eradicate my personality and identity. It didn’t end my self-recrimination and misery. Instead, it illustrated just how good I’d had it living on the street.”
― Edward Williams

“At the time I went along with the story they gave us, which was that they’d found his van broken down and they’d seen him hitchhiking off. They asked me if I knew where he might be heading. So, at the time I took it a bit lightly – I wish I hadn’t.”
― Nicole Morris, Vanished: True Stories from Families of Australian Missing Persons

“I find it harder and harder to talk about. It’s the frustration. I wish people had been this interested back then – we might have her with us.”
― Nicole Morris, Vanished: True Stories from Families of Australian Missing Persons

“Aye me, how many perils do enfold
The righteous man, to make him daily fall?
Were not, that heavenly grace doth him uphold,
And steadfast truth acquite him out of all.”
― Edmund Spenser, Fierce Wars and Faithful Loves

“The path of life is strewn with many perils and the folly of knowledge is one of the greatest dangers. Wisdom is a treacherous weapon, little master, for it is sundered from compassion. All too often the end of the journey gains more import than it should and the wise become blind to the road and the method of their passing.”
― Robin Jarvis, Thomas

“One of the perils of life is to be asked a question which the wisest of them cannot answer. But a smile does the job.”
― R. N. Prasher

“A path without perils is a path without glory.”
― Abhijit Naskar, 7 Billion Gods: Humans Above All

“Courage is doing what is right and necessary, regardless of peril. Your parents were brave. Your grandmother was brave. Endangering yourself or others for the sake of wealth? Risking lives for a chance at ill-gotten gain? This is not courage. It is avarice.”
― Jake Wyatt, The Well