Quotes About Risk

He will grow up into one of those people who lean back to smile and jump so easily it looks like slow motion and steer cars with their knees and snitch roses from gardens to give to girls and write with their left hand and own two pairs of jeans and one jacket and fall in love from such a height and so hard and so completely that they never quite recover from the drop. But at least he will have me to look out for him.

No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days - we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote.

Vita brevis, ars longa, occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, iudicium difficile.

This was the place where I had met and talked with Norio Suzuki two weeks before. Just two days earlier a message from Suzuki asking me to meet him here again had been left in the message box we had agreed on, and I had come. I was still afraid it might be a trap. If it was, the enemy might be waiting for me on the hill.

I am tired of caring," I say. "Why should I?" "Because they could kill you!" "They better," I say to her. "Because anything less than that isn't going to work.

Clever girl. You play with fire because you want to be burnt.

And yet, I don't regret it now. Having stepped off the edge, what I want to do is fall.

Every plan is a house of cards.

After all, who wants to die slowly when you can die fast? Me.

Mutually assured destruction.

Better she never be a bride than wind up a widow

Anyone who offers up their heart on a silver platter deserves what they get.

You can't go around making plans that have you getting killed as a by-product. Eventually one of them is going to work .

She turned to me, head titled, her expression pure confusion. As though I had no reason to be afraid of a broken heart. She had no idea how dangerous a broken heart could be. You do, though. You know.

Choose a future, Balekin had commanded him when he'd first brought Cardan to Hollow Hall. But no one chooses a future. You choose a path without being certain where it leads. Choose one way and a monster rends your flesh. Choose another and your heart turns to stone, or fire, or glass.

You can't!" Aaron said. "Didn't you hear anything I just told you? You could die! " Well, don't kill me," Call said. "How about our goal is not to die. Both of us. Not dying. Together.

I've missed the rush of power that comes with playing a game like this, of strategy and cunning. I hate to admit it, but I've missed risking my neck. There's no room for regrets when you're busy trying to win. Or at least not to die.

As Val jumped down onto the litter-strewn concrete after them, she thought how insane it was to follow two people she didn't know into the bowels of the subway, but instead of being afraid, she felt glad. She would make all her own decisions now, even if they were ruinous ones. It was the same pleasurable feeling as tearing a piece of paper into tiny, tiny pieces.

For what we want most, we will take almost any chance.

It's the thrill of leaping without being able to see the ground below you, right before you realise that's called falling.

They taught you a lot of things, your family,' I say. The sleight of hand, the wall climbing, the swordsmanship. 'Not to die,' he says. 'That's what they attempted to teach me, anyway. Not to die.' Considering how often he throws himself directly into the path of danger, I do not think they taught him well enough.

What is that quote?" Hazel said, walking to him, too glad he'd come to object to the danger he'd put himself in. "The Lord protects fools, drunks, and dumbass ax wielders?

If I fall, you must promise not to laugh. I may still be a little bit poisoned.' ... I wonder exactly how much a little bit means. 'Maybe I should be the one to go first.' 'Nonsense,' he says. 'If you weren't behind me, then who would break my fall?

The Big Score.