The opposite of Taking A Risk is of course Playing It Safe The latter would probably be a reasonable way of life… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
Young playmates of the rose and daffodil, Be careful ere ye enter in, to fill Your baskets high With fennel green, and… — John Keats Copy Share Image
sight-seeing gratifies us in different ways. First, there is the pleasure of novelty; secondly, either that of admiration or fault-finding - the… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
As James Surowiecki noted in a New Yorker article, given a choice between developing antibiotics that people will take every day for… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
If I have an opportunity to do something safe or something challenging, I'll often choose the latter. Sometimes, the objective is to… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
The Book of Mormon is the "keystone" of our religion, and the Doctrine and Covenants is the capstone, with continuing latter-day revelation. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
In the Pythagorean system, thinking about numbers, or doing mathematics, was an inherently masculine task. Mathematics was associated with the gods, and… — Margaret Wertheim Copy Share Image
Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men. — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
To prepare youth for success in entrepreneurial (and free) cultures, education tends to emphasize originality, creativity, breadth, depth and leadership skills rather… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
There is something more awful in happiness than in sorrow--the latter being earthly and finite, the former composed of the substance and… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The sad thing about our society is that women are put in one of two categories. You're either in the beautiful category… — Amber Heard Copy Share Image
As soon as we surrender the principle that the state should not interfere in any questions touching on the individuals mode of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
It may be said, almost without qualification, that true wisdom consists in the ready and accurate perception of analogies. Without the former… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
... it is more than petty treason to the Republic, to call a free citizen a servant. The whole class of young… — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
Physics is unable to stand on its own feet, but needs a metaphysics on which to support itself, whatever fine airs it… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I can't help comparing what I have with Gale to what I'm pretending to have with Peeta. How I never question Gale's… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Think of brilliant trickster Vik Muniz as the offspring of Man Ray and Jacques Henri Lartigue, combining the former's relentless experimentation, the… — Vince Aletti Copy Share Image
New Year, the season for changes in positions and advances in salaries, approaches. If you have in your employ some who deserve… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Villains are usually the worst casuists, and rush into crimes to avoid less. Henry VIII. committed murder to avoid the imputation of… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The so-called geologic ages are essentially synonymous with the evolutionary theory of origins. The latter is the anti-God conspiracy of Satan himself. — Henry M. Morris Copy Share Image
Some people would break the rules to get things done and some wouldn't; it was simple as that. John didn't have much… — Max Barry Copy Share Image
Men to be men must be able to trust their womenfolk, even as the latter are compelled to trust them. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The bud disappears when the blossom breaks through, and we might say that the former is refuted by the latter; in the… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
