Hazards Quotes - Page 11

• Men Wanted for Dangerous Expedition: Low Wages for Long Hours of Arduous Labour under Brutal Conditions; Months of Continual Darkness and Extreme Cold; Great Risk to Life and Limb from Disease, Accidents and Other Hazards; Small Chance of Fame in Case of Success.

  Ernest Shackleton

  Funny, Clever, Smart

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• Well yet, this life such as it is, yet we love it, and loath we are to end it; and if it be in hazard by the law, what running, riding, posting, suing, bribing, and if all will not serve, what breaking prison is there for it!

  Lancelot Andrewes

  Life, Running, Law

  Lancelot Andrewes (1843). “Works: Ninety-six sermons”, p.51

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• 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.

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  Average, Wish, Ministry

  Paolo Bacigalupi (2010). “The Windup Girl”, p.108, Hachette UK

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• There is always hazard in military activity, but we must decide between the positive loss of inactivity and the risk of action.

  Robert E. Lee

  Military, Loss, Risk

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• A positive engagement to marry a certain person at a certain time, at all haps and hazards, I have always considered the most ridiculous thing on earth.

  Jane Welsh Carlyle

  Engagement, Earth, Ridiculous

  Jane Welsh Carlyle (1977). “I Too Am Here: Selections from the Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle”, p.41, Cambridge University Press

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• The work you are treating is one full of dangerous hazard, and you are treading over fires lurking beneath treacherous ashes.

  Horace

  Fire, Ashes, Dangerous

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• Bold ideas, unjustified anticipations, and speculative thought, are our only means for interpreting nature: our only organon, our only instrument, for grasping her. And we must hazard them to win our prize. Those among us who are unwilling to expose their ideas to the hazard of refutation do not take part in the scientific game.

  Karl Popper

  Mean, Winning, Games

  Karl Popper (2005). “The Logic of Scientific Discovery”, p.280, Routledge

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• Every man that has felt pain knows how little all other comforts can gladden him to whom health is denied. Yet who is there does not sometimes hazard it for the enjoyment of an hour?

  Samuel Johnson

  Pain, Health, Men

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.100

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• With traps and obstacles and hazards confronting us on every hand, only blindness or indifference will fail to turn in all humility, for guidance or for warning, to the study of examples.

  Benjamin Cardozo

  Humility, Hands, Example

  Benjamin Nathan Cardozo (1982). “Cardozo on the Law: Including the Nature of the Judicial Process, The Growth of the Law, The Paradoxes of Legal Science, Law and Literature”

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• In medical practice, there are few surgical procedures given so little attention and so underrated in its potential hazard as abortion.

  Warren Hern

  Practice, Abortion, Littles

  "Abortion Practice". Book by Warren Hern, 1984.

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• The difference between a sand trap and water hazard is the difference between a car crash and an airplane crash. You have a chance of recovering from a car crash.

  Bobby Jones

  Airplane, Golf, Differences

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• The hazards of the generalized prisoner's dilemma are removed by the match between the right and the good.

  John Rawls

  Dilemma, Prisoner

  John Rawls (1999). “A Theory of Justice”, p.505

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• A successful author is equally in danger of the diminution of his fame, whether he continues or ceases to write. The regard of the public is not to be kept but by tribute, and the remembrance of past service will quickly languish unless successive performances frequently revive it. Yet in every new attempt there is new hazard, and there are few who do not, at some unlucky time, injure their own characters by attempting to enlarge them.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Character, Successful

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.39

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• 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.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Men, May

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.: D., with an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.149

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• The chief occupational hazard of leadership is pride.

  John Stott

  Pride, Chiefs, Occupational Hazards

  John R. W. Stott (1985). “Involvement: Social and sexual relationships in the modern world”, Fleming H. Revell Company

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• We ought to deprecate the hazard attending ardent and susceptible minds, from being too strongly, and too early prepossessed in favor of other political systems, before they are capable of appreciating their own.

  George Washington

  Education, Appreciate, Political

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1839). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts”, p.14

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• Foolish liberals who are trying to read the Second Amendment out of the constitution by claiming it's not an individual right or that it's too much of a safety hazard don't see the danger of the big picture. They're courting disaster by encouraging others to use this same means to eliminate portions of the Constitution they don't like.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Mean, Gun, Safety

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• I'm glad mushrooms are against the law, because I took them one time, and you know what happened to me? I laid in a field of green grass for four hours going, "My God! I love everything." Yeah, now if that isn't a hazard to our country... How are we gonna justify arms dealing when we realize that we're all one?

  Bill Hicks

  Country, Law, Mushrooms

  "Shock and Awe". Live album by Bill Hicks, recorded in November 11, 1992 at The Oxford Playhouse, 2003.

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• Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh- I really think that requires spirit!

  Jean Webster

  Crush, Thinking, Laughing

  Jean Webster (2016). “Daddy Long-Legs and Dear Enemy: Illustrated”, p.34, Jester House Publishing

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• Running toward danger is foolhardy. ... But so is closing your eyes to it. Many perils become less dangerous once you understand their potential hazards.

  Brandon Mull

  Running, Eye, Danger

  Brandon Mull (2008). “Rise of the Evening Star”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

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