Pouring concrete on land you don't own is called a calculated risk, if you don't pour you loose millions.
~By Eddie Perez ~
If you have something at risk, you think differently.
~By Henry Kravis ~
Playing roles that are intense and damaged has always come more easily to me than doing comedies or lighter stuff - that would be taking a huge risk for me.
~By Sarah Polley ~
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 ~
I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting.
~By Julie Taymor ~
There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
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 ~
Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it.
~By Lee Iacocca ~
The risk presented by these lethal wastes is like no other risk, and we should not be expected to accept it or to project it into the future in order for manufacturers and utilities to make a dollar killing now.
~By David R. Brower ~
For him to have understood me would have meant reorganizing his thinking... giving up his intellectual ballast, and few people are willing to risk such a radical move.
~By Edward T. Hall ~
A frisky spirit makes my trombone sing.
~By Chris Barber ~
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 ~
You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
~By Paulo Coelho ~
If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.
~By Ray Kroc ~
Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.
~By Anatole France ~
Where there is a problem, the risks to the public are greater than they've ever been before.
~By Dan Glickman ~
Tragically, the White House Task Force on Disadvantaged Youth reported that one-quarter of our young people are at serious risk of not achieving productive adulthood.
~By Ruben Hinojosa ~
Nor do we begin to have a clear appreciation of what the increase in consumption of alcoholic beverages in wartime means in increased risk, and in loss of efficiency to the fighting and working forces of the country.
~By William Lyon Mackenzie King ~
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 ~
Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts.
~By Norman Mailer ~
America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.
~By Larry Elder ~
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 ~
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 ~
Yes, prudently invested contributions to the Social Security fund may bring greater dividends, but those contributions would also face a greater risk. It would be like gambling. We should not gamble with the investments and the future of the citizens of this land.
~By Daniel Inouye ~
At the risk of sounding hopelessly romantic, love is the key element. I really love to play with different musicians who come from different cultural backgrounds.
~By John McLaughlin ~
I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.
~By Ruben Blades ~
You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.
~By Alan Alda ~
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 ~
My family deals with those risks. The best I can do is talk to them about some of those risks. I'm not incredibly specific with them, especially with my kids.
~By Mark Kelly ~
There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.
~By Xenophon ~
Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
~By Ray Bradbury ~
It's better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.
~By Marilyn Moats Kennedy ~
The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
~By Benjamin Cardozo ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
You want 21 percent risk free? Pay off your credit cards.
~By Andrew Tobias ~
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 ~
There is no pressure on me, I can take a lot of risks in the coming weeks. I feel free to ski the way I decide on race-day because the overall title was not my main target this winter.
~By Hermann Maier ~
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
There really have only ever been a few people in each generation who step out, are willing to put themselves on the line, and risk everything for their beliefs.
~By Wynton Marsalis ~
There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them.
~By Friedrich Durrenmatt ~
A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.
~By Lorraine Hansberry ~
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 ~
Now, one thing I tell everyone is learn about real estate. Repeat after me: real estate provides the highest returns, the greatest values and the least risk.
~By Armstrong Williams ~
I focus on the writing and let the rest of the process take care of itself. I've learned to trust my own instincts and I've also learned to take risks.
~By Sue Grafton ~
We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
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 ~
What you risk reveals what you value.
~By Jeanette Winterson ~
Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
~By Herbert Spencer ~
The search for the symbolic value of phonemes, each taken as a whole, runs the risk of giving rise to ambiguous and trivial interpretations because phonemes are complex entities, bundles of different distinctive features.
~By Roman Jakobson ~
We shall be forced to attempt planned and directed research employing hundreds of workers for many years, and this cannot be done without risking the loss of independence and originality. This is a serious and fundamental obstacle but it may be overcome in two ways.
~By John Desmond Bernal ~
There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.
~By M. Scott Peck ~
To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth.
~By Richard Baker ~
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 ~
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 ~
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
~By Elie Wiesel ~
There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.
~By Seamus Heaney ~
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 ~
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 ~
However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.
~By Henry Ellis ~
It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
~By Voltaire ~
We've created an impression that life is risk-free, and it's not.
~By Alastair Wood ~
Col. Shaffer is prohibited by his lawyer from talking. He's at great risk. They want to take away his pay and his health care benefits so they can hold it over his head and not allow him to talk while he's under suspension. This is not America.
~By Curt Weldon ~
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 ~
I don't know driving in another way which isn't risky. Each one has to improve himself. Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than other's.
~By Ayrton Senna ~
To walk across the street is a risk.
~By Mikhail Baryshnikov ~
Once my doctor began treating my kidney disease, my greatest challenge was the constant exhaustion. Fortunately, my doctor explained that anemia was causing my exhaustion and that people with serious illnesses, like kidney disease, may be at increased risk for anemia.
~By Alonzo Mourning ~
At the risk of being a fuddy-duddy I don't have a computer; I don't have e-mail; and I really don't need something in my house that I would be sitting in front of for hours.
~By Marian McPartland ~
At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career.
~By Bernard Cornwell ~
I'm not a money manager, but I can tell you what the conventional wisdom is. The younger you are, the more risk you can take on.
~By Maria Bartiromo ~
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 ~
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'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 ~
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 ~
Their argument is that most shows are losers, which is true, but it's also disingenuous to say, 'We are not going to take the risk unless it is totally covered by the few successful shows that are out there.'
~By Dick Wolf ~
In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
~By Adlai E. Stevenson ~
Kennedy did not have to run the risk of having his ideas and his words shortened and adulterated by a correspondent. This was the television era, not only in campaigning, but in holding the presidency.
~By Hugh Sidey ~
It's going to be a season with lots of accidents, and I'll risk saying that we'll be lucky if something really serious doesn't happen.
~By Ayrton Senna ~
Oh, the miraculous energy that flows between two people who care enough to get beyond surfaces and games, who are willing to take the risks of being totally open, of listening, of responding with the whole heart. How much we can do for each other.
~By Alex Noble ~
If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure.
~By Dan Quayle ~
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 ~
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 think it's less risky for the Kerry campaign to embrace former President Clinton than it is to reject him.
~By Stuart Rothenberg ~
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
~By Anais Nin ~
The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence.
~By Byron White ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.
~By Edmund Burke ~
People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
~By Peter Drucker ~
Four years ago in speaking of a Jewish nation one ran the risk of being regarded ridiculous. Today he makes himself ridiculous who denies the existence of a Jewish nation.
~By Theodor Herzl ~
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 ~
Being overweight and obesity are major risk factors for many chronic diseases for South Dakotans of all ages. When people are overweight or obese, they have more health problems and more serious health problems, in addition to higher health care costs.
~By Mike Rounds ~
Involvement in the arts engages kids in their community, improves self-esteem, reclaims at-risk youth, and builds the creative skills that are required of a 21st century workforce.
~By Gavin Newsom ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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