Quotes About Risk

Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.

Love is a wonderful thing, my dear, but it leaves you wide open for blackmail.

To fail spectacularly is a loser's paradise.

2.5.03.02.005: Generally speaking, if you fiddle with something, it will break. Don't.

Because there's someone else here in East Carmin. Someone hopelessly unsuitable. It's all a really bad idea and will lead to trouble of the worst sort. But no matter what, every minute in her presence makes my life a minute more complete.

Don't underestimate mediocrity... Lasting happiness, I've found, only really favors the unadventurous.

You a brave person?' 'I don't know.' 'You'll find out soon enough.

In order to fail, first you have to try.

You're a liability and a wild card and trouble seems to follow you like a homesick spaniel.

You intend to go . . . supersonic?' 'Trust us,' said Owen with a smile, 'it's faintly possible that we know what we're doing.

For God's sake, Mother," he said in an exasperated tone, "is there nothing dumb, daft or dangerous that you haven't tried at some point?

Tangling with the Goliath Corporation generally left you in one of two places: inside a wooden box with a grieving family outside, or inside a wooden box under six foot of soil with family wondering where you were. The former was if they didn't hold a grudge.

I'm not ready for this!" I hissed. "I'm probably going to fall flat on my face!" " Probably has nothing to do with it; you shall. Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.

It was a brilliant move on my part—if you didn't count the almost-certain-death aspect of the plan.

I've always been suspicious of game changers,' she added. 'Sometimes the game doesn't need changing – or no one has a clear idea of which game will be changed, and for what and how much.

Up until the moment of death, there was a 100% survival rate. Really. I wouldn't let anything as meaningless as statistics put you off.

Drowning isn't the only way water can kill you.

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.

Piece of cake." Brandon's grin had a certain very familiar male cockiness about it. "Dad says this time around I was his sucker punch." His grin faded slightly and his expression grew more serious as he continued. "But when we realized you were in danger, Dad went wild. I doubt if any car, even that old 'vette Dad used to drive, ever made the kind of time on River Road your Buick made last night. Dad really is a hell of a driver, isn't he?

Embrace the unknown. It is the only certainty.

A lady with a past has nothing to lose. But a woman with a future can't be too careful.

Showing signs of weakness was a good way to get eaten.

A pill against your house burning down.

As a result. the more the hegemony of the global consensus is reinforced. the greater the risk, or the chances, of its collapse.