Quotes About Risk

This is more dangerous than double dating with Danny Bonaduce on the Kennedy compound.

Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.

Are you sure you want to go out with someone with that kind of history? ...He could have a psychotic break. I read that people get those when they're twenty-eight.

I'm not afraid to fail...I'm scared to death of dying and having the Lord say to me, 'Angelica, this is what you might have done had you trusted more.

A coward dies a thousand deaths, the gallant never taste of death but once.

Our fears don't stop death, they stop life.

TRUE Courage is when you are scared to death and STILL saddle up and ride in!

Engage in combat fully determined to die and you will be alive; wish to survive in the battle and you will surely meet death.

I'm afraid that if I raced you on the street I'd push you to your death.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence.

Most of us tiptoe through life in order to make it safely to death.

If you do anything for too long, it starts to lack edge, to become too easy. Easy is the kiss of death.

Most people tiptoe their way through life, hoping they make it safely to death.

Quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death.

The closer you are to death, the more alive you feel.

Without the possibility of death, adventure is not possible.

Everyone dies but not everyone lives.

On the subject of wild mushrooms, it is easy to tell who is an expert and who is not: The expert is the one who is still alive.

I dislike death, however, there are some things I dislike more than death. Therefore, there are times when I will not avoid danger.

What do I care about danger? I've sent soldiers and airmen to death against the enemy - why should I be afraid?

You can talk any redneck into a challenge. That's why so many rednecks die in strange ways.

Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open.

I have had to pay a price for leaving Islam and for speaking out. I have to pay for round-the-clock security because of the death threats against me.