Quotes About Risk

When you find yourself in a position in which you have not asked but need to, are you relying too heavily on luck, chance, or time? Push those temptations away, and make your ask.

Cuando amas a una persona..., no permites que corra tantos peligros. A veces, cuando alguien te importa de verdad..., lo mejor que puedes hacer es renunciar a él y dejarlo marchar.

Eres como un grano en el culo, Viana. Es muy difícil protegerte cuando no dejas de ponerte en peligro una y otra vez.

Ese día aprendi dos cosas: que el azar es caprichoso y que siempre hay que llevar el casco bien amarrado.

todo en la vida supone un riesgo, ¿no?

To pilot a racehorse is to ride a half-ton catapult. It is without question one of the most formidable feats in sport.

the AAF surgeon general suggests that in the Fifteenth Air Force, between November 1, 1943, and May 25, 1945, 70 percent of men listed as killed in action died in operational aircraft accidents, not as a result of enemy action.

He stowed a bottle of a local rotgut called Five Island Gin—nicknamed Five Ulcer Gin—in radioman Harry Brooks's gas mask holster. When an MP tapped Brooks's hip to check for the mask, the bottle broke and left Brooks with a soggy leg. It was probably for the best. Louie noticed that when he drank the stuff, his chest hair spontaneously fell out. He later discovered that Five Island Gin was often used as paint thinner. After that, he stuck to beer.

Never bet your money on another man's game.

There's danger as well as strength in friendship.

What would answers offer and--more importantly--what might they take away?

Inflammation promotes the growth of osteoclasts, the cells that break down bone matrix and simultaneously suppresses osteoblasts, the bone matrix makers. Because of this, even low-level chronic inflammation increases fracture risk.

It never does any good to dwell on what could go wrong. There is risk in everything.

You long to jump off, but you just can't work up the nerve, so you tell yourself you're content to look at the view.

It's one thing to watch someone row; it's quite another to try it oneself in heavy seas, and this was a bad moment to begin wondering if the American privateers on the Good Shepherd would be certain to help her and if there was any chance that Devon might have lied about the Shepherd's identity.

Schopenhauer writes about marriage. He says getting married is like grasping blind into a sack of snakes and hoping to find an eel.

porque la vida es de por sí azarosa y dada a jugarnos malas pasadas

Todos los secretos están guardados en un mismo cajón, el cajón de los secretos, y si develas uno, corres el riesgo de que pase lo mismo con los demás.

I'd be okay with that kind of trouble," Amber said, as a pair of flannel-clad farm boys headed toward them.

It's easier to ask for forgiveness than to get permission.

No step is a safe one, so it's safer to take none at all.

somebody chokes, it's always on a hunk of steak.

Before I knew you, I thought brave was not being afraid. You've taught me that bravery is being terrified and doing it anyway.

Because I want to go to the dance," I said. "But why can't you go as a boy? Won't it be risky going as a girl?" Of course it would be risky. But everything I'd done for the past four months had been risky. I took a deep breath before speaking. "I want to go as a girl, because I want to dance with a particular boy." Mrs. Smithers rolled her eyes at this. "There's always a boy, isn't there?