Quotes About Risk

Life is short. No need for it to be boring too.

I still like the run and gun action movies and how truly dangerous it can be to make these films.

Macy: "Listen, I can't pretend to be the queen of good advice, here. I've had more boyfriends than I can count, and I'm not so sure that's any better than not having any. But I do know this. When you find someone who makes you smile and laugh, when you find someone who makes you feel safe, you shouldn't let that person go just because you're afraid." Elle: "And you're not afraid of it ending?" Macy: "Sure I am, But I'd rather have something this good for a little while than have nothing forever

When you find someone who makes you smile and laugh, when you find someone who makes you feel safe…you shouldn't let that person go just because you're afraid.

And you're not afraid of it ending?" "Sure I am. But I'd rather have something this good for a little while than have nothing forever.

He wants to pretend this is all accidental, but for me it isn't a game. I haven't simply let it happen. I'm falling because I jumped, and not because I tripped.

Be careful," he said. Bess looked at him. "I think it's too late for that." He smiled. Then he kissed her, right there on the porch where the whole world could see. Right on the mouth. Right where she wanted.

This book is for the wild ones who open their eyes wide into darkness, the ones who love when they should not; this is for the ones who count and take comfort in the stars.

I almost can't believe I'm going to make myself vulnerable to him again. But what is love but the most extreme and exquisite form of risk perception? I know that relationships don't last. And yet, with him, the risk of not being with him is much worse than any other hurt I can imagine.

I almost can't believe I'm going to make myself vulnerable to him again. But what is love but the most

You gotta take chances in this life or you're already dead.

Bad things can happen to anyone at any time, whether you follow the rules or not.

They protect us from disaster by playing out the disaster ahead of time. They're the reason the plane doesn't crash and the bomb doesn't drop. They're the reason we will almost certainly not die in childbirth.

the time I watched a knife fight outside the window of the studio in Greenwich Village, the time I got an HIV test at a Department of Health free clinic in order to prove some kind of point to myself (other than that I didn't have HIV, which I already knew).

Furthermore, in some people the bacterial infection went on to cause stomach cancer—

A doctor's job, like a gambler's, is intimately tied up with failure; the house always wins over time.

A beautiful road does not create enough reason to make a journey on that road, because the road to Hell is often a beautiful road as well!

A completely secure life can be found only outside the life!

A journey to the unknown shores needs a port, a ship, a wind; but more important than all of them: Courage; courage to leave the known for the unknown!

Behind every success, there lies a magical word: Dare!

Climb the ladder only if it takes you to somewhere high! Some ascents may descend you to low places!

Courage is a gas pedal and fear is a brake; when we go to our destination, we need both!

Dare! Behind every success, there lies this magical word!

For those who are on the roof become insolent as they don't know yet about the slope and the slipperiness of the roof!