Hazards Quotes - Page 3

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.

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

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

The current lack of a national standard for operators of medical imaging and radiation therapy equipment poses a hazard to American patients and jeopardizes quality health care.

The diver plunges deep to find pearls, and we must accept any labor or hazard to win a soul

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

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.

Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.

Fame is a revenue payable only to our ghosts; and to deny ourselves all present satisfaction, or to expose ourselves to so much hazard for this, were as great madness as to starve ourselves, or fight desperately for food, to be laid on our tombs after our death.

Feeling inadequate is an occupational hazard of motherhood.

When you are an actor, rejection and disappointment are an occupational hazard.

Coming into a game in the eighth or ninth inning is like parachuting behind enemy lines. And sometimes the chute doesn't open. You have to live with that. It's an occupational hazard.

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

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

When the path ahead of you is uphill, surrounded by rough spots, hazards and obstacles: use a pitching wedge.

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

I've lost balls in every hazard and on every course I've tried. But when I lose a ball in the ball washer, it's time to take stock.

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.

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.

Man himself has become our greatest hazard and our only hope. So that today, St. John the apostle may well be paraphrased: In the end is the Word, and the Word is Man - and the Word is with Men.

The duration of a couple's passion is in proportion to the woman's original resistance or to the obstacles that social hazards have placed in the way of her happiness.

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

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.

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.