Hazards famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Government prohibitions do always more mischief than had been calculated; and it is not without much hesitation that a statesman should hazard to regulate the concerns of individuals, as if he could do it better than themselves.
-- Albert Gallatin -
From sunny woof and cloudy weft Fell rain in sheets; so, to myself I hummed these hazard rhymes, and left The learned volume on the shelf.
-- Alfred Austin -
It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.
-- Ally Carter -
Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
-- Alvin Toffler -
Incoherence is a common hazard for journalists who dabble in ethical judgments.
-- Andrew Ferguson -
Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
-- B. C. Forbes -
Natural hazards, however formidable, are inherently less dangerous and less uncertain than fighting hazards. All conditions are more calculable, all obstacles more surmountable than those of human resistance.
-- B. H. Liddell Hart -
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 is a major disaster when a person allows some success to become a stopping place rather than a way station on to a larger goal. It often happens that an early success is a greater moral hazard than an early failure.
-- Bill Vaughan -
Running toward danger is foolhardy. ... But so is closing your eyes to it. Many perils become less dangerous once you understand their potential hazards.
-- Brandon Mull -
Taking pleasure in the dark side may be some sort of occupational hazard for reporters.
-- Calvin Trillin -
Coming into a game in the eighth or ninth inning is like parachuting behind enemy lines. And sometimes the chute doesn't open. You have to live with that. It's an occupational hazard.
-- Dan Quisenberry -
When you are an actor, rejection and disappointment are an occupational hazard.
-- David Morrissey -
The very condition of Woman is so subject to Hazard, so complex, and so grievous, that to place her at one moment is but to displace her at the next.
-- Djuna Barnes -
The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.
-- Edith Hamilton -
The fullness of life is in the hazards of life. And, at the worst, there is that in us which can turn defeat into victory.
-- Edith Hamilton -
Don't reward bad behavior. It is one of the first rules of parenting. During the financial cataclysm of 2008, we said it differently. When we bailed out banks that had created their own misfortune, we called it a 'moral hazard,' because the bailout absolved the bank's bad acts and created an incentive for it to make the same bad loans again.
-- Eliot Spitzer -
Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.
-- Francois Rabelais -
A brave man hazards life, but not his conscience.
-- Friedrich Schiller -
You have the gift of a brilliant internal guardian that stands ready to warn you of hazards and guide you through risky situations.
-- Gavin de Becker -
The occupational hazard of being a Playboy Bunny is the aching facial muscles brought on by obligatory smiles.
-- Germaine Greer -
Feeling inadequate is an occupational hazard of motherhood.
-- Harriet Lerner -
Fame is a revenue payable only to our ghosts; and to deny ourselves all present satisfaction, or to expose ourselves to so much hazard for this, were as great madness as to starve ourselves, or fight desperately for food, to be laid on our tombs after our death.
-- Henry Mackenzie -
The duration of a couple's passion is in proportion to the woman's original resistance or to the obstacles that social hazards have placed in the way of her happiness.
-- Honore de Balzac -
When the path ahead of you is uphill, surrounded by rough spots, hazards and obstacles: use a pitching wedge.
-- J. Bracken Lee -
What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?
-- James Madison -
A positive engagement to marry a certain person at a certain time, at all haps and hazards, I have always considered the most ridiculous thing on earth.
-- Jane Welsh Carlyle -
If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.
-- John Henry Newman -
United thoughts and counsels, equal hope And hazard in the glorious enterprise.
-- John Milton -
The hazards of the generalized prisoner's dilemma are removed by the match between the right and the good.
-- John Rawls -
The chief occupational hazard of leadership is pride.
-- John Stott -
Hazard not your wealth on a poor man's advice.
-- Juan Manuel, Prince of Villena -
Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming; feedback is the treatment.
-- Kent Beck -
The main health hazard in the world today is people who don't love themselves.
-- Kinky Friedman -
The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated.
-- Leon Kass -
Impotence is one of the major hazards of cigarette smoking.
-- Loni Anderson -
Those with health insurance are overinsured and their behavior is distorted by moral hazard. Those without health insurance use their own money to make decisions based on an assessment of “their needs. The insured are wasteful. The uninsured are prudent. So what's the solution? Make the insured a little more like the uninsured.
-- Malcolm Gladwell -
Desire can blind us to the hazards of our enterprises.
-- Marie de France -
My occupational hazard is that I can't help plagiarizing from real life.
-- Mary McCarthy -
I've lost balls in every hazard and on every course I've tried. But when I lose a ball in the ball washer, it's time to take stock.
-- Milt Gross -
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 -
All life produces waste. The act of living produces costs, hazards and disposal questions, and so the (Environment) Ministry has found itself in the center of all life, mitigating, guiding and policing the detritus of the average person along with investigating the infractions of the greedy and short-sighted, the ones who wish to make quick profits and trade on others' lives for it.
-- Paolo Bacigalupi -
Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
-- Queen Victoria -
As a rule, anything that is pretty you avoid when on an expedition in the polar extremes. Normally anything other than white means a hazard such as a crevasse.
-- Ranulph Fiennes -
I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and independent denizens.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson -
Of the mental hazards, being scared is the worst. When you get scared, you get tense.
-- Sam Snead -
The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.
-- Samuel Adams -
There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard. The fearful are the failing.
-- Sarah Josepha Hale -
There are hazards in everything one does, but there are greater hazards in doing nothing.
-- Shirley Williams -
Obviously this person's a hazard. Stupid people are dangerous.
-- Suzanne Collins -
Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards.
-- Thomas Huxley -
The occupational hazard of making a spectacle of yourself, over the long haul, is that at some point you buy a ticket too.
-- Thomas McGuane -
No religion is a true religion that does not make men tingle to their finger tips with a sense of infinite hazard.
-- William Ernest Hocking -
I consider C++ the most significant technical hazard to the survival of your project and do so without apologies.
-- Alistair Cockburn -
Risk management is a more realistic term than safety. It implies that hazards are ever-present, that they must be identified, analyzed, evaluated and controlled or rationally accepted.
-- Jerome F. Lederer -
No span of steel will tolerate...neglect. But if service by generations who use it and spared manmade hazards, such as war, it should have life without end.
-- Joseph Straus -
What would be a road hazard anywhere else, in the Third World is probably the road.
-- P. J. O'Rourke -
I was the worst bricklayer in the world. I can show you buildings I worked on - they're a hazard. I closed a window one time. I forgot to set back a brick and I just kept going - there I was singing 'There's no business like show business'.
-- Pat Cooper -
Astronauts were not the impulsive daredevils so dear to the stereopticonloving public. They couldn't afford to be. The hazards of the profession required an infinite capacity for cautious, contemplative thought.
-- Eric Frank Russell
