Riskiest Place Quotes & Sayings

Those who created this country chose freedom. With all of its dangers. And do you know the riskiest part of that choice they made? They actually believed that we could be trusted to make up our own minds in the whirl of differing ideas. That we could be trusted to remain free, even when there were very, very seductive voices - taking advantage of our freedom of speech - who were trying to turn this country into the kind of place where the government could tell you what you can and cannot do. — Nat Hentoff

Usually people who do bad things make good writers.I did a lot of bad things, which is why my novels are interesting. — Jakucho Setouchi

In my career quite a few people have tried to force me out, but so far no one has succeeded. — Ferdinand Piech

Story is where people go to practice the key skills of human social life. — Jonathan Gottschall

Iraq war has made us overlook domestic agenda. — Mike Huckabee

Don't follow the crowd. The side of the majority is the riskiest place to have dust thrown on your uniqueness. — Israelmore Ayivor

I presumably lost $150,000 in the depression of 1937 - on my one stock investment - because I did everything Lehman Brothers told me. I said, well, this is a fool's procedure ... buying stock in other people's businesses. — Studs Terkel

I would rather be beaten, and be a man, than to be elected and be a little puppy dog. — Davy Crockett

I don't like being lied to. — Patrick Wilson

As someone said to me
I can't remember now who it was
it is really remarkable that when you wake up in the morning you nearly always find everything in exactly the same place as the evening before. For when asleep and dreaming you are, apparently at least, in an essentially different state from that of wakefulness; and therefore, as that man truly said, it requires enormous presence of mind or rather quickness of wit, when opening your eyes to seize hold as it were of everything in the room at exactly the same place where you had let it go on the previous evening. That was why, he said, the moment of waking up was the riskiest moment of the day. Once that was well over without deflecting you from your orbit, you could take heart of grace for the rest of the day. — Franz Kafka

The Scottish government set a goal of increasing exports by 50% by 2017. That is ambitious. Is it achievable? — Tom Hunter

As a feminist, I consider the female pronoun to be an honorific, a term that conveys respect. Respect is due to women as members of a sex caste that have survived subordination and deserve to be addressed with honour. Men who transgender cannot occupy such a position. — Sheila Jeffreys

It's all about putting the best team together - not just in the front office but the players on the field. — John Elway