Quotes About Risk

Adventures are stories of discomfort told in comfort.

I think for business reasons, fiscal reasons, I think these cable networks can take greater risks and I think with a risk comes better programming. And I think USA has got an amazing identity to it now that is clearly defined with its 'Characters welcome' tag.

as any roulette player can tell you, past performance has no bearing on future random outcome. So

Never entangle your life with a stranger when the only thing to gain is the last word.

The most exciting holidays are the ones where not everybody is going to make it.

Be careful," Serge admonished. "It's dumb out there.

Serge looked up. 'I hope you've learned your lesson.' They nodded quickly and hard. 'And that lesson,' said Serge, 'is that you never really know whom you're fucking with, so best not to do it at all.

Most Floridians understand the danger of leaving children or pets in cars with the windows rolled up, where midday temperatures can reach a hundred and fifty degrees or more. But few give a second thought to cheap, throwaway lighters, which are butane under pressure and can easily explode at those temperatures, spraying flammable liquid all over the interior…

that Young Irelandism will lead you to." "It may lead me to danger. But it will guard me from dishonor.

The greater part of experience is acquired in sink-or-swim situations. If we were smart, we would never grow wise.

The Standard Pace is for chumps.

With a 1–2 count, he had to try. The game—and maybe Sam Palomaki's future—was on the line.

When you're in the military, you teeter on the edge of that line of life and death. The reason you feel so alive when you come through is because you know you've cheated death - and that and the adrenaline rush is addictive, no question.

At the end of the day, there are risks; there's no question - in any sport, any activity.

If the challenge wasn't there, there's no reason to say 'yes' to the role.

The attractive thing about rock climbing: There are no rules.

I believe there's one rule in Hollywood, and that's that there are no rules.

When you're on the road, there's no time for second chances and messing yourself up.

If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.

Break as few bones as possible and make as much noise as you can.

Sometimes you have to take the risk that somebody will consider what you're making is noise, but if you don't try it, then nothing will move forward. I'd rather people hate something than just go 'meh.'

None of us live in a zero-risk world.

There are challenges in terms of the measurement of VAR for what are known as nonlinear derivatives, where things like gamma and vega are important dimensions of the risk.

At any time, somebody can blow themselves up and take Americans with them. They can blow up an airplane; they can crash an airplane. That's something we have to worry about every day - we spend 40 billion dollars yearly on homeland security. That has nothing to do with Crusades or any of that other nonsense.