Quotes About Risk

No one except your husband knows of the cautiousness at the heart of your life. Your adulthood has been a progressive retreat from curiosity and wonder, an endless series of delays and procrastinations. You wanted to be so much, once, but life kept on getting in the way... You settled. Shunned creativity, flight, risk, never had the courage to give a dream, any dream, a go.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked, don't want to go without guarantee. But that's what's got to happen. You go naked until you die

Skydive naked from an aeroplane....

"Life is trouble," Zorba continued. "Death, no. To live—do you know what that means? To undo your belt and look for trouble!"

A man needs a little madness, or else... he never dares cut the rope and be free.

Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and *look* for trouble.

You have everything but one thing: madness. A man needs a little madness or else - he never dares cut the rope and be free.

The most dangerous place for your life is in your home, as you probably know. Most people are killed by family or those they are relatively close to. Refuges for women are important to deal with this. But in the end there are certain risks you take – when you walk in the streets you might be hit by a car.

The English love of tea as solution to life's ills does make us easy to poison.

Obedience seemed the safest plan. I hadn't learned yet. In this world it's the obedient girls who are most in danger.

Do not tempt fate by saying never. Never again this, never again that—for you can never be sure of never and that's the only thing you can be sure of.

Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun.

Success is far more perilous than failure, isn't it? You've got to be doubly strong and watchful and wary.

They think about that for a moment, how sometimes the only way to learn not to play with fire is to go up in flames.

Anyone who has ever stood at a great height and felt the impulse to jump recognizes the draw. And what is adolescence if not a great height from which we are all expected to jump?

Better the devil that you know than the one that you don't.

Nothing good happens on the road after midnight. There are too many bad drivers out there.

I fear feeling my heart break a second time, because I'm not sure I could survive it. I'd rather live alone than risk the pain.

You can learn too much from experience.  A cat that sits on a hot stove will not sit on a hot stove again but unfortunately the cat will not sit on a cold one either."  - Mark Twain

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security." Gail Sheehy

So it does turn out that we do need to begin by contemplating the profound nature of self and other. Because if you change the leaves and branches but leave the roots intact, you run the risk of reverting to type.

Goldstone has done terrible damage to the cause of truth and justice and the rule of law. He has poisoned Jewish-Palestinian relations, undermined the courageous work of Israeli dissenters and—most unforgivably—increased the risk of another merciless IDF assault.