Quotes About Risk

Of course you might get shot, but you can't make an omelet without breaking eggs. She handed him a plate of deviled eggs. Have one.

While rejoicing in again finding herself independent and teetering thousands of feet above the valley floor, negotiating life-and-death moves on the rock walls and being responsible to no one but herself.

Falling in love is like skydiving with a malfunctioning parachute. Sooner or later you come down and hit the ground.

I had found that taking risks, being true to myself, and making decisions with good intentions can exceed even my own expectations.

Besides the horror show of the birth itself, twilight sleep had some pretty nasty side effects. It produced babies who were groggy and had poor respiration. It also increased the mother's risk of bleeding out.

I could have told him that nothing was safe and that no matter how careful you were and how hard you tried, there were still accidents, hidden traps, and snares. You could get killed on an airplane or crossing the street. Your marriage could fall apart when you weren't looking; your husband could lose his job; our baby could get sick or die.

being born female meant spending years of you life at risk, and the rest of it invisible, existing as prey or barely existing at all.

But nothing will persuade me that the mere fact of being in a place is enough in itself to justify the effort of getting out of bed to become a tourist, or even a traveller. I don't have the slightest wish to be intrepid. I don't want to prove myself to myself or anyone else. I don't care if no one thinks me brave or hardy. I have no concern at all that I did not have whatever it is I should have had to take a dive out of a plane or off a building. None of that matters to me in the least.

Your own property is in peril when your neighbor's house burns.

Going with the flow is soothing but risky.

Expiring for love is beautiful but stupid.

Speed has never killed anyone, suddenly becoming stationary… that's what gets you.

Speed has never killed anyone - suddenly becoming stationary, that's what gets you.

Odds of violent death increase significantly when there are weapons around. The more powerful the weapon, the more detached people become from the killing, the more people that die.

You know, I've nearly been killed by a poisonous flying lizard-snake, and came close to becoming a squid-croc snack. And you nearly died from stubbing your toe?

Honestly?" Logan shrugged. "I didn't know it could kill me. If I'd ever heard that, I forgot it a long time ago. But I knew it was dangerous." "Then why take the risk?" Stone asked. Logan turned his head to look at me. "Because she was worth it.

Noto che la gente fa sempre giganteschi preparativi per il bagno quando si sta per avvicinare all'acqua, ma che poi, una volta nei pressi, sono ben pochi quelli che si tuffano.

We took up the hoops, and began to drop them into the sockets placed for them. You would not imagine this to be dangerous work; but, looking back now, the wonder to me is that any of us are alive to tell the tale.

If the thunder don't get ya then the lightning will.

Once you start doing only what you've already proven you can do, you're on the road to death.

Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.

Looking at cleavage is like looking at the sun. You can't stare at it. It's too risky. You get a sense of it and then you look away.

I mean if she's real, she's in big trouble. How long do you think somebody who's really like that is going to last around here?

I did. Some truths feel like they'll kill you if you say them out loud.