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We've created an impression that life is risk-free, and it's not.
ALASTAIR WOOD A risk-free life is far from being a healthy life.
DEEPAK CHOPRA Life is an audition.
THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL I have not met my client, but this is the impression that I get because of the media blitz created.
ELLIOT M. WEINSTEIN Happiness is created and not found, it's a state of mind and in its best form, it stands independent...
JAEDA DEWALT Basically if you study entrepreneurs, there is a misnomer: People think that entrepreneurs take risk...
MOHNISH PABRAI Life is a risk.
CARMELO ANTHONY Mastery over the body - its impulses, its needs, its size - is paramount; to lose control is to risk...
CAROLINE KNAPP A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest.
THOMAS HARDY Weve had some moral victories this season. Weve had one-goal losses against teams that did a number ...
EVA LANG We... are not really free if we can't control our own government and its policies. And we will never...
CHARLEY REESE The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth: and he that is wise will not abhor them. Was not t...
BIBLE They have distorted, they have omitted and they have created a profoundly erroneous impression.
NICOLE SELIGMAN You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belie...
HARRY S TRUMAN The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance; it is not neutral, nor ...
VICTOR HUGO The impression sometimes created among the public is that scientists are working away in their labs,...
JENNIFER DOUDNA Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as s...
ANDREW JACKSON This is not an uncommon impression and one finds it sometimes among Jews as well as Christians--that...
RABBI BOKSER It's not the things that you accumulate in life that people will remember you by; it's the gifts you...
SCOTTIE SOMERS Life without risk is not worth living.
CHUCK LINDBERGH You never leave yourself as an impression upon the world. The world always leaves its impression upo...
LUJAN MATUS Tragedy dramatizes human life as potentiality and fulfillment. Its virtual future, or Destiny, is th...
SUSANNE K. LANGER For so I created them free and free they must remain.
JOHN MILTON We try to teach them how to make a presentation so that it's valuable to people, so they deliver a m...
ALASTAIR WOOD I thought my Beatles LPs sounded pretty good on a record player, but that was before I had heard a C...
ALASTAIR WOOD I think we need to think beyond the issue of absolute risk.
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ALASTAIR WOOD Even then, Vanderbilt was the premiere place for clinical pharmacology.
ALASTAIR WOOD A generation of arrogance. We didn't trust anyone over 30. We believed we could fix all the prejudic...
ALASTAIR WOOD and that risk is not trivial.
ALASTAIR WOOD There's no evidence they are a good value,
ALASTAIR WOOD It seems improbable to me that ... politics hasn't trumped science here, which is a tragedy,
ALASTAIR WOOD I dont really think its all that settled yet, ... Weve got a good group of guys, though. Im sure eve...
AARON KATZ We find little in these results to indicate that the group is addressing the dearth of late-stage pi...
JEREMY BATSTONE To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it.
JEANETTE WINTERSON My kids are not known, and I think that is very important. So far they have lived a normal life, and...
MICHAEL SCHUMACHER In the under-wood and the over-wood
There is murmur and trill this day,
For every bird is in l...
CLINTON SCOLLARD The very success of the internet itself is due to its openness, equality of opportunity and innovati...
ARZAK KHAN Everyone's got an intuition about the risk of everyday life. We thought, 'Wouldn't it be great if we...
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PATRICK LUSSIER Race is the San Andreas Fault of our culture as well as our history. Its fissures are forever presen...
MIKE BARNICLE The greatest risk in life is not taking one.
EDDIE RAKOSKY It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER It created its own firestorm, it got so hot,
WILLIAM DONAHUE Despite the impression created by some economic pundits, the U.S. economy is not a delicate little m...
EDWARD C. PRESCOTT You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created ...
JOEL OSTEEN Life is to make an IMPACT, its not only to make INCOME
SIVAPRAKASH SIDHU SIVAPRAKASH G SIVAPRAKASH GOPAL, SIVAPRAKASH SIDHU, SIVAPRAKASH SIDHU I understand how a first impression is often just that: a quick snapshot that, on its own merit, is ...
ADRIANA TRIGIANI Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as s...
ANDREW JACKSON Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as s...
ANDREW JACKSON To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, bu...
NEIL GAIMAN I don't think they're bringing anyone in free agency unless someone falls through the cracks. My imp...
MIKE MCCARTNEY It's been interesting, in a little bit less than nine months weve gone from trying to convince peopl...
JOHN HOGAN Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, ...
SOURCE UNKNOWN But despite the fact that life is full of risk, yet without taking risk, we stand a greater risk.
