Risk Quotes - Page 27

• Women themselves are so happy, and so beautiful, when they're strong, that they naturally choose powerful men, even if that power's so enermous there's a real risk it could shatter them.

  Honore de Balzac

  Beautiful, Strong, Powerful

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• Toni Morrison said, "The function of freedom is to free someone else," and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person or a way of life, tell your story. Risk freeing someone else. Not everyone will be glad that you did. Members of your family and other critics may wish you had kept your secrets. Oh, well, what are you going to do?

  Anne Lamott

  Secret, Wish, Way

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• You had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Love You, Live By, Saved

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.

  Abraham Maslow

  Safety, Choices, Growth

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• When men can hate without risk, their stupidity is easily convinced, the motives supply themselves.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Hate, Men, Stupidity

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• What about books? Well, precisely because you have denied it in every other field, you believe you may still grant yourself legitimately this youthful pleasure of expectation in a carefully circumscribed area like the field of books, where you can be lucky or unlucky, but the risk of disappointment isn't serious.

  Italo Calvino

  Disappointment, Believe, Book

  Italo Calvino (2010). “If On A Winter's Night A Traveller”, p.4, Random House

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• I do not say that all lawyers are bad, but I do maintain that the general tendency is bad: standing up in a court for whichever side has paid you, affecting warmth and conviction, and doing everything you can to win the case, whatever your private opinion may be, will soon dull any fine sense of honour. The mercenary soldier is not a valued creature, but at least he risks his life, whereas these men merely risk their next fee.

  Patrick O'Brian

  Men, Winning, Soldier

  Patrick O'Brian (2004). “The Complete Aubrey/Maturin Novels”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The moment people come to know love, they run the risk of carrying hate.

  Masashi Kishimoto

  Running, Hate, People

  "Naruto". Manga by Masashi Kishimoto, 1999 - 2014.

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• The nation, as you know, is at a critical point. At a time like this we can't risk partisan bickering and political posturing. Our leaders have to reach across the aisle to do the people's work.

  Mitt Romney

  People, Leader, Political

  "NBC: In "Soaring" Speech, Obama "Sounded a Lot Like the Man America First Elected Four Years Ago". Interview with Kristen Welker, www.newsbusters.org. November 7, 2012.

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• Watch out for that pedestrian!" "It's on the street, it knows the risks it's taking!

  Neil Gaiman

  Watches, Pedestrians, Streets

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• All right, I'll take a chance. I will fall in love with you. If i'm a fool you can have the night, you can have the morning too. Can you cook and sew. make flowers grow. Do you understand my pain? Are you willing to risk it all or is your love in vain?

  Bob Dylan

  Falling In Love, Morning, Pain

  Song: Is Your Love In Vain ?

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• Observing and understanding the social media phenomenon is one thing-leveraging this trend for advertising purposes is quite another. While most companies recognize the value of social media advertising opportunities, not many have figured out how to execute these kinds of campaigns and the unique risks they entail because of the potential that a viral marketing effort can backfire and actually harm a brand.

  Stephen Jin-Woo Kim

  Business, Unique, Opportunity

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• Both Matilda and Lavender were enthralled. It was quite clear to them that they were at this moment standing in the presence of a master. Here was somebody who had brought the art of skulduggery to the highest point of perfection, somebody, moreover, who was willing to risk life and limb in pursuit of her calling. They gazed in wonder at this goddess, and suddenly even the boil on her nose was no longer a blemish but a badge of courage.

  Roald Dahl

  Art, Perfection, Lavender

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• Practice means cutting down chance and risk.

  Donnie Burns

  Dance, Mean, Cutting

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• We risk life and limb and my princely good looks for a spoonful of sweet sock?

  J.V. Hart

  Sweet, Looks, Looking Good

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• He thought about the story his daughter was living and the role she was playing inside that story. He realized he hadn't provided a better role for his daughter. He hadn't mapped out a story for his family. And so his daughter had chosen another story, a story in which she was wanted, even if she was only being used. In the absence of a family story, she'd chosen a story in which there was risk and adventure, rebellion and independence.

  Donald Miller

  Daughter, Adventure, Parenting

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• It is inconceivable that, in the richest nation in the world, we have 30 million people at risk of hunger. I believe that, if we truly make a commitment as a nation, we can defeat hunger.

  Bo Derek

  Believe, Commitment, People

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• It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.

  Winston Churchill

  Acceptance, Government, Slavery

  Speech in House of Commons, 22 Feb. 1906

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• THE thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that gave utterance to a threat. At length I would be avenged; this was a point definitely, settled --but the very definitiveness with which it was resolved precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Revenge, Ideas, Soul

  Edgar Allan Poe (1984). “Poetry and Tales”, p.848, Library of America

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• When I step out on stage in front of thousands of people, I don't feel that I'm being brave. It can take much more courage to express true feelings to one person. [...] In spite of the risks, the courage to be honest and intimate opens the way to self-discovery. It offers what we all want, the promise of love.

  Michael Jackson

  Love, Courage, Discovery

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• In such doubtful matters, where you have to work as a pioneer, you must be able to put some trust in your intuition and follow your feeling even at the risk of going wrong.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Feelings, Intuition

  Carl Gustav Jung (1960). “The psychogenesis of mental disease”

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• [I] had gotten to the point where I simply could not make a bad vinaigrette, this was not exactly the stuff of drama. (Even now, I cannot believe Mark would want to risk losing that vinaigrette. You just don't bump into vinaigrettes that good.)

  Nora Ephron

  Drama, Believe, Stuff

  Nora Ephron (2011). “Heartburn”, p.14, Vintage

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• But what Dakota most enjoyed about the beginning of winter was the crispness of the air (that practically demanded the wearing of knits) and the way that tough New Yorkers - on the street, in elevators, in subways - were suddenly willing to risk a smile. To make a connection with a stranger. To finally see one another after strenuously avoiding eye contact all year.

  Kate Jacobs

  Christmas, Eye, Winter

  Kate Jacobs (2009). “Knit the Season”, p.8, Penguin

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• As long as a population can be induced to believe in a supernatural hereafter, it can be oppressed and controlled. People will put up with all sorts of tyranny, poverty, and painful treatment if they're convinced that they'll eventually escape to some resort in the sky where lifeguards are superfluous and the pool never closes. Moreover, the faithful are usually willing to risk their skins in whatever military adventure their government may currently be promoting.

  Tom Robbins

  Military, Believe, Adventure

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.356, Bantam

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• What’s that about? Love must be more about power than we think, if even in its most intimate moment of expression we think about not being the one who risks the most.

  Deb Caletti

  Thinking, Expression, Intimate Moments

  Deb Caletti (2012). “Stay”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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