You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you, or when you risk climbing down in a Tibetan pub for a meal of rotten meat.
~By Ella Maillart ~
The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
~By Maimonides ~
The cloud that descended on Black Rock on Monday was not for the past but the future. How much will this debacle chill the pursuit of other risky investigations?
~By Tina Brown ~
The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo.
~By Bob Iger ~
I don't think I ever take huge risks, though I'm not scared of doing so.
~By Kevin Costner ~
Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.
~By Robert Anthony ~
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 ~
Rich people who own mansions on the beach shouldn't get federal subsidies. If you want to stay there, take the risk.
~By Geraldo Rivera ~
No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.
~By Martha Beck ~
Often you need to take some risk, but it must be a realistic risk, you can't take a crazy risk.
~By Sergei Bubka ~
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 ~
This crisis exposed very significant problems in the financial systems of the United States and some other major economies. Innovation got too far out in front of the knowledge of risk.
~By Timothy Geithner ~
Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.
~By George W. Bush ~
The only risk of failure is promotion.
~By Scott Adams ~
People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.
~By Chuck Palahniuk ~
I think Van Sant is the most important American director we have. He takes the most risks. He's just pure to me.
~By Michael Pitt ~
In Arkansas alone, approximately three quarters of a million people are at risk of going hungry, and one in four children does not get enough to eat, so my goal is to bring awareness to this tragic issue.
~By Blanche Lincoln ~
To live without risk for me would be tantamount to death.
~By Jacqueline Cochran ~
To believe in love, to be ready to give up anything for it, to be willing to risk your life for it, is the ultimate tragedy.
~By Leonardo DiCaprio ~
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 ~
For me, skiing is a physical necessity. I have a need for risk.
~By Jean-Marie Messier ~
Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out.
~By Theodore Bikel ~
Will it, and set to work briskly.
~By Friedrich Schiller ~
When the script was written, it was sent to me with asterisks marking where he felt a song would be appropriate. Before the film was shot, the score was written. I made a demo of it, so they lived with the music as they were making the film.
~By Alan Price ~
If indeed this is the work of God... then it's a crisis that calls for the church to be its very best self, and not worry about risking itself for the right thing.
~By Gene Robinson ~
I come from a family of cops, and all of them share that understanding that they put their lives on the line. They share and deal with that sense of risk every day, so I got to see that up close.
~By Ryan Reynolds ~
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 ~
If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.
~By Rosalynn Carter ~
The Church became both more accessible and less imposing. It threw itself open to risk.
~By Lance Morrow ~
Once we open the door to the plutonium economy, we expose ourselves to absolutely terrible, horrifying risks from these people.
~By David R. Brower ~
To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth.
~By Richard Baker ~
Heroic people take risks to themselves to help others. There's nothing heroic about accepting $5 million to go out and run around chasing a ball, although you may show fortitude or those other qualities while you do it.
~By Gregg Easterbrook ~
We carve out risk-free lives where nothing happens.
~By James Hillman ~
To me this movie is about what is valuable. To one person it might be a stone; to someone else, a story in a magazine; to another, it is a child. The juxtaposition of one man obsessed with finding a valuable diamond with another man risking his life to find his son is the beating heart of this film.
~By Edward Zwick ~
But on the other hand, in the midst of the chaos, you find normal people. You find people who are willing to risk their lives to tell you what they saw, even though they have no dog in the fight.
~By John Pomfret ~
Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white.
~By Constance Baker Motley ~
Such lifestyle factors such as cigarette smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, little physical activity and low dietary calcium intake are risk factors for osteoporosis as well as for many other non-communicable diseases.
~By Gro Harlem Brundtland ~
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 ~
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 ~
With love, you should go ahead and take the risk of getting hurt... because love is an amazing feeling.
~By Britney Spears ~
There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event it's a thing I need.
~By William Faulkner ~
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 ~
In every area of the world where there is earthquake risk, there are still many buildings of this type; it is very frustrating to try to get rid of them.
~By Charles Francis Richter ~
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 ~
Each of us, having received several hundred dollars, we passed the time gloriously, spending our money freely - never thinking that our lives were risked gaining it.
~By Kit Carson ~
Nothing in life and nothing that we do is risk-free.
~By Ken Salazar ~
It was both necessary and desirable for us to be so strong at sea that no Sea Power could attack us without risk, so that we might be free to protect our oversea interests, independently of the influence and the choice of other Sea Powers.
~By Bernhard von Bulow ~
There is no doubt that Formula 1 has the best risk management of any sport and any industry in the world.
~By Jackie Stewart ~
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 ~
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 ~
I'm of the mind that life is a risk, every time you leave your house it's a risk, and I see no reason to go through life with my hands tied behind my back for any reason. I'd be foolish to let something stop me from doing what I love to do.
~By Thomas Jane ~
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 ~
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 ~
The best roles have risks... and those are the parts I'm interested in.
~By Brendan Fehr ~
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 ~
When you've got a great business going, you go open another and take the risk of losing the whole thing. It's fun!
