Risk Quotes

My theory is that church used to be that place. Instead of being a place where you went to look good, it was a place where you could risk going every week to look your worst.

I live in the present because the future is always chancy. When it comes to being with you, I'm willing to take the risk.

My husband's the first one to say, "This is not the end of the world." We're doing what we want to do - what we have chosen to do - and we know the risks involved.

I can tell the negotiators, please, when you consider all the options, do not be constrained by the risk of an oil embargo on Iranian oil.

Not taking risks ultimately leads to failure.

I've got to take chances and get out there. What are you going to do, sit home and knit? I don't knit.

Age is the single largest risk factor for an enormous number of diseases. So if you can essentially postpone aging, then you can have beneficial effects on a whole wide range of disease.

I want to have freedom of thought and expression - not get beaten down into some corporate existence, where there's so much risk of embracing the truth that you feel like you can't do it.

At some point, you can't take a risk just to take a risk because that's a betrayal, in and of itself.

I put everything I can into a record. That's what art is for. I take a risk every time I do one with my whole being.

Where there is a problem, the risks to the public are greater than they've ever been before.

The writer has to take risks and go somewhere full of mystery and possibility for the novel to deepen over the years it takes to write it.

At the risk of being forgotten completely by the media, I went to college and pursued a passion that had nothing to do with acting: mathematics.

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

I always think it's silly when people talk about works of culture taking risks. Because there's not any risk involved.

When I started to be a writer, I was not going to run the risk of boring you.

It's so important that your doctor take a patience's values, not his, into consideration, along with the risks and benefits of treatment when there is a question to a doctor "What would you do?".

With nothing to risk, love can't exist.

When my generation was your age, we took crazy risks. The wildest thing was - prepare to be shocked - we deliberately ingested carbohydrates!

There shall be a National Anthem containing incomprehensible words and a high note that normal humans cannot hit without risk of hernia.

The risk of an all-out nuclear holocaust destroying all life on the planet has diminished, but the danger of actual nuclear weapons use has increased.

A good starting point [in the measurement of investment risk] is the preservation and enhancement of your purchasing power in real terms.

We massively exaggerate the exotic risks we can least control and massively undervalue the mundane risks we can control.

To be brutally honest, it's simple economics. If they want to come into cycling, sponsors need to know the team they are funding is clean, otherwise the risk is just too great.

Do we believe the reward found in Jesus is worth the risk of following Him?

Clearly independent journalists - domestic journalists - run a high risk if they dare to take on serious investigative work.

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.

I like to create an atmosphere where actors feel safe enough to take risks.

I would not cry. I do not cry. How bitter do you risk becoming by swallowing too many tears?

It takes bravery to care for someone — no matter who he is or what made him, whether he is weak or walking or jumping out of windows. The risk involved is enormous.

Don't obsess over risks. Keep your focus on positive outcomes.

THE GREATEST RISK IN LIFE IS TO WAIT FOR AND DEPEND UPON OTHERS FOR YOUR OWN SECURITY.

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

Where people are using phones in rural areas their risk of brain cancer is higher than in urban areas.

Do ye want me?" he whispered. "Sassenach, will ye take me - and risk the man that I am, for the sake of the man ye knew?

I think the sensible thing would be to focus on one thing and be the best you can be at it. There is always that risk of spreading yourself too thin if you try to do too much.

Leaving Iraq without military assistance during its transition, and before it is stable enough to ensure its own citizens' security, would pose a tremendous risk. We must complete our mission.

Practice means cutting down chance and risk.

Theatre is filled w/ passion, risk and drama (as much behind-the-curtain as on stage), perfect ingredients for documentary storytelling.

It's much easier to do a fight sequence between two people, if one of the two people in the fight is a stunt person, or you're going to risk somebody getting hurt.

War on Iraq runs the risk of turning the Middle East into an inexhaustible recruiting ground for anti- western terrorism.

When you do bigger films, the financiers take more risks.

I feel that when you care about your music, taking risks is something you should do to keep things exciting.

One misconception is that entrepreneurs love risk. Actually, we all want things to go as we expect. What you need is a blind optimism and a tolerance for uncertainty.

We cannot risk living all our lives under emergency measures.

Sometimes we even have to risk making fools of ourselves.

There's something about seeing a guy's feelings written down, something about him taking that risk and committing that heart to paper, that means so much more than anything he could just say.

Those who want to share their code can make products and share their work without additional legal risks.

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

The attention deficit disorder of the culture is very distressing in America now and I think it puts a lot of things at risk, not just poetry.