Quotes About Risk

Loi and Eldlund were a lot more cautious – we should investigate longer, bring in more equipment and specialists, make detailed risk assessments. Typical corporate culture kids. They had no concept of taking responsibility, because that meant consequences – and Legal always hated consequences.

Queuing to pick up their Darwin Award

It's about being prepared to lose what you have for what you might get, or what you are for what you might be. It's about letting go.

It's about being prepared to lose what you have for what you might get, or what you are for what you might be. It's about letting go." -- Peter Gabriel about the meaning of the song "Solsbury Hill". From the book "Without Frontiers: The Life & Music of Peter Gabriel".

At Casablanca we did 'Midnight Express ' 'Flashdance ' and 'The Deep.' My willingness for risk has always been my strength.

El punto medio de la historia le obligaba a luchar con tres elecciones en apariencia imposibles: confiar en un cocodrilo, saltar al río sin protección alguna, o enfrentarse a sus propios perros, sedientos de sangre.

Hay que introducir tensión entre la expectativa y la incertidumbre.

He has a light, fumbling brutality, which several times makes me think that this time it'll cost me my sanity. In our dawning, mutual intimacy, I induce him to open the little slit in the head of his penis so I can put my clitoris inside and fuck him.

The factor that made him so powerful was also his greatest liability.

Maybe freedom really is nothing left to lose. You had it once in childhood, when it was okay to climb a tree, to paint a crazy picture and wipe out on your bike, to get hurt. The spirit of risk gradually takes its leave. It follows the wild cries of joy and pain down the wind, through the hedgerow, growing ever fainter. What was that sound? A dog barking far off? That was our life calling to us, the one that was vigorous and undefended and curious.

Fished here, too, the river dropping so fast, the rapids so loud, reverberating off the cliff—you had to be careful as you walked down the railroad tracks to look back often. More than one fisherman never heard or saw the train coming.

What more really can be at stake except life itself, which is why maybe artists are always equating the two and driving everybody crazy by insisting that art is life. Well. Cut us some slack. It's harder work than one might imagine, and riskier, and takes a very special and dear kind of mad person.

twenty-eight miles to the next one, Godawful Falls. Then eighty-one miles of fast water after that, to the next huge drop and portage at Last Chance Falls, with a couple of bigger rapids between, dangerous but runnable. A large meander in this stretch, northwest to northeast,

after the West Coast, the New Madrid Zone in the nation's heartland provided the greatest earthquake risk in the United States.

If in doubt, always attempt to force the hand of chance.

If you place [your bet] with God, you lose nothing, even if it turns out that God does not exist. But if you place it against God, and you are wrong and God does exist, you lose everything.

The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.

Then Reuben said to his father, “You may kill my two sons if I fail to bring him back to you. Put him in my care, and I will return him.”

Is the soil fertile or unproductive? Are there trees in it or not? Be courageous, and bring back some of the fruit of the land.” (It was the season for the first ripe grapes.)

But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them. So she said, “Yes, the men did come to me, but I did not know where they had come from.

Before the spies lay down for the night, Rahab went up on the roof

Zebulun was a people who risked their lives; Naphtali, too, on the heights of the battlefield.

for my father fought for you and risked his life to deliver you from the hand of Midian,

“Very well,” said Jonathan, “we will cross over toward these men and show ourselves to them.