If we are too friendly to nice, decent bishops, we run the risk of buying into the fiction that there's something virtuous… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It's a completely different thing, but there's so many things I learned from being an athlete that helped me in business. The… — Jaycie Phelps Copy Share Image
If we execute murderers and there is in fact no deterrent effect, we have killed a bunch of murderers. If we fail… — John C. McAdams Copy Share Image
The McDonald brothers were simply not on my wavelength at all. I was obsessed with the idea of making McDonald's the biggest… — Ray Kroc Copy Share Image
Again and again [Tomas] Jefferson deftly sidesteps many of [John] Adams's often provocative remarks. They both felt the correspondence, which was written… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
“When as a young and unknown man I started to be successful I was referred to as a gambler. My operations increased… — Allen C. Benello Copy Share Image
The dangers of life are infinite, and among them is safety. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
For writers: don't hold back. Be weird. Be sentimental. Be melodramatic. Take the risk of being not-cool, not-hip. — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I would do stupid things on my bike. I'd jump any ramp, I'd jump over people, I'd… — Eric Bana Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, if you have faith in people they'll surprise you. Mom and Dad taught me that. Risk is the price of believing… — Gwenda Bond Copy Share Image
I'm proud to be British but there is nothing patriotic about a lack of a plan as to what even would happen… — Ruth Davidson Copy Share Image
Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think our society is no longer properly valuing the intangible potential of innovation, even if we have to be a little… — Dean Kamen Copy Share Image
Among the illusions which have invested our civilization is an absolute belief that the solutions to our problems must be a more… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The person who is afraid to risk failure seldom has to face success. I expected my players to make mistakes, as long… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
Mark, therefore, the ordinary theory of practical religion, what it leads to. Charity is great, but the moment you say it is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
That the zeal for God's honor is also a dangerous passion, that the Christian must bring with him the courage to swim… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
It's important to understand that the president [Donald Trump] is now entering a world of public service. He's going to be asking… — Reince Priebus Copy Share Image
There'd been studies over the years supporting the proposition that groups composed exclusively of women usually made intelligent decisions, that exclusively male… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk… — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
I'm not a big risk-taker - being bad just wasn't worth my time or the risk of having the consequences for it.… — Lucy Dacus Copy Share Image