Quotes About Risk

Only in hindsight can we see that out fears and worries were unwarranted, that insecurities and doubts were just illussions, or that we should have taken a risk or dared something new sooner.

Life without a phone is riskier, lonelier, more vivid.

Prends garde, mon garçon, on en meurt.

Since they dared, I too will dare.

Bu suçlamalarda bulunurken, 29 temmuz 1881 tarihli Bas?n Yasas?n?n 30 ve 31. maddelerine kar?? geldiÄŸimi, bu yasan?n lekeleme suçlar?na ceza belirlediÄŸini bilmiyor deÄŸilim. Ä°steyerek kendimi tehlikeye at?yorum.

For the space of half a year, the gunpowder lay as harmless as sand, because no fire came near to explode it.

Really, Miss Catherine, how can I know?' I replied. 'To be sure, considering the exhibition you performed in his presence this afternoon, I might say it would be wise to refuse him: since he asked you after that, he must either be hopelessly stupid or a venturesome fool.

Pero la traición y la violencia son armas de dos filos que pueden volverse contra quien las empuña más que contra el enemigo.

La traición y la violencia es exponerse a emplear un arma de dos filos con la que puede herirse el mismo que las maneja.

Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.

Fortune befriends the bold.

I stepped from Plank to Plank So slow and cautiously The Stars about my Head I felt, About my Feet the Sea. I knew not but the next Would be my final inch — This gave me that precarious Gait Some call Experience.

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

Down Time's quaint stream Without an oar, We are enforced to sail, Our Port—a secret— Our Perchance—a gale. What Skipper would Incur the risk, What Buccaneer would ride, Without a surety from the wind Or schedule of the tide?

The shore is safer, Abiah, but I love to buffet the sea - I can count the bitter wrecks here in these pleasant waters, and hear the murmuring winds, but oh, I love the danger!

There are umbrellas for rain. Parkas for blizzards. Storm cellars for tornadoes. But there's no protection for this.

My head spins as I glance away, refusing to get sucked back into his gaze when so much is at risk.

dangerous chemistry

Sure, we were friends who exchanged soulful glances, friends who slept in a bed filled with sexual tension, friends who found any excuse to touch, but I worried that we'd never take that perilous leap of faith toward becoming a real couple, a permanent team.

Blurring the line between friendship and attraction was a surefire to lose a friend.

how much have i changed. i was a parent-pleaser, a dutiful friend. i made safe, careful choices and hoped that things would fall into place for me. but i have learned that you make your own happiness, that part of going for what you want means losing something else. and when the stakes are high, the losses can be that much greater

I'm going to keep seeing him as much as I can. We'll see what happens, I say, realizing that just seeing what happens is my version of going for it.

Of course she knows that I will not join her. I have never danced on a bar. I wouldn't know what to do up there besides fall.

Would they retreat or move forward? Could they do this thing they were on the verge of doing? Did they have it in them to make a wrong decision just because it felt right?