Quotes About Risk

Es fácil amar a alguien cuando no se le puede alcanzar; así no se corre ningún riesgo

Il y a tellement de gens qui se ratent pour de mauvaises raisons. Quel risque y a-t-il à voler un peu de bonheur ?

Le risque d'aimer, c'est d'aimer autant les défauts que les qualités, ils sont indissociables.

Era necesario confrontar sus sueño con la realidad aún a riesgo de verlos fracasar?

A solid rule when you are playing other people is you do not win big and immediately walk away.

threat assessment models is AOI (ability opportunity, and intent).

That is a metaphor for every adult relationship I've had. "Hey baby, we're going down. Get in." You

This was a far more perilous proposition than it had been on his first visit,

willing to gamble that war would make them richer.

Sean may have had his problems, but he was a smart kid - the day's lesson was not lost on him, I'm certain. It wasn't lost on me: It doesn't matter how good you are at flag signals if no one is watching - the distress call is only as good as the person looking out for it." ~"Turning Stones: My Days and Nights With Children at Risk

If insufficient sleep consistently 'taxes' young children's emotion responses, they may not manage emotion regulation challenges effectively, potentially placing them at risk for future emotional/behavioral problems.…

Je venais de tomber dans mon propre passé. Fort heureusement, je connaissais bien les risques inhérents aux paradoxes temporels, et j'eus le bon réflexe de ne pas m'attarder.

A priori, I want to go to bed with every pretty woman I meet. If I don't do it, it's because I'm afraid of being disappointed.

To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare to fail... failure is his world and the shrink from it desertion

One can feel an attraction towards a particular person. But to release that fount of sorrow, that sense of the irreparable, those agonies which prepare the way for love, there must be -- and this is perhaps, more than a person, the actual object which our passion seeks so anxiously to embrace -- the risk of an impossibility.

Let an illness, a duel, a runaway horse make us see death face to face, and how richly we should have enjoyed the life of pleasure, the travels in unknown lands, which are about to be snatched from us! And no sooner is the danger past than we resume once more the same dull life in which none of those delights existed for us.

These were happy, cheerful moments, innocent in appearance but hiding the growing possibility of disaster: this is what makes the life of lovers the most unpredictable of all, a life in which it can rain sulphur and pitch a moment after the sunniest spell and where, without having the courage to learn from our misfortunes, we immediately start building again on the slopes of the crater which can only spew out catastrophe.

Few places in this world are more dangerous than home. Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain passes. They will kill care, save you from deadly apathy, set you free, and call forth every faculty into vigorous, enthusiastic action.

Even the sick should try these so-called dangerous passes, because for every unfortunate they kill, they cure a thousand.

Aside from mere money profit one would rather herd wolves than sheep.

But we little know until tried, how much of the uncontrollable there is in us, urging us across glaciers and torrents, and up dangerous heights, let the judgement forbid as it may.

It's only good sense to go looking for trouble, because then at least you have your eyes open; while if you stay still, trouble will sneak up on you and pot you like a sitting bird.

The beautiful can exist at the edge precisely because it has nothing to lose and everything to give away. FREDERICK TURNER OUR

Many of us get very afraid and we eventually compromise. We settle for something that is safe, rather than engaging the danger and the wildness that is in our own hearts. We should never forget that death is waiting for us