Quotes About Risk

What? Men dodging this way for single bullets? What will you do when they open fire along the whole line? I am ashamed of you. They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance.

One should never risk one's whole fortune unless supported by one's entire forces.

As a civilian during the Second War, I was exposed to danger in circumstances which removed any distinction between the man in and the man out of uniform.

The diversity is the risk of war, the necessity of diversity is mutual respect

We need not risk our national honor to prevail in this or any war.

It is much better to tempt fortune where it can favor you than to see your certain ruin by not tempting it.

A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.

The fortune of war is always doubtful.

Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.

In war, groping tactics, half-way measures, lose everything.

In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.

A man's idee in a card game is war

Climate change is a result of the greatest market failure the world has seen...We risk damages on a scale larger than the two world wars of the last century.

The automobile is the most dangerous weapon in our society - cars kill more than wars do.

War may be an auction for countries. For soldiers it's a lottery.

There's never any guarantee at war.

I never believed in the danger of a third world war.

Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.

Were it good To set the exact wealth of all our states All at one cast? to set so rich a main On the nice hazard of one doubtful hour? It were not good.

We Americans know - although others appear to forget - the risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war.

Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire; or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun.

I can't tell him I need him. I can't need him, period -- or really, we can't need each other, because who knows how long either of us will last in this war?

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

May be you find out I could be useful getting people out of camps and prisons in Germany - just before they got shot. I should love to do it and I like to jump out of a plane even every day.