Best Risk Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“At the risk of sounding too cliche, I found a really fantastic church. That is what keeps me grounded.”

Found Church Risk Fantastic Grounded Cliche

“I'm in love with love, so I'm always taking risks! I think it's part of love, taking risks.”

“At the risk of being a fuddy-duddy I don't have a computer; I don't have e-mail; and I really don't need something in my house that I would be sitting in front of for hours.”

Needs Would Be House Hours Risk Fronts Computer Sitting Mail

Author:Marian McPartland

“Vivien Leigh was a phenomenal actress, a very complicated woman, living on the edge of mental problems, haunted by demons and angels. And though I've never thought of myself like Marilyn Monroe, I was inspired by the tremendous risk she took - of being vulnerable.”

Problem Risk Angel Inspired Edges Complicated Actresses Vulnerable Demon Living On Phenomenal Living On The Edge

Author:Rebecca De Mornay

“I think music needs danger; it needs risk.”

Thinking Needs Risk Danger

Author:Taylor Momsen

“So I am totally aware that when I defend the autonomy of art I'm going counter to my own development. It's more an instinctive reaction, meant to protect the private aspect of the work, the part I am most interested in and which nowadays is at risk in our culture.”

Art Culture My Own Risk Development Protect Aspect Reactions Autonomy

Author:Thom Mayne

“Redistricting is a deeply political process, with incumbents actively seeking to minimize the risk to themselves (via bipartisan gerrymanders) or to gain additional seats for their party (via partisan gerrymanders).”

Political Process Party Risk Gains Seeking Seats Partisans Bipartisan Incumbents Redistricting

Author:Thomas E. Mann

“People find it hard to understand how I can risk ruining my career as a musician by injuring myself on the slopes, but I've always been a tomboy.”

People I Can Hard Careers Risk Musician Slopes

Author:Vanessa Mae

“You have to be aware. Like, I'm not going to do any downhill skiing. It looks like a whole lot of fun, but I'm not going to risk breaking a leg. I want to be dancing the way I'm dancing now for 30 more years.”

Way Want Years Looks Whole Fun Risk Dancing Legs Skiing

Author:Bebe Neuwirth

“Albania is at risk and we are living in difficult times.”

Difficult Risk Difficult Times Albania

Author:Fatos Nano

“People at the University of Portland were accepting and loving and open-minded. When you have a safety net, it allows you to take risks.”

People Accepting Risk Safety University Open Minded Safety Net Portland

Author:Kunal Nayyar

“It's not just: you get off the plane, you're back home, everything's fine. Maybe the physical danger ends, but soldiers are still deeply at risk of being injured in a different way.”

Way Stills Different Ends Home Risk Danger Fine Soldier Planes Different Ways Injured Back Home

Author:Kevin Powers

“Joining the military is not to be taken lightly. You're putting every part of yourself at risk, not just your body but your moral and spiritual centre.”

Body Spiritual Moral Taken Risk Military Your Body Centre Joining Joining The Military

Author:Kevin Powers

“I think we all have our own mission, duty, fate in life so for me somehow I think I am always walking on the edge of life and take risks.”

Thinking Fate Risk Duty Walking Edges Missions

Author:Bai Ling

“If you are worried about the risk to your reputation, you don't launch a telecoms firm in an aggressive way.”

Ifs Way Risk Reputation Worried Firm Aggressive Telecom

Author:Xavier Niel

“The labels are in a jam. For a company to do well in music now, it's got to be in all aspects of the business. And Live Nation is the risk-taker. It's leading the charge.”

Wells Nations Company Risk Aspect Labels Jam

Author:Guy Oseary

“There has to be an element of risk-taking for me in my work.”

Risk Elements Risk-taking

Author:Sigmar Polke

“Ever since I took to the streets when I was 17 to protest at great personal risk against the communist dictatorship, I have been a passionate democrat.”

Has Beens Risk Streets Democrat Passionate Protest Communist Dictatorship Great Person

Author:Victor Ponta

“I have to say I enjoy physical comedy and I've always loved to kind of take risks. I don't like worrying too much about how I look or how I come across, so that can sometimes... You know, I like to play those kinds of deluded but fun characters.”

