Quotes About Risk

What are you protecting yourself from? Will you sell your life for fear's price?

You might reflect on how a physician, in order to help an individual heal themselves, will sometimes cut into the individual's body and perform procedures which in any other context would be considered life-threatening.

The true survivor isn't someone with nothing to lose. He has something precious to lose. But at the same time, he's willing to bet it all on himself. And it makes what he has that much richer. Days stolen are always sweeter than days given.

I'm a secular priest ordained by training, experience, and, most important, the willingness to accept the mantle of command. That willingness encompasses the realization that failure is easy, and such failure could kill me or, worse, kill someone else.

SYROTUCK ANALYZED 229 search and rescue cases (11 percent of them fatal) and concluded that almost three quarters of those who died perished within the first forty-eight hours of becoming lost.

Such accidents have to happen. But they don't have to happen to you and me.

If you find yourself in enough trouble to be staring death in the face, you've gotten there by a well-worn path.

It's the nature of our society that I'm considered unworthy of huge financial reward for that risk. But what can be earned is a certain nobility—not in the sense of aristocratic status but in the sense of striving for quality and dignity of behavior and living.

To lose everything at such a glorious eternity is far sweeter than to win by plodding through a cautious, painless, featureless life.

The perfect adventure shouldn't be that much more hazardous in a real sense than ordinary life, for that invisible rope that holds us here can always break. We can live a life of bored caution and die of cancer. Better to take the adventure, minimize the risks, get the information, and then go forward in the knowledge that we've done everything we can. No

Shit happens, and if we just want to restrict ourselves to things where shit can't happen... we're not going to do anything very interesting.

A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.

He wasn't happy unless he was going so fast that one misstep would send him riding shotgun in heaven.

The problem with temptation is that you may not get another chance.

'Twould be as much as my life was worth.

No guts, no glory.

Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one's eternal peril.

Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.

A horse that kicks can kill anyone near its hind legs. A stable hand, a groom, a coachman, or a care-less owner will risk their lives if struck by the animal's lightning-fast speed and power

What a ridiculous sentiment. 'Adventures' is just a different name for 'terrible ideas.

I usually wouldn't be this close to you without a tetnus shot.

All her life, she had learned that passion, like fire, was a dangerous thing. It so easily went out of control. It scaled walls and jumped over trenches. Sparks leapt like fleas and spread as rapidly; a breeze could carry embers for miles.

All her life, she had learned that passion, like fire, was a dangerous thing...It scaled walls and jumped over trenches. Sparks leapt like fleas and spread as rapidly; a breeze could carry embers for miles.

And we need their generosity to keep this place open. Or, just as likely, someone got nervous and got rid of it preemptively. Us public libraries--a lot of us just can't take the risk.