Danger & Risk Quotes (4792 Quotes)

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.

The Canadians of those days, at least, possessed a roving spirit of adventure which carried them further, in exposure to hardship and danger, than ever the New England colonist went, and led them, though not to clear and colonize the wilderness, yet.

Leveraging on debts is definitely a useful method for gaining more wealth. The issue is, do you have your own set of risk management system to ensure you do not take on more debts than needed

Let none think to fly the danger for soon or late love is his own avenger.

All true educators since the time of Socrates and Plato have agreed that the primary object of education is the attainment of inner harmony, or, to put it into more up-to-date language, the integration of the personality. Without such an integration learning is no more than a collection of scraps, and the accumulation of knowledge becomes a danger to mental health.

The second thing we did was said, OK, we've now identified the risk, but what do you want to do with the money? Because it's not enough to have risk; you've got to have a meaningful use for the money we give you.

We're actually very excited about this. And people throughout the system are excited about this. We are going to be providing extra help to literally hundreds of thousands of kids who are at risk of falling behind.

Two months ago we were hardly good enough for the trash can. And today everyone considers there is no doubt about our 2006 qualification. As far as I know, we haven't taken any extra points in our campaign. My duty is to make sure that no one gets carried away. We must be careful to avoid a dangerous and worthless euphoria.

Confirmation that highly pathogenic avian influenza has been found in Turkey and that avian influenza is now also in Romania is of concern. It shows that there is a risk to the U.K. and this is a developing situation, which we are monitoring closely.

Any time I take the mound, Alex is a dangerous guy. It's not the first time he's gotten me, and it won't be the last. He obviously feels very good against me, but I know that can change quickly, too. I'll locate my pitches better against him next time.

Unless there is some rationalization of the price of insurance relative to the risk assumed, there will be continued problems of availability.

Dangerous substances do not respect international or national borders. They can only be fought with common strategies.

I do think for both parties - and it has happened for Republicans now - there is a risk of majority fatigue where you run out of new ideas.

These waters have become a pirate's charter and unless the international community takes action against these criminals, vessels passing this coast face considerable danger,

Here you have a potential single-point failure that could take out both the station and the shuttle. So it no doubt is going to be their No. 1 risk.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

We can't change the fact that she has completed her sentence and that she's free, ... All we can do is to mitigate the danger that she represents to the public safety by maintaining these conditions on her.

The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions.

If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

The risk is that by getting a cheap deal on broadband you'll be paying over the odds for your phone service, but most bundled packages are pretty competitive on both. You might get a slightly cheaper deal by finding the cheapest phone and internet providers separately, but many people are happy to pay slightly more for the convenience of a single package.

I just do whatever it is that I believe I should do, regardless of the risks to my life.

Something has interjected itself into this situation to make drug use extraordinarily dangerous.

There's no question they've alienated the city. But the risk of alienating the fans is relatively low, particularly in light of the level of success the team has enjoyed in the last few years. The upside potential is much greater than the downside potential.

H5N1 is primarily an animal disease. However, given its expanding geographical scope and that H5N1 is endemic in some countries, our assessment is that the risk of pandemic is great.

A low-quality relationship is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease.

More and more people are at risk because the rains have not come. We will be coming back in the next few weeks with additional requests. We do not know how much more will be requested, it needs to be further assessed ... but I expect it will be more than 100,000 tons.

I think it's a very good thing. I never understood why (Federal Reserve Chairman Alan) Greenspan was encouraging people to go into short-term mortgages, because of the risk they entailed.

IT organizations need to implement IT controls for compliance management without increasing architectural complexity. This requires that IT organizations work hand-in-glove with financial, legal and business operations to manage operational risk. Expanding compliance and operational risk demands offer an opportunity for IT to build long-lasting value for the firm, or face the threat of becoming a scapegoat for operational and legal deficiency.

It goes without saying that their lives are exposed to extreme danger, so we need to rescue them from that area so they can go back to their loved ones.

This does not solve the problem it only pushes the danger from China further off.

If we don't continue to pursue alternative, emissions-free energy sources like nuclear fuel, we are at risk of increasing our dependence on costly natural gas.

We continue to believe that the President is under some pressure to not appear anti-labor, and thus will probably not intervene until some time next week at the earliest, ... But despite his recent popularity with the Teamsters and the AFL-CIO, Bush will, in our view, most likely choose to protect the economy, which appears to increasingly be at risk the longer the port disruption continues.

So I decided to take the risk of getting a date with her. I went after a dream I'd had since I was six years old, when I was in her fan club.

The decline by the PPI overall and the dip by the core PPI is very much consistent with the general absence of inflation risks,

That's a concern that we have, that people will perceive it as a risk to their confidentiality, and then decide not to seek testing.

If we don't get the Reading fixture out of the way we faced the danger of having to stage another league match within the play-off schedule in October. It was getting too much to take on.

The little word is has its tragedies it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence and yet no two are ever identical, and if therein lies the charm of wedding them and calling them one, therein too lies the danger.

Efforts to consolidate the number of vendors or to provide middleware platforms that consolidate these systems will be important components of risk projects for the next few years.

I feel exposure to the risk was missed at the last meeting. I wanted to discuss snow removal risk to personal injury and loss of property.

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but deliverance from fear

The risk here isn't turning courtrooms into a circus or unduly invading someone's privacy. The risk is the danger we pose to our society and our democracy when we close off our institutions to the people they're supposed to serve.

The only news will be the U.S. stocks. But on the geopolitical front, the upside risk is more than the downside.

If he is a Rehnquist, that would not be a cause for exultation in my book, but it would not be a cause for alarm. The court's balance will not be altered. But there is a reasonable danger that he will be like Justice Thomas, the most radical justice on the Supreme Court. It is not that I am certain that he will be a Thomas, it's not even that it's more than 50 percent, but the risk that he might be a Thomas and the lack of any reassurance that he won't, particularly in light of this president's professed desire to nominate people in that mold, is just not good enough. I hope he will not be a Justice Thomas but the risk is too great to bear.

We believe it has the potential to establish ethical and scientific safeguards and uniform standards to protect research subjects and improve the risk assessment process.

There had never been such a display of dangerous, brutal male beauty on an American stage -- its influence can still be felt, in fashion photography and sport as well as acting.

Marching thus at night, a battalion is doubly impressive. The silent monster is full of restrained power; resolute in its onward sweep, impervious to danger, it looks a menacing engine of destruction, steady to its goal, and certain of its mission.

I think Congress and the federal government don't fully understand the risk to this jewel of New Orleans, ... They spend billions on the Everglades and on the Big Dig in Boston ... yet our COASTAL EROSION ISSUES ARE REAL, but we haven't had the corresponding investment.

People are taking a little bit of risk off. It's difficult to make a call over the next two to three days where the market is going to go.

It could be a risk to play him but that is a decision we have to make sometimes an injury risk is also a risk as to whether they will perform or not. It is not easy being a selector.