Quotes About Risk

It cannot be done all at once. To overpower vertigo - the keeper of the abyss- one must tame it, cautiously.

My destiny no longer has me conquering the highest toowers in the world, but rather the void they protect. This cannot be measured.

Would anyone but a crazed bicephalous being, half engineer, half poet, willingly shackle himself to a venture of such magnitude? I am prisoner of my dream.

E chi non vuole intraprendere una lotta accanita di sforzi inutili, pericoli profondi, trappole, chi non è pronto a dare tutto per sentirsi vivere, non ha bisogno di diventare funambolo. Soprattutto , non lo potrebbe.

La corsa non è il modo per andare rapidamente da un'estremità all'altra del filo. La corsa, ah, ah! é il riso del funambolo

There is no substance which is not a poison; all are poisonous. Only the dose determines.

Whenever a child is taking a risk, one must never make light of it.

To step off the reservation to question the rules of the larger society is to take a great risk, but perhaps also to find a great opportunity. We will never know how great the opportunity was if we are afraid to take the risk.

extreme divers are exacting and disciplined when they are in the water. They share the paranoiac's conviction that the worst will always try to happen, at the worst possible time.

A beguiling optimism is often the first step toward folly.

No one can expect to write well who will not first take the risk of writing badly.

Leave now and live, or stay here and die. Your choice.

Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon it.

According to Schafran, many women, including women judges and jurors, "avoid acknowledging their own vulnerability by blaming the victim. This distancing mechanism operates particularly in non-stranger rape cases, because it is in acknowledging the likelihood of these crimes that women jurors feel most at risk.

Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance.

Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. / The honest thief, the tender murderer, / The superstitious atheist.

We're all in danger.

whether we are aware of it or not, every act of trust carries with it a shiver of fear.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

A victory without danger is a triumph without glory.

To conquer without risk is to triumph without glory.

Guess if you can, choose if you dare.

Danger breeds best on too much confidence.

If we choose to walk into a forest where a tiger lives, we are taking a chance. If we swim in a river where crocodiles live, we are taking a chance. If we visit the desert or climb a mountain or enter a swamp where snakes have managed to survive, we are taking a chance.