Hazards Quotes

171 quotes by 142 authors

Natural hazards, however formidable, are inherently less dangerous and less uncertain than fighting hazards. All conditions are more calculable, all obstacles more surmountable than those… — B. H. Liddell Hart
The effort to improve the conditions of man, however, is not a task for the few. It is the task of all nations-acting alone, acting… — John F. Kennedy
For plague and pestilence, plunder and pollution, the hazards of nature and the hunger of children are the foes of every nation. The earth, the… — John F. Kennedy
Hazard not your wealth on a poor man's advice. — Juan Manuel, Prince of Villena
Only yesterday mankind lived in fear of the scourges of smallpox, cholera and plague that once swept nations before them. Now our major concern is… — Rachel Carson
If we seek merely swollen, slothful ease and ignoble peace, if we shrink from the hard contests where men must win at the hazard of… — Theodore Roosevelt
Government prohibitions do always more mischief than had been calculated; and it is not without much hesitation that a statesman should hazard to regulate the… — Albert Gallatin
The supreme duty of the Nation is the conservation of human resources through an enlightened measure of social and industrial justice. We pledge ourselves to… — Theodore Roosevelt
Nowadays the field naturalist-who is usually at all points superior to the mere closet naturalist-follows a profession as full of hazard and interest as that… — Theodore Roosevelt
I don't feel any pressure at all because I don't care. That's an occupational hazard... but if you're doing anything of any worth, and not… — Ricky Gervais
Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at… — E L Doctorow
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur… — Frederick Douglass
Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do… — Amelia Earhart
Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards. — Thomas Huxley
Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them. — Samuel Johnson
What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before… — James Madison
I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was… — Nelson Mandela
I have been heartbroken once and it has affected all my relationships from there on. But now I look at it as a occupational hazard.… — Dominic Monaghan
It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle… — Pythagoras
Don't reward bad behavior. It is one of the first rules of parenting. During the financial cataclysm of 2008, we said it differently. When we… — Eliot Spitzer

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