Risky Quotes

Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.
Bill Cosby

Business, Wisdom, Mistakes

Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
Josh Billings

Love, God, Smile

Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.
Denis Waitley

Life, Nothing, Big

I don't know driving in another way which isn't risky. Each one has to improve himself. Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than other's.
Ayrton Senna

Another, Himself, Bit

A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.
E. O. Wilson

Choice, Accept, Growth

There is a time for risky love. There is a time for extravagant gestures. There is a time to pour out your affections on one you love. And when the time comes - seize it, don't miss it.
Max Lucado

Love, Time, Miss

Making eye contact with adults while dressed as a clown is risky.
Doug Coupland

Making, While, Eye

A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss... That's the trade-off. But I'll take it all.
Brad Pitt

Love, Family, Loss

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.
Plautus

Rich, Poor, Makes

To a contrarian like me, constant advice not to do something almost always starts me quickly down the risky, unpopular path.
Michael Bloomberg

Down, Path, Advice

As we approach each of the great social challenges of our time we must acknowledge that old thinking will not provide the new solutions we need. These solutions will be uncomfortable, hard to sell and risky to execute. But the cost of not doing so is even greater.
Simon Mainwaring

Time, Great, Hard

But one way or another, judges perform a very vital function in our society. They have a risky job and they are entitled to security.
Arlen Specter

Society, Job, Another

Planning cities is a necessary but risky business.
Cate Blanchett

Business, Necessary, Planning

There's nothing risky in talking about your personal life. People do it all the time.
Philip Seymour Hoffman

Life, Time, Nothing

Humor is very very risky, particularly for a candidate, unless he's been in so long that it just doesn't matter, and he's not running for president. But it's just that people are so sensitive and so touchy, and you're just going to upset somebody without ever realizing it.
Mark Russell

Humor, Long, Matter

Since 1994, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have considered it politically risky to offer a plan to fix America's broken health care system. The American public, though, has paid the price for this silence as health care costs skyrocketed, millions went uninsured, and millions more grappled with financial insecurity and hardship.
Ron Wyden

Health, Insecurity, Care

It's unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job.
Bear Grylls

Life, Family, Job

When I got to college, acting suddenly seemed like a very risky proposition and all my friends were going to law school or med school or Wall Street.
Wentworth Miller

School, Law, Friends

I won't touch on risky, because that's subjective. People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.
Frank Ocean

Fear, Afraid, Touch

Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine, but has also hurt it in many ways, making it more impersonal, expensive and dangerous. The false belief that a safety net of sophisticated drugs and machines stretches below us, permitting risky or lazy lifestyle choices, has undermined our spirit of self-reliance.
Andrew Weil

Technology, Hurt, Real

I don't have a fear factor. Well, not much of one. And I'm willing to risk quite a lot - as a comedian, you're always risking a lot. You're risking failure, especially if you're improvising and going on TV shows trying to make comedy out of thin air. That is quite a risky business.
David Walliams

Business, Fear, Failure

Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.
Verne Troyer

Work, Enjoy, Stunt

I am very conservative. I don't invest in anything that is risky. If someone comes to me with a project idea, I let them risk their money, not mine.
Claudia Schiffer

Money, Someone, Idea

Now that I know how supermarket meat is made, I regard eating it as a somewhat risky proposition. I know how those animals live and what's on their hides when they go to slaughter, so I don't buy industrial meat.
Michael Pollan

Live, Eating, Meat

Yet in all those cases I finally steeled myself to seize the opportunity, and find a way to muddle through and eventually conclude that I had, in fact, chosen the right path, as risky as it seemed at the time.
Vinton Cerf

Time, Through, Find

With the discovery of vast new North American energy resources - thanks to the application of proven technologies like hydraulic fracturing and commonsense regulatory processes on non-federal lands - the U.S. government should no longer be in the business of spending taxpayer dollars on risky, exotic energy projects.
Fred Upton

Government, Business, Energy

The movie I'm really excited about that I had really fun doing is 'Feed the Dog.' It's with Nat Wolff and Selena Gomez. It's really fun. It's raunchy, like 'Superbad' meets 'Risky Business,' kind of. I got to be a really fun character, an out-there Mrs. Robinson-type character. I get to seduce Nat.
Elisabeth Shue

Business, Fun, Character

I really respond to human scripts, scripts that are raw and real and risky. I love playing scary characters - not horror film scary, but vulnerable scary.
Shailene Woodley

Love, Human, Real

To find in ourselves what makes life worth living is risky business, for it means that once we know we must seek it. It also means that without it life will be valueless.
Marsha Sinetar

Life, Business, Find

I get demoralized by organizations that start off with a mission and pull back when they find it's risky.
Peter Diamandis

Find, Start, Off

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