'Taking charge of one's life' involves risk, because it means confronting a diversity of open possibilities.

Achieving control over change, in respect to lifestyle, demands an engagement with the outer social world rather than a retreat from it.

The risk climate of modernity is thus unsettling for everyone: no one escapes.

The new mixed economy looks...for a synergy between public and private sectors.

The difficulties of living in a secular risk culture are compounded by the importance of lifestyle choices.

The body is thus not simply an 'entity', but is experienced as a practical mode of coping with external situations and events.

Martin Luther King did not stir his audience in 1963 by declaiming 'I have a nightmare'

Apocalypse has become banal, a set of statistical risk parameters to everyone's existence.

Risk concerns future happenings - as related to present practices - and the colonising of the future therefore opens up new settings of risk, some of which are institutionally organised.

The sustaining of life, in a bodily sense as well as in the sense of psychological health, is inherently subject to risk.

The thesis that risk assessment itself is inherently risky is nowhere better borne out than in the area of high-consequence risks.

You can buy knowledge but not wisdom.

Behavior speaks... I need not listen to someone's apology

Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Nor is it of much Importance to us to know the Manner in which Nature executes her laws; 'tis enough to know the Laws themselves.

'Evil Dead 1' was never supposed to have a sequel.

Gifted leadership occurs when heart and head--feeling and thought--meet. These are the two winds that allow a leader to soar.

Starting in the mid-'80s, I played in a band called Meat Joy, and we made our own record, toured.

I think what he loved about me the most was that I wasn't part of that world. But once we were together publicly, he wanted to change me into that social animal.

The life of a dancer is not for everyone. You really have to have some thick skin. You really have to know what you're going into and how competitive the field is.