Quotes About Risk

Bikers don't wear all that leather around simply for the fashion value or possible felony assaults. It's handy for keeping the highway from ripping the skin from your flesh should you wind up losing control of the bike and sliding along the asphalt for a while.

Gotta tell you, Murph," I sighed back. "I got a bad feeling about this." "Speak for yourself," Murphy said. "I just gave my last grenade to a Valkyrie and ordered her to blow up a kraken. I'm having a ball.

The plan is insane," Ehren said. "You are insane." He looked around the inside of the tent. "I'll need some pants.

When you do something stupid and die, it's pathetic," I said. "When you do something stupid and survive it, then you get to call it impressive or heroic.

Just . . . massively, massively unwise.

Any shoes with heels that high should come with their own safety net. Or a parachute.

You know, it wouldn't kill you to be a little more polite." "Why take chances

We need you to help talk us through this. That's crazy! I said. Go in guns blazing!

Here's where I ask why don't you spend your time doing something safer and more boring. Like maybe administering suppositories to rabid gorillas.

This is scary." "And we're doing it anyway," I said. "That makes us brave, right?" "If we get away with it," I said. "If we don't, it just makes us stupid.

There's a reason he fell became synonymous for he died. Losing your feet on a battlefield is an all-but-certain death sentence.

My God, these guys don't even know what the return-on-investment will be on this thing.

The risk of relying too much on trying to control children from the outside in, is that this often causes rebellion from the inside out.

If you live on the railroad tracks the train's going to hit you, Grandpa used to say. -- Brown Dog

I'd rather get a brain tumor than go back to teaching.

aspartame, described by Dr. Joseph Mercola as "by far the most dangerous substance added to most foods today.

the agrochemical industry "sets up the public for mass poisoning" by concealing the true toxicity of their chemical formulations and by focusing solely on the risks associated with the active ingredient in their formulations.

Drugs are a bet with your mind." "It's like gambling, somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where you're going to end up the next day. It could work out good, or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice.

I wouldn't mind dying in a plane crash. It'd be a good way to go. I don't want to die in my sleep, or of old age, or OD... I want to feel what it's like. I want to taste it, hear it, smell it. Death is only going to happen to you once; I don't want to miss it

My wild words slip into fusion and risk losing the solid ground. So stranger, get wilder still. Probe the highlands.

the time to hesitate is through no time to wallowin the mire Try now we can only lose and our love become a funeral pyre

But I always hesitate, unwilling to take a leap into the unknown. Because I can't tell which will burn more... The flames surrounding me... or the fire within.

What I was thinking was that she must have buggers in her bloomers or a chigger on her figger, or however you say it. It looked to me like something had better be done about it pretty quick, or her pants would start blazing and maybe they'd set the fairgrounds on fire and there'd be a panic with thousands of people getting stomped to death, not to mention the property damage. And I couldn't think of but one way to prevent it.

Only fools venture where the spirits dread