Quotes About Risk

Lonely people could make terrible mistakes if they weren't careful. She'd been careful for too long to risk it now.

Bir t?rmanma kazas?nda hayati bir tehlikeye girince, o anda tek bir duyguya kap?lm??t?m: Kazadan saÄŸ m? kurtulaca??m, yoksa kafatas? parçalanm?? vs. ÅŸekilde yaralanm?? olarak m? ç?kaca??m konusunda yoÄŸun bir merak.

Insofar as a sacrifice is calculated, performed after careful reckoning of the prospects of its bringing about a desired end, it loses all ethical significance. Real sacrifice occurs only when we run the risk of having sacrificed in vein. Would anyone maintain that a person who plunges into the water to save someone has acted less ethically, or unethically, because both are drowned?

JALALABAD, AFGHANISTAN THE four dead men were lined up on the living room floor of the safe house. Mitch Rapp started with the one on the left. The bearded face, the dark, lifeless eyes, and the dime-sized bullet hole

chemistry experiments where you started pouring different things into a beaker knowing full well there would be an explosion, and ultimately a mess to clean up.

People with good lives are hesitant to jeopardize them. People who have nothing, on the other hand, are often no better than wild animals." She nodded and took

He apparently wasn't wearing a seat belt and the part of his brain you'd want to communicate with is still on the inside of the windshield.

Hug the shore; let others try the deep.

Fortune favors those who dare.

Dextrum Scylla latus, laevum implacata Charybdis obsidet, atque imo barathri ter gurgite vastos sorbet in abruptum fluctus, rursusque sub auras erigit alternos et sidera verberat unda.

Quid Syrtes aut Scylla mihi, quid vasta Charybdis profuit?

In human affairs there is no room for certainty

Whenever you see a board up with Trespassers will be prosecuted, trespass at once.

For if it is rash to walk into a lion's den unarmed, rash to navigate the Atlantic in a rowing boat, rash to stand on one foot on top of St. Paul's, it is still more rash to go home alone with a poet.

For if it is rash to walk into a lion's den unarmed, rash to navigate the Atlantic in a rowing boat, rash to stand on one foot on the top of St Paul's, it is still more rash to go home alone with a poet. A poet is Atlantic and lion in one. While one drowns us the other gnaws us. If we survive the teeth, we succumb to the waves. A man who can destroy illusions is both beast and flood.

For if it is rash to walk into a lion's den unarmed, rash to navigate the Atlantic in a rowing boat, rash to stand on one foot on the top of St Paul's, it is still more rash to go home alone with a poet

What one would expect to find would be that rather later perhaps some great lady would take advantage of her comparative freedom and comfort to publish something with her name to it and risk being thought a monster.

Siempre le había parecido muy peligroso, terriblemente peligroso, vivir, aunque fuera solo un día.

Tutto quello che in teoria sembrava semplice diventava in pratica immediatamente complesso; come le onde si disegnano in forme simmetriche dall'alto dello scoglio, ma per il nuotatore che si trova in mezzo a loro sono divise da ripidi abissi e creste spumeggianti. Pure, è necessario correre il rischio; tracciare il segno.

Why, after all, did she do these things? Why seek pinnacles and stand drenched in fire? Might it consume her anyhow! Burn her to cinders!

Affondava come una lama nelle cose; e al tempo stesso ne rimaneva fuori, osservava. Aveva l'impressione costante, anche ora guardando i taxi, di essere lontana, lontanissima, in mare aperto, e sola. Sempre aveva l'impressione che vivere, anche un solo giorno, fosse molto, molto pericoloso

The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire.

If you don't leave home you suffocate, if you go too far you lose oxygen.

We don't know how long you have, but the longer you're in the game, the more you risk fatal overload.