In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
~By Sallust ~
After the loss of Columbia a couple of years ago, I think we were reminded of the risk. All of us, though, have always known that the Space Shuttle is a very risky vehicle, much more risky than even flying airplanes in combat.
~By Mark Kelly ~
Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.
~By Victor Kiam ~
Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.
~By Tobias Smollett ~
We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette.
~By Ed Markey ~
Every woman needs to know the facts. And the fact is, when it comes to breast cancer, every woman is at risk.
~By Debbie Wasserman Schultz ~
Humor is very very risky, particularly for a candidate, unless he's been in so long that it just doesn't matter, and he's not running for president. But it's just that people are so sensitive and so touchy, and you're just going to upset somebody without ever realizing it.
~By Mark Russell ~
Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.
~By Andre Malraux ~
I praise CBS for taking a risk, which is always the price you pay for opportunity. This is not standard movie of the week storytelling. I think movies of the week have fallen into a niche and that isn't my niche.
~By Tom Selleck ~
It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
~By Voltaire ~
It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.
~By Simone de Beauvoir ~
I do think that our freedoms are at risk.
~By Clarence Thomas ~
Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to write, I can take more risks with them. It's just less of your life invested.
~By Anthony Doerr ~
Today, the growing economic and social pressures in our country are putting millions of women, children and families at increased risk of abuse and neglect, especially when families are denied basic support services and economic opportunity.
~By Robert Casey ~
Iraq is a long way from the U.S., but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face.
~By Madeleine Albright ~
It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?
~By Jim Carrey ~
You really should not do this job unless you're willing to put in that enormous amount of effort. You should not do the job unless you're willing to take risks. And you shouldn't do the job unless you're willing to lose the job, too.
~By Anthony A. Williams ~
I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.
~By Billie Jean King ~
Great Britain had a much different situation than we do and did here in the United States, in that they had literally thousands of infected animals with human health risks. Their infectivity in this disease happened before very much was known about it.
~By Ann Veneman ~
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 ~
Nearly 100,000 sex offenders remain unregistered, and are moving freely about the country; the risk that they may strike again grows every day.
~By Bob Ney ~
If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.
~By Ray Kroc ~
There is nothing nobler than risking your life for your country.
~By Nick Lampson ~
Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.
~By Maxwell Maltz ~
Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life.
~By Jose Marti ~
The principle element in a performance is risk, and if you're losing interest then by scaring yourself to death the audience will feel it and boy it'll wake them up.
~By Leo Kottke ~
As the U.S. trade deficit, and the portion of that deficit attributed to China, continue to grow, our own economy is at risk of losing its reputation as a leader in world trade.
~By Jo Ann Emerson ~
If we don't continue to pursue alternative, emissions-free energy sources like nuclear fuel, we are at risk of increasing our dependence on costly natural gas.
~By Judy Biggert ~
The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
~By Jawaharlal Nehru ~
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 ~
When I entered the field in July 1958 I believed what they told me about radiation risks. I spent much effort reducing the dose to patients in radiology.
~By John Cameron ~
Hope is a risk that must be run.
~By Georges Bernanos ~
Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with a purpose for which it was not made for, and in this way we may degrade it.
~By Jacques Lacan ~
It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community.
~By Thorstein Veblen ~
Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane.
~By R. D. Laing ~
Who gets the risks? The risks are given to the consumer, the unsuspecting consumer and the poor work force. And who gets the benefits? The benefits are only for the corporations, for the money makers.
~By Cesar Chavez ~
I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.
~By Ruben Blades ~
I just do whatever it is that I believe I should do, regardless of the risks to my life.
~By Corazon Aquino ~
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 ~
I don't see the risk, I enjoy performing stunts, and I don't get scared.
~By Ajay Devgan ~
A group of us started a community center in Santa Monica. We've tried different programs, and three have worked really well. A poetry group. Once a week we visit Venice High and talk to girls at risk.
~By Lisa Bonet ~
The impact of climate change is a tremendous risk to the security and well-being of our countries.
~By Nancy Pelosi ~
Where do you find the strength to brave a barrage of enemy fire and to bring your wounded friends to safety at great risk to your own life? Conviction.
~By Guy Verhofstadt ~
Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.
~By Vaclav Havel ~
Is there some risk every day we walk out our front door? Every time we get in our car? Yeah. Are we materially less safe now than we were 10 years ago? Whatever delta there is, it's very small.
~By John Hickenlooper ~
If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
~By Erica Jong ~
We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.
~By Voltaire ~
Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.
~By Waylon Jennings ~
Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.
~By Bill Cosby ~
Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
~By Ray Bradbury ~
We recognize that it is not only inbound but also outbound (cargo) that can pose a risk as well.
~By Asa Hutchinson ~
The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy - yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.
~By Nelson Algren ~
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 ~
Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. It's time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like the poison it is.
