Quotes About Risk

The fact is that I like thrillers and action movies. But what really fulfills me is getting out of my comfort zone, taking chances.

People who suffered nightmares frequently were three times more likely to commit suicide, and that was regardless of whether they were clinically depressed or suffering from PTSD.

Acetaminophen toxicity is the second-most-common cause of acute liver failure requiring transplantation.

But why would anyone—officer, seaman, or scientist—volunteer for such a risky and difficult mission in the Arctic?

La necesidad constante de ser algo diferente es lo más valioso que tenemos... ésa es la esencia de la pasión. Sin ella, sin pedido al cielo, comenzamos a envejecer, a repetir, a no arriesgar... a morir lentamente.

If he tried to pull her out of the trap she had ridden into, he could easily get himself killed. Gisele felt certain that she would

Fell luxury! more perilous to youth Than storms or quicksands, poverty of chains.

Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.

To know me you have to fly with me. Up In the Air, Walter Kirn, 2001

O]b wenig oder viel, niemand konnte mehr als sein Leben wagen. Jeder nach seinen Kräften und Anlagen – die Hauptsache: man widerstand.

It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one's treasure will not win one anyone's favours one rather risks finding oneself outside everyone's camp... Beauty is the word that shall be our first.

It is not merely enough to love literature if one wishes to spend one's life as a writer. It is a dangerous undertaking on the most primitive level. For, it seems to me, the act of writing with serious intent involves enormous personal risk. It entails the ongoing courage for self-discovery. It means one will walk forever on the tightrope, with each new step presenting the possiblity of learning a truth about oneself that is too terrible to bear.

If you are not willing to be a little crazy, go about your business.

Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.

A Foreign Secretaryand this applies also to a prospective Foreign Secretaryis always faced with this cruel dilemma. Nothing he can say can do very much good, and almost anything he may say may do a great deal of harm. Anything he says that is not obvious is dangerous; whatever is not trite is risky. He is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.

The Christian church is not a 'safe place' where one can escape from the world, but a 'dangerous place' where one must confront the world.

laughed aloud. "Don't worry, Mr. Moroni. It's as safe as an automobile.

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.

The underlying foundation of life in New England was one of profound, unutterable, and therefore unuttered, melancholy, which regarded human existence itself as a ghastly risk, and, in the case of the vast majority of human beings, an inconceivable misfortune.

God only knows the future,' said St.Clare. 'I am braver than I was because I have lost all; and he who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.

I am braver than I was because I have lost all; and he who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.

encephalitis, especially from vaccination, can give rise to an allergic state, while conversely the existence of an allergic state predisposes to the development of encephalitis after vaccination.

We are running the risk of becoming a society whittled down to mediocrity, honed to conformity, and valued in statistical averages. We are becoming computerized, monopolized, bureaucratized; we are becoming hero worshipers at the Temple of Sham.