~By Paul Prudhomme ~
The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.
~By Carolyn Heilbrun ~
Acting is a win-win situation. There is no risk involved. That's why I get tired of hearing actors who try to make out that there's a downside to it. Fame is an odd thing. It bugs you a little bit, but it's really not bad.
~By John Corbett ~
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 ~
You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.
~By Chuck Yeager ~
The reason is that for many years I have avoided reading anything whatsoever that approaches my own line of country, out of a somewhat fanatical desire to avoid the risk of unconscious imitation.
~By Leslie Charteris ~
Our national security is at risk when we rely on foreign oil to keep our economy moving forward.
~By Bill Shuster ~
First, we did rank everybody by risk, and New York comes out number one.
~By Michael Chertoff ~
It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
~By Voltaire ~
Now, for pure bloggers, for individual people who are just posting their own thoughts, they would still run the same risk of saying something wrong or embarrassing, but they wouldn't harm their institutions by doing so.
~By Gregg Easterbrook ~
You've got to keep taking certain risks, because my priority is in acting, it's not in movie stardom.
~By Gary Sinise ~
Risk is essential. There is not growth of inspiration in staying within what is safe and comfortable. Once you find out what you do best, why not try something else?
~By Alex Noble ~
To win you have to risk loss.
~By Jean-Claude Killy ~
We've created an impression that life is risk-free, and it's not.
~By Alastair Wood ~
The risk from terrorism remains acute and the private market cannot continue to operate without a government backstop.
~By Michael Oxley ~
Risk means everything from being honest about your faith, to moving, to quitting a job that's paying you a fortune but it's not what's in your heart. Risking things is one of the biggest fears we have.
~By John Tesh ~
The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.
~By Titus Maccius Plautus ~
Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open.
~By Tahar Ben Jelloun ~
One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control.
~By Isabelle Adjani ~
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 ~
And one of the things we did here was we put the maximum amount of money up front in those cities that were at the greater risk, but that doesn't mean that we keep rebuilding the same security over and over again.
~By Michael Chertoff ~
If you're playing within your capability, what's the point? If you're not pushing your own technique to its own limits with the risk that it might just crumble at any moment, then you're not really doing your job.
~By Nigel Kennedy ~
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
~By Walter Anderson ~
To be alive at all involves some risk.
~By Harold MacMillan ~
I had always fancied a go at the comedy and when it started to go reasonably well and the opportunity arose for me to move into it full time, I just couldn't turn it down. I just took the risk, and I just wanted to see if it would work and thankfully it did.
~By Jo Brand ~
The moment somebody says 'this is very risky' is the moment it becomes attractive to me.
~By Kate Capshaw ~
Any time you take a chance you better be sure the rewards are worth the risk because they can put you away just as fast for a ten dollar heist as they can for a million dollar job.
~By Stanley Kubrick ~
That was kind of scary. You got the sense as a little kid that you might be at risk now, and then you're like, 'Why are we at risk? It's because my grandfather is in charge of all of this.' You can't really realize the magnitude of a job like that when you are eight.
~By Lauren Bush ~
Liberalism regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situation, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability.
~By Morris Raphael Cohen ~
A frisky spirit makes my trombone sing.
~By Chris Barber ~
At a time when going to college has never been more important, it's never been more expensive, and our nation's families haven't been in this kind of financial duress since the great depression. And so what we have is just sort of a miraculous opportunity simply by stopping the subsidy to banks when we already have the risk of loans. We can plow those savings into our students. And we can make college dramatically more affordable, tens of billions of dollars over the next decade.
~By Arnie Duncan ~
Now that I know how supermarket meat is made, I regard eating it as a somewhat risky proposition. I know how those animals live and what's on their hides when they go to slaughter, so I don't buy industrial meat.
~By Michael Pollan ~
In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
~By Adlai E. Stevenson ~
Television is more of a business. You can't take as many risks, because there's so many channels now, and the advertising's dropping.
~By Dana Delany ~
Washington, D.C., has a much greater risk than Manchester, N.H. They both need some level of funding, but they ought not to be done per capita. Congress is to blame for some of this.
~By Warren Rudman ~
What I find really interesting is to try and mix it up, to push myself and try different things. I don't want to stay in my comfort zone. I want to take risks and keep myself scared.
~By Michael Fassbender ~
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 ~
There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
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 ~
We are ever mindful the risks our troops face every day and the sacrifices made by the families and the communities that support them as those who have been removed from power seek to delay their inevitable defeat.
~By John Warner ~
You don't want too much fear in a market, because people will be blinded to some very good buying opportunities. You don't want too much complacency because people will be blinded to some risk.
~By Ron Chernow ~
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 ~
Some studies show that women can be better money managers than men because they tend to be more conservative and do their homework. Men tend to take more risks without the research.
~By Maria Bartiromo ~
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 was not willing to give up because I was born to like taking risks and that is my way of life.
~By Alain Robert ~
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