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Quotes About Hazards

Without vanity a writer's work is tepid, and he must accept his vanity as part of his stock in trade and live with it as one of the hazards of his profession.
~ Moss Hart
Some cold, hard facts: Cold is more dangerous than heat. Toothpicks are more dangerous than lightning. Pedestrians are more dangerous than fire. Beds are more dangerous than ladders. Snakes are more dangerous than terrorists. Flammable nightwear is more dangerous than a bee sting. Coconuts are more dangerous than sharks.7
~ Chris Impey
The decision to leave Germany after the advent of Hitler would seem an easy and obvious one now, but the prospect of abandoning one's traditions, relationships and possessions for the hazards of a foreign land and tongue, with little or no capital to begin life anew, could not have seemed attractive at the time.
~ Leonard Gross
I will for ever, at all hazards, assert the dignity, independence, and integrity of the English bar; without which, impartial justice, the most valuable part of the English constitution, can have no existence.
~ Thomas Erskine
I learned how important physical conditioning is. I learned how to focus on an objective in spite of all kinds of hazards. I learned how to deal with stress, too.
~ Jack Ramsay
In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible for the hazards.
~ Barry Commoner
There are no choices without personal freedom, Buckeroo. It's not us who are dead inside. These things you find so weak and contemptible in us---these are just the hazards of being free.
~ David Foster Wallace
aim is to encourage our daughters to consider the actual hazards of risk taking, not the logistics of defying authority.
~ Unknown
Pain is very useful. It warns you of danger, teaches you of hazards and provides consequences for your actions.
~ Lisa Gardner
The hazards posed by Near-Earth Asteroids are assessed by Sentry, a computer system developed by the Near-Earth Objects Group at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. The software factors together a cosmic rock's coordinates, distance, velocity, and gravitational influences to calculate its trajectory.
~ Brendan I. Koerner
One of the occupational hazards of reviewing year-end biopics with Oscar ambitions is pointing out discrepancies between the real subjects and their on-screen avatars.
~ Richard Corliss
Darling, I'm so unutterably bored as to be a hazard
~ Tyne O'Connell
Too often, we are unaware of the risks associated with defective trees which can cause personal injury and property damage,-HOW TO INSPECT TREE AND RECOGNIZE HAZARDOUS TREE DEFECTS, Author, V J SMITH, BARNES AND NOBLE NOOK BOOK
~ Unknown
One of the dangers against which I warn aspiring preachers in our seminary is that of preaching against all the sins with which no one in their congregation struggles. It is relatively easy to warn the heterosexuals about the dangers of homosexuality, the teetotaler about the snare of alcoholism, the politically conservative about the hazards of liberalism, the rigidly orthodox about the perils of false teaching. All
~ Unknown
Bullets are incompatible with pressurised environments and complex machinery.
~ Unknown
Life has quicksands, life has snares
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh- I really think that requires spirit!
~ Jean Webster
Choking Hazards: What to avoid Every year, 10,000 kids under the age of 14 choke on something and end up in the emergency room. Seventy-five percent of those children are under three years of age. And sadly, some of those kids die. Want to know what the deadliest choking hazard is? Hot dogs. Other food choking hazards include grapes, peanuts, hard carrots, and hard candies.
~ Unknown
Yet the march toward freedom is not without its hazards or its casualties and the threats of violence aimed at Iraqis who participate in the election will be dealt with accordingly.
~ Jim Gerlach
But was any future, anyone's future, unfraught by hazards of some sort? The only security was death. So long as one wanted to go on living on had to accept the risks. Well, she accepted them...
~ Winston Graham, Jeremy Poldark
Desire can blind us to the hazards of our enterprises.
~ Marie de France
I wanted to give you advice. Adults are always doing that; it's one of their occupational hazards.
~ Maia Wojciechowska
Keep in mind that when we limit our exposure to information, or when information itself is scarce, our picture of reality suffers. We become oblivious to both opportunities and hazards. Trends become invisible. History disappears. It's really just two sides of the same coin: the first commitment is as much a commitment to gathering information, from as many sources and in as much volume as can constructively be used, as it is a commitment to facing the facts.
~ Unknown
He knew that all the hazards and perils were now drawing together to a point: the next day would be a day of doom, the day of final effort or disaster, the last gasp.
~ J.R.R. Tolkien