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The house burned an hour before midnight on the last day of April. The wild, distant ringing of the fire bells woke George Hazard. He stumbled through the dark hallway, then upstairs to the mansion tower, and stepped outside into the narrow balcony. -- John Jakes
Eden Hazard is a great player. He has magic -- Frank Lampard
Hazard not your wealth on a poor man's advice. -- Juan Manuel, Prince of Villena
The lovely Hazard girls', they used to call them. Huh. Lovely is as lovely does; if they looked like what they behave like, they'd frighten little children. -- Angela Carter
The very condition of Woman is so subject to Hazard, so complex, and so grievous, that to place her at one moment is but to displace her at the next. -- Djuna Barnes
Henry York, aka Whimpering Child, aka WC (hair sample included), is hereby identified as Enemy, Hazard, and Human Mishap to all faeren in all districts, in all ways, and in all worlds. -- N.D. Wilson
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Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife. -- Queen Victoria
When you are an actor, rejection and disappointment are an occupational hazard. -- David Morrissey
Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard. -- Mary McCarthy
As we try to make the financial system safer, we must inevitably confront the problem of moral hazard. -- Ben Bernanke
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We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard. -- Voltaire
Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them. -- Samuel Johnson
Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake. -- E. L. Doctorow
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. -- Frederick Douglass
As a rule, anything that is pretty you avoid when on an expedition in the polar extremes. Normally anything other than white means a hazard such as a crevasse. -- Ranulph Fiennes
What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed? -- James Madison
Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste? -- David R. Brower
Coming into a game in the eighth or ninth inning is like parachuting behind enemy lines. And sometimes the chute doesn't open. You have to live with that. It's an occupational hazard. -- Dan Quisenberry
Those of us who are today prepared to hazard our lives for the cause would regret having raised a finger, if we were able to organize only a new social system and not a more righteous one. -- Theodor Herzl
Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it: it is not to the action that it is due, but to the manner of performing it. -- Akhenaton
I have been heartbroken once and it has affected all my relationships from there on. But now I look at it as a occupational hazard. If you are in the meat market at some point you are gonna get mad cows disease. -- Dominic Monaghan
I never worry about people not taking my work seriously as a result of the humor. In the end, the comic's best trick is the illusion that comedy is effortless. That people imagine what he's doing is easy is an occupational hazard. -- Richard Russo
It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few. -- Pythagoras
My first years on tour, I tried to be super professional by considering the yardages to every feature and hazard. Over time my caddie and I noticed I play better when we keep it simple. Think about the distance you want the ball to fly, and only that number. -- Rickie Fowler
I worked in television; I'm the Failed Pilot Queen, I've done so many television shows, pilots, theater ... when you do it for so long, I'm telling you, you get to the point where it becomes varied because you take what's available for a number of reasons. It's just an occupational hazard. -- Viola Davis
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 Simmons
You can't swing with hesitation; you can't try to steer the ball to the flag; you can't worry about that water hazard as you take the club back. You have to pick the right club, visualize the shot you want to hit, and then focus on that shot until the ball is gone. -- Keegan Bradley
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
Reckless adventure is the fool's hazard. -- Tacitus
To worry is to add another hazard. -- Amelia Earhart
Feeling inadequate is an occupational hazard of motherhood. -- Harriet Lerner
He always considered death an unavoidable professional hazard. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He always considered death an unavoidable professional hazard. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The chief occupational hazard of leadership is pride. -- John Stott
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The greatest hazard in life is to risk NOTHING. -- William Arthur Ward
My occupational hazard is my occupation's just not around... -- Jimmy Buffett
The prime occupational hazard of a manager is superficiality. -- Henry Mintzberg
Obviously this person's a hazard. Stupid people are dangerous. -- Suzanne Collins
The world began in hazard and will end in it. -- John Fowles
Man has become our greatest hazard, and our only hope. -- John Steinbeck
Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming; feedback is the treatment. -- Kent Beck
Incoherence is a common hazard for journalists who dabble in ethical judgments. -- Andrew Ferguson
To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom. -- William Penn
My occupational hazard is that I can't help plagiarizing from real life. -- Mary McCarthy
A writer's occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business. -- Barbara Kingsolver
United thoughts and counsels, equal hope And hazard in the glorious enterprise. -- John Milton
I permit to speak at every hazard, Nature without check with original energy -- Walt Whitman
Knowledge is always two-edged. For every benefit, there is hazard. For every good, evil. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
The main health hazard in the world today is people who don't love themselves. -- Kinky Friedman
Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. -- Leo Buscaglia
The hazard of confessional books is how fast the world moves on while they're written. -- Tina Brown
Taking pleasure in the dark side may be some sort of occupational hazard for reporters. -- Calvin Trillin
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You might be a redneck if every electrical outlet in your house is a fire hazard. -- Jeff Foxworthy
A tendency to make metaphorical connections is an occupational hazard for those of us who write. -- Alice McDermott
There is no plan. All is hazard. And the only thing that will preserve us is ourselves. -- John Fowles
I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die. -- William Shakespeare
There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard. The fearful are the failing. -- Sarah Josepha Hale
An author places himself uncalled before the tribunal of criticism and solicits fame at the hazard of disgrace. -- Samuel Johnson
The occupational hazard of being a Playboy Bunny is the aching facial muscles brought on by obligatory smiles. -- Germaine Greer
One of the many hazards of socializing with vampires. It makes you smell bad. A minor hazard, comparatively. -- Stephenie Meyer
