Quotes About Risk

Regarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth is sometimes perilous, naturally, since he's a high-handed old poem himself, but he's also sublime - and who goes to poetry for safety anyway.

The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.

The attention deficit disorder of the culture is very distressing in America now and I think it puts a lot of things at risk, not just poetry.

There are men running governments who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches.

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.

Pushers don't pay taxes.

If they are too big to fail, make them smaller.

It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.

One of the things that I think you see sometimes in politics is a certain degree of caution. It's usually advised by consultants who don't want to see you march to the end of a limb.

It is beter to live 50 years as a tiger rather than live 100 years as a chicken

There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

Wit puts politicians at risk.

I don't care much about politics. That kind of witchcraft I stay away from because people end up dead. I'd rather die for music.

All great changes are irksome to the human mind, especially those which are attended with great dangers and uncertain effects.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

We are now at risk of having a zombie democracy roaming around a one-party state.

In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.

Sometimes in international politics, the better part of wisdom is to defer dangers rather than try to eliminate them altogether instantly.

Freedom isn't a static point. It's spectrum from absolute to none at all, and is usually inversely proportional to safety.

If you are worried about what people think of you, you should go into politics. Real actors take chances.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.