Quotes About Risk

Take the Adventure, heed the call, now ere the irrevocable moment passes!

Dizzy with the easy success of his daring exploit, he

Kenneth Oppel

You've no fear of heights, puffed the girl. None, I said. I've heard that about you.

This way, she said, veering toward the roof's edge. Can you jump? Oh, I can jump! Then jump!

On every side of us are men who hunt perpetually for their personal northwest passage, too often sacrificing health, strength, and life itself to the search; and who shall say they are not happier in their vain but hopeful quest than wiser, duller folks who sit at home, venturing nothing and, with sour laughs, deriding the seekers for that fabled thoroughfare?

Silly human is trying to get himself killed. Zoltan turned toward the voice but saw only a dog resting on a porch a few houses down the road.

Storytelling typically happens blindly fast. When we believe we're at risk, we tell ourselves a story so quickly that we don't even know that we're doing it.

You have to risk negativity, risk banishment, risk hatred to have a life worth living.

They fell into two groups: the Saints (or in the spelling of their day, 'Saincts'), ideological, theological migrants, and the Strangers, who had compelling reasons of their own for risking their lives at sea. Few if any of the Strangers were driven by a calling to spread the Gospel; for the most part they simply hoped that they would fare better in the new world.

What you'll find, I think, is that the things you most want to avoid are the things that make you feel the greatest when you actually do them.

What do you think I'm going to do? she asked him. Whatever it is, he answered, I think you'll be terrified when it happens. Don't let that stop you.

The rope that pulls you from the flood can become a noose around your neck.

For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.

The finger cut, to save the hand.

At that moment, she cannot think of a more reckless, irrational thing than choosing to become a parent.

Sometimes a finger must be cut to save the hand.

l'amore era un errore pericoloso e la sua complice, la speranza, un'illusione insidiosa. E

The rope that pulls you from the flood can become the noose around your neck.

Cesaret nedir haberin bile yok senin,dedi Eyüp Baba.Cesaret göstermek için bir ÅŸeyin tehlikede olmas? laz?m.Oysa ben buraya kaybedecek hiçbir ÅŸeyim olmadan geldim.

For courage, there must be something at stake.

She shook the dice in her hands, seemed to reconsider.

You know nothing of courage," said Baba Ayub. "For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.

If you went from the Shar-e-Nau section to Kerteh-Parwan to buy a carpet, you risked getting shot by a sniper or getting blown up by a rocket—if you got past all the checkpoints, that was. You practically needed a visa to go from one neighborhood to the other. So people just stayed put, prayed the next rocket wouldn't hit their home.