Quotes About Risk

Their patrols were always on the move, and so were the bombs that Allied planes dropped on them. When Marcella went off to school in the morning, there was no certainty that she would get back.

don't fly too close to the sun," Tess Calls. "you'll burn the tips of your wings. Stay right with me. i'll keep you safe.

RFRA introduced an era of extreme religious liberty in the United States that would have been rejected by the Framers, who understood the difference between ordered liberty and licentiousness. We need to return to that distinction, or risk the end of our largely peaceful religiously diverse country.

But I have a deep and abiding aversion to financial investments of any kind. It's not based on anything as intelligent as research or experience. It's just that I don't trust anyone. To me, giving someone else money to invest is just an invitation to rip me off. Not a particularly sophisticated attitude, but I am who I am.

Each is free to be everything the other desires, we fulfil each other's fantasies, and do not risk the boredom of familiarity.

You know those movies where the people in the audience are screaming, 'Don't go in that door!' because you know the killer is there? Well, it is the same thing with this debt. We know how this ends.

For any scientist the real challenge is not to stay within the secure garden of the known but to venture out into the wilds of the unknown.

Men, there is much to live for, and there is much to die for. The man, the race of nation that is not prepared to risk life itself for the possession of an ideal, shall lose that ideal. If you, I repeat, must be free, you yourselves must strike the blow.

We were sent to Afghanistan to carry out hugely dangerous missions. But we were also told that we could not shoot that camel drover before he blew up all of us, because he might be an unarmed civilian just taking his dynamite for a walk.

We've trained and trained for a reason: to be better at the craft of war than our enemy, to use our skill to perform the mission, and to accept the risks. As American warriors, it's our obligation to protect the innocent. And that means, sometimes, that we're the ones who need to be put on the disadvantaged side of the threat cycle.

Does anybody really think a guy riding a bike toward a firefight wearing a black scarf around his head and carrying a rifle slung on his back is looking for a barbershop quartet rehearsal?

We're trained and trained for a reason: to be better at the craft of war than our enemy, to use our skill to perform the missions, and to accept the risks. As American warriors, it's our obligation to protect the innocent. And that means, sometimes that we're the one who needs to be put on the disadvantaged side of the threat cycle.

He wasn't scared exactly, but he had that knife's edge thinness he used to get on the job, the sense that things could go either way.

I could walk out of here Chuck Bukowski.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

We are never more clever than in the creation of ways to destroy ourselves.

She risked her life to put your mind at rest,' Evgenia said. 'How great is love!

Would you risk your life for anything? If so, what would it be?

I had rather die in the adventure of noble achievements, than live in obscure and sluggish security.

I can never tell when something is funny. I just have to do it onstage and find out.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous you get knocked down by traffic from both sides.

Successful organizations, including the Military, have learned that the higher the risk, the more necessary it is to engage everyone's commitment and intelligence.

Fear can give you urgent wings.

Il coraggio, Angela, appartiene agli amori nuovi, gli amori vecchi sono sempre un po' vili.