Risk Quotes - Page 28

• Can you believe approximately 17 percent of American children ages 2 to 19 years are obese? How about this fact: approximately 60 percent of overweight children ages 5 to 10 already have at least one risk factor for heart disease? We are all to blame for this - parents, schools, kids - all of us.

  Alison Sweeney

  Children, Believe, Heart

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• A country's assets reside in the tinkerers, the hobbyists, and the risk-takers.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Country, Assets

  "Chaos Is Good for You". Interview with Linda Geddes, www.slate.com. December 2, 2012.

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• We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Pay The Price, Bans, Should

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• I only take risks in couture, but I don't take risks in athleticism.

  Andre Leon Talley

  Athleticism, Couture

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• Falling in love, romance, matters of the heart - when you fall in love, on some biochemical level you know there is a chance it won't work out. It's ingrained in us that if you take such an enormous risk on someone with your heart that it might not pay off. I gamble all my chips and I might actually lose everything.

  Rachael Taylor

  Falling In Love, Heart, Work Out

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Life, Success, Men

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• I am an Addictive Personality, they say, a natural slave to passion - and many Doctors have warned me against it. I am a High-risk Patient.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Passion, Doctors, Personality

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.85, Pan Macmillan

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• Finnish companies tend to be very traditional, not taking many risks. Silicon Valley is completely different: people here really live on the edge.

  Linus Torvalds

  People, Different, Valleys

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• Governments enjoying surpluses have a very strong temptation to splash money around, and while tax cuts are always appealing, cutting taxes at the top of a boom runs the real risk of creating a structural deficit when the boom subsides.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Running, Strong, Real

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, Lines

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.5388, Delphi Classics

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• I mean, as long as it doesn't have a bra attached, guys can take a risk and wear stylish things that went out of style 30 years ago. As things go around, they come around.

  Steven Tyler

  Mean, Years, Long

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• The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night?

  John Fowles

  Night, Lasts, Craving

  1965 The Magus, ch.19.

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• a fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he's already got. He'll cling to trouble he's used to before he'll risk a change. Yes. A man will talk about how he'd like to escape from living folks. But it's the dead folks that do him the damage. It's the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.

  William Faulkner

  Men, Trying, Might

  William Faulkner (1985). “Light in August”, Vintage

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• If one tries to navigate unknown waters one runs the risk of shipwreck

  Albert Einstein

  Running, Wisdom, Water

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• If we commit ourselves to one person for life, this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather, it demands the courage to move into all the risks of freedom, and the risk of love which is permanent; into that love which is not possession but participation.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Love, Relationship, Moving

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.44, Open Road Media

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• To take that risk, to offer life and remain alive, open yourself like this and become whole.

  Margaret Atwood

  Alive, Offers, Whole

  Margaret Atwood (1974). “You are happy”

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• By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming an idiot oneself.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Running, Becoming, Idiot

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• All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Secret, World

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• Never, ever regret or apologize for believing that when one man or one woman decides to risk addressing the world with truth, the world may stop what it is doing and hear. There is too much evidence to the contrary.

  Robert Fulghum

  Truth, Regret, Believe

  Robert Fulghum (2011). “Maybe (Maybe Not): Second Thoughts from a Secret Life”, p.228, Ballantine Books

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• I've been popular and unpopular successful and unsuccessful loved and loathed and I know how meaningless it all is. Therefore I feel free to take whatever risks I want.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Successful, Want, Feels

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• Instruction for life: Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk. When you lose, don't lose the lesson. Follow the three R's: - Respect for self. - Respect for others. - Responsibility for all your actions. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Responsibility, Self, Great Love

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• You run a grave risk, my boy," said the magician, "of being turned into a piece of bread, and toasted.

  T. H. White

  Running, Boys, Pieces

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.65, Penguin

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• She is a woman of honour and smartness whose wild leaves out luck, always taking risks, and there is something in her brow now, that only she can recognize in a mirror. Ideal and idealistic in that shiny dark hair! People fall in love with her. She is a woman I don’t know well enough to hold in my wing, if writers have wings, to harbour for the rest of my life.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Falling In Love, Dark, Wings

  FaceBook post by Michael Ondaatje from Mar 08, 2015

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• I paused, only just now realizing that the subject was hitting a little close to home. "You know, getting hurt. Putting herself out there, opening up to someone." Yeah," he said adding some cheese straws to the cart, "but risk is just part of relationships. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't." I picked up a box of cheese straws, examining it. "Yeah," I said. "But it's not all about chance, either.

  Sarah Dessen

  Hurt, Home, Opening Up

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.187, Penguin

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• To be changed by ideas was pure pleasure. But to learn ideas that ran counter to values and beliefs learned at home was to place oneself at risk, to enter the danger zone. Home was the place where I was forced to conform to someone else’s image of who and what I should be. School was the place where I could forget that self and, through ideas, reinvent myself.

  Bell Hooks

  Home, School, Self

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