Quotes About Risk

You should never hesitate to trade your cow for a handful of magic beans.

Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Life is a gamble, at terrible odds. If it were a bet you wouldn't take it.

Pirates could happen to anyone.

Men may or may not be better drivers than women, but they seem to die more often trying to prove that they are.

When a situation feels dangerous to you, it's probably more safe than you know; when a situation feels safe, that is precisely when you should feel on guard.

There is a simple mantra you can carry about you in traffic: When a situation feels dangerous to you, it's probably more safe than you know; when a situation feels safe, that is precisely when you should feel on guard. Most crashes, after all, happen on dry roads, on clear, sunny days, to sober drivers.

A man…progresses in all things by making a fool of himself.*1

Intersections are crash magnets.

The rise of childhood obesity has placed the health of an entire generation at risk.

Let me fall out of the window/ With confetti in my hair

There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.

I don't know what 'the big time' is really, except that it's probably some terrible place you can't get out of, you know… or you fall from it and break all your bones, or you try to go further and burn up.

When you vote, you play Russian Roulette with a magazine fed pistol.

If I was invincible, maybe I would take up some extreme sports.

Many people are looking for security instead of opportunity.

Never Drink and Drive . . . you might spill.

but maybe that was the thing about being a kid. Either you didn't know when things were just too dangerous, or you didn't know enough to let the danger stop you from doing them.

I had discovered long ago the first lesson of political courage: to think anew. I had then learned the second: to be prepared to lead and to decide. I was now studying the third: how to take the calculated risk. I was going to alienate some people, like it or not. The moment you decide, you divide.

En la casa? No es un lugar seguro para vivir

Welcome to the real world, Mother Robot, a beautiful and dangerous place. Now you can truly begin to live.

Drive fast and swerve a lot.

This is why I climb, Buchanan thought. To get so far away from Stapp's "surface of the earth" that I can't even hear it. But Whiteside climbs for the thrill of challenging death. And now he's out about thirty yards. It's just too damn risky.

I think, if you touch me, your hand might fall off or something. Worse things have happened to people who have touched me.