Quotes About Risk

She marched along, wondering how it could be that some people had to work their fingers to the bone and risk their lives in order to make a living and others could just sail around in the lap of luxury.

Follow the siren's call, and you'll probably end up in the hospital.

There are times you must risk unraveling the life you have in order to create the life God wants for you.

Which is worse: to take a stand and fail or to fail to stand

Let loose the lines holding you to the shore and sail into the deep.

Never risking anything meant never having or doing or being anything either. Life is risk, it turned out.

He wanted to stick his finger in it and see what happened. Some story, some quest, started here, and he wanted to go on it. It felt fresh and clean and unsafe, nothing like the heavy warm lard of palace life. The protective plastic wrap had been peeled off

Never risking anything meant never having or doing or being anything either.

He was experimenting cautiously with the idea of being happy, dipping an uncertain toe into those intoxicatingly carbonated waters.

Right. You might just think about climbing down from there." He was using that cautious tone you use when you're trying to reason with a cat.

to live out childhood fantasies as a grown-up was to court and wed and bed disaster

There was more to life than being fat and safe and warm in a clockwork luxury resort. Or maybe there wasn't more, but he was going to find out. And how did you find out? You had an adventure. That's how. You picked up a golden key.

Suspense is torture ... but delightful--or there'd be no gambling in the world.

When an athlete doesn't stretch before a competition, his risk of injury increases dramatically. If your concept of work is rigid, you, too, are much more likely to get hurt. Stretch your concept of work. As your last "To Do" for each day, include this one: Whatever it takes.

Not all men, of course, care to think seriously of death, but all men, in normal circumstances, run spontaneously from danger, unless to risk it is their duty or their pleasure.

Plain and simple, skydiving is all about controlled terror, and I love it.

Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk. If you twist it into something it was never meant to be, it can make you a doormat or an insufferable manipulator. Forgiving seems almost unnatural. Our sense of fairness tells us people should pay for the wrong they do. But forgiving is love's power to break nature's rule.

I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes.

If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.

If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.

You can't be afraid of stepping on toes if you want to go dancing.

the law and the courts are all ways of stabilizing peoples who have no common God, who do not trust each other, who are all strangers and who live with an attenuated sense of time and risk. Gift

I had some friends that tried it down there, and I went to a couple of open mics, and I just kind of got this... this sick urge to try it instead of just watching it.

I will say, if you are planning a seaplane expedition anytime soon I urge you to brace yourselves.