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Risking Quotes (page 21)

Gustave Flaubert quote: "By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming an..."
By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming an idiot oneself. Gustave Flaubert
Not everyone is willing to embrace liberty; liberty requires not just effort, but risk. Some people choose to delude themselves and see their chains as protective armor. Terry Goodkind
Two separate beings, in different circumstances, face to face in freedom and seeking justification of their existence through one another, will always live an adventure full of risk and promise." (p. 248) Simone de Beauvoir
Boldness in the course of a noble fight is worth the risk...If you stand on truth, you'll only regret your timidity later, but you'll never regret being bold. Charles R. Swindoll
John Piper quote: "If death is no longer a fear, we're really free. Free to take..."
If death is no longer a fear, we're really free. Free to take any risk under the sun for Christ and for love. John Piper
If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure. Philip Pullman
I stand ready to risk my own life, to play the game of thought with it in all earnest; but another’s life I cannot jeopardize. This service is perhaps the only one I can render to Philosophy, I who have no learning to offer her, "scarcely enough for the course at one drachma, to say nothing of the great course at fifty drachmas" (Cratylus). I have only my life, and the instant a difficulty offers I put it in play. Then the dance goes merrily, for my partner is the thought of Death, and is... Soren Kierkegaard
Sharon Stone quote: "I might be manipulating you to create risk for myself."
I might be manipulating you to create risk for myself. Sharon Stone
Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That’s what life’s all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off. Wally Lamb
Christopher Hitchens quote: "Take the risk of thinking for yourself , much more happiness ,..."
Take the risk of thinking for yourself , much more happiness , truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way .. Christopher Hitchens
She was like a bride-to-be who begins to feel her sickening qualms as the day approaches, and dares not speak her mind because so many preparations have been made on her behalf the happiness and convenience of so many good people would be put at risk. Ian Mcewan
I am two women: one wants to have all the joy, passion & adventure that life can give me. The other wants to be a slave to routine, to family life, to the things that can be planned and achieved. I'm a housewife & a prostitute, both of us living in the same body & doing battle with each other. The meeting of these two women is a game with serious risks. A divine dance. When we meet, we are two divine energies, two universes colliding. If the meeting is not carried out with due reverence, one... Paulo Coelho
Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. ... Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, someone may risk his or her life to read them. Edwidge Danticat
Jeanette Winterson quote: "If everything I have become were not machine-made I might be..."
If everything I have become were not machine-made I might be able to take the risk of being human with you. Jeanette Winterson
To the Frenchmen risking their lives to drive the English from Scotland, such a feud seemed no doubt an ill-timed indulgence. To Buccleuch, any comment from a foreigner was a piece of damnable impertinence, no less. Dorothy Dunnett

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