Hazards Quotations | Page 2

All through the permit process there were some concerns on the part of local officials. In the end, I think we came up with a plan that passed muster with town officials in Johnson, ... To some extent we can see their point, which is that this will create some new points of potential danger, both on Route 15 and Hogback Road because of parking, but those are more than offset by the hazards it removes by asking every hiker to walk 1.5 miles down the road.

Take those road hazards- the potholes, ruts, detours, and all the rest- as evidence that you were on the right route. It's when you find yourself on that big, broad, easy road that you ought to worry.

The fullness of life is in the hazards of life. And, at the worst, there is that in us which can turn defeat into victory.

Those with health insurance are overinsured and their behavior is distorted by moral hazard. Those without health insurance use their own money to make decisions based on an assessment of “their needs. The insured are wasteful. The uninsured are prudent. So what's the solution? Make the insured a little more like the uninsured.

My occupational hazard is my occupation's just not around...

The world began in hazard and will end in it.

There is no plan. All is hazard. And the only thing that will preserve us is ourselves.

Writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazards is loneliness. But an advantage of loneliness is privacy, autonomy and freedom.

All life produces waste. The act of living produces costs, hazards and disposal questions, and so the (Environment) Ministry has found itself in the center of all life, mitigating, guiding and policing the detritus of the average person along with investigating the infractions of the greedy and short-sighted, the ones who wish to make quick profits and trade on others' lives for it.

Without vanity a writer's work is tepid, and he must accept his vanity as part of his stock in trade and live with it as one of the hazards of his profession.

Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming; feedback is the treatment.

Of the mental hazards, being scared is the worst. When you get scared, you get tense.

I waive the quantum o' the sin, The hazard of concealing; But, och! it hardens a' within, And petrifies the feeling!

Reckless adventure is the fool's hazard.

Obviously this person's a hazard. Stupid people are dangerous.

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.

No religion is a true religion that does not make men tingle to their finger tips with a sense of infinite hazard.

A great man knows the value of greatness; he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it.

The noble science of Geology loses glory from the extreme imperfection of the record. The crust of the earth with its embedded remains must not be looked at as a well-filled museum, but as a poor collection made at hazard and at rare intervals.

We can never insure 100 percent of the population against 100 percent of the hazards and vicissitudes of life, but we have tried to frame a law which will give some measure of protection to the average citizen and to his family against the loss of a job and against poverty-ridden old age,

I earnestly pray that the Omnipotent Being who has not deserted the cause of America in the hour of its extremest hazard, will never yield so fair a heritage of freedom a prey to 'Anarchy' or 'Despotism'.

What would be a road hazard anywhere else, in the Third World is probably the road.

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 of the explorer or of the big-game hunter in the remote wilderness.

United thoughts and counsels, equal hope And hazard in the glorious enterprise.

Wars do not end wars any more than an extraordinarily large conflagration does away with the fire hazard.

Where thought is free in its range, we need never fear to hazard what is good in itself.

It is essential that we take steps to prevent chemical substances from becoming environmental hazards. Unless we develop better methods to assure adequate testing of chemicals, we will be inviting the environmental crisis of the future.

An author places himself uncalled before the tribunal of criticism and solicits fame at the hazard of disgrace.

I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and independent denizens.

I permit to speak at every hazard, Nature without check with original energy

He that writes may be considered as a kind of general challenger, whom every one has a right to attack; since he quits the common rank of life, steps forward beyond the lists, and offers his merit to the public judgement. To commence author is to claim praise, and no man can justly aspire to honour, but at the hazard of disgrace.

Sometimes the critics will like a film, and the public doesn't come. Sometimes the critics won't like the film, and the public will come. It's completely spontaneous. It's a hazard.

To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.