Quotes About Risk

It was easier to ask for forgiveness than permission?

Pirate gold isn't a thing to be hoarded or utilized. It is something to squander and throw to the four winds, for the fun of seeing the golden specks fly.

Pirate gold isn't a thing to be hoarded or utilized. It is something to squander and throw to the four winds, for the fun of seeing the golden specks fly.

Mark that it is dangerous. Trouble has a very long tail.

He can put us in jail for trespassing. I don't care.

There's no secret to winning. Act boldly when you need to, and be cautious when you must.

There are no chances." He favored her again with that unreadable look. "You succeed or you fail. Battles are not won by men who refuse to take risks." It

Stay down, Stubby, or you'll get your head shot off," Conroy warned me. He didn't have to tell me. Seeing as how I was fond of my head, I lay low when the bullets flew.

But, truthfully, I lacked the courage to jump.' 'Perhaps it takes more courage not to,' Sandrine said

Never make financial decisions based on what you assume you'll be earning in the future.

The hope you get from religion is a three-ring, all-star hope because the risk is outrageous.

There are no guarantees of success, much less of quality. If you don't dare to be a mediocre writer, you'll never be a writer at all.

Isn't love worth taking a risk?

Burning a bridge, as any tactician will tell you, sometimes saves more than it costs.

I was happy to see Bennie's liquor, if a bit disenchanted by its packaging. The prescription trick worked, but it always struck me as smug, inelegant, the wrong kind of clever. Most of us preferred to get our booze from honest crooks, who tended to be nicer and more interesting. It's hard to deny that a willingness to risk prison imparts a certain magnetism in social settings.

Anything worth doing has risks." Hortense paused. "And believe me, this is worth doing.

She hadn't withdrawn, not exactly. But putting her heart, herself out there, she risked being hurt—again. She risked that feeling of somehow never doing it right, of never being able to measure up, of somehow lacking some essence that others seemed to carry confidently on their shoulders. The dress might prove to Joanne and herself that of course she could. She'd start small, though. She'd experiment a little, take a few more risks like the satiny red dress.

She was going to be like one of the wild and headstrong heroines in the romance novels she loved. She was going to go for the gusto. She'd sat on the sidelines her whole life. Now, she intended to live a little. Her life was orderly and tidy. And she had to admit it was often a little dull and lonely. It was time to lose control. To be wild.

Françoise Gilot talking to a friend at the beginning of her relationship with Picasso: 'You're headed for a catastrophe, she said. I told her she was probably right but I felt it was the kind of catastrophe I didn't want to avoid.

An ardent temperament makes one very vulnerable to dreamkillers.

Patient sees [lithium] medication as a promise of a cure, and a means of suicide if it doesn't work. She fears that by taking it she will risk her last resort

high altitude coupled with rigorous exercise can raise lithium levels. I became completely disoriented and totally incapable of navigating my way down the mountain.

Another is the common use of print or visual media to present case histories of adolescents who have attempted or committed suicide. The purpose is to teach students how to identify friends who may be at risk for suicidal behavior. However, the method may have a paradoxical effect in that students may closely identify with the problems portrayed by the case examples and may come to see suicide as the logical solution to their own problems.

Disconcertingly, one of the highest-risk periods for suicide is when patients are actually recovering from depression.