Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Tracy

The future belongs to the risk-takers, not the comfort-seekers .

Brenda Blethyn

At the risk of sounding naff, it is having hope fulfilled

Brian Ferneyhough

If nothing is at risk, nothing is established.

Andre Leon Talley

I only take risks in couture, but I don't take risks in athleticism.

Alicia Silverstone

All the things I've loved the most in life were my biggest risks.

Anne Lamott

Toni Morrison said, "The function of freedom is to free someone else," and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person or a way of life, tell your story. Risk freeing someone else. Not everyone will be glad that you did. Members of your family and other critics may wish you had kept your secrets. Oh, well, what are you going to do?

Alfred Adler

Courage is not an ability one either possess or lacks. Courage is the willingness to engage in a risk-taking behavior regardless of whether the consequences are unknown or possibly adverse. We are capable of courageous behavior provided we are willing to engage in it. Given that life offers few guarantees, all living requires risk-taking.

Angela Merkel

...climate change is accelerating. It threatens our well being, our security, and our economic development. It will lead to uncontrollable risks and dramatic damage if we do not take resolute countermeasures.

Anthony Bourdain

Good food and good eating are about risk.

Chuck Eddy

Critics should stick to their convictions.

Lorrie Moore

For love to last, you had to have illusions or have no illusions at all. But you had to stick to one or the other. It was the switching back and forth that endangered things.

Seth MacFarlane

If something sticks around long enough that it makes it to seasonal D.V.D. release, I'll watch it. That's how I watched 'The Sopranos'.

Francis Bacon

Hurl your calumnies boldly; something is sure to stick.

George Bernard Shaw

The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all.

Carrie Underwood

If you stick to what you know; you sell yourself short.

Christopher Eccleston

I don't see a lot of films. I'm quite choosy, but there's certain films that stick out.

Gordon Bethune

No one is going to stick their head out of the trenches for someone they don't respect or trust. You can get shot doing that.

Jodi Picoult

If he says jump, she doesn't even ask "How high?" She goes out and buys a pogo stick.

Jim Lushine

Rain will be as heavy, if not heavier. You don't want to be walking around out there with possible downed power lines and debris. It's not over until it's over.

Derrick Jensen

The big dividing line is not and has never been between those who advocate more or less militant forms of resistance, or between mainstream and grassroots activists. The dividing line is between those who do something and those who do nothing.

Damon Lindelof

In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.

Dan Harmon

There's a fine line between a stream of consciousness and a babbling brook to nowhere.

Ani Difranco

Somedays the line I walk turns out to be straight - Other days the line tends to deviate.

Angela Sarafyan

I prefer for things to happen serendipitously, but honestly, I also love terrible pickup lines.

Anthony Hopkins

What I do is just go over and over and over my lines and learn the script so well that I can just be easy and relaxed. That's the way I always work.

Tony Abbott

Although our powers are great, they are not unlimited they are bounded by some lines of demarcation.

Simon Pegg

You know what, despite my complaints about The Phantom Menace and Episode II, when Episode III comes out I'll be first in line. I genuinely love it.