Risk Quotes

As in the past, the costs and risks of the coming phases of the industrial economy were to be socialized, with eventual profits privatized.

Resource extraction impacts a global environment that is increasingly at severe risk.

Love's scary, and sometimes it's transient. But it's worth the risks and the nerves. It's even worth the pain.

Roarke cares very much for Beth and for me, and a few select others. But loves? I'm not sure he'd let himself risk quite that unstable an emotion.

I fear feeling my heart break a second time, because I'm not sure I could survive it. I'd rather live alone than risk the pain.

A troop surge in Baghdad would put more American troops at risk to address a problem that is not a military problem.

Culture is worth a little risk.

If all power corrupts, then a doctor, who literally holds life and death in his hands, must be at particular risk.

Business schools are failing to teach the students about the risks of market failures. We need to include some material on market failures in the core of curriculum.

A man who will risk nothing for love is not a man

The biggest risk with a series that goes on this long is that you'll get bored with the character.

It's always a thrilling risk to say exactly what you mean, to express exactly what you see.

America is still a free country - nobody is saying it isn't - but we accept that, in the face of discernible risk, or even imaginable risk, the government has an obligation to step in and save us.

The larger the corporation, the greater the risk that you are flying blind.

Pneumococcus is a fairly common cause of pneumonia and [raises the] risk of death in older adults.

When investing, I'm not against risk. If you take no risk you must expect a low return. Just don't let anyone fool you into thinking you can get a high return with low risk.

The globally constituted accident can be compared to what people who work at the stock exchange call 'systemic risk'.

Lord, bless our week. Help us to take all the necessary risks to become the person we always wanted to be.

When someone wants something then they should be aware that they are taking a risk. But this is precisely what makes life interesting.

If you never take a risk, you will never know what changes you need to make.

Many people don't allow themselves to love...because there are a lot of things at risk a lot of future and a lot of past.

Follow your dreams and take your risks.

Dreaming carries no risks. The dangerous thing is trying to transform your dreams into reality.

Since my childhood I learned that to understand the world we need to go further and take the risks of sailing in unknown seas.

Playing with your spouse on the golf course runs almost as great a marital risk as getting caught playing with someone else's anywhere else.

A warming of this magnitude would risk the end of civilization as we know it by the end of this century.

A management decision is irresponsible if it risks disaster this year for the sake of a grandiose future.

Most innovators are successful to the extent to which they define risks and confine them.

Promotion should not be more important than accomplishment, or avoiding instability more important than taking the right risk.

At Casablanca we did 'Midnight Express,' 'Flashdance,' and 'The Deep.' My willingness for risk has always been my strength.

The risk of sudden death is miniscule, overstating this risk is not going to stop them from taking the drug.

Changes made by management today make no improvement.

A lyrical, brave and complex novel that takes enormous risks and pulls them all off.

Writing fiction means putting a lot of what you believe about the world at risk, because you have to follow your characters.

Taboos on the human heart are more dangerous than any risk we run by using our emotions. Sensation is the life of man; it is his actual energy. To suppress it is to lose creative power!

The greater the risk, the sweeter the fruit.

I want someone who puts the whole ball of wax at risk. I want the kind of marriage where we would follow each other out into the stormy fatal sea or I'm not marrying at all.

The obsession with economic profit and technical efficiency puts the human rhythms of life at risk.

There are maybe one or two hours a day when I think I can play, but I get over that real quick once I realize the risk and my wife tells me, "Just take a seat."

To be conformed to this world is to risk the loss of one’s eternal soul.

I will put honesty before the risk of humiliation.

I'm not belittling the art world. Not at all. I take it quite seriously, actually. But the logic of art is a vanguard logic that pressures art to incorporate the quotient of risk.

I didn't think of the narrative as making a judgment. It didn't occur to me the reader would either, but that doesn't mean it isn't possible there would be that risk.

I am interested in risk, in art as well as in the realm of politics.

He [John Le Carré] really paid tribute to the people who are willing to risk their own lives to fight injustice - they are greater men and women than I.

I have to be very aware of the increasing downside risks that threaten the overall global situation.

Among the map makers of each generation are the risk takers, those who see the opportunities, seize the moment and expand man's vision of the future

When we toppled [Muammar] Gadhafi in Libya, I think that was a mistake. I think ISIS grew stronger, we had a failed state, and we were more at risk.

There is absolutely nothing special about walking on a rope stretched along the ground. Where there is no risk, there can be no pride in a deed accomplished, and therefore no happiness.

You can't succeed unless you're willing to risk failure