#hazard

I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#abroad #art #art of war #course #fight

You look beautiful and tragic, just the way a heroine should on the eve of battle. Like Joan of Arc in her silver armor. ↗

— Melissa de la Cruz

#gates-of-paradise #melissa-de-la-cruz #oliver-hazard-perry #tragic #warrior

Know this, Hazard,” he edged out, ignoring Hazard’s enthusiastic glare. “I’ll kick your ass if you piss me off any more.” Jesse paused, as if imagining the scene, then added with childish spite, “Oh, and I’ll laugh too.” “Give me a cigarette burn while you’re at it?” “Just shut up. Your attempt at sarcasm makes me want to barf.” “Good, I’m glad. ↗

— J.R. Lenk

#imagination

Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate. ↗

— Alvin Toffler

#also #effects #hazards #increase #our

In the case of the armies at Fredericksburg it would have been, to say the least, very hazardous to give counter-attack, the Federal position being about as strong as ours from which we had driven them back. ↗

— James Longstreet

#armies #back #been #being #case

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

#deal #few #great #great deal #hazard

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#conflicting #evaluation #genius #hazardous #information

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

#enterprises #expect #few #great #had

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

#best #comedy #comic #doing #easy

Yet the march toward freedom is not without its hazards or its casualties and the threats of violence aimed at Iraqis who participate in the election will be dealt with accordingly. ↗

— Jim Gerlach

#aimed #casualties #dealt #election #freedom