Quotes About Risk

Aviation is not in itself inherently dangerous. But to an even greater degree than even the sea, it is terribly unforgiving of any carelessness, incapacity or neglect.

of which the forward one was square-rigged

while the after two carried fore-and-aft sails, like a schooner.

At twelve-forty, Shackleton gave the order in a quiet voice. "Launch the boats.

so that if the ice closed in against her she would be squeezed up and out of the pressure.

However, on the trip from London to Buenos Aires

They looked up against the darkening sky and saw the fog curling over the edge of the ridges, perhaps 2,000 feet above them—and they felt that special kind of pride of a person who in a foolish moment accepts an impossible dare—then pulls it off to perfection.

unsuspectingly around the ice hummock to his death with his tail wagging.

Hurley's team though, including the leader, Shakespeare, the biggest of all the dogs, was shot.

My opinion is that the chances of getting to Paulet Is. now are about 1 in 10. . . .

several men had strongly urged Shackleton to risk this one desperate dash back to Ocean Camp

Hurriedly they ran up every sail to its full height and headed for the narrow opening in the reefs.

He promised to write a book later about the trip. He sold the rights to the motion pictures and still photographs that would be taken, and he agreed to give a long lecture series on his return. In all these arrangments, there was one basic assumption - that Shackleton would survive.

Almost all really new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

Without adventure, civilization is in full decay.

Finally she lets herself think about how it feels: to be so frightened that you almost can't breathe to speed so fast and be so completely out of control to know the meaning of helplessness to spin across a shining space knowing any moment you might end up hurt, but likewise, all the same, like plus wise you just might not.

So always risk your skin, she said, and never fear losing it, cause it always does some good one way or another when the powers that be deign to take it off us.

You can't just ask strangers to drive you up and down the country. This is the twenty first century. Strangers are more dangerous than ever; we've never been more dangerous.

Brave old world.

I was afraid, sheer afraid, and wondered at myself. You see, I've no more pluck than any man of my inches but I'd been about a good bit. I'd seen adventure and heard other fellows talk it over, and I knew you're pretty sure to get out of everything with a whole skin till that last particular time that you don't - so what's the use of grizzling? ("Golden Baby")

I have never made fun of religion. Religion is something I don't even want to mess with, because I am really afraid of the clouds opening up and my being struck by lightning.

I couldn't help but think hard about what you're supposed to do when the facts seem to be leading you into danger.

Nothing will unfold for us unless we move toward what looks to us like nothing: faith is a cascade.

Do you ever just put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that's what love is like; everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but for some reason you just keep going.