Quotes About Risk

Airplanes may kill you, but they ain't likely to hurt you.

Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.

The Titanic is a great lesson of why just the tip can get you in a lot of trouble.

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Make love to every woman you meet; if you get five per cent of your outlay it's a good investment.

I have no luck with women. I once went on a date and asked the woman if she'd brought any protection. She pulled a switchblade on me.

Many divorces are not really the result of irreparable injury but involve, instead, a desire on the part of the man or woman to shatter the setup, start out from scratch alone, and make life work for them all over again. They want the risk of disaster, want to touch bottom, see where bottom is, and, coming up, to breathe the air with relief and relish again.

Women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.

We should always deal cautiously with fire, water, women, foolish people, serpents, and members of a royal family; for they may, when the occasion presents itself, at once bring about our death.

The allurement that women hold out to men is precisely the allurement that Cape Hatteras holds out to sailors: they are enormously dangerous and hence enormously fascinating.

When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

I asked a Burmese why women, after centuries of following their men, now walk ahead. He said there were many unexploded land mines since the war.

These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Let me say, at the risk of seeming ridiculous, that the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love

A bad love experience is no reason to fear a new love experience.

Loving someone is a huge risk. You chose to love them knowing they are not perfect. You open your heart to them, knowing they can break it into pieces. You know the dangers, but you still want to go ahead.

You never loose anything by loving someone but you loose everything by not expressing it.

You know, it's quite a job to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very beginning, when you have to jump across a precipice: if you think about it you don't do it. I know I'll never jump again.

I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed.

You never know how fearless you are until someone you love is in danger.