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Quotes About Risk

But it could lead to trouble. Is a few minutes' passion worth that?" "It is, it is. Believe me.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
But that was life on Mars. They could be dead within minutes of any number of untoward events, as always.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
It's just I finally get what revolution means. It's maximum volatility with no hedging. And it's insider trading too! Because, since I know in advance you're going to default your people, I can buy put options up the wazoo before the IPPI goes down! It's totally illegal! I finally get why revolution is illegal.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
People doing dangerous things make mistakes when they're first learning it, and then when they've known it forever.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
isn't it worth taking a chance? I never thought so in the past, but i can honestly say now that i'd rather have a few minutes of extraordinary with you than a lifetime of nothing special without you.
~ Kimberly Raye
To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I will say here and now that any unsolicited manuscripts or typescripts sent to me will be destroyed unread. You must make your way yourself. Why you should be so set on the nearly always disappointing profession is a puzzling question.
~ Kingsley Amis
No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation.
~ Knut Hamsun
Wild ideas popped up again in my head. What if I quietly went over and cut off the mooring ropes on one of the ships? What if I suddenly cried fire?
~ Knut Hamsun
Sometimes you just have to take the leap and build your wings on the way down.
~ Kobi Yamada
What are you trying to prove? Lucia demanded. Between strikes, he bellowed, That you should no' have left me! You were going to do it to me--don't bother denying it! When he didn't, she said, Then why are you different? Another volley of arrows. What gives you the right to risk yourself? He snapped, Because you could move on if something happened to me.
~ Kresley Cole
I have an idea. Let's take off our clothes and fool around on the settee. If I trip and fall and land smack-dab on your cock, then it won't be your fault.
~ Kresley Cole
Your retaliation is unspeakable. For this alone, you must forgive me for my treatment of you. Still high-handed? I literally risked my neck just now to say that in front of you.
~ Kresley Cole
Regin had known the risk in coming here, but she wasn't fearful. As Lucia had also told her, Sometimes I don't think you have the sense to be afraid when you should. Regin had interpreted that to mean, You have no sense of fear, oh, great Reginleit.
~ Kresley Cole
She laughed, and drank more beer. "Take a long trace off a short bridge, vampire.
~ Kresley Cole
And what about the piranhas?" "I doubt the fishies'll snack on anything critical." He leaned in to murmur at her ear, "They only go for small prey.
~ Kresley Cole
Trust me." This being had saved her life, had even taken bullets for her, and yet there was something so markedly untrustworthy about him…. He flashed her a rakish grin with barely noticeable fangs. "Though if you're the praying type, now might be a choice time.
~ Kresley Cole
I'm all in, peekôn.
~ Kresley Cole
Maybe when we got up on the bridge I'd jump, Last of the Mohicans their asses!
~ Kresley Cole
Until someone invented a fang condom, she'd continue stealing from the blood bank.
~ Kresley Cole
Come, Touch, But you'll pay a price.
~ Kresley Cole
He's got more red flags than Soviet Russia.
~ Kresley Cole
The female asked him, "Have you ever been bait? Well, besides jailbait. Rowr.
~ Kresley Cole
Take a chance on me, witchling." It was then that she made a fateful observation. Bowen MacRieve was holding his breath. Damn him! And there went strong and furious, gone with a whimper.
~ Kresley Cole
he had to do was risk his life to keep her safe from the most vicious assassin order in Europe? And he got to kiss her, at his pleasure? He definitely had struck the better bargain.
~ Kresley Cole