Quotes About Risk

I have ever been prone to seek adventure and to investigate and experiment where wiser men would have left well enough alone.

who kindled in each one the desire not to be left behind nursing a life without peril by his mother's side, but even at the price of death to drink with his comrades the peerless elixir of valor. They

The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.

There was once a little girl who was so very intelligent that her parents feared that she would die. But an aged aunt, who had crossed the Atlantic in a sailing-vessel, said, 'My dears, let her marry the first man she falls in love with, and she will make such a fool of herself that it will probably save her life.

once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but a voyage on uncharted seas.

Oh, I am—it's much safer to be fond of dangerous people.

Courage - that's the secret! If only people who are in love weren't always so afraid of risking their happiness by looking it in the eyes.

She would not take more risks than she could help, and it was admiration, not love, that she wanted.

Courage is about the most useful thing in an artist's outfit.

Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.

minnows who go to a whale to learn how to grow bigger are likely to be swallowed in the process.

Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident a security.

A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation. Without such means it might even risk the loss of that part of the constitution which it wished the most religiously to preserve.

Untried forms of government may, to unstable minds, recommend themselves even by their novelty.

The effect of liberty to individuals is, that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations, which may be soon turned into complaints.

and social manners. All these (in their way) are good things, too; and without them, liberty is not a benefit whilst it lasts, and is not likely to continue long. The effect of liberty to individuals is, that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations, which may be soon turned into complaints. Prudence would dictate this in the case of separate, insulated, private men. But liberty, when men act

Just because we cannot stop all the large leaks, that is no reason why we should open up all the little ones." T. Roosevelt

straight into the ambush de Morès

Well warned to beware with whom he dar'd to dallie.

You get as many chances as you want; as many as you dare to make for yourself.

One might well think of [Going Mobile by Glen Engel-Cox] as a Carol Emshwiller or Connie Willis story...with balls.

That wasn't a mistake, was 'a fully justified venture which, for reasons beyond your control, did not work

A Locrian who proposed any new law stood forth in the assembly of the people with a cord round his neck, and if the law was rejected, the innovator was instantly strangled.

Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring.