Quotes About Risk

Bridges are built over thin air. Someone must lay the first plank, the first brick, take the risk.

Elena se preguntó cuántas mujeres habrían sido tan estúpidas como ella... lo bastante estúpidas para arrojarse a sus brazos a sabiendas de que, si era necesario, el arcángel pondría fin a sus vidas en un abrir y cerrar de ojos.

I have no quarrel with you, Astaad," Neha said, "but your lands are an ocean away, while mine border Lijuan's. I cannot and will not wait for the rest of you when my territory is at risk of a spillover of bloodlust." Her tone was of the Queen she was, one who had held power for a millennium. "It is a question of protecting my territory.

That's your idea of teaching? I could've been splattered from here to Manhattan!

we can explore until we get a little lost." "You want to get lost on purpose?" Catie took a fortifying gulp of coffee. "Come on then, let us go horrify ourselves.

Sex is powerful and beautiful and dangerous.

diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. —

Writing would take a tremendous leap of faith because I'd have to invest a lot of time and energy into something that I don't know will get published.

you cannot shake hands with the Devil and not get sulphur on your sleeve.

A woman is a fool that lives from penny to farthing and n'er looks to the possibility of loss.

we named her Dorothy Ann. Dolly, for short. I kissed her warily, fearful of the pain of loving her, love her, though love her I did; fearful lest she hurt me by dying.

Jimmy Carter did not present himself as perfect or pious ... Neither did he compromise his understanding of the Gospel by verbal dodging or double talk. He took a political risk by being so forthright about his faith; in the end though, I believe his candor worked in his favor.' - Billy Graham

After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.

You should always play with and not according to the rules, he says, because a life with no danger in it is not a life.

You should always play with and not according to the rules, because a life with no danger in it is no life at all.

let's say you think you're committed to starting your own business. But your underlying commitment is actually to stay safe and small right where you are. Even as you make efforts to start your own business, some part of you is sabotaging those efforts and ensuring you fail.

Only she who attempts the absurd can ever achieve the impossible.

Author conveys contemporary respect for Methodist preachers who rode the circuit of frontier settlements to put themselves at risk for the Gospel near the Second Great Awakening. They were dubbed 'God's light artillery'.

Sometimes you just have to take the leap, and build your wings on the way down. —Kobi Yamada

Fabulous Aunt Fancy had died on her sixtieth birthday while parachuting from an airplane.

Two different kinds of people exist: Those who wade cautiously into the shallows and those who throw themselves headlong into the roaring surf.

Life isn't all about money, Keely. Remember what you and Isabelle used to call yourselves? Surfside Sisters? Because you would both leap into life instead of dawdling at the edge, waiting, until it was safe.

So I would teach myself to live in constant uncertainty, moment by moment, step by step. I would live as if I were dead already. With nothing to lose, nothing could surprise me, nothing could stop me from fighting; my fears would not block me from following my instincts, and no risk would be too great.

We were playing a game against an unknown and unforgiving opponent. The stakes were terrible—play well or die—but we didn't even know the ground rules.