Quotes About Risk

Be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater.

the truth is that not enough carriers of this virus have ever been willing to risk the potential loss of any aspect of their social capital to find out what kind of America might lie on the other side of segregation. They are very happy to blackout their social media for a day, to read all-black books, and educate themselves about black issues—as long as this education does not occur in the form of actual black children attending their actual schools.

And drunk men take dares like they take breaths.

Back then, we were all still willing to take the "risk," if "risk" is the right word to describe entering into the lives of others, not merely in symbol but in reality.

Ryan was convinced of the ageing fifties motto 'Live fast, die young', and, though his scooter didn't do more than 22 m.p.h. downhill...

When money's scarce life is a daily emergency, everything is freighted with potential loss, you feel even the smallest misstep will destroy you. When there's money, it's different, even a real emergency never quite touches you, you're always shielded from risk. You are, in some sense, too big to fail.

Give me four days. If I'm not back in four days you'll know I'm dead. For that only shall keep me. Oh! Bess, I'll come back. There's danger—I wouldn't lie to you—but I can take care of myself.

Red Lake must be his Rubicon. Either he must enter the unknown to seek, to strive, to find, or turn back and fail and never know and be always haunted.

There's a small thrill in taking a chance

You see de rattlesnake in de woods?' Dey say, 'Yeah.' I say 'If you bother wid him, he bite you. If you know de snake killee you, why you bother wid him?' (Oluale Kossula)

Well, if yo' mind is already made up, 'tain't nothin' nobody kin do. But you'se takin' uh awful chance." "No mo' than Ah took befo' and no mo' than anybody else takes when dey gits married. It always changes folks, and sometimes it brings out dirt and meanness dat even de person didn't know they had in 'em theyselves.

The life of an actor is sort of abnormal in the sense where you never know what's going to happen, which I've really given over to.

You look at someone like Jadon Sancho, he took the chance of going abroad to get more game time and now he's possibly up there with the top players, wingers, in the world.

Nothing is absolute in security.

I've had some life, and it got pretty accelerated, really quite exciting but very dangerous.

I suppose, back in the day, when I was on the stage, I had nothing to lose, and I did the accents.

If I choose to direct something, it's because I don't think it would get accepted.

Accidents happen on the field.

Unfortunately in motorsport, accidents can happen.

You've got all these people making action movies, and they've never been in a life-or-death situation.

Most of the time, when I make a big move, people say I am out of my mind. But I don't think about how I can add to what I have today.

I am a roller-coaster addict.

Winning is like an addiction, but I'm also afraid of losing.

I'm not going to take a show unless I'm not sure I can do it. You have to have that sort of adrenaline.