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Quotes About Risk

Nineteen is old enough to know that if you have got somethin that means the world to you it's all that more likely it'll get took away. Sixteen was, for that matter.
~ Cormac McCarthy
The simplest undertaking is predicated upon a future that has no warrant.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Yes mam. I do. The people of Terrell County hired me to look after em. That's my job. I get paid to be the first one hurt. Killed, for that matter. I'd better care.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Imperilment is bottomless. As long as you are breathing you can always be more scared.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Non voglio fare nessuna promessa, disse. È così che si finisce per farsi male
~ Cormac McCarthy
What have you got that a man could drink with just a minimum risk of blindness and death.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Nothing is more terrifying than fearlessness.
~ Cornelia Funke
Love scared him. It was soft. And vulnerable.
~ Cornelia Funke
Love makes cowards of us all.
~ Cornelia Funke
Abenteuer kann man doch nicht planen wie Ballett oder so was. Die warten um die Ecke und - zack! - plötzlich sind sie da!
~ Cornelia Funke
Love is a deadly affair.
~ Cornelia Funke
It must be a dangerous world." Meggie was trying to imagine it all: the giants, the trolls, and the fairies. Mo had once given her a book about fairies. Dustfinger shrugged. "Yes, it's dangerous, so what? This world's dangerous, too, isn't it?
~ Cornelia Funke
Jacob Reckless überlebt alles. Wer wei? das besser als du? Ich bin sicher, du kannst nicht an dem Fingern abzählen, wie often er eigentlich schon hätte tot sein müssen.
~ Cornelia Funke
Es ist immer dasselbe mit den gefährlichen Abenteuern, sie beginnen ganz harmlos.
~ Cornelia Funke
O amor é uma armadilha muito eficiente, e a verdade mais cruel sobre a guerra é que ela o torna um risco mortal.
~ Cornelia Funke
The important thing about security systems isn't how they work, it's how they fail.
~ Cory Doctorow
So close the book and go. The world is full of security systems. Hack one of them.
~ Cory Doctorow
What if I got hit by lightning while walking with an umbrella? Ban umbrellas! Fight the menace of lightning!
~ Cory Doctorow
you want to double your success rate, triple your failure rate.
~ Cory Doctorow
Trading privacy for security is stupid enough; not getting any actual security in the bargain is even more stupid.
~ Cory Doctorow
It was considered insanely hard to poison a computer's BIOS remotely, but if I was going to rebuild a computer that had been fatally pwned, ignoring the BIOS would be like changing all your house locks after losing your keys but leaving all the windows unlocked.
~ Cory Doctorow
she'd looked around the badlands, set down her pack, emptied her pockets of anything worth stealing, put extra underwear in a bag, and walked out onto the Niagara escarpment, past the invisible line that separated civilization from no-man's-land, out of the world as it was and into the world as it could be.
~ Cory Doctorow
It's the nature of the beast to believe in bubbles and think you can just entrepreneur your way out.
~ Cory Doctorow