Quotes About Risk

High-risk, high-reward situations where the path to success isn't laid out but has to be cut by machetes through a jungle filled with poison toads.

Let's just say that I anticipated that when I needed to leave Ponthieu, it would be suddenly, and that I might be chased. And that those chasing me might prefer that if I couldn't be caught, that I should be rendered into very small pieces.

If he dies during the jump, I would suggest it would be politic for you to follow him," Abumwe said.

I do have a sense of adventure," I said. "It's overawed by my sense of self-preservation.

So if he dies during the jump, it'll be my fault," Wilson said. "If he dies during the jump, I would suggest it would be politic for you to follow him

Here's one way to colonize: You take two hundred or three hundred people, allow them to pack what supplies they see fit, drop them off on the planet of their choice, say "see you," and then come back a year later—after they've all died of malnutrition brought on by ignorance and lack of supplies, or have been wiped out by another species who wants the place for themselves—to pick up the bones. This isn't a very successful way to colonize.

It was risky," Wilson said. "But the alternative was worse." "You mean us breaking off our diplomatic relationship with you," said the other Icheloe. "Well, I was actually thinking of a dead dog," Wilson said. "But yes, that, too.

When you find them, blow them up a little for me.

What happens if the plan doesn't work and our ships are shot out of the sky?" I asked. "Well, then I suppose we're fucked, Perry

Our lives are arbitrary and weird, but if I pull this off—if me and all my friends from the Intrepid pull this off—then we get something that everyone else in our universe doesn't get: a chance to make our own fate. I'm going to take it. I don't know how yet. But I'm not going to blow it.

Don't you ever want to stop fighting?" I asked. "Why?" Jane asked. "Well, for one thing, it dramatically cuts down your chances of violent death

I mean, I don't know that I was actually planning to possibly die tonight in order to protect a kaiju, Kahurangi said. But I might be willing to possibly die to save a kaiju and ten thousand Canadians. Now we know what motivates you, I said. Ten thousand Canadians.

I'm not insane, sir," I said. "I have a finely calibrated sense of acceptable risk.

the first moment I met Watson it was clear that he was the sort of cocky, willfully ignorant son of a bitch who would get himself or his squadmates killed. My problem was I was his squadmate.

Everyone was always in danger, after all. From cancer, from car crashes and plane crashes, from criminals. Most people managed denial; managed to pretend they were safe.

This study is written with the conviction that our fundamental need in Western Christianity is to repent of our low and unworthy views of God, to return to the biblical descriptions of the true God, and to risk it all in order to live upon Who He is.

Doc still loved true things but he knew that it was not a general love and it could be a very dangerous mistress.

It's all right not to believe in luck and omens. Nobody believes in them. But it doesn't do any good to take chances with them and no one takes chances.

And he could not take the chance of putting his certain ignorance against this man's possible knowledge.

You have defied not the pearl buyers, but the whole structure, the whole way of life, and I am afraid for you

Ale já se takovejch moc pÄ›knejch vÄ›cí bojím.

I have written a great many stories and I still don't know how to go about it except to write it and take my chances.

That mini heart attack you have when you realize you tipped your chair back just a little too far.

You can't make a general rule of it, because sometimes it flops, but mostly a guy that tries to scare you is