Quotes About Risk

a road trip with her ex? danger ahead...

If there's one thing I've realized, it's that you have to be honest. Even if you're scared, even if you're worried that you're going to get your heart stomped on, even if you think that the truth is going to ruin everything, you have to put it out there. Because otherwise, you're fucked.

When people start liking people, that's when someone has the ability to get hurt.

El sentimentalismo de arriba hacia abajo atenúa los riesgos de las condiciones del privilegio, al hacer que las obligaciones de actuar sean sobre todo paliativas, cosa de no cambiar los términos fundamentales que organizan el poder sino de ir en pos de las elevadas pretensiones de sensibilidad, virtud y conciencia vigilantes.

Life can be about taking chances and finding really great things and yes, failing sometimes. Or it can be about wondering what if because you never dared to try.

That's love. Real love is scary. Because you know what you stand to lose.

That's love. A part of what makes it so awesome is the level of real, true intimacy, and the risk you take by opening yourself up that way to someone who has the power to gut you.

as soon as you tempt fate, it will absolutely come to bite you in the ass.

He leans forward seriously. "Bliss. At work and at play, let safety lead the way." Of course," I say. "Silly me." Danger never takes a vacation." That's right. Expect the unexpected." And never, never -" Yes?" He wags his finger. "Check a gas tank with a lighted flare." A laugh snorts out. "Good to know.

So you know, i'm thinking that you can either keep yourself safe and not feel anything, or you can the risk of just loving him and letting him love you." she paused. "Is he worth the risk? And if not what is? What are you willing to take risk for, Wren?

Sometimes the biggest act of courage is a small one.

Max gripped Zena's hand and they ran for their lives. Their only hope was a nearby swamp. They could hide in the mud and slime, with the snakes and the snapping turtles and the razor-sharp grass. But

More scared, even, than the time the black panther chased him through the woods back home in Millerstown, New York.

Strange," Phoebe said, looking at the lifeboats that hung just off the deck. "There are only sixteen boats. That's not nearly enough for everyone.

especially the Spaniards, posed a danger as great as the sea itself.

Prince Henry offered a bold reply, "You cannot find a peril so great that the hope of reward will not be greater.

Sailing into these shallow, sediment-rich waters, Magellan thought he might have been entering the waterway leading

and it was probably a robust sudestada that caused Magellan to turn back and seek shelter.

over the rail and lowered himself onto a crude seat suspended high above the waves.

frigid spray splattered his exposed bottom. (More than one sailor lost his life when he plunged from the jardines

Magellan found it impossible to enforce this directive), as were card and dice players.

Magellan ordered his ships to sail into the gulf, and when they were well within its embrace

Fear was his most important means of motivating his men; they became more afraid of Magellan than the hazards of the sea.

Qualified sailors were rare in Seville, and qualified sailors willing to risk their lives on a voyage to the Spice Islands rarer still.