Quotes About Risk

Ma koliko ti nešto delovalo privla?no, moraš da odvagaš kolikoj se opasnosti izlažeš. Koliko silno to želiš i koliko si spreman da se ope?eš. Marten

Only priests and fools are fearless,

Chronicler looked down, shaking his head. "I don't understand this fear you have of the Cthaeh," he said. "Well," Bast said, "evidence seems to indicate that you're not terribly smart.

El sueño habría puesto en peligro el espíritu del éxito

My plan was ill conceived, against convention, and, above all, silly. I loved it the moment I thought of it.

It didn't matter that everyone else seemed to be doing it. To butcher a cliche, if everyone jumped off a bridge, they would all get wet. And some were going to drown. Or

Magic isn't just fun, it's an adventure. Then again, so's falling off a cliff.

Sometimes saving the day isn't about being brave. More often for me, it's a joke that's gone too far." –John Murphy, bartender at Bulfinche's Pub

You're drunk, I assume." "Of course. Got a bottle nearby and everything." "Good. I know how you get when you're sober." "Mom, I have been drunk every day of my life with only a handful of exceptions since I was eight years old. I'm not going to risk being sober without a very good reason. You know that better than anyone," said Mosie. "I know, but a mother worries.

The only time you ever run out of chances is when you stop taking them.

Subjects were given vitamin E, beta-carotene, both, or neither. The results were clear: those taking vitamins and supplements were more likely to die from lung cancer or heart disease than those who didn't take them—the opposite of what researchers had anticipated.

In 1999, Daniel Salmon and co-workers from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health found that the risk of contracting measles in five- to nine-year-olds whose parents had chosen not to vaccinate them was one hundred and seventy times greater than for vaccinated children.

These small quantities of mercury aren't harmful. Only large quantities are harmful. If small quantities of mercury were harmful, we'd have to move to a different planet.

Unfortunately, we seem incapable of learning the most important lesson in toxicology: The dose makes the poison.

On October 10, 2011, researchers from the University of Minnesota found that women who took supplemental multivitamins died at rates higher than those who didn't. Two days later, researchers from the Cleveland Clinic found that men who took vitamin E had an increased risk of prostate cancer.

If you fall out of an airplane without a parachute, go ahead and enjoy the view.

The perosn who doesn't make mistakes is unlikely to make anything.

He knew that his wings could ignite at any moment, but the closer he came to touching the fire, the more he sensed that he was fulfilling his destiny. As he put it in his journal that night: If I mean to save my life, then I have to come within an inch of destroying it.

There is no escape from this. Either you do or you don't. And if you do, you can't be sure of doing it the next time. And if you don't, you never will again.

that once you throw your life to the winds, you will discover things you had never known before, things that cannot be learned under any other circumstances.

guns were a complicated business, and once you pointed a weapon at someone, especially someone with a weapon of his own, the thing you were counting on to protect you was just as likely to turn you into a corpse.

bold person.

I learned that freedom can be dangerous. If you don't watch out, it can kill you.

Behind all the surface composure, there seemed to be a great darkness: an urge to test himself, to take risks, to haunt the edges of things.