Hazard Quotes

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 or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few. (Pythagoras)
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 my own abhorrence. View quote
Frederick Douglass
Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard. View quote
Mary McCarthy
Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
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 such as a crevasse. View quote
Ranulph Fiennes
Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste? View quote
David R. Brower
I can tell you that second hand smoke is not a health hazard to anyone and never was, and the EPA has always known it. View quote
Michael Crichton
Love interest nearly always weakens a mystery because it introduces a type of suspense that is antagonistic to the detective's struggle to solve the problem. It stacks the cards, and in nine cases out of ten, it eliminates at least two useful suspects. The only effective love interest is that which creates a personal hazard for the detective - but which, at the same time, you instinctively feel to be a mere episode. A really good detective never gets married. View quote
Raymond Chandler
Nazi Germany was so destructive to Judaism not only for the loss of life, but because many who survived began to see the practice of Judaism as somewhat of a health hazard. View quote
Jon Stewart
Risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. View quote
Leo Buscaglia
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 stake. (E. L. Doctorow)
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 their lives and at the risk of all they hold dear, then bolder and stronger peoples will pass us by, and will win for themselves the domination of the world. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
And whereas many men, by accident unevitable, become unable to maintain themselves by their labour; they ought not to be left to the Charity of private persons; but to be provided for, (as far-forth as the necessities of Nature require,) by the Lawes of the Common-wealth. For as it is Unchariablenesse in any man, to neglect the impotent; so it is in the Soveraign of a Common-wealth, to expose them to the hazard of such uncertain Charity. View quote
Thomas Hobbes
Those of us who are today prepared to hazard our lives for the cause would regret having raised a finger, if we were able to organize only a new social system and not a more righteous one. View quote
Theodor Herzl
I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die. View quote
William Shakespeare
I waive the quantum o' the sin, The hazard of concealing: But, och! it hardens a' within, And petrifies the feeling! View quote
Robert Burns
With hearts fortified with these animating reflections, we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare that, exerting the utmost energy of those powers, which our beneficent Creator hath graciously bestowed upon us, the arms we have been compelled by our enemies to assume, we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverance employ for the preservation of our liberties; being with one mind resolved to die freemen rather than to live as slaves. View quote
John Dickinson (delegate)
Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming: feedback is the treatment. View quote
Kent Beck
What would be a road hazard anywhere else, in the Third World is probably the road. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
No, see the slide's too high. He could fall and get a concussion. (Wulf) Forget that. He could rack himself on the teeter-totter. (Chris) Teeter-totter nothing. The swings are a choking hazard. Whose idea was it for him to have this? (Urian) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
When you are an actor, rejection and disappointment are an occupational hazard. (David Morrissey)
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. If you are in the meat market at some point you are gonna get mad cows disease. View quote
Dominic Monaghan
For God's sake, let's take the word 'possess' and put a brick round its neck and drown it... We can't possess one another. We can only give and hazard all we have. View quote
Dorothy L. Sayers
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 they can be executed? View quote
James Madison
Our cause is just. Our union is perfect. Our internal resources are great, and, if necessary, foreign assistance is undoubtedly attainable. - We gratefully acknowledge, as signal instances of the Divine favour towards us, that his Providence would not permit us to be called into this severe controversy, until we were grown up to our present strength, had been previously exercised in warlike operation, and possessed of the means of defending ourselves. With hearts fortified with these animating reflections, we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare that, exerting the utmost energy of those powers, which our beneficent Creator hath graciously bestowed upon us, the arms we have been compelled by our enemies to assume, we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverence, employ for the preservation of our liberties; being with one mind resolved to die freemen rather than to live slaves. View quote
Thomas Jefferson