Quotes About Risk

those who soar the highest, fall the hardest. Watch out that you don't take a tumble.

The very old lady in black looked up at a notice over the window: TO STOP THE TRAIN PULL DOWN THE CHAIN PENALTY FOR IMPROPER USE, FIVE POUNDS. She smiled the gentlest, sweetest smile. "All my life I have been afraid that one day the temptation would prove too much for me," she said. "Don't suppose there's anyone who doesn't feel like that, ma'am," said the soldier, grinning.

Hadn't we better turn it lower?" Tony whispered. "Eh, what? It's quiet enough, I think." Tony flung a hunted glance at the window. "You have let me listen in to Germany. If the police find out, there will be great trouble -" "There won't be any trouble at all," said Thomas. "You're in England, remember. You're free to tune in to any station you please.

To be a Christian is to live dangerously, honestly, freely - to step in the name of love as if you may land on nothing, yet to keep on stepping because the something that sustains you no empire can give you and no empire can take away.

There was no time to weigh chances. There was no such thing as chances anyway, in the distorted perspective of the weed fumes.

Unseen by either of us, Father had appeared in the doorway. "Give the child to me, Corrie," he said. Father held the baby close, his white beard brushed its cheek, looking into the little face with eyes as blue and innocent as the baby's own. At last he looked up at the pastor. "You say we could lose our lives for this child. I would consider that the greatest honor that could come to my family." The pastor turned sharply on his heels and walked out of the room.

Yeah, it's risky, but no more risky than driving a car.

Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if you're up in the air and something goes wrong, you pull that parachute, and the whole plane goes down slowly.

I was 20 years old, working as a roofer and a telemarketer and driving a taxi, just barely getting by. A friend of a friend suggested I try acting. I was like, 'Why? What am I going to do? Community theater?' But I took a class, and the teacher thought that I had potential, so I moved to Vancouver and started auditioning.

Nothing surpasses the beauty and elegance of a bad idea.

bravery to the point of apparent foolishness.

chance is only for the people willing to give it ago n taking it is only encourage by the people who believe in you !

Why do people do things that they fear? It may be that the fear contains information. Something can be interesting if you get to the other side of that fear.

From this moment on I'd dedicate my life to rock and roll and take as many drugs as possible. What could possibly go wrong?

between safety and adventure I choose adventure

Remember, to get what you've never had, you must do what you've never done. But to get what you once had, you must do what you once did.

Freedom lies in being bold. — Robert Frost

My point is when the odds are fifty-fifty in an area of your life that matters, you change your behavior.

To step toward your destiny, you might have to step away from your security.

If we take a risk, we might not succeed, but if we avoid all risk, we guarantee we won't succeed, and we miss so much of what God wants us to learn.

That was the beauty of horse stealing, though—you could always ride your stolen property.

We can't risk moving him, he's an eyelash from being dead." Leaning into her, I gave out with the old ER saying, "They're not dead until they're warm and dead.

it wasn't that we had been so brave or bold, but that we'd simply traded one fear for another—afraid of what we were about to do for the fear of what we might not. "How

50 percent of police shot in the country on an annual basis shoot themselves. I'm not talking about suicide, but about officers who accidentally fire into their off-hand while drawing or into the strong-side leg while reholstering. Another 30 percent are shot by other cops, and 10 percent after that get shot by people who take their weapons away from them.