Overcaution Quotes

#1. The person who takes no chances generally must take whatever is left over after others have finished choosing. Overcaution is as bad, if not worse, than lack of caution. Both should be avoided. Life will always contain an element of chance. Not to win is not a sin. But not to try is a tragedy.

Venita VanCaspel

#2. Society presses upon us all the time. The progress of the last half century is the progress of the frog out of his well.

R.K. Narayan

#3. It's like every day is the worst day of your life. And you're trapped and you're scared and you have to portray those emotions in every take and really take yourself to those places. (about her role as an abused wife in ENOUGH.

Jennifer Lopez

#4. I'd like another child, and maybe if it doesn't work out, I'll adopt.

Courteney Cox

#5. Poetry is not easy. Or should I say, real poetry is not easy.

Robert Pinsky

#6. Were it only to learn benevolence to humankind, we should be merciful to other creatures.

Plutarch

#7. Oh God." I lost the ability to speak under such glorious torture. "He won't help you, Cleo. Might as well implore my name instead.

Pepper Winters

#8. At its most fundamental, language is an act of shared attention, and without the fundamentally human willingness to listen to what another person is saying, language would not work.

Christine Kenneally