Sentences with phrase «risks making fools of»

«Many a man is praised for his reserve and so - called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.»

People like me just don't do things like that and, when I talked to my wife Yvette, I thought she'd tell me not to risk making a fool of myself.

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«If you're not making more than you would at a job, I think you're a fool because of the additional responsibility and risk,» Green says.

Neo-orthodox theology — though not it alone — created men skilled in avoiding unprofitable commitments, careful about risks, very wise in seeing how not to make fools of themselves.

I say that because Sanchez will have a difficult choice to make: If no one improves our offer (assuming there is one) before the window closes and he chooses to play his contract out he runs the risk of having a serious injury midway through the season which will reduce his ability to get the kind of five year contract I am sure he is hoping for, where as if he accepts ours he is safe for the next, extremely important and perhaps the last five years of his playing career but one thing is sure and I say it again only a fool would sign before exploring all the possibilities and that in itself made and makes it impossible for the club to have «made» him sign earlier.

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And unless you're Druckenmiller et al, thinking you can successfully bob and weave in & out of the markets is fool's gold — almost inevitably, the real «money is made by sitting, not trading», so long as you always keep a weather eye open for over-leveraged risk - taking (nope), an irrationally exuberant public (nope), and totally insane valuations (um, pockets!?).

BUDA and CryptoMKT warn that the current approach has put Chile, normally seen as the South American country most friendly to finance and technology, out of step with the international community and that it risks «making a fool out of itself».

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor walk too wise: If you can dream — and not make dreams your master; If you can think — and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two imposters just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build»em up with worn - out tools: If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch - and - toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the WILL which says to them: «Hold On!»