Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Higgins

The only risk we run, ... is by doing nothing.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small; if you don't take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand, nothing.

Dear Abbey

While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.

Benny Gray

We were going to get the people. We take risks all the time firefighting, but we didn't want to get shot.

Doug Pritchard

We know the risks involved. It's very much a part of our training.

Charles de Gaulle

The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.

Alan Watts

No worthwhile life can be lived without risks, despite current American superstitions to the contrary...

Alan Greenspan

Indeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking.

Alan Greenspan

History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.

Tim Lawrence

What you want to do here is study a problem that has been studied and studied and studied to death.

Jeff Altchech

We had a problem staying together yesterday. I told them to stay together and play together to get through the ups and downs.

David Bonior

We're not going away, ... These problems aren't going to go away.

Cindy Clough

We still have the same problems we had 30 years ago.

Alfred Eder

Tomorrow our biathletes will have a lot of problems because of this situation. But it is important that they run.

Tom Leach

We have had problems ? some serious, some not so serious. They were the logistical and technical problems we expected.

H. Hart

We just didn't finish. That's been our problem all year.

Jim Clarke

Unfortunately, that's when you'll start seeing problems with a lot of the grasses.

E. F. Schumacher

There is no economic problem and, in a sense, there never has been.

Richard Daley

We shall reach greater and greater platitudes of achievment.

F. Sionil Jose

Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.

Sylvester Stallone

When a parent loses a child, there is no greater pain.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.

Alan Cohen

Evaluate every act by whether it brings you greater life, or deadens you.

Bradley A. Smith

There is no evidence that super PACs have led to a greater percentage of negative ads.

Frank McNeil

There are other positions I would have liked to have seen a greater presence of African-Americans in, ... It isn't over until it's over. My role is to keep the pressure on.

Bob Uecker

Hey, I think it's easy for guys to hit .300 and stay in the big leagues. Hit .200 and try to stick around as long as I did; I think it's a much greater accomplishment. That's hard.

Joe Hogan

We can see what's going on with greater specificity. The need for biopsies will be reduced.