Quotes About Risk

Death frames the high wire. But I don't see myself as taking risks. I do all of the preparations that a non-death seeker would do.

Planning is the kiss of death of entrepreneurship.

Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.

Failure? Scared to death of it.

I shot a wild elephant in Africa thirty yards from me, and it didn't hit the ground until it was right at my feet. I wasn't a bit scared. But a four foot putt scares me to death.

By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

If you live with death threats, you need friends. So you have to risk that they might spy on you.

Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain; If we perish in the seeking, why, how small a thing is death!

If I die, what a beautiful death.

I was definitely high-fiving death a couple of times.

Death and the dice level all distinctions.

Some guy once told me that skydiving is like cutting your throat and seeing if you can get to the doctor before you bleed to death.

I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.

...The task is overwhelming, and the chance is slight. We must take the chance or die.

Better be killed than frightened to death.

It is one thing to be in the proximity of death, to know more or less what she is, and it is quite another thing to seek her.

That's what I like about [smoking] . . . taking a drag off of death, Mmm! Gives me a sense of controlling my own destiny. What power! What exhilaration! Want a drag?

I like people who can't die in their bed.

We used to fight to the death but we tried the experiment, rolled the dice and like we got.

I am going to seek a great Perhaps.

There's nothing better than a party that turns into a death trap.

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

All games contain the idea of death.