Hazards Quotations

Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.

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?

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.

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.

Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.

The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.

The hazards posed by Near-Earth Asteroids are assessed by Sentry, a computer system developed by the Near-Earth Objects Group at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. The software factors together a cosmic rock's coordinates, distance, velocity, and gravitational influences to calculate its trajectory.

Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard.

If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.

Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.

Never must the existence or the essence of man as a whole be made a stake in the hazards of action.

Some global hazards are insidious. They stem from pressure on energy supplies, food, water and other natural resources. And they will be aggravated as the population rises to a projected nine billion by mid-century, and by the effects of climate change. An 'ecological shock' could irreversibly degrade our environment.

Impotence is one of the major hazards of cigarette smoking.

A friend is worth all hazards we can run.

The wave of new productive enterprises would provide opportunities to remedy the unjust distribution of environmental hazards among economic classes and racial and ethnic communities.

Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards.

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.

Losing this natural hazards emphasis for FEMA is getting to be quite a concern.

Site specific targeting identifies industries with high injury and illness rates. From that listing, establishments are randomly selected for inspection. The goal of the program is to identify and correct hazards that contribute to worker injuries, illnesses and deaths.

SIL 2 systems are meeting a growing number of safety system requirements in process plants as users are trying to reduce the hazards in their plants to acceptable levels. Many companies have determined that if an operation requires a SIL 3 rating, then it's too hazardous and needs to be redesigned. After working to reduce the risks in their plants to SIL 2 or lower, customers are then looking to optimize their investments in safety related systems with the appropriate level of risk reduction. In these applications, a SIL 2 safety system provides a very cost effective solution.

Security hazards are not something that you can offset by using Opera and Mozilla. It's a problem that affects everyone but Internet Explorer is hands down the most targeted because it has the most market share.

Fresh cut produce is the fastest growing sector of the fresh produce industry. This document should help to improve safety by providing clearer guidance on how to reduce health hazards that are potentially introduced during the production process.

I am confounded by the failure of this rule to meet either the spirit or letter of the law, ... It is clearly delinquent in protecting all Americans equally from the hazards of mercury.

But they won't even be allowed out of the van. We've got to mitigate the hazards first.

China is very concerned about the possible hazards to Russia and has informed its neighbor several times of the pollution. Both have pledged to cooperate closely to handle the pollution.

Because of the history of the Old Course, moving hazards is not the option it would be at many other places, ... You can't simply move a bunker here and there on The Old Course. All that leaves is to move tees.

He was flashing his hazards for the oncoming traffic to give way for him until he had a head-on collision with a brand new Range Rover and died on the spot. We have good roads but the immature drivers translate that availability of good roads into flying on the roads.

There is an increased chance of blackouts due to magnetic currents on the power grids. This also creates more hazards for astronauts traveling through space.

(The owner) is going to face some fines. The reason why we're going through the code enforcement process is because we want the immediate hazards taken care of right away, and the only way to do that is to start hitting them where it hurts, basically.

I think the technology has allowed us to do a much better job of defining where the hazards are, where the strong shaking may be, where the bad ground is.

Response to a large building collapse requires protection different than what emergency responders are typically provided. The hazards following the collapse of a large multi-story building are larger and more uncertain, and the duration of the response is much longer than usual.

I think it makes people think and realize the hazards of driving and the need to be safe.

We can see hazards approaching and we have time to actually do something.

There is a major disaster when a person allows some success to become a stopping place rather than a way station on to a larger goal. It often happens that an early success is a greater moral hazard than an early failure.

Natural hazards, however formidable, are inherently less dangerous and less uncertain than fighting hazards. All conditions are more calculable, all obstacles more surmountable than those of human resistance.

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.

We're asking the public to stay indoors, even during the day until we can get the hazards removed because the danger is real and present, ... mostly caused from fallen tree limbs.

Genetic engineering is having a serious impact on the food we eat, on the environment, and on farmers. To ensure we can maximize benefits and minimize hazards, Congress must provide a comprehensive regulatory framework for all genetically engineered products.

A writer's occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.

We are restoring rather than changing the course, ... Modern equipment and the greater athleticism of the game's leading players has led to many of the Old Course hazards being taken out of play.

We are restoring rather than changing the course. Modern equipment and the greater athleticism of the game's leading players has led to many of the Old Course hazards being taken out of play.

We want the groups who are doing a poor job of reporting potential beach hazards to be made accountable.

Government prohibitions do always more mischief than had been calculated; and it is not without much hesitation that a statesman should hazard to regulate the concerns of individuals, as if he could do it better than themselves.

Incoherence is a common hazard for journalists who dabble in ethical judgments.

From sunny woof and cloudy weft Fell rain in sheets; so, to myself I hummed these hazard rhymes, and left The learned volume on the shelf.

It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.

There are no choices without personal freedom, Buckeroo. It's not us who are dead inside. These things you find so weak and contemptible in us---these are just the hazards of being free.

If one were to be a person of value that value could not be a condition subject to hazards of fortune. It had to be a quality that could not change. No matter what.

To worry is to add another hazard.

The very condition of Woman is so subject to Hazard, so complex, and so grievous, that to place her at one moment is but to displace her at the next.

Do us a favor. Stay out and off the water, where the coastal hazards are extreme. Heed evacuation orders if it becomes necessary later on.

I urge NHTSA to issue a consumer advisory detailing the life-threatening hazards of certain Ford model trucks, which are prone to speed-control deactivation switch failure and related engine compartment fire.

