A Quote by Shirley Williams

There are hazards in anything one does but there are greater hazards in doing nothing.

Shirley Williams

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Anything Does Doing Doing Nothing Greater Hazards Nothing

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Shirley Williams
British - Politician
Born: July 27, 1930

There are hazards in everything one does, but there are greater hazards in doing nothing.

Shirley Williams

In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible for the hazards.

Barry Commoner

Natural hazards, however formidable, are inherently less dangerous and less uncertain than fighting hazards. All conditions are more calculable, all obstacles more surmountable than those of human resistance.

B. H. Liddell Hart

The dignity of the act is the deliberate, circumspect, open, and serene performance by these men in the clear light of day, and by a concurrent purpose, of a civic duty, which embraced the greatest hazards to themselves and to all the people from whom they held this deputed discretion, but which, to their sober judgments, promised benefits to that people and their posterity, from generation to generation, exceeding these hazards and commensurate with its own fitness.

William M. Evarts

Exercise has its hazards. Runners are sidelined by shinsplints, freestylists by swimmer's ear, and who hasn't heard of tennis elbow? But the fitness buff of the '90s has a far greater worry. StairMaster Butt.

Jake Tapper

In countries operating a largely capitalist system, there does not appear to be a wide understanding among its actors and overseers of either its advantages or its hazards.

Edmund Phelps

Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.

Sam Snead

A friend is worth all hazards we can run.

Edward Young

Every job carries occupational hazards.

Ryan Holiday

Impotence is one of the major hazards of cigarette smoking.

Loni Anderson

Sweden rejected fluoridation in the 1970s, and in this excellent book these three scientists have confirmed the wisdom of that decision. Our children have not suffered greater tooth decay, as World Health Organization figures attest, and in turn our citizens have not borne the other hazards fluoride may cause