Quotes About Risk

A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

When danger reared its ugly head, He bravely turned his tail and fled.

Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.

Science in the twenty-first century does NOT encourage scientists to take risks in their pursuit of "the facts"—particularly when those facts call into question long-established notions

Life is dangerous, she thought. No one survives it.

Everyone who had reason to work with him agreed that he'd changed. A lot of his confidence seemed to have gone. He was less sure of himself, less prepared to take a risk or two, somehow smaller. Maybe it was something that would pass, said some. Maybe not.

Without a degree of risk, there is little chance for the enormous mixture of relief and achievement that follows in its steps. It is the leap that goes on to support even greater attempts at the seemingly impossible challenges that the world often uses to sort the men from the boys, and of course, the women from the girls!

When you have come to the edge of all that you know and are about to drop off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things will happen,' the Warmaster had told him. 'And what are they?' he had asked. 'That there will be something solid to stand on or you'll be taught to fly,' laughed Horus as he jumped.

Lady in red, take my advice, you'd be better off dead.

To express love openly is to leave yourself open to injury,

To express love openly is to leave yourself open to injury, which he could not take, not even slightly

My mother warned me about getting into cars with strange men." "This isn't a car," he pointed out.

A matter of pragmatism; chemically knocking someone senseless is usually quieter, less messy and less risky to the assailant than killing them.

If Zendegi was a frivolous indulgence, well, it was there alongside every other beautiful, forbidden thing that her contemporaries have risked their lives to regain

That was the hazard she'd face every day, here: not just the risk that she'd give in to temptation, but the risk that all the principles she'd chosen to define herself would come to seem like nothing but masochistic nonsense.

History can't harm you; the "chance" of having survived the last x minutes is one hundred per cent, once you've done it. As the unknowable future becomes the unchangeable past, risk must collapse into certainty, one way or another.

Jonah, once he got turned around, brought a by-the-book message of doom to the people of Nineveh; God decided to convert it into a message of life. God wins. As Barbara Brown Taylor writes, "If Jesus' own example is to be trusted, then following the Word of God may not always mean doing what is in the book. Instead it may mean deviating from what is in the book in order to risk bringing the Word to life."6

You're bored. Two weeks without someone trying to kill us and you're bored out of your mind. Leia to Han

Part of filmmaking is always a guessing game, and part of it is always a game of trust.

a few weeks before production wrapped on the movie 'Le Mans', racer David Piper lost control of his car and crashed as the cameras rolled. Years later, Piper recounted to a reporter, "I suddenly found myself sitting in only half a car, surrounded by smoke and dust, and I thought, Good Lord, that's my shoe over there--- and my foot is still in it!

You don't suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money. I love bike racing.

Knife fights are something that happen between the Sharks and the Jets, that's it. Everywhere else, it's not a fight, it's just someone trying to goddam kill you.

As the GAO report recognizes, the long-term health of our forests relies on additional fuel reduction options and funding to reduce the risks that catastrophic fire poses to our nation's ecosystems, communities and federal budgetary resources.

Two keys to offensive play: creating chaos and executing on chances.