Top 25 Hazards Quotes of 111 - Page 5

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

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

Philosophical, Hazards, Spirit

Astronauts were not the impulsive daredevils so dear to the stereopticonloving public. They couldn't afford to be. The hazards of the profession required an infinite capacity for cautious, contemplative thought.

Eric Frank Russell

Hazards, Infinite, Astronaut

Don't reward bad behavior. It is one of the first rules of parenting. During the financial cataclysm of 2008, we said it differently. When we bailed out banks that had created their own misfortune, we called it a 'moral hazard,' because the bailout absolved the bank's bad acts and created an incentive for it to make the same bad loans again.

Eliot Spitzer

Parenting, Hazards, Moral Hazard

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.

Dennis Kucinich

Impact, Engineering, Hazards

One of the occupational hazards of being an actor, the reason why so many actors are insecure, is that the only way we know we're good is when other people tell us.

David Oyelowo

Insecure, People, Hazards

Source: variety.com

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.

David Foster Wallace

Choices, Being Free, Hazards

"Infinite Jest". Book by David Foster Wallace, February 1, 1996.

Fear of an enemy can often blind men to other hazards, not least the shape which they themselves make in the world.

Cormac McCarthy

Men, Enemy, Hazards

Cormac McCarthy (2007). “No Country for Old Men”, p.198, Vintage

Quoting, like smoking, ... is a dirty habit to which I am devoted. But then ... I am a professor of English literature; it is an occupational hazard.

Carolyn Heilbrun

Dirty, Smoking, Hazards

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.

Bill Vaughan

Success, Goal, Hazards