Hazards Quotations | Page 2

The Christian's chief occupational hazards are depression and discouragement.

The chief occupational hazard of leadership is pride.

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

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.

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.

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

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

The world began in hazard and will end in 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.

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.

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

Reckless adventure is the fool's hazard.

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.

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

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

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

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

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,

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.

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

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'.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.