Quotes About Risk

Marriage is too interesting an experiment to be tried only once.

Fear paralyses you - fear of flying, fear of the future, fear of leaving a rubbish marriage, fear of public speaking, or whatever it is.

Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.

The Cheesecake Factory is a great business model, but if you take your wife there for your 25th wedding anniversary, you might not reach your 26th.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.

Every one who marries goes it blind, more or less.

Marriage is a big deal, but who's to say I'm not going to pull a Vegas and get married to see what it's like for a minute?

If I ever mary, it will be on a suddn impulse - as aman shoots himself

I know what I wish Ralph Nader would investigate next. Marriage. It's not safe, it's not safe at all.

Love and marriage are wonderful arenas in which to place a character. We are most likely to risk our morals and beliefs while in love. Betrayal gives tremendous insights into a character as well.

Marriage is a risk; I think it's a great and glorious risk, as long as you embark on the adventure in the same spirit.

He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune for they are impediments to great enterprises either of virtue or mischief.

It is sometimes as dangerous to be run into by a microbe as by a trolley car.

My estimate is that about 94,000 cancer fatalities for the future are being induced with each year of medical diagnostic X-rays (in US).

Don't go to men who are willing to kill themselves driving in circles looking for normality.

I called to the other men that the sky was clearing, and then a moment later I realized that what I had seen was not a rift in the clouds but the white crest of an enormous wave.

You know, a man's life is the most precious thing in the world, isn't it? So isn't it odd that a man will insure everything but his life?

As long as there are young men with the light of adventure in their eyes and a touch of wildness in their souls, rapids will be run.

You won't find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.

Then there was the whole concept of coal mining, which is a culture unto itself, the most dangerous occupation in the world, and which draws and develops a certain kind of man.

The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure.

The greatest risk to man is not that he aims to high and misses, but that he aims to low and hits.

The supreme measure of a man, is what he would risk his life for.