By 1931, after a few years' experience of flying scheduled airlines, those planes were operating at roughly 600 times the safety of… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
Take your risks now; as you become older, you become more fearful and less flexible. And I mean that literally. I hurt… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
Love and Other Theories challenged my assumptions, dared me to think differently and burrowed into my heart. A heart-achingly beautiful story about… — Daisy Whitney Copy Share Image
“I abhor running real risks, but it’s not because I’m afraid of feeling too intensely. It’s because they break my perfect focus… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Two separate beings, in different circumstances, face to face in freedom and seeking justification of their existence through one another, will always… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“I really am the world's shittiest boyfriend. Holding onto something normal for the sake of having it, for nothing other than to… — Kelley York Copy Share Image
Checklists turn out...to be among the basic tools of the quality and productivity revolution in aviation, engineering, construction - in virtually every… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
At home I mostly stick to online Scrabble, or chess or Risk - games I find far less addictive than the spectacular… — Beau Willimon Copy Share Image
We are better able to bring the same sort of pragmatic planning and analytical pre-work to our values scripts that we would… — Mary C. Gentile Copy Share Image
We're at risk of losing this iconic species for all time. Once it's stripped of its natural instincts, it's no longer a… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
People don't dream all their lives of escaping the hellish countries they live in and pay their life savings to underworld types… — Sean Hannity Copy Share Image
In the nearer term, the likeliest source of risk is a conflict between China and the U.S. These are now the two… — Ian Bremmer Copy Share Image
To live in the universe of high modernity is to live in an environment of chance and risk, the ineveitable concomitants of… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
“We made a lot of mistakes at that trade show about what we thought the customer wanted and what was right for… — Sophia Amoruso Copy Share Image
For all the sublimity of art, physics, music, mathematics, and other manifestations of human genius, everything depends on the mundane, frustrating, often… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“Growing up, I always had a soldier mentality. As a kid I wanted to be a soldier, a fighter pilot, a covert… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I write because it is dangerous, a bloody risk, like love, to form the words, to say the words, to touch the… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I stare at him. "You can't risk not winning. Not because of me." Sean doesn't lift his eyes from the counter. "We… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“and I said, 'That is why you don't climb mountains, Gwen.' But now I wonder. You aren't afraid of heights." "No", she… — Meredith Duran Copy Share Image
“But my strategy was to minimize the chance of making a type-one error—wasting time on an unsuitable choice. Inevitably, that increased the… — Graeme Simsion Copy Share Image
I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life. Few of the others, however, had the possibility of direct… — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
Reduce risk, lower your required capital, and focus on what you’re really good at—and hire others for what you are not.) This… — Marc Ecko Copy Share Image
How do commercial interests usually protect themselves from liability claims? Through insurance. In fact, in our society, the litmus test for safety… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
The president-elect Donald Trump moved a bit closer to getting his Cabinet in place with another round of confirmation hearings. The most… — Judy Woodruff Copy Share Image
We now spend a good deal more on drink and smoke than we spend on education. This, of course, is not surprising.… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
There are times when each of us has to have some gumption to take a stand as to what we wish to… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
I have argued that we need livelihood insurance, which would protect people against the risk of seeing their skills and expertise no… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
“Fear of heights begins to manifest as soon as infants start crawling; fears of animals and monsters first appear when toddlers begin… — Marco del Giudice Copy Share Image
whenever possible I avoid talking. Reprieve from talking is my idea of a holiday. At risk of seeming unsociable, which I am,… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
We ask our men and women in uniform to leave their families, our guardsmen and reservists to leave their jobs. We ask… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
For a start, the salary begins to have an attraction and addictiveness all of its own. A regular paycheck and crack cocaine… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
The mere possession of monopoly power, and the concomitant charging of monopoly prices, is not only not unlawful, it is an important… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Civil society must be strengthened to help raise awareness among people living with HIV, and those at risk, of their rights, and… — Shereen El Feki Copy Share Image
A world without God cannot wait for us to choose the safe path. If we wait for someone else to take the… — Erwin McManus Copy Share Image
I also want to take cognizance of the fact that this flight was made out in the open with all the possibilities… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“A risk to own anything : a car, a pair of shoes, a packet of cigarettes. Not enough to go around. Not… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Increased and better screening for explosives is necessary - and Congress should fund it and TSA should implement it as quickly as… — Dave Reichert Copy Share Image
The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man who insists on high and serious pleasures… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
And I just think that if you believe in something and you want it so much and you're not hurting anyone else,… — Susane Colasanti Copy Share Image
I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding after having kids,… — Zara Phillips Copy Share Image
