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

'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.

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.

People believe what they are told.

Before I spoke with people, I did not think of all these things because there was no one to bother to think them for. Now things just come out of my mouth which are true.

Death is a meeting place of sea and sea.

Until I can feel as ecstatic about having a baby as I felt about going to New Zealand to search for giant squid, I cannot have a baby.

Every single one of you, before you get off the pile, affect the head. Early, affect the head. Continue, touch and hit the head.

I'm not a sports dude, but I'm interested in the sociological implications of it.

Be gentle with yourself. Kiss away your (imagined) faults and remember, if you saw you as God sees you, you would smile a lot.

Without an educated populace, democracy cannot sustain itself.

The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservation and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made.

Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.