Risk

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  • Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
        G. K. Chesterton   Best?
  • Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can - - and surely will at times -- fail. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.
        Dr. Joyce Brothers   Best?
  • But I expect they had lots of chances, like us, of turning back, only they didn't. And if they had, we shouldn't know, because they'd have been forgotten. We hear about those as just went on -- and not all to a good end, mind you; at least not to what folk inside a story and not outside it call a good end.
        J. R .R. Tolkien   Best?
  • The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair; and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.
        J. R .R. Tolkien   Best?
  • I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
        Vincent van Gogh   Best?
  • I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
        George Carlin   Best?
  • Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.
        John F. Kennedy   Best?
  • Chance favors the prepared mind.
        Louis Pasteur   Best?
  • It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
        Seneca   Best?
  • Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
        Voltaire   Best?
  • We are born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
        Ralph Waldo Emerson   Best?
  • Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
        Louisa May Alcott   Best?
  • When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win.
        Ed Macauley   Best?
  • Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
        Georges Eliot   Best?
  • Being able to support oneself allows one to choose a marriage out of love and not just economic dependence. It also allows one to risk that marriage.
        Gloria Steinem   Best?
  • A danger foreseen is half-avoided.
        Cheyenne Proverb   Best?
  • When it comes to taking chances, some people like to play poker or shoot dice; other people prefer to parachute jump, go rhino hunting, or climb ice floes, while still others engage in crime or marriage. But I like to get drunk and drive like a fool.
        P. J. O'Rourke   Best?
  • When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.
        Aaron McGruder   Best?
  • Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.
        John F. Kennedy   Best?
  • I am more and more convinced that our happiness depends more on how we meet the events in our lives, than on those events themselves.
        Alexander Humboldt   Best?
  • Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.
        George Santayana   Best?
  • Let us weigh the gain and the loss, in wagering that God is. Consider these alternatives: if you win, you win all, if you lose you lose nothing. Do not hesitate, then, to wager that he is.
        Blaise Pascal   Best?
  • To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
        J. K. Rowling   Best?
  • Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.
        Oprah Winfrey   Best?
  • We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
        Marie de Rabutin-Chantal   Best?
  • It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  • There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
        John F. Kennedy   Best?
  • I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.
        Fran Leibowitz   Best?
  • And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
        Anais Nin   Best?
  • Quality is never an accident.
        Willa A. Foster   Best?
  • I broke something today, and I realized I should break something once a week...to remind me how fragile life is.
        Andy Warhol   Best?
  • Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.
        Carl Schurz   Best?
  • Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
        John F. Kennedy   Best?
  • I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come.
        Abraham Lincoln   Best?
  • Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
        John F. Kennedy   Best?
  • The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
        Abraham Lincoln   Best?
  • I have been like a child walking along the shore line. Quickly discarding one sea shell for another of more outward beauty-- never to know the pearl within!
        Robert Anthony   Best?
  • America will never run... And we will always be grateful that liberty has found such brave defenders.
        George W. Bush   Best?
  • There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope. The death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender.
        J. Michael Straczynski   Best?

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