Quotes About Risk

I hope there is an edge to what I do.

If we can reduce the risk of friction likely to lead to war, this is probably all we can reasonably hope to achieve.

For any speculation which does not at first glance look crazy, there is no hope.

If the expedition had failed, which it might well have done with all hope centered in just one plane, I should still be trying to pay back my obligations.

I think all artists secretly hope their kids might do something safer and straitlaced: maybe my daughter 'll be a banker.

Consciously paying more for a stock than its calculated value - in the hope that it can soon be sold for a still-higher price - should be labelled speculation

Hope! fortune's cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!

When you see a threat, you just can't hope for the best in this day and age, where terrorists are capable of inflicting damage on the homeland.

...instead it seems that business - like weight loss - is a subject wherein hope and fear inspire limitless gullibility.

Blessed be the slot players for theirs is the hope of a better day dawning.

Yeah, I like that idea. Maybe he'll shoot at us again. I was hoping someone would shoot at me today. That was the first thing I said when I got up: Boy, I hope I get shot at today.

I find so much writing colourless, small in its means, unwilling to take stylistic risks. Often it goes wrong; I am not the one to judge. Sometimes, I hope, it goes right.

I knew the way lost hopes could be dangerous, how they could turn a person into someone they never thought they'd be.

Only one way to win when you're being chased by someone bigger and tougher than you. Turn straight around, punch their teeth out, and hope the gods are fond of you.

As far as paintings go, I always think about what it's like to move them and hang them up and hope they don't drop. To me, that seems like a big gamble, but that comes from me not being a painter.

We have a swarm of people in the stock market - not out of knowledge, not out of expectation, but out of basically a gambling instinct, the hope that prices will go up.

I didn't say you weren't, but moving on the hope that some man will hire you seems a bit risky.''No more so than diggin' in the dirt for your dreams—only to find it's your grave you've been diggin'.

Mad folks are often as dangerous as bad ones.

Fear not the unknown. For it is a sea of possibilities.

Trusting anyone can get you killed.

People visit exposed and vulnerable

If you aren't living on the edge you're taking up too much room. Anon.

I'm beginning to think of hope as a dangerous, terrifying thing.

The intolerance of the few, or the risk of it, carries the day against the wider humanity of the many.