It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?
~By Jim Carrey ~
The Church became both more accessible and less imposing. It threw itself open to risk.
~By Lance Morrow ~
The doctors must tell you that one of the risks of surgery is that you might die. This poor doctor was talking to an actress. It was very dramatic to me. To him, it was just a thing he had to say.
~By Patty Duke ~
To be alive at all involves some risk.
~By Harold MacMillan ~
The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.
~By Edgar Watson Howe ~
Risk more than others think safe.
~By Howard Schultz ~
Finnish companies tend to be very traditional, not taking many risks. Silicon Valley is completely different: people here really live on the edge.
~By Linus Torvalds ~
Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.
~By J. B. Priestley ~
On the other hand, the American public possesses a great resilience and strength, and good risk communication strategies can tap into and even amplify those assets.
~By Patrick J. Kennedy ~
I am very puzzled by the fact that young people are getting infected again. They don't take precautions despite an enormous amount of information. It's like riding a race car at 200 kilometers an hour. Some people like the risk.
~By Luc Montagnier ~
Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all sides. We don't know where it will lead. But if we just stand still, we will have no chance of escaping the violence.
~By Daniel Barenboim ~
In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.
~By Learned Hand ~
The men and women on the front lines of the war on terror continue to risk their lives to save ours - and for that we owe them a debt that we can never truly repay. Thanks to their efforts we have made tremendous progress. Yet, the job is not done.
~By Doc Hastings ~
It's not just in Hollywood that women run the risk of being passed by once they reach 50. It happens in real life, too.
~By Candice Bergen ~
Nothing in life and nothing that we do is risk-free.
~By Ken Salazar ~
I expected to be shot at any moment and if they had done I would have understood, that they couldn't take risks with someone foolhardy or so unpredictable.
~By Laurie Lee ~
What we can do now is contribute to a clearer understanding of what happened that day on Everest in the hope that the lessons to be learned will reduce the risk for others who, like us, take on the challenge of the mountains.
~By Anatoli Boukreev ~
For generations, America has served as a beacon of hope and freedom for those outside her borders, and as a land of limitless opportunity for those risking everything to seek a better life. Their talents and contributions have continued to enrich our country.
~By Spencer Bachus ~
What we're going to do is redouble our efforts on financial regulatory reform, because that has in it sensible things like say on pay, so at least the shareholders are minding the store, sensible things like saying, for heaven's sakes, compensation should be focused on - on long term, so that you don't have rewards for short-term risk-taking.
~By Christina Romer ~
Any Congressional agreement of an arbitrary time table to bring our troops home before we have accomplished our mission is unacceptable and could potentially increase the risk to our soldiers.
~By James T. Walsh ~
There is a basic lesson on financial crises that governments tend to wait too long, underestimate the risks, want to do too little. And it ultimately gets away from them, and they end up spending more money, causing much more damage to the economy.
~By Timothy Geithner ~
Once we open the door to the plutonium economy, we expose ourselves to absolutely terrible, horrifying risks from these people.
~By David R. Brower ~
So I am totally aware that when I defend the autonomy of art I'm going counter to my own development. It's more an instinctive reaction, meant to protect the private aspect of the work, the part I am most interested in and which nowadays is at risk in our culture.
~By Thom Mayne ~
Because of my own experience with market fluctuation, I recognize the great risks one takes on investments. This converts the Social Security safety net into a risky proposition many cannot afford to take.
~By Grace Napolitano ~
Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper.
~By Charles Mackay ~
As this body of knowledge has evolved, a much more critical job for researchers and scientists has evolved into explaining and educating policy makers and the public to the risks of global warming and the possible consequences of action or of no action.
~By John Olver ~
And while we are on the subject of medication you always need to look at risk versus benefit.
~By Temple Grandin ~
Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.
~By Gary Ryan Blair ~
Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.
~By Erma Bombeck ~
No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days - we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote.
~By Hillary Clinton ~
To save all we must risk all.
~By Friedrich Schiller ~
You must have love as the core; it takes courage to be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other and risk letting the relationship go.
~By Kenny Loggins ~
The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
~By Erica Jong ~
Sometimes there are things worth risking your life for. It was Jesus who said if you want to save your life, you have to lose it.
~By Gene Robinson ~
To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.
~By Anne Rice ~
If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility.
~By Paul Keating ~
If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk.
~By Gary Ackerman ~
There is no glory in war, yet from the blackness of its history, there emerge vivid colours of human character and courage. Those who risked their lives to help their friends.
~By Silvia Cartwright ~
Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.
~By Gary Ryan Blair ~
But we also believe in taking risks, because that's how you move things along.
~By Melinda Gates ~
I had accumulated some capital and was at an age at which I was interested in generating income. But even though I was risk averse, I was interested in growth stocks.
~By James MacArthur ~
Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
~By Katherine Mansfield ~
One of the responsibilities faced by the Environmental Genome Project is to provide the science base upon which society can make better informed risk management decisions.
~By Samuel Wilson ~
Scissors, screwdrivers and the like pose an unacceptable risk to flight crews as well passengers.
~By Dave Reichert ~
To win you have to risk loss.
~By Jean-Claude Killy ~
There's always risk. But I'm going to come in and play hard. I want to come in and contribute.
~By Eric Lindros ~
If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
~By Erica Jong ~
We've created an impression that life is risk-free, and it's not.
~By Alastair Wood ~
I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives to get.
~By Christiane Amanpour ~
They will therefore not be in a hurry to risk their entire business by expanding too rapidly, but they are the major indicator of whether the manufacturing industry accepts there is a sustainable business in RFID production.
~By Mike Marsh ~
I think it's because it's so different and it takes risks. Plus, it's really smart humor. It gives the audience credit in terms of not needing to tell them when to laugh. I love that about the show. There's no laugh track.
