Risk

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  • It matters not how strait the gate,
        William Ernest Henley   Best?
  • If you ever get a chance to buy a baseball team, do so. It's very fun.
        Ted Turner   Best?
  • Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. 'Immortality' may be a silly word, but probably a mathematician has the best chance of whatever it may mean.
        G. H. Hardy   Best?
  • Compromise? That's when you give away half the things you want. That's when you give the other guy half of what's rightfully yours.
        Sue Grafton   Best?
  • An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.
        Henry Clay   Best?
  • A throw of the dice will never abolish chance.
        Stephane Mallarme   Best?
  • A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.
        Alexander Hamilton   Best?
  • A lot of people approach risk as if it's the enemy when it's really fortune's accomplice.
        Sting   Best?
  • Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.
        Kurt Vonnegut   Best?
  • Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger.
        Hermann Goering   Best?
  • Necessity makes even the timid brave.
        Sallust   Best?
  • We presume that we would be ready for battle if confronted with a great crisis, but it is not the crisis that builds something within us—it simply reveals what we are made of already.
        Oswald Chambers   Best?
  • Quality is never an accident. It represents the wise choice of many alternatives.
        Willa Foster   Best?
  • Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important.
        Natalie Goldberg   Best?
  • To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel is no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.
        Marie Leneru   Best?
  • By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.
        Peter Ustinov   Best?
  • And in that line now was a whiskered old man, with a linen cap and a crooked nose, who waited in a place called the Stardust Band Shell to share his part of the secret of heaven: that each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.
        Mitch Albom   Best?
  • There's only so much you can do, but if somebody doesn't give you a chance there is nothing you can do.
        Charlize Theron   Best?
  • When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
        Mark Twain   Best?
  • The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line.
        Joanne Field   Best?
  • It has just been twenty-three years since I began to wander. In the next twenty-three years I wonder if there will come a time when life is no longer a wonderful adventure; when there is not some interesting experience in things or personalities waiting just around the corner. If that time does come, I hope that my release will be swift.
        Roy Chapman Andrews   Best?
  • We're all playing melody against each other. our aim is to get so far away from the original line that your playing something that's never been heard before.
        Eric Clapton   Best?
  • Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.
        Saskya Pandita   Best?
  • To die will be an awfully big adventure.
        J. M. Barrie   Best?
  • He who cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself.
        Adrienne Gusoff   Best?
  • An investment in knowledge still yields the best returns.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  • A certain amount of danger is essential to the quality of life.
        Charles Lindberg   Best?
  • Deadlines are things that we pass through on the way to finishing.
        Peter Gabriel   Best?
  • He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building.
        Niccollo Machavelli   Best?
  • The average man's judgement is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.
        Ed Howe   Best?
  • Strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.
        Joseph Conrad   Best?
  • Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
        Norman Cousins   Best?
  • The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.
        Carolyn Heilbrun   Best?
  • To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life.
        Bette Davis   Best?
  • The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.
        Oprah Winfrey   Best?
  • It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
        Andre Gide   Best?
  • The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.
        Alfred North Whitehead   Best?
  • Life is a risk.
        Diane Von Furstenberg   Best?
  • I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
        Lillian Carter   Best?
  • The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is.
        John Lancaster Spalding   Best?

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