Risky Quotations

Because I've lived a risky and unconventional life, I don't often struggle for subjects to write about.

Also, it's risky to try to duplicate earlier success. Magician had a certain charm to it, mostly due to my choice of lead characters, that I would be hard put to duplicate.

High testosterone levels have been proven to make men more likely to commit crimes. The tendency in men toward risky behaviour keeps turning up even where socialization is different, and so does crime and delinquency.

It's a werewolf movie with Christina Ricci, and it was a chance to work with some good people. But playing yourself is always fairly risky because you gotta watch how you goof on yourself.

To find in ourselves what makes life worth living is risky business, for it means that once we know we must seek it. It also means that without it life will be valueless.

I believe it's less risky long-term to embrace change.

I think in national security, the war in Iraq is troublesome and a difficult challenge, but our troops and the military leaders we have are managing that situation, although it continues to be very risky and very dangerous.

Whatever the reasons, would-be entrepreneurs should be forewarned. Going into business for yourself isn't just risky because your business might fail. It's risky because you might have a harder time getting a job in the future, even if you succeed with your company.

I've seen women afraid to stretch for things. They avoid opportunities they don't feel qualified for yet. Instead, they should grab risky opportunities that will force them to grow on the job and learn to do it.

Much of the misgiving that Muslims feel for the West stems from our strong emphasis on freedom, always a risky enterprise. I've heard some say they would rather rear their children in a closely guarded Islamic society than in the United States, where freedom so often leads to decadence.

That President Mohammad Khatami's policies have been blocked is the bitterest incident in the contemporary Iranian history. This means that the wishes of millions of people who voted for Khatami and called for freedom and justice have been ignored... Why should cultural activities and journalism be so risky in Iran?

Yet in all those cases I finally steeled myself to seize the opportunity, and find a way to muddle through and eventually conclude that I had, in fact, chosen the right path, as risky as it seemed at the time.

Insurance firms have always carefully studied real-world data to figure out what, precisely, constitutes a risky activity.

Big banks have long had private equity divisions that put up capital for deals too complex or risky for individual shareholders to finance.

I acted all the way up until Princeton. It was just one of my favorite extracurricular activities. Then I got to Princeton and had a really conservative vibe. All my friends were planning on law school, med school, or Wall Street, and suddenly acting seem like a really risky proposition.

The young men, they look to me for a story they can get nowhere else, a challenging risky story.

There is no question that films that we would have considered viable just a few seasons ago are too risky to undertake these days, ... Small films are smaller than ever and titles that would have done decently a few years back would almost certainly be doomed to abject failure these days.

... When we get youth involved I would hope we have an impact on our school-age people. Whether we're in the schools or outside of (them), as long they (know) the risks of risky drinking I think our goals are being met.

We're not a risky team and we were just a little too risky tonight. They seem to just score with their chances. Defensively we weren't where we wanted to be.

We have no problem with the board aiming for a higher price. However, should the company pursue the limited breakup alone, we have serious concerns about whether that risky strategy will ultimately yield better returns for current shareholders.

When things seem very risky it often represents opportunity.

We're just getting energy prices going through the roof. The longer period of time (consumers) have these elevated prices, the more it starts to weigh on sentiment. People have held on pretty well but the longer this remains the more risky it becomes.

Look, we knew there was going to be a fallout because advertisers take a cautious approach to risky shows. We've been through it before. Our competitors have been through it. If the show performs, we find that people get comfortable and advertisers come back.

Many people in Japan were concerned whether American meat processors can properly take out risky materials. The concern was proved right so soon. Many consumers are feeling cheated.

Separation and divorce can have adverse effects on the health and well-being of children and adults. Past research has shown that divorce is associated with higher rates of mortality, more health problems, and more risky behaviors such as increased alcohol use.

McNair was less risky than Young probably, but I also think that Young has more upside than McNair. McNair was probably more advanced because of the system that they used (at Alcorn). Young is a little more athletic and probably a little faster than McNair was, and with Young you've got a guy that has unbelievable potential.

One of our goals is to provide young girls with character-building life skills that can help them avoid risky adolescent behaviors, such as drug or alcohol use, early sexual activity and eating disorders.

No chance for me to play again ? it's very dangerous and risky for my future. This is an unfortunate setback.

If we can do those things, we have a chance to keep this expansion going. But this is not the time to take what (Federal Reserve) Chairman (Alan) Greenspan, what six Nobel prize-winning economists have said would be a very risky course with a massive tax cut. We're not going to let it happen, ... Face The Nation.

If they have to ring some inflation out of the system, the initial list of victims has to include housing markets. You have a risky period for consumers for the next six to eight months.

Central banks are raising interest rates, and that's risky for stocks. Expectations for earnings growth are too high.

Business is risky enough without the additional uncertainty created when a nation's unit of account -- in plain language, its money -- is undermined,

Because this hour-long period is so risky for teen drivers, extending the driving limit to 11 p.m. will save lives and prevent dangerous crashes.

I have a hard time believing that they can buy a company with 2,000 people and make it work. The notion of buying a gigantic company with a lot of cash is a very risky proposition.