~By Mitt Romney ~
If I wasn't doing this kind of exploration, I'd like to be doing some other kind of exploration. It might be more risky, or less risky, but, in the business of exploration, risk is part of the territory.
~By John L. Phillips ~
Successful organizations, including the Military, have learned that the higher the risk, the more necessary it is to engage everyone's commitment and intelligence.
~By Margaret J. Wheatley ~
The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs; it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity.
~By Mitch Daniels ~
We've created an impression that life is risk-free, and it's not.
~By Alastair Wood ~
When you do bigger films, the financiers take more risks.
~By Dougray Scott ~
As a result of the World War and of a peace whose imperfections and risks are no longer denied by anyone, are we not even further away from the great aspirations and hopes for peace and fraternity than we were one or two decades ago?
~By Hjalmar Branting ~
Any doctor will admit that any drug can have side effects, and that writing a prescription involves weighing the potential benefits against the risks.
~By Mark Udall ~
It's a risk casting anyone against type or what they're known to do. But there's one thing better than having a great actor, which is having a great actor who's never done what you're asking him to do. He's hungry to get out of the trailer every day and hungry to test himself.
~By Sam Mendes ~
Sometimes it would be nice to just have some red wine with dinner, but it's not worth the risk. I have a great life, a great situation. Why would I want to risk self-destructive behaviour?
~By Kristin Davis ~
There are challenges in terms of the measurement of VAR for what are known as nonlinear derivatives, where things like gamma and vega are important dimensions of the risk.
~By John Hull ~
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 ~
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.
~By Alvar N. C. de Vaca ~
Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.
~By Emanuel Celler ~
You got to risk something to be able to give something, you know?
~By Joshua Homme ~
Whenever you're going to play a real person, you run the risk of well, everybody in the world kind of has an image of what that person is and who he should be and so you really have to do your homework.
~By Joe Mantegna ~
But one way or another, judges perform a very vital function in our society. They have a risky job and they are entitled to security.
~By Arlen Spector ~
I'm not cynical about marriage or romance. I enjoyed being married. And although being single was fun for a while, there was always the risk of dating someone who'd owned a lunch box with my picture on it.
~By Shaun Cassidy ~
Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.
~By Joyce Brothers ~
Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.
~By Kingman Brewster, Jr. ~
While I do not hesitate to applaud certain aspects of the resolution honoring the sacrifices of our courageous soldiers who are risking their lives in Iraq, I cannot be supportive of capitalizing on these very sacrifices for political gain.
~By Ed Pastor ~
In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown.
~By Felix Adler ~
I think if you go beyond a year - if this continues into the system in the out years, I think there is a risk and that - that we could have a negative reaction in the bond market and that will offset the good that was attempted to be done.
~By Franklin Raines ~
A frisky spirit makes my trombone sing.
~By Chris Barber ~
There is no doubt that Formula 1 has the best risk management of any sport and any industry in the world.
~By Jackie Stewart ~
There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.
~By Drew Barrymore ~
I held a conference in Harvard where Americans said they didn't believe in risk. They thought it was just European hysteria. Then the terrorist attacks happened and there was a complete conversion. Suddenly terrorism was the central risk.
~By Ulrich Beck ~
Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
~By John Stuart Mill ~
The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.
~By Titus Maccius Plautus ~
If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.
~By Richard M. Nixon ~
Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?
~By Jean-Jacques Rousseau ~
I'm not a risk taker. I don't do plunging necklines or really short skirts. I try to stay as classy as possible and provide a little mystery.
~By Kristen Bell ~
But we also believe in taking risks, because that's how you move things along.
~By Melinda Gates ~
Influenza is a serious disease. Kids die of influenza, both in Japan and the United States, and if you give a drug to people who are at risk of dying, there will be people who die who got the drug,... There is no signal the drug is doing it as opposed to the disease.
~By Robert Nelson ~
As population susceptibilities are better understood, we will be in a better position than we are in today to make informed decisions about risk management.
~By Samuel Wilson ~
Everything is sweetened by risk.
~By Alexander Smith ~
The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
~By Patrick Warburton ~
If my ego was out of whack and I believed I could carry anything off, that would be a stupid risk. But so far there's been no reason not to try anything.
~By Kathleen Turner ~
I'm so proud of Maryland's firefighters, risking their lives to protect others, but we need to protect our protectors with the best equipment training and resources.
~By Barbara Mikulski ~
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 ~
Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail.
~By Ed Koch ~
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 ~
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 ~
I think the potential for the program at the risk of sounding self-serving is large, some would say even limitless, so I'm excited about it and I think it can even pass next year.
~By Harold Ford ~
History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
~By Alan Greenspan ~
I've always taken risks, and never worried what the world might really think of me.
~By Cher ~
Today, the technology is there to give early and normally ample warning when a powerful tornado approaches. When a tornado strikes, all of us are at risk.
~By Spencer Bachus ~
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