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I risked my life. -- Lech Walesa
Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience. -- John Stuart Mill
I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives to get. -- Christiane Amanpour
The masculine energy was about survival. The male was the hunter who risked his life and had to be in the fight-flight mode. -- Deepak Chopra
It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death. -- Elijah Cummings
Childbirth changed my perception of my wife. She was now the bloodied special forces soldier who had fought and risked everything for our family. -- Mohsin Hamid
Women risked their lives for the right to vote. When I hear people say, 'Oh, I'm not gonna vote,' I just wanna tear their heart out. -- Judy Gold
Each of us, having received several hundred dollars, we passed the time gloriously, spending our money freely - never thinking that our lives were risked gaining it. -- Kit Carson
It is ironic that American women now need to be fortified by the inspiration of the women of the Arab Spring, who risked so much to win basic human rights. -- Tina Brown
When I was young, it was difficult to imagine entering a world where my parents succeeded so much and I could have risked failing. It would have felt much harder. -- Isabella Rossellini
There is no glory in war, yet from the blackness of its history, there emerge vivid colours of human character and courage. Those who risked their lives to help their friends. -- Silvia Cartwright
Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper. -- Charles Mackay
The republic I fell in love with, the republic I risked my life to defend, the values I hold dear, the integrity that we all share - these do not know prejudice and they do not accept partiality. -- Allen West
Looking at America's history, ordinary people did something extraordinary. Leaders risked their lives for freedoms that we take for granted today. That's what instills confidence. That's us. We will move forward and prosper because that's who we are as Americans. -- Scott Walker
What would I have done if I'd been put to the test? Would I have risked my own life for people I hardly knew? Probably, I would have looked the other way at best or become another apologist for evil at worst. -- Lionel Blue
September 11th has produced only miniature heroes because our culture has freed itself from many of the old, dangerous, elitist fantasies of heroism... But in so doing, we have not only tamed and diminished heroes. We have risked taming and diminishing ourselves. -- Rory Stewart
I know a lot of people who are struggling musicians; it's a hard life, and I've risked being that. The rewards are tremendous now that I've made it, I thank God every day. But I put it all on the line for it. -- Kid Rock
As someone who's spent time with our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan on USO tours and met wounded warriors at Walter Reed and Bethesda, I feel a deep obligation to the men and women who have risked life and limb on our behalf. -- Al Franken
It was in the open market that we found Joe DiMaggio with the San Francisco Seals. A bad knee had scared everybody else off DiMaggio. But we risked $25,000 in cash and five players, and landed a star whom I would not sell for $250,000. -- Jacob Ruppert
At the beginning of his administration, Obama homed right in on Medicare, which he wanted to fix by reducing the overall cost of health care in this country. He risked everything - some would claim he lost everything - by being so single-minded. -- Gail Collins
My father, John Steinbeck, was a man who held human history in great reverence, and in particular the biographies of those people who had risked their lives, their fortunes, and their worldly honor to defend the rights and prerogatives of those who were powerless to defend themselves. -- Thomas Steinbeck
I think people thought I was crazy for leaving Mexico when I had any project I wanted falling at my feet. But I risked everything to come to Los Angeles, where no one knew who I was, and start all over again. It was a very hard step to take. However, it was the moment I thought it was right to take a risk in my career. -- Karla Souza
I risked much, but I made much. -- P. T. Barnum
I have risked everything to tell the truth. Tell the truth -- Maya Angelou
Regrettable was the gallantry of great men who risked themselves for others. -- Michelle Franklin
I fought windmills with such heavy weapons that I risked dislocating my arm ... -- Fanny Lewald
I risked getting my tyres nicked by going to Robbie Fowler's home in Liverpool! -- Kevin Keegan
She'd risked everything, and here was the result: the raw, warped core of her life. -- Jennifer Egan
I had risked everything and gained everything, and here I was of the world and in it. -- Maggie Stiefvater
Never have I risked my life, or even my comfort, in the service of mankind. Shame on me. -- Kurt Vonnegut
He had risked his life and now it was walking away from him, hand-in-hand with a Ruffian prince. -- William Goldman
Do not simplify. Do not worry about failure. Failure is a badge of honour. It means you risked failure. -- Charlie Kaufman
Wasn't it time she risked getting hurt again, instead of just accepting the numbness of never letting anyone in? -- Jeaniene Frost
I have seen horrible places and have risked my life, but I know that somehow God will always save me. -- Kenji Goto
If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy. -- Wally Lamb
Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience." -- John Stuart Mill
Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life. -- Herbert Otto Gille
The greatest artists like Dylan, Picasso and Newton risked failure. And if we want to be great, we've got to risk it too. -- Steve Jobs
You risked the cub? (Dev) He's not just a cub. (Aimee) You're right. He's the passenger who fell off the short bus. (Dev) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I risked my life to save lives. I'm not looking for glory. I just want people to know the truth about what happened. -- Tadeusz Borowski
I had risked everything, and I had nothing to show for it but my open hand, lying empty and palm up toward the ceiling. -- Maggie Stiefvater
Rowing it was pointed out, was a sport that risked few injuries. So it was, I ould discover, but only if you did it right. -- Barry S. Strauss
Is it true? You had a clean getaway and risked it all for me?" I Swallowed. "It wouldn't have been a clean getaway without you. -- Richelle Mead
He had risked his freedom and his pride to buy her this, to acknowledge that part of her that everyone else seemed to want to get rid of. -- Christopher Moore
Morals were too essential to the happiness of man, to be risked on the uncertain combinations of the head. Nature laid their foundation, therefore, in sentiment, not in science. -- Thomas Jefferson
Think. In a minute from now you could be saying, I risked death. I threw for life, and I won life. It is a very wonderful feeling. To have survived. -- John Fowles
I think given the choice between loving Mare - betrayal included - and never knowing her, I'd chose love. I risked, and I lost, but the risk was still worth it. -- Brandon Sanderson
Our Nation owes a lasting debt of gratitude to all those selfless members of our Armed Forces who have risked their own freedom and safety to defend the the lives and liberty of others. -- William J. Clinton
I have sacrificed my freedom and risked my life in order to expose the danger of nuclear weapons which threatens this whole region. I acted on behalf of all citizens and all of humanity. -- Mordechai Vanunu
What I know is that those who risked their lives to earn the pleasure of God are real men. They managed to rid the Islamic nation of disgrace. We hold them in the highest esteem. -- Osama bin Laden
We cannot make the Chief Law Enforcement Officer of the United States someone who has risked America's secrets and lied about this to Congress and the American people about it day after day after day. -- Chris Christie
Far from being the father of jihad, [Prophet] Mohammad was a peacemaker, who risked his life and nearly lost the loyalty of his closest companions because he was determined to effect a reconciliation with Mecca -- Karen Armstrong

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