I have acute pain in my right shoulder which is very stiff. I could have played by taking pain killer injections but it is risky and I have decided to take the rest.

I have 18 tattoos. My tattoos have kind of become their own person. Everybody does stories on them. It is risky to be successful in the fashion industry and to tat your body up, but I figured, the way that I made my career and the way that I am successful is because I have always been myself.

Great things are rarely easy things. They are most often risky things, with just as great a chance for failure as for success.

For me, 'risky' is revealing what really happened in my life through music. Risky is writing confessional songs and telling the true story about a person with enough details so everyone knows who that person is.

Funds that are highly leveraged are risky and only pay off when the markets are up.

I don't view the market as risky or dangerous even in spite of more Fed tightening. We have enough value in U.S. and international growth stocks. What's holding stocks back right now is uncertainty about interest rates, not valuation.

For us, the litigation issue is really a risk assessment issue, and the fact that an injunction is almost always issued automatically creates a lot of risky situations.

If it is indeed a risky portion, it is against the import program and quite regrettable.

Hedge funds can be volatile and risky and we want to be sure to offer it to the right clientele. It's not for Ma and Pa Kettle.

He is a very important player to us and it would be too risky to select him now. It's better for him at the moment to continue to train with Bayern.

He (Gore) attacked Governor Bush as being unworthy of being president for having some of the same views that he now compliments his running mate for having. I guess it's risky if you are a Republican to have those views, but it's courageous if you are Joe Lieberman,

There is much more awareness now than 10 to 15 years ago that it is a tricky, risky undertaking, and that you have to be good at it. That has led to better execution because people are more thoughtful about it.

We've got to make some kind of forecast, ... While it may be a little risky in some respects from an economic standpoint to make forecasts...you have to make some kind of planning.

History cautions that extended periods of low concern about credit risk have invariably been followed by reversal, with an attendant fall in the prices of risky assets.

We look at this from the standpoint that the more parental involvement the better because too many teens end up driving in risky situations, even with graduated driving laws in many states.

I think it is an act of medical malpractice to do human reproductive cloning when animal data shows how risky it is -- how high the frequency is of miscarriage, birth defects and even life problems with other species. We've been unsuccessful at doing this in our closest animal relatives.

I think it is taking a very risky approach, and I don't think the situation is that dire to warrant such a risky approach.

It can be perceived as horseplay. There was risky behavior, but fortunately people were sober. ... People could be slightly hurt, but no one was ever killed or brought to the hospital.

I think by being an independent theatrical distributor, we're risk-takers by nature, because this business is so risky in general. We hope to keep finding new films and acknowledging new talents.

I think it's pretty risky what they're doing. I'm a real fence sitter here -- I'm real skeptical you can run a low cost carrier using regional jets.

It is increasingly clear that a more prudent policy is to provide opportunities for reprocessing and secure on-site storage, ... Our time and resources should be spent developing better ways to use or dispose of nuclear waste than outdated, risky plans such as storage in our western states.

I think the tight end position is probably one of the risky positions in terms of the durability, but that's given the fact of what they're asked to do. It's very hard, very hard to find the perfect tight end and durability is a problem throughout the league. Not just with our team, but a lot of teams.

Our view is that the framework provides regulators with the ability to provide appropriate incentives to risky investment in infrastructure both to incumbents and challengers.

Oral history represents a democratization of the history-telling process ... this thing of having history recorded from on high for us, instead of doing it for ourselves, has proven to be a risky business. We need to have history from the bottom up.

that could be risky from the point of view of proliferation.

I suppose you can try to punt the ball out of bounds, but that's risky business, too. It's going to take a real team effort to try and contain (Ginn). We're really going to have to be exacting with what we do.

It'd be one thing if he's 25 and filled a demographic niche. But the older the demographic you try to reach, the less risky you want to be.

I thought it was possible but then I decided it was too risky and after that I knew that the lap was gone and I had lost my advantage.

When taught and modeled daily in the classroom we see that the core values help to reduce intolerance, harassment, bullying, teasing, and risky and aggressive behaviors. If we as adults are responsible and do our job as caring adults, children will feel safe and supported and they will enjoy positive relationships with peers and adults. They will know and understand what is expected of them and the rules and expectations are consistent. All of these things will help facilitate learning for all children and success at home and in school and their community.

We can't depend on the cortisone shots. There was something transitional about that period that cortisone was appropriate. We had to pull him off a career ending state of mind. It's too fragile an option and certainly a risky option.

We've made it much more costly and risky to come and go crossing the border, and because of that we make it more likely (undocumented immigrants) will spend a longer time in the U.S. and settle permanently here.

Trade is far and away the largest weight on the U.S. economy at present. This is a risky time.

Toymakers are bringing back proven hits because it's less risky than betting on something new,

This study confirms what a lot of us think happens with risky drinking behavior.

We don't know the exact cause or reason, but it's certainly clear when you look at the worst-ever catastrophic event, which it looks like Katrina will be, we're in a different world, and it's a much more risky world for catastrophic events.

