Quotes About Risk

Loving someone is kind of like offering forgiveness. There's no guarantee that they're not going to hurt you again. You can't promise perfection. But you choose to love and you choose to forgive, because living in fear of being hurt again is just a facsimile of life.

It may have seemed like an insane thing to do at the time, but somehow...staying in New York would have been even crazier.

There is an adage about bravery and foolishness being part of the same package.

I do not fear the unknown. I do not even fear death--in the event that I've lived a good life. What I fear is a life of mediocrity.

Flirting with death is the spice of life.

What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?

What is more mortifying than to feel you've missed the Plum for want of courage to shake the Tree?

We are the wise. Do not envy us— We who are too wise to draw near the fire Lest we get burned; We who are too wise to love Lest love should vanish and we be hurt. We are the wise. Do not envy us our wisdom— We who are too wise to live Lest we should die.

Matrimony and firefighting. They ain't for cowards.

In my experience, "what the hell" is generally the most interesting decision.

Love is like skydiving without a parachute.

When the time comes to leap in faith whether you have your eyes open or closed or scream all the way down or not makes no practical difference.

This is the reality if you take a stand against the government in Iran.' He looked me in the eye. 'Would you take that risk?' It was a difficult question. I liked to think I was the kind of person who would make a stand, but it was easy for me to say, coming from a democratic country with its unarmed policemen and the reassuring notion of habeas corpus enshrined in law. Taking a stand in Iran was a life or death decision.

I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.

My mom started smoking when she was 11. She went to the hill next door to try her first cigarette. She set the entire hill on fire, but it didn't deter her.

It's easier to ask forgiveness than to beg for permission.

Red Riding Hood ran from her wolf," he told her with an edge of amusement. "Red Riding Hood didn´t know what the hell she was missing

No, whoever was out there didn't want to take her in. But his sights were on her, gun sights, steady. Clear. She stared into them, and with a mocking smile, mouthed the words, I dare you!" (Cassie Sinclair) *** He smiled at the challenge. One day, she just might dare him too far, but he doubted it would be a bullet he'd penetrate her with. (Unknown Breed)

Don't go there Rule" Lawe warned him softly. " I don't think your horoscope declared today to be a good day to die.

I'm scared of you two in the same place. That's like putting in an order for trouble, rather than just wishing for it.

Even money, which shines so much, spits sometimes.

It is dangerous, at any time, to multiply sources of weakness.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.