Quotes About Risk

How are you off for drink? We have got everything in the world on board here. Can you catch?' and almost immediately a large bottle of champagne was thrown from the gunboat to the shore. It fell in the waters of the Nile, but happily where a gracious Providence decreed them to be shallow and the bottom soft. I nipped into the water up to my knees, and reaching down seized the precious gift which we bore in triumph back to our mess.

Nothing…is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

There is always much to be said for not attempting more than you can do and for making a certainty of what you try. But this principle, like others in life and war, has its exceptions.

En el Pacífico, había solo cinco estaciones inalámbricas alemanas: Yap, Apia, Nauru, Rabaul y Anguar; estas estaciones fueron destruidas antes de dos meses, a contar desde el principio de la contienda. Después de esto, solo quedaron las estaciones de T. S. H. de a bordo, con las que era muy peligroso lanzar una sola palabra en el espacio.

Yo sostenía que nuestro margen en barcos de línea, a los que había que añadir los cuatro acorazados del nuevo programa, nos aseguraría una adecuada superioridad para 1912, el llamado, por aquel entonces, «año peligroso».

the one most awful thing in war is 'the careful man'!

A battle is a veil through which it is not wise to peer.

Russian maxim, "You may always walk with the Devil till you get to the end of the bridge.

a letter of the great Duke of Marlborough, in which he said: "To remove a General in the midst of a campaign—that is the mortal stroke.

The Polish attitude was, "With the Germans we risk losing our liberty; with the Russians our soul".

Estar en casa es tremendamente peligroso. A cada paso que damos hay peligro de muerte o mutilación. Incluso me atrevería a decir que cuantas más comodidades civilizadoras guardamos en casa, mayores son las posibilidades de que nos suceda una catástrofe. Vivir en una caverna era más seguro que todo eso, claro, siempre y cuando no irrumpiera en ella un tigre dientes de sable en ausencia de la gente que se encargaba de cazar.

Average intelligence loves blinders, which facilitate an even trot; but a brisker and livelier intelligence desires uncertainty, risk, a play of more deceptive and elusive forces...where one can preserve flight, pride, joke, confession, rapture, play, struggle.

Having sex is like bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.

Never shoot up in the air when you're standing under it.

The most expensive sex is free sex

I think crime pays. The hours are good, you travel a lot

A ship is safe in the harbor, but that's not where ships belong.

In order to be a writer, Maugham continues: one must take chances and not be afraid to look foolish. I wrote The Razor's Edge while wearing a paper hat….

Go ahead — walk into the propeller.

Se di tanto in tanto non hai degli insuccessi, è segno che non stai facendo nulla di davvero innovativo.

The man who said 'I'd rather be lucky than good' saw deeply into life. People are afraid to face how great a part of life is dependent on luck. It's scary to think so much is out of one's control. There are moments in a match when the ball hits the top of the net and for a split second it can either go forward or fall back. With a little luck it goes forward and you win. Or maybe it doesn't and you lose.

Oh, my play. It's about risk, taking chances. It's about a Jewish woman forced to make existential choices." "What's it called?" "Thus Spoke Sarah Shuster.

What you must do, said Monkey, is lure the monster from its hiding place, but be certain it is a fight you can survive.

Y a mí me gusta un hombre y zas: se chinga todo.