Quotes About Risk

Dangers and wilderness go hand in hand. That is part of the attraction of wilderness, and danger is part of the allure

Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it.

The future is as full of promise as it is fraught with uncertainty.

On a personal level, to think in time is to accept the uncertainty of life as the necessary price of being alive. To rebel against the precariousness of life, to reject uncertainty, to adopt a zero tolerance to risk, to imagine that life can be organized to completely eliminate danger, is to think outside time. To be human is to live suspended between danger and opportunity.

Because string theory is such a high-risk venture—unsupported by experiment

Because string theory is such a high-risk venture—unsupported by experiment, though very generously supported by the academic

Ecstasy and vulnerability belonged in the same dish. The fear the cup would be snatched away was what gave the wine its savor.

You don't know what pressure is until you've played for five dollars a hole with only two in your pocket

Pressure is playing for ten dollars when you don't have a dime in your pocket

In case of a thunderstorm, stand in the middle of the fairway and hold up a one iron. Not even God can hit a one iron

Better to know defeat from courage than safety through chickenheartedness.

If you didn't do anything that wasn't good for you it would be a very dull life. What are you gonna do? Everything that is pleasant in life is dangerous. Have you noticed that? I'd like to find the bastard that thought that one up.

A new experience can be extremely pleasurable, or extremely irritating, or somewhere in between, and you never know until you try it out.

Sooner or later, everyone's story has an unfortunate event or two...The solution, of course, is to stay as far away from the world as possible and lead a safe, simple life.

Nowhere in the world is safe," Count Olaf said. Not with you around," Violet agreed. I'm no worse than anyone else," Count Olaf said.

The last safe place is safe no more.

There is no way of knowing for sure whether or not you can trust someone, for the simple reason that circumstances change all of the time.

bravery often demands a price.

I guess we'll be traveling in uncharted waters." "That'll be fun," Phil said.

You should never stick something that you are allergic to into your mouth, especially if that thing is cats.

If you're not scared, she told me, it's not bravery.

Deciding on a safe answer to a question is like deciding on a safe ingredient in a sandwich, because if you make the wrong decisions you may find that something horrible is coming out of your mouth.

The children knew, as I'm sure you know, that there is usually no reason to be afraid of the dark, but even if you are not particularly afraid of something, you might not want to get near it

If one's safety is threatened, one often finds courage one didn't know one had, and the eldest Baudelaire found she could be brave enough to open the door.