Quotes About Risk

I'm not canceling this trip." She added the words that strike terror into every traveler's heart. "It's non-refundable.

Once you've ridden the roller coaster, the Ferris wheel's kinda restricting.

And he sought, with quick vanity, the reflection in a big mirror opposite him. Just as fast he turned away. He appeared to have reached that situation of health where vanity meant you didn't risk your face in the mirror.

If I'd known how wrong I was - if I'd had any idea of the awful night that lay ahead - I'd have run after him and never returned to that disgusting circus of blood, that revolting circus of death.

Kebanyakan orang merasa takut suatu waktu dalam hidupnya. Itu tidak berarti mereka pengecut. Pengecut adalah mereka yang tidak melakukan apapun ketika rasa takut mengancam menghancurkan mereka.

It's a bit like the feeling I get when I'm standing on a cliff or high building, looking down at a suicidal drop. I start thinking about what would happen if I stepped off, the rush of the fall, the shattering collision, the quiet emptiness of death. Part of me wants to experience the thrill of complete surrender...

It had been a dangerous gamble — and unfair to the Hemlocks, who knew nothing of their role in the deadly game — but sometimes you have to take chances. Was it wise to risk five lives for the sake of one? Probably not. But it was human . If I'd learned one thing from my one encounter with the crazy vampaneze, it was that even the undead could be human. We had to be — without a touch of humanity, we'd be like Murlough, nothing more than bloodthirsty monsters of the night.

If you follow Harkat, you might never return. Think seriously about this. If you go with Harkat and die, you won't be here to face Steve Leonard when the time comes, and your absence might have terrible repercussions for vampires everywhere. Is your short, grey-skinned friend worth such an enormous risk? I didn't have to think twice about that. Yes, I answered simply, and stepped through into unnatural, otherworldly greyness.

He did not smile. I don't believe in anything, but I'm too much of a gambler not to be affected by a lot of things.

I know a man who once stole a Ferris-wheel

Few men get killed. Most of those who meet sudden ends get themselves killed.

For myself, I counted on coming through all in one piece. Few men get killed. Most of those who meet sudden ends get themselves killed.

Seriously? You won't help me?" "Help yourself get killed? No, I won't.

The Mollusks—generous hosts when they weren't trying to kill you.

Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down.

But when you take over a ship with a bomb threat, you really go first-class.

The brain can be a dangerous thing. Even more so if you haven't got one.

When there is pleasure, there is often abandon, and mistakes are made.

Nicaragua sounded dangerous; she liked the word. Nicaragua! It sounded like some kind of spider. There it goes, under the table - Nicaragua!

Mae, so many of the things I invented I honestly did for fun, out of some perverse game of whether or not they'd work, whether people would use them. I mean, it was like setting up a guillotine in the public square. You don't expect a thousand people to line up to put their heads in it

Young men, come and blow things up.

But there is risk. But the risk is worth it.

You're gonna miss each and every shot you can't be bothered to take. That's not living life, that's just being a tourist.

Complaining is a sign that someone isn't willing to risk moving on a changeable situation, or won't consider the immutable circumstance in his or her plans.