Quotes for All
Eating a lot is an occupational hazard but it’s a pretty great problem to have. I spend a lot of time eating sweets on TV – cake, cupcakes, donuts, and pudding. It’s a dream job, but at the same time there will be days where I wake up knowing I will eat 15 desserts! Gail … Read more
He always considered death an unavoidable professional hazard. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
What, did you think, she asked, laughing as he struggled up the bank, that I, a Gaulish maiden, could not swim? I did not think anything about it, Malchus said; I saw you pushed in and followed without thinking at all. Although they imperfectly understood each other’s words the meaning was clear; the girl put … Read more
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
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
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 … Read more
A friend is worth all hazards we can run. Edward Young
The fullness of life is in the hazards of life. Edith Hamilton
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. Edith Hamilton
Although there are real hazards in saying yes to life, they are inconsequential when compared to the regrets that come with saying \”no\”. Eda LeShan