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.

Alex Pareene
Alex Pareene

CNN will always be the channel people turn on when wars and horrible disasters happen. The 'trick' is getting people to also want to watch it when there aren't hundreds or thousands of people somewhere in the world currently in mortal peril.

Alexis Carrel
Alexis Carrel

The Asiatics and the Africans, such as the Russians, the Arabs, the Hindus, are increasing with marked rapidity. Never have the European races been in such great peril as today.

Ali Fazal
Ali Fazal

My grandfather was a civil servant. He was honest, so it would be unfair to say we enjoyed the perils of richness.

Alvar N. C. de Vaca
Alvar N. C. de Vaca

Seeing that our thirst was increasing and the water was killing us, while the storm did not abate, we agreed to trust to God, Our Lord, and rather risk the perils of the sea than wait there for certain death from thirst.

Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce

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

Andrew Breitbart
Andrew Breitbart

Celebrities like to pay lip service to causes but rarely do so by putting their lives in peril. And even more rarely do they do so in the name of the United States of America, not on their own behalf.

Angela Rayner
Angela Rayner

If you want to underestimate me because I speak like a Mancunian, like the people I grew up with, then so be it at your peril.