Famous quotes containing the words absolute, risk and/or aversion:
“Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil—or else an absolute ignorance.”
—Graham Greene (1904–1991)
“The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.”
—Carolyn Heilbrun (b. 1926)
“Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)