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Quotes About Risking

I know there's a lot of opinions about Covid-19 and I have mine but I just know opinions ain't worth risking your life and others. Just stay home.
~ Anthony Yarde
listened to ordinary citizens risking imprisonment by demanding fair elections, free travel, the neutering of the Stasi.
~ Jonathan Franzen
Why do investors fail to realize that money placed in a mutual fund that tries to pick "out-performing stocks" is unlikely to yield a better return than money invested in the S&P 500? If fund managers and investment advisers are so good at picking stocks, why are they risking your money rather than their own? Some
~ Joseph E. Stiglitz
To the Frenchmen risking their lives to drive the English from Scotland, such a feud seemed no doubt an ill-timed indulgence. To Buccleuch, any comment from a foreigner was a piece of damnable impertinence, no less.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
I could understand how such stories of horror can spread, like a wild fire. Such was the nature of rumor. People seemed to love to be frightened especially when, in their heart of hearts, they knew that they were safe. How many truly believed in vampires, I pondered? How many truly believed that they were risking their life by sitting up in the gods to watch a stage performance?
~ Raymond Buckland
While I do not hesitate to applaud certain aspects of the resolution honoring the sacrifices of our courageous soldiers who are risking their lives in Iraq, I cannot be supportive of capitalizing on these very sacrifices for political gain.
~ Ed Pastor
If I am outspoken of the dangers of intemperance to members of our armed forces, it is because we are all especially concerned for the welfare of those who are risking their lives in the cause of freedom.
~ William Lyon Mackenzie King
Damn everything but the circus! ...damn everything that is grim, dull, motionless, unrisking, inward turning, damn everything that won't get into the circle, that won't enjoy. That won't throw it's heart into the tension, surprise, fear and delight of the circus, the round world, the full existence...
~ E.E. Cummings
Boxing is the magic of men in combat, the magic of will, and skill, and pain, and the risking of everything so you can respect yourself for the rest of your life.
~ F.X. Toole
If I am outspoken of the dangers of intemperance to members of our armed forces, it is because we are all especially concerned for the welfare of those who are risking their lives in the cause of freedom.
~ William Lyon Mackenzie King
love can die from being withheld, like a flower that is so beautiful you hide it away from the sun trying to make it last longer; but every flower needs sun, and being in love requires risking yourself.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Excellence is the result of caring more than others think is wise risking more than others think is safe dreaming more than others think is practical and expecting more than others think is possible.
~ Ronnie Max Oldham
The human breathes in radiation since that becomes a trend of self-harm, risking life in scientific artifacts.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
The masses-I love em-they rush for red lights, risking everything to capture a few seconds, only to get home and waste their lives.
~ Arthur Nersesian
The worst curse on woman is her exclusion from warrior expeditions; it is not in giving life but in risking his life that man raises himself above the animal; this is why throughout humanity, superiority has been granted not to the sex that gives birth, but to the one that kills.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Will we continue to march to the drumbeat of conformity and respectability, or will we, listening to the beat of a more distant drum, move to its echoing sounds? Will we march only to the music of time, or will we, risking criticism and abuse, march to the soulsaving music of eternity?
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
If indeed this is the work of God... then it's a crisis that calls for the church to be its very best self, and not worry about risking itself for the right thing.
~ Gene Robinson
Fight for the only thing she knew was good enough, noble enough, powerful enough to be worth risking everything... Love.
~ Lauren Kate
A woman, not a thing. Wasn't that a prize worth risking everything for, however short a time I might have to enjoy it?
~ Pat Barker
Lav and Kush must have conspired and taken the manuscript from our hut when I was busy elsewhere. They must have practised singing it in secret. They must have decided to perform it in my honour, risking the anger of their guru as well as their new-found father to tell the world my story.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
We ought to affirm the fact that hundreds of thousands if not millions of Iranians are risking their liberty and even perhaps their lives to take a stand for the values upon which we have really founded this nation.
~ Mike Pence
Kenya is risking sanctions from international competition because international organisations think we are not addressing the problem in line with world best practice.
~ Kipchoge Keino
If I were marooned here till it suited my overbearing, domineering, pig-headed jackass of a husband to finish risking his stupid neck, I'd use the time to see what I could spot.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Genius is neither learned nor acquired. It is knowing without experience. It is risking without fear of failure…
~ Patricia Polacco