Quotes About Risk

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

A kiss may ruin a human life

Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.

All great ideas are dangerous.

Weak? Oh, I am sick of hearing that phrase. Sick of using it about others. Weak? Do you really think, that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage, to yield to. To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure, I care not-there is no weakness in that. There is a horrible, terrible courage. I had that courage.

Those who go beneath the surface, do so at their peril.

The fact is, that I told him a story with a moral." "Ah! that is always a very dangerous thing to do

if he fell, well, he fell—but if he survived he would become a monument, not carved in stone or encased in brass, but one of those New York monuments that made you say: Can you believe it? With an expletive. There would always be an expletive in a New York sentence. Even from a judge. Soderberg was not fond of bad language, but he knew its value at the right time. A man on a tightrope, a hundred and ten stories in the air, can you possibly fucking believe it?

The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved.

Love shouldn't be comfortable.

I had gone off with a contemp and a complete stranger—to say nothing of the dog—and left my contact waiting on the station platform or the tracks or in a boathouse somewhere.

When I was nineteen—which was, oh, Lord, forty years ago, it doesn't seem that long—my sister and I traveled all over Egypt," she said. "It was during the Pandemic. Quarantines were being slapped on all about us, and the Israelis were shooting Americans on sight, but we didn't care. I don't think it even occurred to us that we might be in danger, that we might catch it or be mistaken for Americans. We wanted to see the Pyramids.

in that moment, Mairie knew she wasn't just falling in love w/ this man. She was free falling. It was terminal velocity.

Scared money can't win and a worried man can't love.

This country will kill you in a heartbeat and still people love it.

What man is such a coward he would not rather fall once than remain forever tottering?

White pussy is nothin but trouble.

I don't see you holdin no aces.

In my experience people who say no matter what seldom know what what might turn out to be. They dont know how bad what might get. I'll see you.

We're like the Comanches was two hundred years ago. We don't know what's goin to show up here come daylight. We don't even know what color they'll be.

los sueños correctos para un hombre en peligro eran sueños de peligro y que lo demás era sólo la llamada de la languidez y de la muerte.

Black boots, said Rawlins. Aint that the shits? I always wanted to be a badman.