Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts.
Norman Mailer

Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.
Waylon Jennings

Doves oppose war on the grounds that the risks exceed the gains. War with Iraq could be very costly, possibly degenerating into urban warfare.
Charles Krauthammer

Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it.
Lee Iacocca

Finnish companies tend to be very traditional, not taking many risks. Silicon Valley is completely different: people here really live on the edge.
Linus Torvalds

For me, the risks in terms of opening that brewpub were fairly high. I put my house up as collateral, I invested the liquid money I had and two years of my time to get it over, but that's really not much of a risk for what the potential reward was if it worked.
John Hickenlooper

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
Elie Wiesel

Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.
George W. Bush

Great Britain had a much different situation than we do and did here in the United States, in that they had literally thousands of infected animals with human health risks. Their infectivity in this disease happened before very much was known about it.
Ann Veneman

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
Herodotus

Great risks come in long term, tremendously assiduous, very courageous study.
William Hurt

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
Muhammad Ali

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
Paul Tillich

Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.
William Hurt

Heroic people take risks to themselves to help others. There's nothing heroic about accepting $5 million to go out and run around chasing a ball, although you may show fortitude or those other qualities while you do it.
Gregg Easterbrook

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.
Henry Ellis

I don't believe in pitfalls. I believe in taking risks and not doing the same thing twice.
Guy Laliberte

I don't think I ever take huge risks, though I'm not scared of doing so.
Kevin Costner

I expected to be shot at any moment and if they had done I would have understood, that they couldn't take risks with someone foolhardy or so unpredictable.
Laurie Lee