Quotes About Risk

I tally all the reasons why not, all the ways it could hurt. Yet I watch myself shrug coolly and hear myself murmur, "Why not?

Cremation was definitely the way to go. It was the way I wanted to go, rather than risk the possibility of going out on a bad-hair day.

reckless abandon and know that there will be someone

He aprendido que eres tú quien forja tu propia felicidad, que una parte de ir a por lo que quieres significa perder otras cosas. Y cuando las apuestas son altas, las pérdidas también pueden ser igualmente altas.

There simply is no way to tread these dangerous waters.

They held each other in silence, and he buried his face in her hair. "Do what you can, my primrose," he whispered at last. "I love my life better than I ever have, now that it's at risk. But even so, I love you better still.

Better to drown in the surf than stand idly by the shore.

This was against every rule I'd been reared by. I kissed her back.

A lady lion-tamer put her head in a lion's mouth last week, and he bit it off. If a lion attempted to put his head in my mouth I expect I would do the same.

You can have this kind of love. You can have it. You just grab it. Of course the problem with having that love is that you can lose it, too.

Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.

I don't feel at all brave,' thought Jack, 'but I suppose a person is really bravest when he does something although he is frightened. So here goes!

Adventures always come to the adventurous, there's no doubt about that!

I'm on the side of law & order & right - & to my mind they're worth while running any risk for. Evil is strong & powerful, but I'm strong & powerful too, & it's good to try one's strength against bad men & their ways.

Well – fortune favours the bold!

And if you dare to put so much as half

I'm right there with you, darlin'. Unless you step on a landmine, in which case I'm way back in the Operations Room.

Stay back, human. You don't know what you're dealing with.

Careful, Mr. Spiro, guns are dangerous. Especially the end with the hole.

The craft's occupants clutched their armrests, and more than one of them closed their eyes. But not Artemis. He couldn't. There was something morbidly fascinating about flying into an uncharted tunnel at a reckless speed with only a kleptomaniac dwarf's word for what lay at the other end.

One loose rivet or cracked weld line would have been enough to allow a few atmospheres to squirt out, and the ship would have been crushed like a soda can in the hand of a giant who was immensely strong and didn't like soda cans.

Exactly, Artemis," confirmed the bodyguard. "Or, as we used to say in the Delta: we are running blindfolded into the kill box." Artemis's face fell. Kill box? Holly shot Butler a withering glance. Nicely put, big guy. Artemis's family lives in that kill box.

desperate times required judicious risk-taking.

When you decide to die, Artemis thought sluggishly, it doesn't matter how many people want to kill you.