One can make this generalization about men: they are ungrateful, fickle, liars, and deceivers, they shun danger and are greedy for profit;… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
One can remain more sure-footed by taking small steps, but perhaps achieve greater speed by taking bigger steps. Of course, one also… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
Well you know, it's true that as a fat person I run a greater risk of heart disease, diabetes, and a number… — Daniel Pinkwater Copy Share Image
Science that abdicates its cultural values risks being perceived as an extension of technology, an instrument in the hands of political or… — Nicola Cabibbo Copy Share Image
Praying puts us at risk of getting involved in God's conditions. Be slow to pray. Praying most often doesn't get us what… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
You must never give up. You must remember that you have to take risks in order to achieve anything and sometimes you… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Hard work is about risk. It begins when you deal with the things that you'd rather not deal with: fear of failure,… — Seth Copy Share Image
Alignment of business strategy and risk appetite should minimize the firm's exposure to large and unexpected losses. In addition, the firm's risk… — Jerome Powell Copy Share Image
My preference is for the Federal Reserve to be the systemic risk regulator, because the responsibility for identifying and limiting potential problems… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
Should we choose to extend our airstrikes into Syria, we will be doing this in the collective self-defence of Iraq. We would… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
“You mean something like ‘truth or dare’? I haven’t played that in a long time.” She didn’t think he would ever get… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
I think it's my job to risk looking foolish. One of the things I've learned from the actors I've worked with is… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
A Pitiful person who is afraid of taking risks, will never be disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps he won't suffer the way people… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why had we come to the moon? The thing presented itself to me as a perplexing problem. What is this spirit in… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
I've been thinking a lot lately about taking chances, and how it's really just about overcoming your fears. Because the truth is,… — Dr. John Copy Share Image
I think that two wrongs don't make a right. And I have been in the situation of counseling young girls, not 13… — Sharron Angle Copy Share Image
If you think of global public goods like polio eradication, the kind of risk-taking new approach, philanthropy really does have a role… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Failure to summon forth the courage to risk a nondogmatic and nonevasive stance on such crucial existential matters can also blur our… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
The Yen Buddhists are the richest religious sect in the universe. They hold that the accumulation of money is a great evil… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I haven't seen too many American distance men on the international scene willing to take risks. I saw some U.S. women in… — Billy Mills Copy Share Image
You know how sports teach kids teamwork and how to be strong and brave and confident? Improv was my sport. I learned… — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
It's very important for people to know themselves and understand what their value system is, because if you don't know what your… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
Some chances we take are big, some are small. We take them everyday. The impact of any risk you take can be… — Rudita De Asis Copy Share Image
There is not necessarily a good reason why a regulator should have to be involved in product design and marketing for rich… — John Redwood Copy Share Image
Jesus beckons me to follow him to that place of weakness where I risk the vulnerability of a child so that I… — Gary Haugen Copy Share Image
It's so acceptably easy for a woman not to strive too hard, not to be too adventure-crazed, not to take too many… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
In the financial system we have today, with less risk concentrated in banks, the probability of systemic financial crises may be lower… — Timothy Geithner Copy Share Image
Thomas Stanley has not only found no correlation between success in school and an ability to accumulate wealth, he's actually found a… — Richard Farson Copy Share Image
Any professional sportsman will tell you that you can work out in the gym as much as you like, but eating is… — Phil Hill Copy Share Image
Networked, we are together, but so lessened are our expectations of each other that we can feel utterly alone. And there is… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
I'm of the mind that life is a risk. Every time you leave your house it's a risk, and I see no… — Thomas Jane Copy Share Image
Things might not go as planned, but at the end of the day it’s up to me to take those risks and… — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
How is AIDS research to progress when the premise of science is questioning but the premise of questioning HIV is considered so… — Nate Mendel Copy Share Image
Here in Silicon Valley, I have taken part in hundreds of conversations trying to convince people to dive in and become entrepreneurs.… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
Everyone that works behind a desk wants to know how many bones I've broken and how much money I make. It seems… — Travis Pastrana Copy Share Image
One of the most troubling aspects of the Rubio-Schumer Gang of Eight Bill was that it gave President [Barack] Obama blanket authority… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
COURAGE isn't an absence of fear. It is doing what you are afraid to do, letting go of the familiar and forging… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
While big business gain subsidies and political access, small businesses drown in red tape, and individuals now risk being classified as terrorists… — Zac Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Depending on how quickly you get ocean rise, you have people who live in river deltas [at risk]. Bangladesh is largely a… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
At That Moment, it seemed the whole world cared what happened to him. All those people were hugging him and petting his… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image