Quotes About Risk

The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves.

There are three ways to spoil a public man: women, gambling, and listening to experts. The first is the pleasantest, the second is the fastest, but the third is the most certain.

Everyone knows that a man can marry even if he reaches the age of 102, is penniless, and has all his facilities gone. There is always some woman willing to take a chance on him.

You can't be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.

All right, then nobody can complain if we ask pregnant women to make parachute jumps.

There are three way of courting ruin -- women, gambling, and calling in technicians.

There are only two kinds of men; the dead and the deadly.

A woman is seldom roused to great and courageous exertion but when something most dear to her is in immediate danger.

And we are grateful to the American young men and women who are risking their lives to give the Iraqi people this chance, this dream of democracy in Iraq now.

'Acting as if...' I decided, ridiculously in retrospect, that my experience covering women's volleyball for my college newspaper was sufficient for me to at least try to become a war correspondent.

We'll climb with you and steal your women.

Next time, ask: What's the worst that will happen? Then push yourself a little further than you dare.

Never ask anyone if you should do something, if ultimately you are afraid to do it. You'll save yourself a lot of trouble.

Women of the world crave excitement.

When a man marries he takes a bigger risk than the woman, because she can march out with his kids, his money, his home, and his dog.

All life is an experiment. Every important decision is taken with inadequate knowledge by imperfect men and women whom the future will confound. Yet we act nevertheless.

I think that's really risky to make yourself unsexy, because the business demands that women be sexy.

I worked with two young women translators. One died and the other received a death threat from the Taliban.

Women themselves are so happy, and so beautiful, when they're strong, that they naturally choose powerful men, even if that power's so enermous there's a real risk it could shatter them.

Well, I enjoy sharing in the dangers that we ask our men and women in uniform to share in almost every day.

If your life is going to be dictated by what's comfortable, your life will stink.

If someone has a boy who gets to age 18 without something [a bone] being fractured, that kid has been overly controlled.

Lone women shouldn't stop in the middle of nowhere for giant unkempt strangers with duct tape on their faces.

Pregnant women are more likely to die from homicide by domestic violence than any other cause of death.