Quotes About Risk

Un hombre creyó que podía volar, así que saltó de la azotea de un edificio de diez plantas

iba camino de correr la misma suerte. Y, de repente, alguien tenía las agallas de decirlo.

Lanzar una bomba desde un avión en movimiento y lograr que impactara contra un barco en movimiento, o dejar caer un torpedo de manera que alcanzara un buque, revestía una dificultad increíble, sobre todo para un piloto al que estaban disparando desde arriba y desde abajo.

But a system made secure by the protective plating of humor and pretense always runs the risk of having its protection get out of hand. A relationship based on jokes invites jokes; jokes about anything -- and jokes about anything are now and then bound to cut too close to the truth.

The game goes round and round, to the rattle of dice and the shuffle of play money.

You got to understand that as soon as a man goes to help someone, he leaves himself wide open.

Chang! With light and sound and numbers round and round in a whirlwind, and maybe you win with what you end up with and maybe you lose and have to play again. Pay the man for another spin, son, pay the man.

and if I don't have her to where she don't know whether to shit or go blind, the bet is yours.

You got to understand that as soon as a man goes to help somebody, he leaves himself wide open.

I understand perfectly; it's like the madman who goes over Niagara Falls in a coffee can because that's as good a way as any to get dead." "That's right," I tell him, knowing he don't understand it at all—that it's more because it's as good a way as any to stay alive. . . .

A chance not taken is an opportunity missed.

The bolder the action, the greater the genius, magic and power that is likely to flow from it.

A monarch must sometimes rule even himself: he who wants everything must risk very little.

I will jump headfirst from a helicopter in Luneta if Estrada gets removed from power.

Poets and painters have the power to dare, I mean to dare to do whatever they may approve of.

Some books accrete things to themselves like a magnet. The writer risks sterility by subjecting the mysterious power of imagination to the devices of mere comprehension.

The possessor of a sound heart puts to test his power by entering into big adventures.

I have come to regard the law courts not as a cathedral but rather as a casino.

For one to grasp, whatever be his object, sov'reign power ... is an act of perilous presumption.

We now have power under the Dodd-Frank legislation to break up banks. And I've said I will use that power if they pose a systemic risk.

Love is giving someone the power to destroy you but trusting they won't.

Collaboration is risky. If it fails, if the occupation is wound up prematurely and the bad guys come back to power, you might find yourself in some serious trouble.

Nuclear power is not a miracle key for the future.

Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light?