Quotes About Risk

To have risked so much in our efforts to mold nature to our satisfaction and yet to have failed in achieving our goal would indeed by the final irony. Yet this, it seems, is our situation.

T]here is no safe dose of a carcinogen.

For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death.

I]t is simply impossible to predict the effects of lifetime exposure to chemical and physical agents that are not part of the biological experience of man.

It's not the loving that hurts this girl; it's the understanding of it for what it is, that it will never be returned in the same way, that threatens to destroy her. But to unload the words - I love you - on an innocent party who didn't ask for it, to reach across the dark space and touch him - it's like the world she knows could end if she dared speak these words, dared make such a move.

The reward is in the risk. You can't stay hidden inside Grandpa's overprotective cloak forever. You've seemed like you needed to grow out of that for a while. Mom and Dad going away, and the red notebook, these things just helped. Now it's up to you to

So what do you have to confess now? I don't know why I'm saying any of this, except that it's the truth. I'm confessing that I don't know if I'm ready for this. What is 'this'? Being open. Being hurt. Liking. Not being liked. Seeing the flicker on. Seeing the flicker off. Leaping. Falling. Crashing.

You never know where the night will take you.

Caterina, a great adventure is in store for you.

We need to be willing to chance failure in order to succeed.

And I've learned that letting people get close to you doesn't always lead to pain. Some people are actually worth a risk.

Truth-telling is a luxury for those whose lives aren't at risk.

There are only two kinds of people in the world. Those who are alive and those who are afraid

Be afraid in proportion to the threat.

When a man of ideals decides he is too old to risk everything for what he believes in, then he is no longer a man of ideals. He may no longer be a man at all.

Falling in love could be like falling off a cliff, no water below but plenty of rocks.

When balancing a bottle of nitroglycerin on the point of a sword, never complicate the task by trying to tap dance.

Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.

Even when God is your co-pilot, it pays to pack a parachute.

And so we went to the Panamint, where Death had gone to gamble and had, as always, won.

death is frequently the reward for the reckless and the timid alike

Therefore, she would have to open herself to all the experiences that her new life provided, including the awful possibility of rejection and severe disappointment. Without risk, there was no hope of gain.

Anyway, to maintain the right perspective, sweetie, we always should be at risk of failure, the possibility of making wrong choices.

Because deception requires both bold lies and lies of omission, it stains the soul, muddies the conscience, blurs the vision, and puts you at risk of headlong descent into greater darkness. As a boy, I could not have put