Unnecessary Risk Quotes

Just because we have a button here that will put off a blast over yonder is no reason you want to put that thumb on that button.

The test is pointless. It will kill people for no reason

There's an expression: Great is the enemy of the good. Sometimes in trying to be great, you make a mess of things.

You need that guy like a giraffe needs strep throat.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

It makes no sense to pack an auditorium with 5,000 people and then tell them to keep quiet.

Never answer a hypothetical question. It gets you beyond where you want to be.

As many people have chronicled, the decision to fight in Vietnam was a years-long accretion of step-by-step choices, each of which could be rationalized at the time. Invading Iraq was an unforced, unnecessary decision to risk everything on a 'war of choice' whose costs we are still paying.

It is criminal to put our servicemen and women in harm's way and to put the lives of so many civilians on the line for the misguided frustrations of the Bush administration.

I can understand going for Botox at 45-50, when you want to keep things in place. But I don't understand 25 year olds going for Botox or under the knife. You don't require it. Your skin is fresh, young. Why would you do that to yourself?

I'm frustrated by something, it's my fault for exposing myself to it in the first place. The rumor mill always seemed like a grass fire to me. Why walk out in the middle of the field, it's just going to flame out and go away just like everything else does?

Jump into an open grave? What kind of idiot are you?" Butters replied. "I might as well put on a red shirt and volunteer for the away team. There's snow and ice and slippery mud down there. That's like asking for an ironically broken neck.

The plastic surgery issue is really looming because girls in the U.S. are getting it in their teens.

No Afghans, as far as we know, have been involved in terrorist acts against our country. We shouldn't be swatting at hornets' nests we know nothing about.

Why do you need to do a fancy cartwheel for before you hit him? It just looks stupid.

Repetition on things like that becomes quite painful. If you do a stunt sometimes it can look like a stunt.

Boxing is insane and, in my opinion, should be banned.

A lot of people criticize Formula 1 as an unnecessary risk. But what would life be like if we only did what is necessary?

What valor were it, when a cur doth grin, for one to thrust his hand between his teeth, when he might spurn him with his foot away?

Don't look for the needle in the haystack. Just buy the haystack.

There have always been a lot of critics of competitive eating. You can be a critic of anything. It's easy to be a critic. You can say negative things about golf, the amount of water wasted on golf courses. Or NASCAR. There are wastes in everything.

Just because we have made a bad commitment doesn't mean we should make the mistake of trying to carry it out.

How many times have you been on the freeway and had someone fly by you at 100 mph then end up two cars ahead of you at the off ramp? What's the point?

A girl in a bikini is like having a loaded pistol on your coffee table - There's nothing wrong with them, but it's hard to stop thinking about it.

A foolish man may be known by six things: Anger without cause, speech without profit, change without progress, inquiry without object, putting trust in a stranger, and mistaking foes for friends.