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Some pretty senior young individuals in and around the Cabinet should share the responsibility for talking up an election and referring publicly on the radio to where the risk lies.
David Winnick

At the risk of sounding naff, it is having hope fulfilled [idea of happiness]
Brenda Blethyn

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
Ernest Hemingway

The biggest risk in life is to risk nothing at all
Anonymous

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.
Al Gore

The only risk of failure is promotion.
Scott Adams

At the risk of sounding ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by feelings of love.
Che Guavara

Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
Josh Billings

Who gets the risks? The risks are given to the consumer, the unsuspecting consumer and the poor work force. And who gets the benefits? The benefits are only for the corporations, for the money makers.
Cesar Chavez

The most threatened group in human societies as in animal societies is the unmated male: the unmated male is more likely to wind up in prison or in an asylum or dead than his mated counterpart. He is less likely to be promoted at work and he is considered a poor credit risk.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

In plucking the fruit of memory one runs the risk of spoiling its bloom (The Arrow of Gold)
Joseph Conrad

Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.
J B Priestley

Let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.
Theodore Roosevelt

I risked getting my tyres nicked by going to Robbie Fowler's home in Liverpool!
Kevin Keegan

One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit.
Jean De La Bruyere

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
Anais Nin

When we allow ourselves to become vulnerable, to take chances, and to risk our pride, that is when we find our own glory.
Richard Corman

To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn.
Isaac Asimov

Let me advise thee not to talk of thyself as being old. There is something in Mind Cure, after all, and if thee continually talks of thyself as being old, thee may perhaps bring on some of the infirmities of age. At least I would not risk it if I were thee.
Hannah Whitall Smith

Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.
Vaclav Havel

Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.
Anatole France

As our society progresses and genuine experience becomes a riskier and riskier enterprise, so the desire for it will increase.
Kathryn Bigelow

Costs merely register competing attractions. (Risk, Uncertainty and Profit)
Frank H Knight

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
Katherine Mansfield

Excessive distrust is not less hurtfJul than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived.
Luc De Vauvanargues

To be alive at all involves some risk.
Harold McMillan

'With love, you should go ahead and take the risk of getting hurt because love is an amazing feeling.'
Britney Spears

Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.
Paul Tillich

To save all we must risk all.
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

In America any boy may become president, and I suppose that's the risk he takes.
Adlai E Stevenson

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.
William Faulkner

'Looking at cleavage is like looking at the sun. You can't stare at it long, it's too risky. You get a sense of it then you look away.'
Jerry Seinfield

Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people
Philip Andrew Adams

People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
Peter F Drucker

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.
Maxwell Maltz

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.
Plutarch

Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.
Edward Norton

When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs. [The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891]
Oscar Wilde

Criticism is a life without risk
John Lahr

Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.
Maxwell Maltz

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
Soren Kierkegaard

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.
Xenophon

The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.
Edgar Watson Howe

It's going to be a season with lots of accidents, and I'll risk saying that we'll be lucky if something really serious doesn't happen.
Ayrton Senna

If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman.
Samuel Johnson

The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
Erica Jong

He who spends time regretting the past loses the present and risks the future.
Quevedo

To get rich never risk your health.
Richard Baker

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T S Eliot

During the investigation evidence of the vulnerability of women in the modelling profession was startling and models are at high risk of eating disorders.
Baroness Kingsmill



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