Quotes About Risk

Don't you know by now, Heiress? I never get caught.

But on a more visceral level: I could have died.

I've built three different companies from the ground up. You don't achieve what I have achieved without an eye to potential eventualities. Potential risks. Frankly, young man, I expected Skye to tell you about me years ago.

A very risky gamble.

You look like someone who's about to do something highly inadvisable. And God knows, if there's something inadvisable going on, I want in.

Grayson wanted me safe, and I wasn't.

I guess that's what happens," Jameson said, his eyes never leaving mine as his lips curled upward, "when you take a very risky gamble.

I can be careful," I said, somewhat disgruntled. "Bryn, when you were six years old, you tried to bungee jump off a jungle gym by connecting the straps of your overalls to the bars with your shoelaces.

Funny thing about dying," Bales said, his voice contemplative. "You don't have much to lose.

Tempting fate was one thing; baiting Pack Justice was entirely another.

This was the beginning - and I was ready to be bold".

Curiosity killed the—Bex!

Een zeer riskante gok.

You're going to fall," I told him. He smirked. "An interesting proposition.

No one is going to believe you chickened out of anything," he said. From the way he'd phrased that, you would have thought I was fearless.

Do you trust me?" I was standing in a phone-lit passageway, close enough to feel his body's heat on mine. "Absolutely not." "Good." He reached out, grabbed my hand, and pulled me close. "Hold on.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

For everyone out there who has the good sense to be a little afraid when swimming in deep, dark water. You tell yourself there's nothing down there, but there is. There always is.

It's not the gun you should be scared of—it's the crazy man with the gun

You might not want to burn your bridges when you're standing on an island.

I think of something my mom used to say, about how as scary as it is to go after dreams, it's even scarier not to.

In 1912, a man named Franz Reichelt jumped off the Eiffel Tower wearing a parachute suit he designed himself. He jumped to test his invention--he expected to fly--but instead he fell straight down, hitting the ground like a meteor and leaving a 5.9-inch-deep crater from the impact. Did he mean to kill himself? Doubtful. I think he was just cocky, and also stupid.

But come to think of it, after a lifetime of feeling too much, maybe there's actually something to be said for fast and sudden.

The thing about fear,' said Cadfael, seriously considering, 'is that it is pointless. When need arises, fear is forgotten. Would you recoil from taking a leper's hand, if he needed yours, or you his, to be hauled out of danger? I doubt it. Some men would, perhaps-- but of you I doubt it. You would grip first and consider afterwards, and by then fear would be clearly a mere waste of time.