Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first base.
Frederick WilcoxMarrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
Josh BillingsWhen we allow ourselves to become vulnerable, to take chances, and to risk our pride, that is when we find our own glory.
Richard CormanHere are a list of Quotes from the delightful Northern Irish Comedian Danny McCrossan
Even the most powerful lie detector invented couldn’t drag a secret out of a woman, however, women rarely have lunch with lie detectors… - Danny McCrossan - Northern Irish Comedian
See women need to talk because they feel like they have to have adequate levels of communication in order to sustain a healthy and open relationship, whereas men are only driven to speak because of matters beyond their control, like not being able to find clean socks. - Danny McCrossan - Northern Irish Comedian.
In Pagan times, uninspired people made sacrifices at the altar, and today, thanks to marraige, many still do. - Danny McCrossan - Northern Irish Comedian.
When women are bored they do the usual things, they eat, they go shopping, they neurotically judge the looks of other women, but men, men invade another country! - Danny McCrossan - Northern Irish Comedian.
Anything that I’ve ever done that ended up worthwhile, initially scared me to death. Wether it was walking out on stage for that very first time, or asking a girl to include me in her plans for the future, but you know what, You have to risk everything sometimes or you risk even more. It’s not the challenges we face that define us, it’s the actions we take. - Danny McCrossan -Northern irish Comedian.
Everyone had big plans for me when I was younger, it was a cliche “Danny can do anything he wants to do” So I did the only thing I ever thought was worthwhile, bring laughter into the world. How I came to been seen as somewhat of a dissapointment to all those people who had made plans for me, well that still makes me chuckle. - Danny McCrossan - Northern Irish Comedian.
You learn alot in your teenage years, for instance I learned that if you’re ever being chased by a police dog, try not to go through a little tunnel, then onto a mini seesaw and then jump through a ring of fire, they’ve trained for that y’see. - Danny McCrossan - Northern Irish Comedian.
Asking people in Northern Ireland what they think of politics is like asking the Jews what they think of Hitler. - Danny MCrossan - Northern Irish Comedian.
There are too many warnings on packaging these days - defrost before eating - Use as directed - I mean, what’s next, you buy a packet of condoms, warning - may contain nuts! - Danny McCrossan - Northern Irish Comedian.
I say don’t conform, don’t allow yourself to be pigeon holed, it’s no good for the soul, and the pigeon doesn’t enjoy it either. - Danny McCrossan - Northern Irish Comedian.
I remember how nervous I was my very first gig and I remember when I walked out on stage and spoke those words, how the audience laughed and laughed. I swore, there and then, that one day I would have my revenge. - Danny McCrossan - Northern Irish Comedian.
The sign said “This door to remain closed at all times” Correct me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t that defeat the purpose of a door? - Danny McCrossan - Northern Irish Comedian.
Danny McCrossanThat's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.
Lisa AltherAndrew [Lloyd-Webber] you have taken a great risk... who is going to be your Joseph? [the unknown being hiring a former understudy and getting the BBC to give weeks and weeks of free publicity to the show therefore guaranteeing its success]
Graham NortonTo get rich never risk your health.
Richard BakerThe policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
Jawaharlal NehruOne should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit.
Jean De La BruyereOnly those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T S EliotThe only risk of failure is promotion.
Scott AdamsIt is vital that we raise awareness of the risks faced by drug misusers.
Ian McCartneyLet us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.
Theodore RooseveltMany 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 PriestleyWhen 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 WildeLife, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.
Edward NortonRisk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
Warren BuffettI 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 AngerThey [governing bodies] have to do something, otherwise more and more referees will be forced out of the game. [after the retirement of Anders Frisk]
Urs MeierOur lives improve only when we take chances and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Walter AndersonTo 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 AsimovThe 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 SheridanIf 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 JohnsonI went to Ft Bragg and learned that Delta was indeed gearing up for the rescue. Still I was concerned the Reagan staff would not be willing to take the risk of sending an official military force into Laos.
Bo GritzDevout 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 FranceAt the risk of sounding ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by feelings of love.
Che GuavaraIt is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills. (Le deuxieme sexe)
Simone De BeauvoirHe who spends time regretting the past loses the present and risks the future.
QuevedoIt is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.
PlutarchDuring the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
Soren KierkegaardCriticism is a life without risk
John LahrPeople 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 DruckerThe risk presented by these lethal wastes is like no other risk, and we should not be expected to accept it or to project it into the future in order for manufacturers and utilities to make a dollar killing now.
David BrowerThe trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
Erica JongEvery noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other
MetastasioIn America any boy may become president, and I suppose that's the risk he takes.
Adlai E StevensonTo be alive at all involves some risk.
Harold McMillanThe average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.
Edgar Watson HoweMost people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people
Philip Andrew AdamsAs our society progresses and genuine experience becomes a riskier and riskier enterprise, so the desire for it will increase.
Kathryn BigelowRisk! 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 MansfieldI must tell you I take terrible risks. Because my playing is very clear, when I make a mistake you hear it. If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake. Never be afraid to dare.
Vladimir HorowitzCreativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.
Mary L CookEvery good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.
Andrew JacksonOften 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 MaltzHesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
Ernest HemingwayTake calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
George PattonA woman simply is, but a man must become. Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a revolt from woman, and it is confirmed only by other men. Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.
Camille Paglia The moment somebody says 'this is very risky' is the moment it becomes attractive to me.
Kate CapshawCreating a close connection to those you do business with has its many risks, rewards and consequences. There are few things in business I have encountered that are more difficult than firing someone, particularly if that someone has always been, or has become a friend.
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