Quotes About Risk

A straight fight in an equal battle takes some bravery, but braver is he who, knowing that he would have to sacrifice ninety-five as against five of the enemy, faces death.

Given the irreversibility of the death penalty, the possibility of a wrongful conviction can never be overstated.

Around 20 million premature and low-birth weight babies are born every year and are at high risk of death or disability because of hypothermia.

Before thee stands this fair Hesperides, With golden fruit, but dangerous to be touched; For death-like dragons here affright thee hard.

We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that.

True courage, in the face of almost certain death, is the rarest quality on earth.

Routine is the death to heroism.

The death rate among Marines in Iraq has been more than double that of the other services.

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

There's still a thousand places I haven't gone to die.

Think. In a minute from now you could be saying, I risked death. I threw for life, and I won life. It is a very wonderful feeling. To have survived.

Ah, life's little surprises! They can make any day unforgettable... or make it your last.

Option 1: Attempt to back out. Probable result: Death after painful torture. Option 2: Do the job and hope. Probable result: Death but probably no torture (good)

Sabbath had the power, and he knew it, of being no one with anything much to lose.

The deeper reasonability of seeking danger is that there is, in any event, no escaping it.

The greatest danger to both society and the individual, we learn from Socrates, is the suspension of critical thought. Loved

In no other arena is the church at greater risk of losing its calling than in the public square.

the average American household is in more danger from chemical germ-killers than from germs.

The church has allowed itself to get so swept up in political issues that it plays by the rules of adversarial power. In no other arena is the church at greater risk of losing its calling than in the public square. Somehow the paramount command to love—even to love our enemies—gets lost.

God took a great risk by announcing forgiveness in advance, and the scandal of grace involves a transfer of that risk to us.

Any woman who dares to make her own destiny will always put herself in danger.

To save my son, I would plot with the devil himself.

Life is a risk, who knows this better than me? Who knows more surely that babies die easily, that children fall ill from the least cause, that royal blood is fatally weak, that death walks behind my family like a faithful black hound?

It is easier to take a country into war than to bring it to live at peace, and a country at war is a bitter place to live, a risky place to have daughters, and a dangerous place to hope for a son.