Hazards Quotes
171 quotes by 142 authors
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The difficulties and hazards of marriage are greatly increased where backgrounds are different
— Spencer W. Kimball
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Man has become our greatest hazard, and our only hope.
— John Steinbeck
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It’s unlikely that any of those natural hazards will do us in within the next 100 years if we’ve already survived 100,000. By contrast, we…
— Nick Bostrom
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A theoretical physicist can spend his entire lifetime missing the intellectual challenge of experimental work, experiencing none of the thrills and dangers - the overhead…
— Leon M. Lederman
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The government is promoting bad behavior... do we really want to subsidize the losers' mortgages... This is America! How many of you people want to…
— Rick Santelli
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It is not Justice the servant of men, but accident, hazard, Fortune-the ally of patient Time-that holds an even and scrupulous balance.
— Joseph Conrad
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Most creatures have a vague belief that a very precarious hazard, a kind of transparent membrane, divides death from love; and that the profound idea…
— Maurice Maeterlinck
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Taking pleasure in the dark side may be some sort of occupational hazard for reporters.
— Calvin Trillin
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Coming into a game in the eighth or ninth inning is like parachuting behind enemy lines. And sometimes the chute doesn't open. You have to…
— Dan Quisenberry
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Eating a lot is an occupational hazard but it's a pretty great problem to have. I spend a lot of time eating sweets on TV…
— Gail Simmons
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Writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazards is loneliness. But an advantage of loneliness is privacy, autonomy and freedom.
— Joyce Carol Oates
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To be sick and helpless is a humiliating experience. Prolonged illness also carries the hazard of narcissistic self-absorption.
— Richard Hofstadter
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An author places himself uncalled before the tribunal of criticism and solicits fame at the hazard of disgrace.
— Samuel Johnson
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Without vanity a writer's work is tepid, and he must accept his vanity as part of his stock in trade and live with it as…
— Moss Hart
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As a rule, anything that is pretty you avoid when on an expedition in the polar extremes. Normally anything other than white means a hazard…
— Ranulph Fiennes
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I worked in television; I'm the Failed Pilot Queen, I've done so many television shows, pilots, theater ... when you do it for so long,…
— Viola Davis
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The Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued reams of playground regulations and actually gone so far as to recommend against "tripping hazards, like tree stumps…
— Lenore Skenazy
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The main health hazard in the world today is people who don't love themselves.
— Kinky Friedman
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High-consequence risks have a distinctive quality. The more calamitous the hazards they involve, the less we have any real experience of what we risk: for…
— Anthony Giddens
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Just as a moral distinction is drawn between "those at risk" and "those posing a risk", health education routinely draws a distinction between the harm…
— Deborah Lupton
Who Wrote These Hazards Quotes
142 authors contributed a total of 171 Hazards Quotes, led by these top contributors: