Adlai Stevenson I
Adlai Stevenson I

To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.

Alanis Morissette
Alanis Morissette

Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.

Alanis Morissette
Alanis Morissette

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.

Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce

Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.

Anh Do
Anh Do

One of my uncles was actually a sapper who cleared land mines for Anzacs, Australian soldiers, and we had to flee Vietnam. There were 40 of us on a 9-meter fishing boat. We were at sea for five days, a very perilous journey. We were attacked by pirates twice.

Carrie Fisher
Carrie Fisher

That's why 'Star Wars' is appealing. You watch someone fight the perilous monster.

David McCullough
David McCullough

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

Dylan Moran
Dylan Moran

I fear we might be losing the basic human facility to be alone - and with that you throw out independent decision-making, what to trust, what not to trust; key stuff - a perilous loss.

Edna St. Vincent Millay
Edna St. Vincent Millay

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

Elaine Welteroth
Elaine Welteroth

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.