Quotes About Risk

I'm not willing to let any thing or any person put my physical sobriety at risk; why should I put less value on my emotional sobriety? Besides, I like the feeling I have when I conduct myself in an emotionally mature, independent manner.

The article had noted that studies showing an increased risk of cancer and heart disease hadn't hurt sales, which had continued to rise. "The thing to do with [these studies] is just ride them out," said Joseph Fortunato, chief executive of GNC Corporation.

According to the forensic psychiatrist Robert Simon, the author of Bad Men Do What Good Men Dream , the following statements are true: "Psychiatrists have long known that the most dangerous time is during the first visit with an unknown patient. According to an American Psychiatric Association Task Force Report, 40% of psychiatrists are assaulted during their careers. Nearly three-fourths of assaults against all physicians occurred during the first meeting of doctor and patient.

Life isn't like a box of chocolates. It's like a jar of jalapeños: You never know what's going to burn your ass.

Despite his care, Reid was still playing with fire, the kind that could without warning sheathe one's whole life in irreversible conflagration.

Absolutely, love matters," she reiterated. "We forget that at our own risk.

That's the way Chris lives, warning everyone who gets close of the lightning that may strike. Never touch anything, never make a mark. But Anatole can't live that way. The world's too lonely a place: he has to touch things, he has to put his arms around them.

The slippery slope was everywhere.

Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and workers who hone their skills and offer their labor.

Investing should be like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement… go to Las Vegas.

The innovative leader has to be an arsonist and a firefighter.

Fail often and fail cheap.

You're at your best when you don't know what you're doing.

The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown..

Most travel, and certainly the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers, putting yourself into the hands of people you don't know and trusting them with your life.

In the days of the early Christians, the Blessed Sacrament was preserved after Mass in order to bring Holy Communion to the sick or to those in prison for their faith. We hear stories, such as that of St. Tarcisius, of Christians risking their lives to carry the Blessed Sacrament to others. Records also show that in the late fourth century, in some dioceses, converts to the faith were invited to adore the Blessed Sacrament exposed for eight days after their baptism. Early

Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

Faith includes both an immediate awareness of something unconditional and the courage to take the risk of uncertainty upon itself. Faith says "Yes" in spite of the anxiety of "No." Biblical Religion and the Search for Ultimate Reality

For once in his life, Norman has acted rather than gone to a meeting. And this is where it has landed him.

Safeguarding shareholder value from workplace violence

If writers had a little more guts, maybe they wouldn't be writers.

I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away.

Why should I poison my body for odds that terrible?