#perilous

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

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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. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#beauty #bones #defined #i #la

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

— Hannah More

#luxury #more #perilous #poverty #quicksand

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

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#act #also #circumstances #intelligently #man

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

— Maria Edgeworth

#highest #most #never #perilous #point

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

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Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

— Ambrose Bierce

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It is often more important to act than to understand... there are times... when two conflicting opinions, though one happens to be right, are more perilous than one opinion which is wrong. ↗

— John Grierson

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

— Confucius

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