Quotes About Risk

There will always be those who feel more comfortable not venturing from the warmth of the hearth, but there are those who prefer to look out the window and wonder what is beyond the horizon.

The right combination of guilt and machismo has sent many a fool out into the jungle when he should have stayed home.

Go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is.

Getting a second doctor's opinion is kinda like switching slot machines.

Viver - não é? - é muito perigoso. Porque ainda não se sabe. Porque aprender-a-viver é que é o viver, mesmo.

A gente quer passar um rio a nado, e passa; mas vai dar na outra banda é num ponto muito mais embaixo, bem diverso do em que primeiro se pensou. Viver nem não é muito perigoso?

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

love is fire. but whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house,you can never tell.

Love is a fire. But whether it's going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.

I'm just telling you to live in [the world]. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it. To look at it. To try to get the picture. To live recklessly. To take chances. To make your own work and take pride in it.

In one guise or another, Indians always are. Again, it is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has its price. People who respect themselves are willing to accept the risk that the Indians will be hostile, that the venture will go bankrupt, that the liaison may not turn out to be one in which every day is a holiday because you're married to me. They are willing to invest something of themselves; they may not play at all, but when they do play, they know the odds.

A young woman with long hair and a short white halter walks through the casino at the Riviera in Las Vegas at one in the morning. It was precisely at this moment that made play it as it lays begin to tell itself to me.

He had shrugged and said that the course of true love never was a straight flush.

People who respect themselves are welling to accept the risk…they are willing to invest something of themselves; they may not play at all, but when they do play, they know the odds.

It has long been clear that women who leave violent partners are at risk of death or serious injury. What hasn't sufficiently been recognised until now is that abusers who can no longer hurt members of their own families, might, in a small number of cases pose a lethal threat to total strangers. Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, Rachid Redouane and Darren Osborne had all been thrown out by their partners in the weeks or months before they committed a terrorist attack

In my experience... the danger of things getting out of hand is there whenever anyone opens their mouths.

Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom.

I thought lightning wasn't supposed to strike in the same place twice....sure it does...but only if you're too dumb to move.

You know how the tightrope guy at the circus wants everyone to believe his act is an art, but deep down you can see that he's really just hoping he makes it all the way across?

I wondered about the explorers who'd sailed their ships to the end of the world. How terrified they must have been when they risked falling over the edge; how amazed to discover, instead, places they had seen only in their dreams.

The desperate usually succeed because they have nothing to lose.

If you never go out on that limb, you're missing a hell of a view.

This is just my way of pointing out that we people who leap without looking are not stupid. We know damn well we might be headed for a fall. But we also know that, sometimes, it's the only way out.

Risk always looks different when you're beating the system than when you've been beaten.