"To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it."

-- Jeanette Winterson

#Risk Quotes #Risk It Quotes

“There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa.”
“I will remain in relentless pursuit of continuing my lifelong dream of being an NFL quarterback.”
“The only way I can be there and really get into the character is if I'm her.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Public humiliation is a commodity and shame is an industry,”

Source : "The price of shame". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2015.
“It is a fair adornment of a man and a great convenience both to himself and to all those with whom he converses and deals, to act uprightly, uniformly, and consistently. The practice of piety frees a man from interior distraction and from irresolution in his mind, from duplicity or inconstancy in his character, and from confusion in his proceedings, and consequently securing for others freedom from deception and disappointment in their transactions with him.”
“Unlike most wars, which make rotten fiction in themselves - all plot and no characters, or made-up characters - Vietnam seems to be the perfect mix: the characters make the war, and the war unmakes the characters. The gods, fates, furies had a relatively small hand in it. The mess was man-made, a synthetic, by think tank out of briefing session.”

Source : "The Good Word & Other Words" by Wilfrid Sheed, Penguin, (pp. 107-108), 1980.
“I don't trust sentimentality in men; it goes with tyranny; you can't have one without the other.”
“Those who deplore our militants, who exhort patience in the name of a false peace, are in fact supporting segregation and exploitation. They would have social peace at the expense of social and racial justice. They are more concerned with easing racial tension than enforcing racial democracy.”

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