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Quotes About Risk

Love must risk all or perish.
~ Anthony Ryan, Blood Song
The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.
~ Joseph Heller, Catch-22
The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.
~ Sun Tzu, The Art of War
You gotta admit, it's a messed-up world when going to war is safer than staying home.
~ Paul Langan, The Fallen
Like war, love - all kinds of love - is for men who can take it. If they dare.
~ Ensan Case, Wingmen
Risk is the factor of a stratagem measured by what man is powerless to control.
~ Mike Norton, White Mountain
The only thing worse than a Mexican Stand Off is a Peace Pact that Fails!
~ Stanley Victor Paskavich
I decided to start a war, father", I said, cheerfully, "it's so much more interesting than peace.
~ Bernard Cornwell
Hell, any game that gives its players guns is probably not the kind that'll ever really let you go free.
~ Jeanne Ryan, Nerve
When you start a fire, be to windward of it. Do not attack from the leeward.
~ Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Cigarettes are called coffin nails for a reason, Billy Boy, " I remembered telling him. "Be careful with those things. You're risking your life.
~ Cat Winters, The Uninvited
Courage is the counterpoint of fear. Courage appears when in war or business, one is indeed scared.
~ G.R. Gopinath
Danger has a bracing effect.
~ Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Well, in war, you can only be killed once. But in politics, many times.
~ Winston S. Churchill
Luck often comes to those who are brave.
~ Kateryna Kei, Raven Boy
Even the bravest of us loath war, and those who long for it are the most dangerous.
~ Emory R. Frie, Heart of a Lion
But I will never ask anyone from our village-from any village in Tlanth-to risk his or her life unless I'm willing to myself.
~ Sherwood Smith, Crown Duel
But in case signals can neither be seen or perfectly understood no captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside the enemy.
~ Horatio Nelson
When a woman gets married it is like jumping into a hole in the ice in the middle of winter: you do it once and you remember it the rest of your days.
~ Maxim Gorky
Never get married in the morning, because you never know who you'll meet that night.
~ Paul Hornung
Getting married is like putting one's hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
~ Thomas More
To marry is the biggest risk in human relations that a person can take.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough.
~ Mario Andretti
The most important thing in life is to dare. The most complicated thing in life is to be afraid. The smartest thing in the world is to try to be a moral person.
~ Shimon Peres