Quotes About Risk

can tell she didn't swallow any. "I'm sorry, it's too risky," Meredith says. "It's not fair to

into tremendous peril, risking their very lives, all for the chance to get to the dream of some faraway country that doesn't even want them.

Somebody told me, before we got on the train," he says, "if you fall, if you see your arm or your leg getting sucked under there, you have a split second to decide whether or not to put your head in there too." The young man blinks into the camera. "I made the wrong choice," he says.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

The relationship between BP and mortality in patients with stroke may be "U-shaped." According to this notion, systolic BP (SBP) values above or below 140 to 180 mm Hg are associated with increased mortality. In the International Stroke Trial, SBP above 200 mm Hg was associated with an increased risk of recurrent ischemic stroke (50% greater risk of recurrence), while low BP (particularly <120 mm Hg) was associated with an excess number of deaths from coronary heart disease.

He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.

Poetry is a game of loser-take-all.

Car celui qui saute dans le vide n'a plus de comptes à rendre à ceux qui le regardent.

Il est facile de choisir les rideaux les plus jolis, les meubles les plus parfaits, de faire les seuls mouvements d'appareil possibles, si l'on sait d'avance que J'on est doué pour ça. De la part d'un artiste, trop bien se connaître, c'est un peu céder à la facilité. Ce qui est difficile, au contraire, c'est d'avancer en terre inconnue, de reconnaître le danger, de prendre des risques, d'avoir peur.

drown or blow up.

You can't prepare for everything life's going to throw at you. And you can't avoid danger. It's there. The world is a dangerous place, and if you sit around wringing your hands about it, you'll out on all the adventure.

Don't Regret... You Don't Know till You Go.

It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don't do it.

If the light in your life has changed to yellow, I recommend you floor it. It's safer than the alternative.

A woman is at her greatest peril in the presence of a beautiful man.

Af en toe levensgrote paranoia creëren verleent aan een tocht een bepaalde, aantrekkelijke dimensie, die mij soms aanzet de gekste situaties te bedenken.

There is a time on every job where you say, Screw caution. I'm not foolhardy. I'm not stupid. But sometimes you have to be the battering ram.

It's your call. You want to go back home, go ahead. But if I were you, I wouldn't. Home is death.

When given a choice, choose the thing that scares you a little. If it's 100% safe, it is holding you back.

4. Buy less insurance

If it ain't broken then lets damn well try and break it.

nobody wants to spend money to build a more resilient city because nobody owns the risk.