~By Sarah Chalke ~
We have at least 125 communities in Arizona at risk from wildfire, not because of review processes or litigation delays but because of a lack of federal funding on the ground to actually begin the projects.
~By Janet Napolitano ~
Well, when you're trying to create things that are new, you have to be prepared to be on the edge of risk.
~By Michael Eisner ~
Anybody who spends time off of Louisiana's shores can recognize that these oysters are not endangered. To classify them as such risks great harm to not only fishermen who make their living collecting oysters in the Gulf, but also to Louisiana's economy in total.
~By Bobby Jindal ~
The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.
~By Lance Armstrong ~
Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don't begin thinking about education in the early years, our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten.
~By Robert. L. Ehrlich ~
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
I found myself getting more publicly shy when the gala events and big crowds started. Some people embrace it. To me, it's not worth enough to risk my private life being public.
~By Matt Damon ~
The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo.
~By Bob Iger ~
Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
~By Josh Billings ~
I have to say that in this particular cow that we're dealing with, those parts of the cow were removed, and so we don't think there's any risk or very negligible risk to human health with this particular incident.
~By Ann Veneman ~
There is a time for risky love. There is a time for extravagant gestures. There is a time to pour out your affections on one you love. And when the time comes - seize it, don't miss it.
~By Max Lucado ~
To walk across the street is a risk.
~By Mikhail Baryshnikov ~
Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.
~By Daniel Boone ~
Of course people don't want war. Why should a poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best thing he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece?
~By Hermann Goering ~
People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.
~By Chuck Palahniuk ~
I'm fighting for small businesses. I'm not fighting for big oil. Don't be confused. And there are thousands of businesses in this state that are at great risk. Meanwhile, the country keeps guzzling the oil, but we're out of work down here. We need to get back to work to build this region, and we intend to do so.
~By Mary Landrieu ~
If we carry on filling up the calendar, we keep on pushing the athlete, we shorten the athletes longevity. The risk is to shorten a career that could have lasted 10 years because the athlete is burnt out.
~By Alberto Juantorena ~
Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?
~By Raoul Vaneigem ~
One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
~By John W. Gardner ~
Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.
~By Jean Jacques Rousseau ~
It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk if he comes home too early.
~By Marcel Achard ~
You have to be aware. Like, I'm not going to do any downhill skiing. It looks like a whole lot of fun, but I'm not going to risk breaking a leg. I want to be dancing the way I'm dancing now for 30 more years.
~By Bebe Neuwirth ~
We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.
~By Voltaire ~
I've arrived at the place if I'm not taking a career risk, I'm not happy. If I'm scared, then I know I'm being challenged.
~By Jim Carrey ~
The risk from viruses is an unanswered question - and it won't be answered until you have had organs transplanted into humans over many years.
~By Ian Smith ~
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.
~By William James ~
To race Formula three is very high risk and I am not going to take a chance. Thank god I am not doing it!
~By Emerson Fittipaldi ~
One of my biggest problems this season was with the clutch at the start of the race. I hate to risk the car.
~By Alain Prost ~
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. Don't store unnecessary data, keep an eye on what's happening, and don't take unnecessary risks.
~By Chris Bell ~
If you want to write the next great novel, but you think, No, this won't work because no one will buy it or it won't be any good, then you talk yourself out of taking a risk.
~By John Tesh ~
Lest those islands still seem to you too remote in space and time to be relevant to our modern societies, just think about the risks... of our increasing globalization and increasing worldwide economic interdependence.
~By Jared Diamond ~
These are men and women who are willing to risk their lives in defense of their country. And the fact that their orientation - sexual orientation's been held against them is a blot on our nation's reputation.
~By Dick Durbin ~
An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to the success of whatever he or she undertakes.
~By Victor Kiam ~
I think the studio gave me that series on purpose, because they knew perfectly well that Robert Riskin was ill and that I needed to go to work. They gave me that series to do.
~By Fay Wray ~
What I tell these young people is, the world is not as dangerous as the older generation would like you to believe. Anyone I know who has ever taken a risk and lost a job has ended up getting a better one two years later.
~By Jonathan Kozol ~
We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.
~By James E. Burke ~
My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place - police, firefighters and members of our armed forces.
~By Sidney Sheldon ~
I will work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to preserve the Social Security promise that provides secure retirement benefits for all, especially those who are most at risk such as widows, orphans, and people with disabilities when the need arises.
~By Chaka Fattah ~
If we get in an accident that's strong enough to break bones, it's going to break bones. What makes me a little bit higher risk is that if I break my right ankle again, I've got a bunch of screws and plates in there, and that would not be good.
~By Al Unser ~
It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.
~By Herodotus ~
There is a tremendous amount of support for the approach we have taken, which again is to base our decisions on risk analysis and thoughtful scientific process.
~By Mike Johanns ~
I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it's a risk worth running.
~By Ben Elton ~
Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.
~By Andrew Jackson ~
Not taboo - it's just that straight actors still risk their careers commercially and economically. They have to please the crowd - they're movie stars; their image is their industry. It goes beyond acting.
~By Ang Lee ~
In the end, we may be hurting the very people we should be concerned about - the inner-city poor, those who already have to live with many risks in their daily lives, those who do not have clout here in Washington.
~By Fred Thompson ~
Irreversible is not glamorous at all. I try to do different things because I want to grow as an actress and I like to take risks.
~By Monica Bellucci ~
You must take the risk to disclose yourself in order to become more real, more human. And even if the price is high.
~By Isabelle Adjani ~
The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
Talking from morning to night about sex has helped my skiing, because I talk about movement, about looking good, about taking risks.
~By Ruth Westheimer ~
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