Knows Looks Kind Sometimes Play Character Fun Enjoy Worry Comedy Too Much Risk Deluded Physical Comedy Worrying Too Much

Author:Amy Poehler

“Well you know, it's true that as a fat person I run a greater risk of heart disease, diabetes, and a number of other things. But guess what? The amount of that risk is almost infinitessimal!”

Knows Wells Heart Persons Running Numbers Greater Risk Amount Disease Fats Diabetes Heart Disease

Author:Daniel Pinkwater

“When the script for 'Once' came my way, I had the thought that maybe it will last only a season. But I was willing to take that risk.”

Way Lasts Risk Willing Seasons Scripts My Way

Author:Lana Parrilla

“Playing roles that are intense and damaged has always come more easily to me than doing comedies or lighter stuff - that would be taking a huge risk for me.”

Would Be Stuff Roles Comedy Risk Huge Intense Lighters Playing Roles

Author:Sarah Polley

“Teenagers blithely skip off to uncertain futures, while their parents sit weeping curbside in the Volvo, because the adolescent brain isn't yet formed enough to recognize and evaluate risk.”

Enough Parent Brain Risk Teenager Uncertain Weeping Evaluate Skip Uncertain Future Volvo

Author:Michael J. Fox

“I love actresses who are brave and don't do what's expected of them or don't play off how they look or take risks.”

Looks Play Risk Brave Actresses Expected

Author:Kelly Reilly

“People need to learn to live with more risk.”

People Needs Risk

Author:Alain Robert

“By 1931, after a few years' experience of flying scheduled airlines, those planes were operating at roughly 600 times the safety of the space shuttle. I look at safety not in terms of fatalities per passenger-mile, but when you get in and close the door, what is the risk of dying on this flight?”

Years Looks Term Space Risk Doors Dying Safety Miles Flying Flight Planes Airline Passengers Space Shuttle Fatality

Author:Burt Rutan

“NASA's myriad failures are in many ways the natural consequence of a catastrophic combination of bureaucracy, monopoly, and a calcifying aversion to the kind of risk necessary for innovation.”

Way Kind Natural Risk Consequence Innovation Combination Bureaucracy Monopoly Nasa Aversion Natural Consequences

Author:Burt Rutan

“Spain is finding it very difficult to finance itself with sovereign debt risk premium so high.”

Difficult Risk Findings Debt Finance Sovereign Spain Premium

Author:Mariano Rajoy

“What my father especially taught me was to not always take the safe road, the easy road. If you are going to do good work, you have to risk failing badly.”

Ifs Father Easy Failing Risk Taught Safe Good Work Easy Road

Author:Natasha Richardson

“Let's face it, making movies is all risk. Most of the time, batting average-wise, the reward does not outweigh the risk.”

Doe Faces Wise Risk Rewards Average Batting

Author:John Slattery

“The judgment means a lot. As a journalist being accused of invading someone's privacy, there is always a risk that it will stick to your name.”

Mean Names Risk Judgment Sticks Journalist Privacy Accused Invading Being Accused

Author:Asne Seierstad

“The Federal Reserve has a responsibility to ensure the safety and soundness of financial institutions and to contain systemic risks in financial markets.”

Responsibility Risk Safety Institutions Financial Reserves Federal Reserve Financial Markets Financial Institutions Soundness

Author:Bernie Sanders

“Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.”

Inspirational Certain Belief Risk Atheism Acceptance Degrees Tasks Universal Illness Believer Spares Neurotic Agnosticism Neurosis

Author:Anatole France

“We got government off the backs of the people of India, particularly off the backs of India's entrepreneurs. We introduced more competition, both internal competition and external competition. We simplified and rationalized the tax system. We made risk-taking much more attractive.”

People Made Government Risk Taxes India Entrepreneur Competition Attractive Internals Risk-taking Tax System

Author:Manmohan Singh

“It is true that going out on to the street implies the risk of accidents happening, as they would to any ordinary man or woman. But if the church stays wrapped up in itself, it will age. And if I had to choose between a wounded church that goes out on to the streets and a sick, withdrawn church, I would definitely choose the first one.”

Ifs Men Firsts Age Church Risk Streets Happenings Ordinary Sick Accidents Going Out Wounded Ordinary Man

Author:Pope Francis

“Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects.”