The trailer is set up into several sections. The first section is a kitchen, where we teach about safety near the kitchen stove. The second section is the living room, which has a fireplace with carefully placed safety hazards that children should look out for. The third section is the bedroom, where we pump in non-toxic smoke to simulate a fire. Children are taught to crawl towards the door, feel around the door with the back of their hands, and if it isn't safe to leave through the door, to head towards a window where a firefighter will rescue them.

The Toxics Release Inventory has been extremely successful in raising public awareness about chemical hazards in communities from coast to coast. Public disclosure has proven to be a strong incentive for polluters to reduce their use of toxic chemicals.

We see low- to moderate-income communities that are distressed from exposure to environmental hazards such as pollution, waste and toxic building practices.

These conditions can create hazards for boaters and paddlers.

An earthquake will be our Katrina, and this event will help community members learn the hazards and how to best prepare their family for earthquakes and other disasters.

The recent penalties levied by CPSC send a strong message that failing to report potential hazards is illegal,

We've had a regular dialogue with first responders and discussed some of these issues with them. We're clearly an all hazards department and have taken significant measures to enhance preparedness and recovery capability since Sept. 11.

We want children to be out on the playground where they belong, not inside the emergency hospital room, ... CPSC is taking steps to reduce the hazards of home playgrounds by working with industry to recall defective play sets and strengthen playground safety standards.

Facilities that use toxic chemicals such as styrene must follow our reporting rules so that area residents and emergency response personnel are informed of possible chemical hazards in the local environment. This penalty should remind others that we are maintaining a close watch over chemical reporting practices and are serious about enforcing community right-to-know laws.

We are excited. We were only three strokes behind the top school and we still didn't play our best golf. We had some water hazards and some shots go out of bounds. It's something the girls know that they can improve on.

Sometime next week somebody will come out to assess the clean-up ordered today, and some time in the next two or three weeks we're going to send inspectors out there to walk the park and see if there are other hazards that should be corrected.

Yet across the UK, thousands of road signs which give route directions, street names, limits or hazards are confusing or have disappeared, been knocked down, obscured with grime or foliage or have been damaged.

Yet the march toward freedom is not without its hazards or its casualties and the threats of violence aimed at Iraqis who participate in the election will be dealt with accordingly.

There are hazards in anything one does but there are greater hazards in doing nothing.

This is one of the hazards of flying at night, even on a clear night. Often you don't have a horizon for reference. It doesn't matter how many hours flying you have. It can affect you.

This is not the first time we've been at this site. The first time was in 1995, when we were looking at this exact area and helping the ski area understand why it needs to be avoided. The hazards of this location are well-known.

If you follow the proper procedures you don't have employees inside the silo doing work activity while product is being removed. We have to look at whether proper training was provided, and whether employees know what the hazards were associated with their work.

It's time. As many of the physical hazards as possible have been removed from the streets. Businesses that can open need that opportunity and residents need to feel like they can get out and about and live as normally as possible.

It's definitely one of the hazards with a powerful storm such as this. It's advised to not go near the surf ... Water is a powerful thing.

He always considered death an unavoidable professional hazard.

The prime occupational hazard of a manager is superficiality.

After you open a toy, you want to discard that packaging. There are some hidden hazards there for kids. Plastic wrap and bubble wrap can actually be a suffocating hazard. Kids can choke on the little foam peanuts that often come in packaging.

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.

All Californians need to be made aware of earthquake hazards and how to survive them. This handbook is a valuable primer for preparedness.

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.

These are not hazards that kill thousands of children every year, like vehicle crashes or drowning, but they are so easy to prevent and the consequences can be so severe. Don't underestimate the possibility of a small child being crushed by unsteady furniture.

A brave man hazards life, but not his conscience.

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

Effectively reporting seismic hazards considerably reduces vulnerability to it, if not totally eliminates it,

There's a set-up in the living room, for example, that demonstrates the hazards of having too many plugs and extension cords.

We have to cover all countries against all hazards and risks. That is the challenge we face in the next eight and a half years.

The most challenging risks that emergency responders need protection from are hazardous chemicals that they could inhale. These hazards are the most difficult to identify and the equipment used to protect responders from them can be the most cumbersome.

I am asking miners and management at every mine operation to do the right thing: Take one hour out for safety's sake. This Monday, we urge that extra time be taken, at the beginning of each shift and before the start of any mining activity, to go over the hazards involved with mining and the vital safeguards that need to be taken.

I definitely have more respect for the hazards of nuclear power.

Hazards - There is an island of opportunity in the middle of every difficulty. Miss that, though, and you're pretty much doomed.

Feeling inadequate is an occupational hazard of motherhood.

One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering nor upsetting it.

Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.

The occupational hazard of being a Playboy Bunny is the aching facial muscles brought on by obligatory smiles.

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

My occupational hazard is that I can't help plagiarizing from real life.

Mankind, I hazard, wherever found, Civilized or Savage, cannot keep to any purpose for much length of time, except the purpose of destroying himself.

There are hazards in everything one does, but there are greater hazards in doing nothing.

I was the worst bricklayer in the world. I can show you buildings I worked on - they're a hazard. I closed a window one time. I forgot to set back a brick and I just kept going - there I was singing 'There's no business like show business'.

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.

Desire can blind us to the hazards of our enterprises.

Man has become our greatest hazard, and our only hope.