Quotes About Risk

Boys today bear the burden of several powerful cultural trends: a therapeutic approach to education that valorizes feelings and denigrates competition and risk, zero-tolerance policies that punish normal antics of young males, and a gender equity movement that views masculinity as predatory. Natural male exuberance is no longer tolerated.

The borderline's children are preoccupied with what researchers call "risk assessment"—with determining the nature of their mother's state of mind from one moment to the next. It is an unconscious and involuntary process, like breathing. They do not realize they are doing it.

And maybe that was love. Being so vulnerable and allowing someone else in so far they could hurt you, but they also give you everything.

You're the kind of man my mother warned me about.

It is well known that onset of the disease is affected by lifestyle, yet even when the at-risk subjects were given information about their susceptibility, many did not adjust their fat intake or increase exercise or consult medical specialists to minimize their risk.

And for me, the real world involves everything: risk, danger, beauty, energy, all we meet with in the real world.

And she shared the philosophy Jackie expressed when a friend of hers warned that by marrying Ari she would fall off her pedestal. "It's better," Jackie replied, "than freezing there.

One gratifying endnote is that the passengers who risked the lives of their fellow passengers and cabin crew by bringing their luggage with them lost it in the river, while those that did not got it returned.

The terrible thing about love is that it takes away your safety net, your balancing pole. Even the tightrope you walk upon will disappear beneath you, yet love expects you to keep walking anyway, arms outstretched, one foot after the other, on nothing more than air.

She claims I've got a habit of finding dangerous situations and effortlessly making them worse.

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. (Misattributed: Actually by André Gide.)

You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Ninety seconds earlier, Titan Six had jumped from an unmarked

jumps — High Altitude, Low Opening — are always dangerous,

why would you think such a dangerous endeavor would be fun?

Schmal-der schmalste Weg den wir kennen, ist der auf der Schneide eines Messers...

One ought to go too far, in order to know how far one can go.

Here's to matrimony, the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented!

Truth be told, you can make a hell of a lot more money by being wrong at the right time than by being right at the wrong time.

that omelettes couldn't be made without breaking eggs. Sacrifice

In a world without air all you breathe is adventure!

The period before something learns to be afraid is the most dangerous of all, because it is then the creatures are the most vulnerable.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.n