Quotes About Risk

But courage was not lacking in her heart, though it might be foolhardy and unwise.

Legends, if you crossed their path, could get you killed.

A dangerous man." "Most useful men are dangerous.

The problem was, it was as easy to be killed on a foolish quest in the company of fools as on an adventure of merit beside men one respected and trusted.

It is in the nature of things that when we judge actions to be memorably courageous, they are invariably those that have an impact that resonates: saving other lives at great risk, winning a battle, losing one's life in a valiant attempt to do one or the other. A death of that sort can lead to songs and memories at least as much—sometimes more—than a triumph. We celebrate our losses, knowing how they are woven into the gift of our being here. Sometimes

Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing.

education sold as an investment good that has no economic return for most buyers is, quite simply, a fraud.

Where do you find the strength to brave a barrage of enemy fire and to bring your wounded friends to safety at great risk to your own life? Conviction.

That's not just because we love each other , Kester. We've always loved each other. But I think it's because we know now how hard it is to win this and how easy it is to risk losing it. And how terribly precious it is!

That was something else I'd learned from Homer—sometimes, to get the things that were good in life, you had to make a blind leap.

The beauty of having nothing to lose is that you have everything to gain

climate-change scenarios are already playing a large and increasing role in the military planning process.

That's the way mining is. You always find a way to cheat fate," he says. "That's what's beautiful about being a miner: Supernatural things always happen." Now

Go, fly, swim, bound descend, cross, love the unknown, love the uncertain, love what has not yet been seen, love no one, whom you are, whom you will be, leave yourself, shrug off the old lies, dare what you don't dare, it is there that you will take pleasure . . . and rejoice, in the terror, follow it where you're afraid to go, go ahead, take the plunge, you're on the right trail.

The unrealistic beliefs of diplomats are what soldiers die of,

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If you want to make an omelet, you have to break eggs.

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.

It's important to acknowledge the role of chance in health.

The right half of the table shows you data from 2001 on spiral CT screening on more than five thousand volunteers, some of whom smoked, some of whom did not.13 This study measured the rate of lung cancer diagnosis in smokers and nonsmokers. What it shows you is that with the advent of spiral CT, nonsmokers have about the same risk of lung cancer as smokers. It sure looks like the use of spiral CT has made cigarette smoking much better for you.

Patients with very high blood pressure, for example, stand to benefit a lot more from treatment than do patients with blood pressures slightly above average.

Seek opportunity, not security. A boat in the harbor is safe, but in time its bottom will rot out.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

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