Quotes of Jeopardy - somelinesforyou

“ Look back, and smile at perils past. ”

- Sir Walter Scott

“ Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure. ”

- Helen Keller

“ Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murders. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls. ”

- Victor Hugo

“ They think they are defending me just against the board, but its my understanding that my attorney, Chuck Douglas, is going to try and take the case out of the committee and into court,... If that happens, I suddenly get civil rights again. I get double jeopardy and hearsay protection, and they will have no case. ”

- Terry Bennett

“ Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy. ”

- John Dewey

“ Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. - Helen Keller. ”

- Helen Keller

“ We shall continue to work for a Middle East that is free of strife and violence, living in harmony without the threat of terrorism or the dangers of weapons of mass destruction. ”

- Hosni Mubarak

“ Everything you need is around you; the danger lies within you. ”

- Unknown

“ Out of debt, out of danger. ”

- Unknown

“ Out of debt, out of danger. ”

- Unknown

“ Great things are won by great dangers. ”

- Herodotus

“ Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. ”

- Alex Lowe

“ Don't make a threat and then not do it. ”

- Suzanne Vega

“ Democrats would dismiss it at their own peril. ”

- Dick Morris

“ When it comes to issues of security against terrorist threats as well as against infectious diseases, these threats know no borders. ”

- Barack Obama

“ There's action only if there is danger. ”

- Howard Hawks

“ Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers. ”

- Victor Hugo

“ The President's plan to privatize Social Security would actually take away guaranteed benefits and put the promise of a secure retirement in jeopardy. ”

- Patty Murray

“ Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them. ”

- Marcus Annaeus Seneca

“ Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them. ”

- Seneca

“ When I got off the soap I got offered all these, you know, 'women in jeopardy' — I call them 'disease of the week' movies. ”

- Sarah Michelle Gellar

“ Everybody is just a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way. ”

- John Mayer

“ There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone. ”

- Marquise De SeVigne

“ It would take battalions of angels to protect us from our dreaded dangers, though in a long lifetime few of the dangers come to anything. ”

- Unknown

“ It would take battalions of angels to protect us from our dreaded dangers, though in a long lifetime few of the dangers come to anything. ”

- Unknown

“ You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future. ”

- An Wang

“ Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance. ”

- Hannah Arendt

“ But the truth of the matter is, we're an open society, we want to remain an open society, and there will continue to be vulnerability. That's why we have to meet the threats when they are not yet taking place on our territory and on our soil. ”

- Condoleezza Rice

“ The Canadians of those days, at least, possessed a roving spirit of adventure which carried them further, in exposure to hardship and danger, than ever the New England colonist went, and led them, though not to clear and colonize the wilderness, yet. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ We all have known good critics, who have stamped out poet's hopes; Good statesmen, who pulled ruin on the state; Good patriots, who, for a theory, risked a cause; Good kings, who disemboweled for a tax; Good Popes, who brought all good to jeopardy; Good Christians, who sat still in easy-chairs; And damned the general world for standing up… ”

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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