Quotes About Risk

I need to be doing something, because doing nothing is just as harmful as facing danger head-on.

You have to believe there are kisses and laughs and risks worth taking. What would you have them do?

I want to take back at least half the "I love you"s, because it feels safer that way.

Most of the time I manage to forget to be afraid. But sometimes I think, 'This could be is,' and I move forward anyway.

Maybe there is something you're afraid to say, or someone you're afraid to love, or somewhere you're afraid to go. It's gonna hurt. It's gonna hurt because it matters.

And now it's some other guy's hands that are thumbing their way over Joey's face and down Dee Dee's chin and—oh, fucking hell—dropping down between the A and the M, going right for the V under the H&M-meets-S&M miniskirt.

The train comes. If you stay on the tracks, you die. If you jump off the bridge, you die, There's always a train coming eventually.

Rip never dates anyone," she observes. "Why?" I ask. "He doesn't like the odds.

i'm sure it's going to be a total disaster. but i guess the point is that i'm going to do it anyway.

Maybe there is something you're afraid to say, or someone you're afraid to love, or somewhere you're afraid to go. It's gonna hurt. It's gonna hurt because it matters.

It's the hard things that matter. Those are the things worth leaping for.

Maybe there's something you're afraid to say, or someone you're afraid to love, or somewhere you're afraid to go. It's gonna hurt. It's gonna hurt because it matters.

If there's no feeling of fear then there's no need for courage.

The reward is in the risk.

I certainly have room in my life for caution, but I have no room in my life for paralyzing fear. There's always a risk. There always has been. But I'd rather live my life than die of negations.

Maybe tonight you're scared of falling, and maybe there's somebody here or somewhere else you're thinking about, worrying over, fretting over, trying to figure out if you want to fall, or how and when you're gonna land, and I gotta tell you friends that to stop thinking about the landing, because it's all about falling.

Bruce, I'm not saying never take any risks, because that would be a waste of time. I know you will. I did, in my youth. In a way, life is about taking risks.

Modern men have inherited from their ancestors psychological mechanisms that not only give priority to resources and status but also lead men to make great sacrifices and take great risks to attain resources and status.

It seems frankly remarkable that anyone anywhere ever attempted anything.

Snowball just leads elves on, elves and Santas. He is playing a dangerous game.

The things I've bought from strangers in the dark would curl your hair.

there are only two kinds of flights: ones in which you die and ones in which you do not.

He sounded like me when I sensed there were drugs around: All I know is that if someone wants to get high, or wants to watch while I smoke his dope, I'll do it. I really will.

I might reinvent myself to strangers, but to this day, as far as my family is concerned, I'm still the one most likely to set your house on fire.