Quotes About Risk

Too often on such occasions one feels, as I feel so strongly with regard to poor old Stilton, that the kindly thing to do would be to seize the prospective bridegroom's trousers in one's teeth and draw him back from danger, as faithful dogs do to their masters on the edge of precipices on dark nights.' 'Yes

I might, that is to say, be safe from the dragon, but what about the hippogriffs? That was the question I asked myself. What price the hippogriffs?

One cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs, sir.

It was a dashed tricky thing, of course, to have to decide on the spur of the moment. I was reading in the paper the other day about those birds who are trying to split the atom, the nub being that they haven't the foggiest as to what will happen if they do. It may be all right.

Oh Brancepeth,' said the girl, her voice trembling, 'why haven't you any money? If only you had the merest pittance - enough for a flat in Mayfair and a little weekend place in the country somewhere and a couple of good cars and a villa in the South of France and a bit of trout fishing on some decent river, I would risk all for love.

the hand that counteth its chickens ere they be hatched oft-times doth but step on the banana-skin.

It is a disturbing thought that we suffer in this world just as much by being prudent and taking precautions as we do by being rash and impulsive and acting as the spirit moves us.

have to decide on the spur of the moment. I was reading in the paper the other day about those birds who are trying to split the atom, the nub being that they haven't the foggiest as to what will happen if they do. It may be all right. On the other hand, it may not be all right. And pretty silly a chap would feel, no doubt, if, having split the atom, he suddenly found

Go and do the things you can't. That is how you get to do them.

Life is like sex. It's not always good, but its always worth trying.

She reached up, held his face between her palms. How can I help but fret? You live wi' death on your heels. For your sake, lass, I promise to stay one step ahead.

If the means to a well-lived life is to take the road less traveled, first you have to get on the road.

If the means to a well-lived life is to take the road less traveled, first you have to get

If we want to grow as teachers -- we must do something alien to academic culture: we must talk to each other about our inner lives -- risky stuff in a profession that fears the personal and seeks safety in the technical, the distant, the abstract.

Some things don't mix. Some things don't mix at all, but sometimes in life you have to take the risk.

have an affinity for choosing the tightrope walk across the abyss and have developed a genius for the wrong turn.

It's dangerous to write about what you don't know, I said. Ledare got up to go and said, It's dangerous not to.

Beautiful cities have a treacherous nature.

Leaders who ignore change risk extinction.

I saw a man once leap into a pit to see how deep it was, he commented. But no doubt you are wiser.

I always said capital and conservative accounting are protection. So it's the preparation beforehand: capital, reporting, and liquidity," Dimon added.

You really try to evaluate the risks and provide for them. Whether it's going to be a pleasant or unpleasant surprise, you try to evaluate the risk.

I got a theory a person ought to do everything it's possible to do before he dies, and maybe die trying to do something that's really impossible.

But Carol had not betrayed her. Carol loved her more than she loved her child. That was part of the reason why she had not promised. She was gambling now as she had gambled on getting everything from the detective that day on the road, and she lost then, too. And now she saw Carol's face changing, saw the little signs of astonishment and shock so subtle that perhaps only she in the world could have noticed them, and Therese could not think for a moment.