SUNDAY ADELAJA My impression is that he's an extraordinarily well-respected and, indeed, a tough and aggressive pro...
BERNARD HARCOURT The risk is that China does not slow its steel production as much as we expect and if that is the ca...
ALAN HEAP Whenever you are sad and confined, be dare not to run away from reality. But rather be a bird free f...
LAURE96 Verily it is a foolish thought that they both have devised, for the ground is given unto the wood, a...
COMPTON GAGE I believe that we can create a poverty-free world because poverty is not created by poor people. It ...
MUHAMMAD YUNUS An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds,...
HAROLD LOUKES I saw a lot of men die there. Most men. Do you know what killed them?”…”Despair,” said Finne...
LOUISE PENNY Abraham Lincoln because he was a man filled with great compassion who believed that all men are crea...
SIDNEY SHELDON Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.
PAUL TILLICH AHC trades at an 18% discount to its peers ... which we believe is wide enough to compensate investo...
JENNIFER ROWLAND Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but ...
ANDREW JACKSON A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring somethin...
FRANZ KAFKA Impression once created it's difficult to maintain it but once lost it's more difficult to regain it...
KHILAN RAMANI “ In the end of life, you will be judge by your results, not by process and efforts. You could lef...
DR. SHAILESH THAKER I think when you suggest that civil liberties are just as much at risk today as the country is from ...
MICHAEL O'HANLON The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different;...
DAVID RIESMAN Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature tha...
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE The purpose of life is to obey the hidden command which ensures harmony among all and creates an eve...
MARIA MONTESSORI Who first invented work, and bound the free
And holyday-rejoicing spirit down . . .
To that dr...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) There is an environmental and health risk that could occur.
GERRY ACUNA Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the ...
DENIS WAITLEY I have been very impressed with Alastair, but this won't be a presidential decision.
JEFF KENNETT The rate increase were seeing for Unitil customers is the largest increase weve seen in electric rat...
ANNE ROSS What we've created is not just a room with funny lights, but we've created an encounter that is desi...
JOHN ANASTOS Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was ...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
an...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW A miser is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles all its life.
VIKRANT PARSAI Life is a play. It's not its length, but its performance that counts.
SENECA Are they committed to change? The answer is no. They have to give the impression of free and fair el...
HISHAM KASSEM “World love your professional success. People are ready to omit your personal life matter, of cour...
DR. SHAILESH THAKER The way to get the risk down is to use hands-free.
KJELL MILD I shall be telling this with a sigh - Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, a...
ROBERT FROST The fact that there are non-criminal aliens in the country does not mean that they are Scot-free. An...
CARL RUSNOK The political problems in Zimbabwe created an opportunity for Zambia to boost its tourism.
IGNATIUS CHICHA He that is afraid of leaves, goes not to the wood.
GEORGE HERBERT Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
KATHERINE F. GEROULD Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
KATHARINE ELIZABETH FULLERTON GEROULD Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
KATHERINE F. GEROULD We had many books and pictures... my parents' way of life doubtless left a lasting impression on...
ALFRED STIEGLITZ We are sorry about the way things turned out. We gave, in the phrasing of our words if not literally...
ANDERS NILSEN No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his body - to risk his well-being - t...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The nature of psychological compulsion is such that those who act under constraint remain under the ...
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BEATRICE WOOD And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and no...
BEATRICE WOOD A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
BEATRICE WOOD There's so much more to life than that, though I think that acting is fascinating because you ca...
BEATRICE WOOD Sex is energy.
BEATRICE WOOD I was in a convent for a year.
BEATRICE WOOD I happen to believe that there is an afterlife.
BEATRICE WOOD And several galleries - two had asked me and I said no, because I didn't want to leave things on...
BEATRICE WOOD First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me w...
BEATRICE WOOD Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
BEATRICE WOOD But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very domin...
BEATRICE WOOD Over and over I'm on the point of giving it up.
BEATRICE WOOD Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.
BEATRICE WOOD And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
BEATRICE WOOD I don't like to sell my finest pieces.
BEATRICE WOOD And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.
BEATRICE WOOD My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.
BEATRICE WOOD We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artis...
ED WOOD Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now...
ED WOOD Yes, but if you take that crap and put a star in it, then you've got something.
ED WOOD He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.
ED WOOD This story's gonna grab people. It's about this guy, he's crazy about this girl, but he ...
ED WOOD Really? Worst film you ever saw. Well, my next one will be better. Hello. Hello.
ED WOOD It's not a monster movie. It's a supernatural thriller.
ED WOOD We shot ten minutes of the movie, and now we're looking for completion funds.
ED WOOD