Quotes About Risk

iGen idea: the world is an inherently dangerous place because every social interaction carries the risk of being hurt. You never know what someone is going to say, and there's no way to protect yourself from it.

Haley's view is the famous couplet "Better to have loved and lost/Than never to have loved at all" turned on its head: to her, it's better not to have loved, because what if you lose it?

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Indeed, as subsequent events would show, debts, rather than deficits, make countries vulnerable in a monetary union.

Today I must be very careful, today I have left my armor at home.

information could destroy health insurance systems,

the 2008 crisis is a textbook case for the theory of information

They were people—having fun.' 'They'd have had fun with us if they'd've caught us

There was a world out there, if only he had the courage to go and look for it.

She said better safe than sorry. I said, that is a cliché, but Mum said things are only clichés because they are universal truths.

Dangerous enough to enter an unknown community when you were armed and strong; folly to do so from a position of weakness.

Belonging is for becoming . . . if for some reason it becomes stifling, then the person may have to take the risk of moving on, no matter how painful the separation may be. Community as such is never an end in itself. It is people and love and communion with God that are the goal. But, of course, a separation of this kind comes only after mature discernment and not just because being in community is painful or because there is a new leader we do not like!

De toutes les industries de l'être humain, la navigation me parut la plus audacieuse. Chevaucher les flots, livrer son sort à l'errance du vent et aux turbulences des eaux, partir en direction de rien avec l'espoir, sinon la certitude, d'y rencontrer quelque chose, ces activités de marins me semblaient être le fruit de rêves plus fous encore que les miens.

To win you have to risk loss.

When we forget, or wilfully choose to ignore, the intractability of human behaviour, the complexity of human institutions, and the probability of unanticipated consequences, we do so at great risk, and often immense human cost.

Majesty, there is less danger in fearing too much than too little.

Playing with fire Kitten?

none of them had chosen to marry Sebastián, or to take on the risks of his profession as their own. Only she had done that, and now her family had paid for her choice. The fears of her past and the horrors of her present are so mixed up they feel like the unmatching pieces of a rompecabezas, like she's trying to piece together things that were never meant to fit.

I've seen bad things, too," he assures her. "Yeah?" He nods. "I guess you wouldn't be on top of this train if you hadn't.

She could do anything back then, before she had maternal fear to spark any real caution in her soul.

Only one out of three will make it to your destination alive. Will it be you?" He points at a man in his fifties with a neatly trimmed beard and a fresh T-shirt.

none of them had chosen to marry Sebastián, or to take on the risks of his profession as their own. Only she had done that, and now her family had paid for her choice.