Quotes About Risk

Sweet of her. Careful, Nicky. She'll feed your heart through her Magimix." "Well, you know me - I'm a guy who likes extreme sports.

Faint heart never won fair lady," he wrote; "neither did it ever pursue and overtake an Indian village.

The more miraculous a technology is, the more prone it is to catastrophic breakdown.

From the start, they had known that the odds of their survival were long. They might get inside the plant and complete their mission, but getting out and away would be another

It's funny how a flame can only burn your hand if you move too slow, you can tease it all you want and it never gets you, if you're quick enough.

Art means to dare — and to have been right.

The journey to significance starts with the mere willingness to surrender the status quo and take the first step of faith into the adventure.

Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.

Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.

TOM … Go on, jump in there. (Prompts her.) Be brave. HELEN You're absolutely sure it's dead, right? Because if it's just holding its breath, then I'm … LaBute, Neil (2004-11-29). Fat Pig: A Play (p. 27). Faber & Faber. Kindle Edition.

an' there never yet was speculation but in the long run, it meant smash. Ye run so hard that ye fall ower yoursel

We must keep in mind the story of the statistician who drowned while trying to wade across a river with an average depth of four feet.

When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience, and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; culture-death is a clear possibility.

it's more dangerous to ignore signals of customer concern than it is to explore potential concerns and get them out into the open.

Seen too many dumb bikers who end up in the hospital

Remember, don't burn your bridges—there might be crocodiles in the river.

Don't listen to those who say you're taking too big a chance. [If he had], Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.

Je pense à vous, chère mère et cher père. Avez-vous appris la nouvelle par téléphone? La police est-elle venue vous prévenir au salon de barbier? Je dois éviter de telles réflexions ; sinon, je risque de ne jamais reprendre mon souffle. - Boo

Jimmy always preached' Charge a pistol. Run from a rifle

If you follow every dream, you might get lost.

You know, the future's a huge, gigantic place. I have no idea what's going on out there, I'm just going to walk into it and see what happens.

Everything we do, then, as teachers, has moral overtones. Through dialogue, modeling, the provision of practice, and the attribution of best motive, the one-caring as teacher nurtures the ethical idea. She cannot nurture the student intellectually without regard for the ethical ideal unless she is willing to risk producing a monster" (p. 179).

She wished to find out about this hazardous business of "passing," this breaking away from all that was familiar and friendly to take one's chance in another environment, not entirely strange, perhaps, but certainly not entirely friendly.

A Walk on the Wild Side