Quotes About Risk

All substances are poisons; there is none which is not.

The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night?

There is no plan. All is hazard. And the only thing that will preserve us is ourselves.

The world began in hazard and will end in it.

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.

Hazard has conditioned us to live in hazard. All our pleasures are dependant upon it. Even though I arrange for a pleasure; and look forward to it, my eventual enjoyment of it is still a matter of hazard. Wherever time passes, there is hazard. You may die before you turn the next page.

Long afterwards I realized why some men, racing drivers and their like, become addicted to speed. There are those of us who never see death ahead, but eternally behind: in any moment that stops and thinks.

She felt the speed of her fall accelerate. When the cruel ground rushes up, when the fall is from such a height, what use are precautions?

I guess the question I'm asked the most often is: When you were sitting in that capsule listening to the count-down, how did you feel? Well, the answer to that one is easy. I felt exactly how you would feel if you were getting ready to launch and knew you were sitting on top of two million parts -- all built by the lowest bidder on a government contract.

Global studies reveal that as women become more educated and financially independent, their risk of staying single or getting a divorce increases, their happiness decreases, and their stress levels rise.

Hollywood is a technological crapshoot. Table stakes open at a million dollars. It was true in 1968, it is true now.

La cuestión de si sobrevivimos a estos peligros no es un tópico de debate científico, sino un tema de voluntad política.

She was a good swimmer but we never used life jackets." "It wouldn't matter in that storm.

Just observe the billboards along any busy Florida highway and you'll almost wish you could get injured.

Ray Chapman was killed by a pitch in 1920. Mickey Cochrane never played again after taking one in the head. Tony Conigliaro was a certain Hall of Famer, then he got beaned in the eye. I

not for the crocs.

Rejection comes easy, because you learn quickly that the worst thing that can happen is to hear the word no

to the McDover case. She agreed but doubted seriously if she would comply, even though her appetite for risk had been severely diminished. As agreed, Wilton met her near the front entrance and they found a quiet table in a coffee bar at the

Who'll try it?" Samantha asked.

He received his first death threat at the age of twenty-five, and started carrying a gun.

The element of danger was always in the background, though rarely discussed. With Keith in law school, Beverly and Laura at Southern Miss, and Tim headed

Come back to his house, and you'll leave in a hearse.

Hatred of McDover. And money. I convinced our mole that this could lead to riches. I just hope I don't get anyone killed.

F&F's annual overhead was covered by collisions that happened less than one hundred yards away.