Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Ferneyhough

If nothing is at risk, nothing is established.

Scripps is important to the county, but at what risk to taxpayers?

Denis Diderot

You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.

Edward Abbey

To be alive is to take risks; to be always safe and secure is death.

Edward Abbey

A venturesome minority will always be eager to set off on their own, and no obstacles should be placed in their path; let them take risks, for godsake, let them get lost, sunburnt, stranded, drowned, eaten by bears, buried alive under avalanches - that is the right and privilege of any free American.

Ben Kingsley

As an actor there's no autonomy, unless you're prepared to risk the possibility of starving.

Make sure what you risk is yours to lose.

The only risk we run, ... is by doing nothing.

While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.

Aldous Huxley

We now spend a good deal more on drink and smoke than we spend on education. This, of course, is not surprising. The urge to escape from selfhood and the environment is in almost everyone almost all the time.

Alexander Smith

Everything is sweetened by risk.

Aamir Khan

I do what I feel is right. I do not fear to walk on a new path and take risk.

A. R. Ammons

The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.

Adrienne Rich

[The poet] is endowed to speak for those who do not have the gift of language, or to see for those who - for whatever reasons - are less conscious of what they are living through. It is as though the risks of the poet's existence can be put to some use beyond her own survival.

Adam Lambert

Life is all about taking risk to get what you want.

Adam Hochschild

I can certainly sympathize with writers who don't want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small; if you don't take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand, nothing.

I think we've just got to take a risk and go to the council.

Daniel Libeskind

Be innovative. Don't listen to the tried and tested wisdom. Take a risk!

We understand the risk from this object, and while it's small, it's not zero,

Brian Dawkins

To risk what he is potentially risking to want to stay out on the field, that's just the toughness that he has. That really speaks to what he thinks of this team and what he is as a player.

David Jeremiah

Live as a credible witness. If our actions don't line up with the message we're proclaiming, we risk losing our credibility.

Connie Britton

The thing about taking risks is, if it’s really a risk, you really can fail. It’s only a pretend risk if you really can’t fail.

Colin Firth

But this is where you get all the market research and things get in danger of becoming formulaic, and where you depend on brands and getting recognised actors. It's the thing that precludes risk very often, otherwise everyone would be avant-garde all over the place.

There are risks that it doesn't work and there are risks that it works.

We were going to get the people. We take risks all the time firefighting, but we didn't want to get shot.

We know the risks involved. It's very much a part of our training.

We need to have some time to investigate to be sure that this is a new virus and has the risk of human-to-human transmission.

Anne Lamott

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?

Alastair Reynolds

Without risk in our lives, we're scarcely better than machines ourselves.

Albert Ellis

The emotionally sound person should be able to take risks, to ask himself what he really would like to do in life, and then to try to do this, even though he has to risk defeat or failure. He should be adventurous (though not necessarily foolhardy); be willing to try almost anything once, just to see how he likes it; and look forward to some breaks in his usual life routines.

Albert Camus

There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me from being happy.

Annie Lennox

I'm not a risk taker physically. I just have no interest in swinging myself off a mountaintop or parachute gliding or skiing down a totally vertical drop. These things don't interest me in the slightest, but I get so caught up in the color or the texture of the sounds of something. That's so funny to me.