Quotes About Risk

You do the math, you expect the trouble.

I loathe safe sex. Safe sex is to erotic communion what the Salisbury steak in a restaurant on the New Jersey Turnpike is to food. I do it because it's what there is, but I don't want to think about it any more that I have to.

Being a warrior doesn't mean winning or even succeeding. It means risking and failing and risking again, as long as you live.

The most convincing and enduring foe of the global financial economy ultimately is the global financial economy itself. - Ulrich Beck

In driving, one assumes the danger of destroying life, beginning with one's own.

My image was all daring deeds, until my swash began to buckle a bit

the early worm is likely to get caught.

Collectivizing risk and considering the community as a whole rather than the individual was a form of "communism," but the practice paradoxically allowed people to maintain their belief in individualism. Probability could compensate for the limits of human knowledge.

if you don't try at anything, you can't fail… it takes back bone to lead the life you want

Okay," I said, clasping her hand. "I swear it. The next time I do something stupid that might get me killed, you can come along.

I have to get back there." I said to Adrian. "Into that door." He arched an eyebrow. "What, like sneaking in? How very black ops of you. And oh, you know— dangerous and foolish." "I know." I said, surprised at how calm I sounded as I admitted that. "But I have to know something, and this may be my only chance." "Then I'll go with you in case that guy comes back," he said with a sigh. "Never let it be said Adrian Ivashkov doesn't help damsels in distress.

What If Following Her Heart Means Rose Could Lose Her Best Friend Forever?

Any life worth living is going to have risks

Dimitri: "Were you really going to attack all of us? Doing that...protecting her like that—it was very brave. Stupid, but still brave. Why did you even try it?" Rose: "Because I'm her guardian.

We can retreat and retreat and let ourselves get backed into corners forever," she'd said once. "Or we can go out and meet the enemy at the time and place we choose. Not them." Okay, Tasha, I thought. Let's see if your advice gets me killed.

If I had learned anything in my life about love, it was that they were tenous things that could end at any moment. Caution was essential-but not at the cost of risking your life

Most good things come with the risk of something bad.

How?d you get here?? I asked. She winked. ?You?re not the only ones who can steal cars. Or, in my case, get people to 'willingly? lend them.

Who are these people?" my mother asked. "Guess," replied Abe flatly. "Who would be foolish enough to break into court after escaping it?

No," he said, voice thick and husky. His fingers dug into the chair's arms. "You'd better not get too close." I stopped, laughing softly. "You don't strike me as the assaulting type, Mortensen." "Yeah, well, there's a first time for everything.

Is it true? You had a clean getaway and risked it all for me?" I Swallowed. "It wouldn't have been a clean getaway without you.

Doing that...pertecting her like that-it was very brave." He paused. "Stupid, but still brave. Why did you even try it?

Sex and battle were each dangerous in their own ways.

Well, let's see. Guardians spend all their time watching out for others, risking their lives, and wearing bad shoes. Me? I have great shoes, am currently massaging a pretty girl, and sleep in an awesome bed." I made a face. "Let's not talk about where you sleep, okay?