Uncalculated Risk Quotes & Sayings

Miranda Sawyer had a heart, of course, but she had never used it for any other purpose than the pumping and circulating of blood. — Kate Douglas Wiggin

I used to have a gym in the house. I thought that was a fantastic luxury. — Lyor Cohen

A flash of enlightenment offers a preview of coming attractions, but when it fades, you will see more clearly what separates you from that state - your compulsive habits, outmoded beliefs, false associations, and other mental structures. Just when our lives are starting to get better, we may feel like things are getting worse - because for the first time we see clearly what needs to be done. — Dan Millman

Not only was cleanliness next to Godliness, dirtiness was the inventor of misery. — Maya Angelou

They often told others, they were too busy laughing together to have any time to argue. — Nicholas Sparks

You can really do some clever editing even within the limited two-track format. — Dick Latvala

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another? — Thomas Jefferson

In the end, forgetting is nothing but turning a page in the book of life. It may seem an easy matter, but as long as you can't tear it, you will keep on stumbling upon it between each season of your life. — Nizar Qabbani

I think fiction is about small ambition, small failed ambition. — Ethan Canin

Our greatest resource is the human resource. — Mal Fletcher

But you know what you are, and what you deserve. You lie to me but not to yourself. That's why I love you. — Rosamund Hodge

We prefer to think that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has forgotten its source. — Clifton Fadiman

There be delights that will fetch the day about from sun to sun and rock the tedious year as in a delightful dream ... For a garden is Arcady brought home. It is man's bit of gaudy make-believe - his well-disguised fiction of an unvexed Paradise ... a world where gayety knows no eclipse and winter and rough weather are held at bay. — J. D. Sedding

The only way to make beauty ugly is to show it's crazy. Like twisting the top off a jar of something wonderful to eat, the moment he's hit by the terrible smell of it gone bad, even the hungriest person will drop the jar in the trash without a second thought. — Jonathan Carroll