Quotes About Risk

there is no room for transactions which do not compensate for the risk of loss by the prospect of a gain.

Just in case it... doesn't work. I want you to know, Delilah. You have been the biggest adventure of my life.

Safety is relative. You can be so close to shore that you can practically feel it under your feet, when you suddenly find yourself breaking apart on the rocks.

The minute I stand up, I've jumped off the cliff. The world goes by in a haze of color and light; my weight accelerates, head-over-heels. Then I think, falling is the first step in learning how to fly.

Danger came in different packages, at different points in a lifetime.

Here's what they do not tell you about falling in love: there's not always a soft landing beneath you. It's called falling, because it's bound to break you.

It's got to be a nice life, long as you don't get caught.

For the risk of it, for the sheer surprise of pressing one's nose to the glass and finding someone staring back on the other side.

courage wasn't something you were bequeathed at birth, and it wasn't a lack of fright. It was overcoming your fear, because the ones you love mattered more.

It was like a trapeze act: How could you really tell at what second the acrobat pushed away, at what moment the anchor let go? You couldn't, and that was that. You and your deductions from the outcomeL a successful landing or a spiraling fall.

I am the kid who played with matches. I used to steal them from the shelf above the refrigerator, take them into my parents' bathroom. Jean Naté Bath Splash ignites, did you know that? Spill it, strike, and you can set fire to the floor. It burns blue, and when the alcohol is gone, it stops.

But risk always looks different when you are beating he system than when you've been beaten

People have to experience things that terrify them. If they don't, how will they ever come to appreciate safety?

It's not that he doesn't love you enough to tell you the truth," she said. "It's that he loves you too much to risk it.

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.

It turns out that I learned something from my dear old dad after all: firemen are experts at getting into places they shouldn't be.

If you sit around and think about how hot the fire's going to be, you'll never get into the thick of it.

Better safe than sorry!

War is the province of danger and therefore courage above all things is the first quality of a warrior, von Clausewitz maintained.

One rash person in the right place and earth could be a sterile cinder in seconds, but that's been more-or-less true for a century.

Might as well be hung for a sheep as a goat

I have a theory that there are two kinds of boys. There are those that want to be astronomers, and those that want to be astronauts. The astronomer, or the paleontologist, gets to study these amazing things from a place of complete safety. But then you never get to go into space

Flashlights were effective, but they also screamed "I'M RIGHT FUCKING HERE!" to anyone within view.

I told you why. If I don't do it now, I never will. I'll just be some office drone ten years from now, wishing I had done something interesting at least once in my life.