To be sick and helpless is a humiliating experience. Prolonged illness also carries the hazard of narcissistic self-absorption. -- Richard Hofstadter
Wars do not end wars any more than an extraordinarily large conflagration does away with the fire hazard. -- Henry Ford
A great man knows the value of greatness; he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it. -- Walter Savage Landor
Where thought is free in its range, we need never fear to hazard what is good in itself. -- Thomas Jefferson
The diver plunges deep to find pearls, and we must accept any labor or hazard to win a soul -- Charles Spurgeon
I consider C++ the most significant technical hazard to the survival of your project and do so without apologies. -- Alistair Cockburn
Men that hazard all Do it in hope of fair advantages: A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross. -- William Shakespeare
Some have won a wild delight,By daring wilder sorrow;Could I gain thy love to-night,I'd hazard death to-morrow. -- Charlotte Bronte
I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and independent denizens. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
In medical practice, there are few surgical procedures given so little attention and so underrated in its potential hazard as abortion. -- Warren Hern
The work you are treating is one full of dangerous hazard, and you are treading over fires lurking beneath treacherous ashes. -- Horace
When your shot has to carry over a water hazard, you can either hit one more club or two more balls. -- Henry Beard
Being pregnant is a very boring six months. I am not particularly maternal. It's an occupational hazard of being a wife. -- Anne, Princess Royal
I waive the quantum o' the sin, The hazard of concealing; But, och! it hardens a' within, And petrifies the feeling! -- Robert Burns
Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable -- Miguel de Cervantes
Calling noise a nuisance is like calling smog an inconvenience. Noise must be considered a hazard to the health of people everywhere. -- William H. Stewart
It is not Justice the servant of men, but accident, hazard, Fortune-the ally of patient Time-that holds an even and scrupulous balance. -- Joseph Conrad
Ratings agencies are highly conflicted, unimaginative dupes. They are blissfully unaware of adverse selection and moral hazard. Investors should never trust them. -- Seth Klarman
No religion is a true religion that does not make men tingle to their finger tips with a sense of infinite hazard. -- William Ernest Hocking
There is always hazard in military activity, but we must decide between the positive loss of inactivity and the risk of action. -- Robert E. Lee
The occupational hazard of making a spectacle of yourself, over the long haul, is that at some point you buy a ticket too. -- Thomas McGuane
It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth. -- Ally Carter
Mankind, I hazard, wherever found, Civilized or Savage, cannot keep to any purpose for much length of time, except the purpose of destroying himself. -- Jeanette Winterson
We are one with God and He loves us. Now if that isn't a hazard to this country-How're we gonna keep building nuclear weapons? -- Bill Hicks
One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost. -- Natalie Morales
No matter how loud the sirens or how numerous the hazard signs, we all touch the flames at least once to prove they're hot. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
I can tell you that second hand smoke is not a health hazard to anyone and never was, and the EPA has always known it. -- Michael Crichton
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From sunny woof and cloudy weft Fell rain in sheets; so, to myself I hummed these hazard rhymes, and left The learned volume on the shelf. -- Alfred Austin
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
I've lost balls in every hazard and on every course I've tried. But when I lose a ball in the ball washer, it's time to take stock. -- Milt Gross
It is an occupational hazard of devout folk to become stuffy bores. This should not be. Of all people, we should be the most free, alive, interesting. -- Richard J. Foster
I've come off horses and fought in medieval battles using axes, hammers and swords as well as fists. Getting your teeth knocked out is an occupational hazard. -- James Cosmo
The current lack of a national standard for operators of medical imaging and radiation therapy equipment poses a hazard to American patients and jeopardizes quality health care. -- Charles W. Pickering
People think they're making individual decisions for themselves and their family not to get vaccinated. It's not just an individual choice - you're a hazard to society. -- Craig Venter
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I have known men to hazard their fortunes, go long journeys halfway about the world, forget friendships, even lie, cheat, and steal, all for the gain of a book. -- A. S. W. Rosenbach
I work in my office on the campus of the University of Texas. It's the sort of place described as 'book-lined', but it's recently tipped over into 'fire-hazard' territory. -- Elizabeth McCracken
If I hazard a guess as to the most endemic, prevalent anxiety among human beings-including fear of death, abandonment, loneliness-nothing is more prevalent than the fear of one another. -- R. D. Laing
The difference between a sand trap and water hazard is the difference between a car crash and an airplane crash. You have a chance of recovering from a car crash. -- Bobby Jones
Sometimes the critics will like a film, and the public doesn't come. Sometimes the critics won't like the film, and the public will come. It's completely spontaneous. It's a hazard. -- Woody Allen
Those with health insurance are overinsured and their behavior is distorted by moral hazard. Those without health insurance use their own money to make decisions based on an assessment of -- Malcolm Gladwell
A true friend is distinguished in the crisis of hazard and necessity; when the gallantry of his aid may show the worth of his soul and the loyalty of his heart. -- Quintus Ennius
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For God's sake, let's take the word 'possess' and put a brick round its neck and drown it ... We can't possess one another. We can only give and hazard all we have. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
Nazi Germany was so destructive to Judaism not only for the loss of life, but because many who survived began to see the practice of Judaism as somewhat of a health hazard. -- Jon Stewart
We ought to deprecate the hazard attending ardent and susceptible minds, from being too strongly, and too early prepossessed in favor of other political systems, before they are capable of appreciating their own. -- George Washington
My teacher, Hopkins, often commented on the craving for certainty that led so many physicists into mysticism or into the Church and similar organisations ... Faith seems to be an occupational hazard for physicists. -- Norman Pirie
Every man that has felt pain knows how little all other comforts can gladden him to whom health is denied. Yet who is there does not sometimes hazard it for the enjoyment of an hour? -- Samuel Johnson

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