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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.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Confucius

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

Ouida

Flows indicate that investors are nervous, with significant flows out of equities into asset allocation and fixed income funds over the quarter. The roughly 200% run from the lows of March 2003 is being interpreted by 'the bears' as a sign that the market must be in perilous territory.

Jeremy Gardiner

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.

Thomas Mann

I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.

Gaylord Nelson

Oh, moment of sweet peril, perilous sweet! When woman joins herself to man.

Owen Meredith

Covering this war is a perilous assignment for all journalists, but the gravest risk falls on those whose country is the battleground and whose lives are inextricable from the society.

Bill Keller

Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.

Maria Edgeworth

Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.

Vladimir Nabokov

Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.

Hannah More

Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.

James Earl Jones

The ambitious climbs up high and perilous stairs, and never cares how to come down; the desire of rising hath swallowed up his fear of a fall.

Thomas Adams

Loggers are working in perilous conditions, to say the least.

James Hull