Men Doe Sometimes Sin Focus Risk Becoming News Men And Women Negative Aspect Ill Spread Tendencies Journalist Scandal Exaggerated

Author:Pope Francis

“I think that once people understand the great risks that climate change poses, they will naturally want to choose products and services that cause little or no emissions of greenhouse gases, which means 'low-carbon consumption.' This will apply across the board, including electricity, heating, transport and food.”

“We can look back through ice-core data and see over 800,000 years, relationships between carbon dioxide and the temperature of the world. So those people who deny the importance of climate change are just wasting their time. They're also being diversionary because if we don't act the risks are enormous.”

People Ifs World Years Looks Risk Importance Climate Climate Change Deny Core Enormous Ice Data Carbon Temperature Carbon Dioxide

Author:Nicholas Stern

“We run enormous risks and we know what kind of reductions of greenhouse gases are necessary to drastically reduce risks. Reducing emissions by half by 2050 is roughly in the right ballpark. It would bring us below 550 ppm.”

Knows Kind Running Half Risk Enormous Reducing Reduction Emissions Greenhouses Greenhouse Gases Ballparks

Author:Nicholas Stern

“Where anti-Semitism persists, the well being of all our people is at risk.”

People Wells Risk Well Being Persist Anti Semitism

Author:Paul Sarbanes

“The great majority of people are calm, resourceful, altruistic or even beyond altruistic, as they risk themselves for others. We improvise the conditions of survival beautifully.”

People Risk Conditions Survival Majority Calm Resourceful

Author:Rebecca Solnit

“I think that 'Halo' is a hard property because they don't need to make a film. They make far more money out of the games so why risk?”

Thinking Needs Hard Film Games Risk Property More Money Halos

Author:Rupert Sanders

“There's a real danger in trying to stay king of the mountain. You stop taking risks, you stop being as creative, because you're trying to maintain a position. Apart from anything else that really takes the fun out of it.”

Trying Real Fun Creative Risk Danger Position Kings Mountain Taking Risks

Author:Sissy Spacek

“Our nation was built by pioneers - pioneers who accepted untold risks in pursuit of freedom, not by pioneers seeking offshore profits at the expense of American workers here at home.”

Home Nations Risk Built Workers Profit Seeking Accepted Pursuit Expenses Pioneers American Workers Offshore

Author:Ted Strickland

“In the end, we may be hurting the very people we should be concerned about - the inner-city poor, those who already have to live with many risks in their daily lives, those who do not have clout here in Washington.”

People Should May Ends Hurt Poor Cities Risk Concerned Daily Life Inner City Clout

Author:Fred Thompson

“I believe we are in a world where innovation in stuff was outlawed. It was basically outlawed in the last 40 years - part of it was environmentalism, part of it was risk aversion.”

World Years Believe Lasts I Believe Stuff Risk Innovation Environmentalism Aversion Risk Aversion

Author:Peter Thiel

“Believing in yourself and what you do is so important. It took me a long time to find that confidence. If you're an artist and you're taking risks, then you're doing something right if some people don't get it.”

People Ifs Believe Long Important Artist Risk Long Time Believe In Yourself Taking Risks

Author:Kate Voegele

“We've had risk assessments performed by Harvard University, which said that even if we did have a small number of cases in this country that the likelihood of it spreading or getting into any kind of human health problem is very, very small.”

Ifs Humans Kind Said Country Problem Numbers Cases Risk University Harvard Assessment Likelihood Small Numbers Health Problems Human Health Harvard University

Author:Ann Veneman

“I think audiences ultimately want something new. I think the business model for a franchise is such that it's very low risk because you have data and studios love data.”

Thinking Want Audience Risk Models Lows Studios Data Something New Want Something Business Models

Author:Gore Verbinski

“I don't have a fear factor. Well, not much of one. And I'm willing to risk quite a lot - as a comedian, you're always risking a lot. You're risking failure, especially if you're improvising and going on TV shows trying to make comedy out of thin air. That is quite a risky business.”

Ifs Trying Wells Shows Comedy Risk Air Willing Tvs Factors Comedian Tv Shows Improvising Thin Air Risky Business

Author:David Walliams

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