Risk Quotes - Page 40

• I have a problem with censorship by the lawyer - by legal people by the publishing firm, and I may be changing publishers. They don't seem to want to take too many risks with living people.

  Kenneth Anger

  People, May, Want

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• 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.

  Shaun Cassidy

  Fun, Being Single, Lunch

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• I thought we'd die there, quarrels in our backs, you for what you did and me for bearing witness.

  Janet Morris

  Revenge, Bearing Witness, Quarrels

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• Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Freedom, Men, Hands

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• What I tell these young people is, the world is not as dangerous as the older generation would like you to believe. Anyone I know who has ever taken a risk and lost a job has ended up getting a better one two years later.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Jobs, Taken, Believe

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• I write because it is dangerous, a bloody risk, like love, to form the words, to say the words, to touch the source, to be touched, to reveal how vulnerable we are, how transient.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Writing, Like Love, Vulnerable

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• What keeps me awake at the wheel is the thrill of trying something completely new with each book. I’m not a risk-taker in life, generally speaking, but as a writer I definitely choose the fast car, the impossible rock face, the free fall.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Book, Fall, Rocks

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• We should teach general ethics to both men and women, but sexual relationships themselves must not be policed. Sex, like the city streets, would be risk-free only in totalitarian regimes.

  Camille Paglia

  Sex, Women, Cities

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• 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.

  Kathleen Turner

  Stupid, Ego, Trying

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• Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Success, Mistake, Errors

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• The greater the hold of government upon the life of the individual citizen, the greater the risk of war.

  John Hospers

  War, Government, Citizens

  John Hospers (1971). “Libertarianism: a political philosophy for tomorrow”

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• Risk is relative. And relative to the imminent planetary 'game over' neon sign that's starting to flicker above our children's heads, just as they are preparing for a full life ahead... now that's what you call risk!

  Dave Hampton

  Children, Future, Games

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• he thoughtless knowers will call you a red or a communist or a capitalist or some name that expresses their aversion to any mental activity. But somebody must take a chance. The monkeys did who became men, and the monkeys who didn't are still jumping around in the trees making faces at us monkeys who did.

  Lincoln Steffens

  Men, Jumping, Tree

  "Lincoln Steffens speakLincoln Steffens speakinging".

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• I personally support the type of gymnastics which does not exceed a certain amount of acrobatics and risks because then one can still say: what a lovely sport gymnastics is.

  Ludmilla Tourischeva

  Sports, Gymnastics, Support

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• ...the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in the nation's destiny, by men willing to adventure, to shoulder risks terrifying to the timid.

  B. C. Forbes

  Sports, Adventure, Destiny

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• I sought excitement and, taking chances, I was all ready to fail in order to achieve something large.

  Raymond Loewy

  Failure, Ambition, Science

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• Love is the seed of all hope. It is the enticement to trust, to risk, to try, to go on.

  Gloria Gaither

  Love, Marriage, Valentines Day

  Gloria Gaither (1980). “Because He Lives”

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• ...to live differently, to love differently, to think differently, or to try to. Is the danger of beauty so great that it is better to live without it (the standard model)? Or to fall into her arms fire to fire? There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value. Inside the horror of Nagasaki and Hiroshima lies the beauty of Einstein's E=MC squared

  Jeanette Winterson

  Lying, Fall, Thinking

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• Whenever your well-being feels at risk around certain people, make a tactful and swift exit.

  Judith Orloff

  Emotional, People, Exit

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• You have crossbows: Shoot early; shoot often.

  Janet Morris

  Danger, Crossbows

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.127, Paradise Publishing

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• Haste breeds error; error breeds woe.

  Janet Morris

  Errors, Survival, Haste

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• The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man who insists on high and serious pleasures is depriving himself of pleasure; he continually restricts what he can enjoy; in the constant exercise of his good taste he will eventually price himself out of the market, so to speak. Here Camp taste supervenes upon good taste as a daring and witty hedonism. It makes the man of good taste cheerful, where before he ran the risk of being chronically frustrated. It is good for the digestion.

  Susan Sontag

  Witty, Exercise, Men

  "Notes on 'Camp'" by Susan Sontag, note 54, (p. 291), 1964.

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• Something is going on everywhere, most of which no one understands.

  Janet Morris

  Nature, Reality, Magic

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.214, Paradise Publishing

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• Public education is the key civil rights issue of the 21st century. Our nation's knowledge-based economy demands that we provide young people from all backgrounds and circumstances with the education and skills necessary to become knowledge workers. If we don't, we run the risk of creating an even larger gap between the middle class and the poor. This gap threatens our democracy, our society and the economic future of America.

  Eli Broad

  Running, Work, Issues

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• 99 percent of success is built on failure.

  Charles Kettering

  Success, Fear, Failure

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