Anthony Giddens Quotes

Apocalypse has become banal, a set of statistical risk parameters to everyone's existence.

Anthony Giddens

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• Almost anything worth doing involves some measure of risk - from learning to ride a bike, moving to a new city, and certainly, starting your own business. The point is that no one has ever started a business or created a new product with a guarantee of success.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Business
  • Success
  • City

• I wouldn't trivialize my existence into a hashtag.

  

  Halsey
  • Existence

• I definitely had a hard time leaving for college because I'm not much of a risk-taker.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Time
  • College
  • Risk

• You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Together
  • Opportunity
  • Risk

• Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Life
  • Live
  • Family

• Cinema is a thankless industry where sometimes to appear on the cinematic scenery is a thing for late bloomers and people who are very patient. The places are accounted, and the space is often unwelcoming. Money is rare, and independent voices are muted by the almost complete absence of risk takers.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • People
  • Money
  • Space

• To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Power
  • Wisdom
  • Existence

• I think the potential for the program at the risk of sounding self-serving is large, some would say even limitless, so I'm excited about it and I think it can even pass next year.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Risk
  • Year
  • Potential

• I love the business of business; I love the risk raking.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Love
  • Business
  • Risk

• I'm reluctantly interested in love and helplessly interested in logic and yet they're so conflicting. And they're both necessary for a happy balance, a happy existence... I think.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Balance

• Facts are, insurance ratings are really dependent on the notion that some people are higher risk than others.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • People
  • Risk
  • Insurance

• I’m just giving of my body on the stage and putting my life at risk, literally. ... And I think about it. I think about my family and I’m like, wow, this is like being a police officer or something, in war or something.

  

  Kanye West
  • Life
  • Family
  • War

• 'Are you sure,' she asked, 'that it is God whom you serve?' The Cardinal looked up, met her eyes and smiled very gently. 'That,' he said, 'that, Madame, is a risk which the artists and the priests of this world have to run!'

  

  Karen Blixen
  • World
  • God
  • Risk

• ‘Oh Brancepeth,’ said the girl, her voice trembling, ‘why haven’t you any money? If only you had the merest pittance - enough for a flat in Mayfair and a little weekend place in the country somewhere and a couple of good cars and a villa in the South of France and a bit of trout fishing on some decent river, I would risk all for love.’

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Good
  • Country
  • Money

• Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. The study of this Book is forbidden. It is wise to destroy this copy after the first reading. Whosoever disregards this does so at his own risk and peril. These are most dire.

  

  Aleister Crowley
  • Book
  • Law
  • Reading

• There will always be a measure of calculated risk-taking in manufacturing fame, especially in a deeply divided political climate.

  

  Elaine Welteroth
  • Political
  • Risk

• I have learned that nothing is certain except for the need to have strong risk management, a lot of cash, the willingness to invest even when the future is unclear, and great people.

  

  Jeffrey R. Immelt
  • People
  • Great
  • Future

• What I try to do as an actor is constantly find that, find ways to risk, find opportunities to fall on my face if it's going to be worth it, and then maybe I'll surprise myself.

  

  Jeremy Irons
  • Fall
  • Risk

• When given age-appropriate challenges, children tend to take them very seriously; in fact, the more obvious the risk is, the more cautiously a child will proceed.

  

  Darell Hammond
  • Children
  • Age
  • Risk

• There's a big shift in our whole way of living, and it started maybe 10 years ago when smartphones came into existence. Up until then, we were at the mercy of the press, and so-called experts that would tell us what to think and how to think.

  

  Tommy Chong
  • Way
  • Existence
  • Experts

• I said to myself, we must die. Sooner or later, we must disappear forever from the face of the earth. Whatever be the links that hold us to life, they must be broken. This scene of existence is, in all its parts, calamitous.

  

  Charles Brockden Brown
  • Earth
  • Forever
  • Broken

• I don't see democracy getting better. I see democracy diminishing. More rules, more legislation. Eventually governments will see everything.

  

  Taki Theodoracopulos
  • Democracy
  • Better
  • Rules

• Jacques Derrida is a very important thinker and philosopher who has made serious contributions to both philosophy and literary criticism. Roland Barthes is the one I feel most affinity for, and Michel Foucault, well, his writing influenced my novel, 'Middlesex.'

  

  Jeffrey Eugenides
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Serious

• Apocalypse has become banal, a set of statistical risk parameters to everyone's existence.

  

  Anthony Giddens
  • Risk
  • Existence
  • Apocalypse