Famous quotes containing the words absolute, risk and/or aversion:
“To be a successful father ... theres one absolute rule: when you have a kid, dont look at it for the first two years.”
—Ernest Hemingway (18991961)
“The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either a saint or a mediocrity.”
—Simone Weil (19091943)
“My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.”
—Colette [Sidonie Gabrielle Colette] (18731954)