Famous quotes containing the words risk, free and/or rate:
“Every day, in this mostly male world, you have to figure out, Do I get this by charming somebody? By being strong? Or by totally allowing my aggression out? Youve got to risk failure. The minute you want to keep poweryouve become subservient, somebody who does work you dont believe in.”
—Paula Weinstein (b. 1945)
“Youre the emblem of
The land I love,
The home of the free and the brave.”
—George M. Cohan (18781942)
“As a novelist, I cannot occupy myself with characters, or at any rate central ones, who lack panache, in one or another sense, who would be incapable of a major action or a major passion, or who have not a touch of the ambiguity, the ultimate unaccountability, the enlarging mistiness of persons in history. History, as more austerely I now know it, is not romantic. But I am.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (18991973)