Quotes About Risk

I have an idea. It's risky, and Max will kill us when she finds out." Iggy raised his head. "Sounds like my kind of idea.

You can help each other, Max, said the unwelcome voice. You're perfect complements to each other. Shut up! I hissed under my breath, and Dylan looked startled. I didn't say anything. Gritting my teeth, I nodded. No, I know. It's just- I decided to take a risk and stare him down. I hear voices, okay? If you're gonna be here, get used to it. Or else keep your distance.

Max:So the first thing we're going to do, I told him, is push you off the roof.

Gazzy: What does that mean? (points to metal plaque warning to stay off the third rail that said Stay off the third rail!) Fang: It means the third rail has seven hundred volts of direct current running through it. Touch it and you're human popcorn. "Okay," I said. "Good tip. Everyone stay off the third rail. Then I shot Fang a look that said, Thank you for that lovely image. He almost grinned at me.

Have you been playing in toxic waste lately?

Do I open it? Do I open it? Of course I freaking open it!

Okay, so, flying," I started, taking a deep breath and focusing on the thing I loved most in the world. "Flying is … great. It feels great when you're doing it. It's fun. Pure freedom. There's nothing better." Dylan smiled, a slow, easy smile that seemed to light up his whole face. "So the first thing we're going to do," I told him, "is push you off the roof.

It means the third rail has seven hundred volts of direct current running through it. Touch it and you're human popcorn

Love takes chances, and I wanted to take a chance right now. For once in my life, I knew what I wanted.

Yeah," said Iggy. "But what now? Let's do something fun." I guess being on the run from bloodthirsty Erasers and insane scientists wasn't enough fun for him. Kids today are so spoiled.

Life can be like walking on a high wire. Falling seems a tiny misstep away.

Speed never killed anyone! It's suddenly becoming stationary… that's what gets you.

Okeydokey," I said to myself. "Provisions, check. Clothes, check. Enough explosives to pose a legitimate threat to multiple small countries-" I eyed the duffel bags that Gazzy and Iggy had packed- "check.

I knew how good love could be -- I knew it was the best thing I'd ever done in my life -- and yet here I was alone. I was taking chances with my life. I kept telling everybody that I was all right, but I wasn't.

Have you ever done something extremely stupid like, oh, I don't know, try to make a room filled with total strangers laugh until their sides hurt? Totally

wanted that to be my bedroom," he says. "It'd be so easy to sneak out at night to TP yards, egg cars, and punch people." Yes, Stevie has an active social life.

Someone who shakes a tree needs to be ready for what might fall on him. - Craig Carney

Make firebombs—for our protection only.

Ray Bradbury had once written that "living at risk is jumping off a cliff, and building your wings on the way down." Sampson

It doesn't matter what the end looks like- what matters is that it came. Bam, you're done. But life? There are degrees of life. You can live it well or half-asleep. You can go sledding down a sand dune, or you can spend your life in front of the TV. And i don't mean to sound like a stupid after-school special, but you have to keep living the way we did these last weeks. Risk. That's the secret. Risk everything

Plus, if I can wax philosophical for a paragraph, there's an even more fundamental principle involved here, and it apples to everything from what you decide to do for a living, to making an omelette, which is that there is nothing so consistently dangerous, not to mention more likely to mess with your head and leave you muttering into your beer, than playing it safe.

Plus, if I can wax philosophical for a paragraph, there's an even more fundamental principle involved here, and it applies to everything from what you decide to do for a living, to making an omelette, which is that there is nothing so consistently dangerous, not to mention more likely to mess with your head and leave you muttering into your beer, than playing it safe.

You know what they say, it's better to ask for forgiveness than seek permission.

But love takes chances, and I wanted to take a chance right now. For once in my life, I knew what I wanted.