We leaked our whole record about five months ago. We're kind of looking into the future of audio. I don't think the CD is going to last a lot longer. It is risky for an unknown band to release music that requires so much manual extraction, but the people most excited about music are young and pretty computer-savvy.

While quite a few people say they would like to buy together, the simple answer is that they are not. Their first preference appears to be buying with a partner, which is less risky than buying with friends. There are some products on the market for buyers who do want to buy with friends, but the take-up of these is low.

While people often think of identity management in 'defensive' terms, one of the most important benefits of IDMS is that it can help organizations to enable new services and business models that might otherwise be too risky too implement. Financial institutions, for example, are under increasing pressure to eliminate business line silos and take a company-wide view of their customers, in order to better provide them with the products and services that meet their individual needs. Yet, this imperative challenges traditional identity management processes, controls and governance structures. IDMS is designed to help our clients minimize risk and fraud loss, as well as, help them develop the new processes and governance they'll need to offer robust identity-based products and services.

We knew that child predators posed a problem to young people on the Web, but we were stunned to learn the vast numbers of teens engaging in incredibly risky behaviors online.

To say there should be less funds coming to Tampa because it's less of a risky place doesn't make sense.

We are somewhat surprised to see Guidant's board support Johnson & Johnson's offer. Recall that this is the same company that thought Guidant was only worth $63 a few weeks ago. Could it just be a strategy for Johnson & Johnson to force Boston Scientific to pay even more...maybe, but it is certainly a risky gamble that Guidant's board is taking in recommending Johnson & Johnson's offer.

When you hear actors say, 'Oh, I did all my own stunts,' it is usually crap! It's one thing jumping into water or whatever, but the real stunts are more properly done by stunt men. And it is too financially risky to have actors risk their necks, isn't it?

With the cooling U.S. economy and a series of profit warnings from tech firms both at home and abroad, high tech shares appear too risky at the moment to handle.

We had somewhat of a tough race. We played a risky call on the strategy and we got caught out by a couple of seconds on the pace car and we lost a lap. Max did a great job and got the lap back. Unfortunately, we needed a yellow and it came two laps too late. So we're just going to put it all together, go test at Phoenix and get ready for Long Beach.

You cannot stop sexual experimentation. You can only stop risky behavior based on inaccurate information. When our parents won't teach us about our bodies, we seek information elsewhere.

To my mind, forgetting is a risky strategy for living. Memory is essential to us. It is DNA. We need to remember, and we need to imagine. That's why we have books, writing, fiction.

We've never separated two vehicles going Mach 5. That's just never happened. It's a very risky thing.

This was supposed to become a consumer-oriented office. For him to take money from the insurance industry is risky because people expect that position not to be in their pocket.

We found that they still preferred the risky target. Basically these monkeys really liked to gamble.

To have nature directly admitted into the San Francisco Opera House is pretty risky because of its unpredictability. As far as we know, nothing like this has ever been done.

When you place all those people back in the city without a health care infrastructure, it is a risky proposition. We're going to have a second disaster in this city.

We had talked about it earlier. It's kind of a risky thing to do, but we weren't going to let him beat us. He's too good a hitter.

We know that Jake can pitch with a broken rib. He pitched with a broken rib (Tuesday). So would it be risky for him to go out and perform well? Yeah. Is it going to do any long-term damage? Probably not.

Yeah, it's risky, but no more risky than driving a car.

Bob spearheaded some of the more risky trading businesses, the proprietary trading businesses in which the firm did so well in the 1980s and the 1990s, ... Those brought a lot more risk to Goldman Sachs and with it, an enormous jump in profitability.

Botanists have a tradition of never revealing the exact location of a rare plant. Contact between humans and rare plants is generally risky for the plants.

Are you familiar with the movie Risky Business ? What the heck!.

Federal legislation will make it difficult but not impossible for Internet gamblers in the U.S. to gain access to offshore sites. Ultimately, Internet gambling operators are selling a product. à The vast majority of customers will satisfy their demand for commercial gambling through less onerous and risky alternatives, such as lotteries, bingo, pari-mutuels and casinos.

Farming is a very risky business especially for one who is not on the land because there is no guarantee that the land will be yours anyway even if you have a 99-year lease.

There's some questionable ethical behavior, and for them now to be awarded a multi-million dollar contract -- that you're going to give it to them -- that's a pretty risky operation.

Is it a risky strategy for retailers to have both tighter inventory and fewer promotions over the holidays? Yes.

I should've played more risky in that game but I was too passive and allowed her to dominate,

I see my neighbors running around at dusk, jogging and gardening, ... I think people need to understand this is risky behavior. While there's not 100-percent risk, certainly a lot more people get West Nile than get hit by lightning.

It was a perfect storm. One could say it was a bad strategy; I would say instead of bad it was a very risky strategy. Essentially, they played blackjack and put a quarter of their money on each hand and busted every time.

These candidates tend to have cultural and geographical strengths, though they do lack industry experience. Still, that can be less risky in a technical setting, especially if this person is running a purely technical shop or research and development staff.

These steps that we are asking tribal councils to take are very risky. The change is risky because it's not always understood.